Pedophile, racist runs for U.S. House in Virginia
Candidate spent 16 months in prison for threat to kill president
Nathan Larson, a man who advocates pedophilia, white supremacy and rape, and who served 16 months in prison for threatening to kill the president, is running for Congress in Virginia.
The 37year-old accountant from Charlottesville is running as an independent in the 10th congressional district. Larson identifies himself as a “quasineoreactionary libertarian.”
His platform includes drug legalization, the elimination of all regulations regarding firearms and “putting an end to U.S. involvement in foreign wars arising from our country’s alliance with Israel.”
Larson’s unorthodox candidacy further complicates an already wild race in Virginia’s 10th.
Six Democrats, including one who said President Donald Trump poses as much of a threat to democracy as Osama bin Laden, are vying for the nomination to take on Republican incumbent Barbara Comstock.
Comstock, considered one of the more vulnerable Republicans in the midterms, is facing a primary challenge from the right by financial planner Shak Hill.
In 2008, Larson sent a letter to the Secret Service in which he threatened to kill either George W. Bush or Barack Obama, according to The Washington Post. The following year, he pleaded guilty to threatening to kill a president and served 16 months in federal prison.
In what he calls his “campaign manifesto,” Larson laid out his views on the world.
A fan of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Larson said he wants to restore “benevolent white supremacy,” rebuild the patriarchy, eliminate child labor laws and legalize early marriage.
He has also advocated for the legalization of incest and child pornography.
When asked if he is a pedophile or just wrote about pedophiliac sex fantasies, Larson told HuffPost Thursday, “It’s a mix of both. When people go over the top there’s a grain of truth to what they say.”
He said he believes Congress should repeal the Violence Against Women Act and that women should be treated as “sex slaves” and “baby factories.”
“We need to switch to a system that classifies women as property, initially of their fathers and later of their husbands,” Larson said.
Larson confirmed to HuffPost that he created two websites that provided forums for pedophiles and misogynists. Both sites were shut down by their domain hosts on Tuesday.
Larson has a daughter who lives with relatives and whom he has only seen once, according to the Post.
He told the Post his exwife committed suicide after the girl was born and that he had since remarried.