Anton Long (ONA)
Introductory Note: The following item – taken from an article written by an Australian member of the ONA – presents one person’s very interesting, and insightful, view of David Myatt, aka Anton Long (for it is my view, also, that “Anton Long” is a pseudonym used by Myatt).
I have had the temerity to insert a few of my own comments, to either elucidate some point of interest, or to offer my own opinion when I consider it warranted, given my personal knowledge of either the matter in question, and/or of Myatt himself.
RS
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The Last Word From One Of THEM (v.1)
Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions, I really do appreciate it. I have a lot to ask you, having been reading and thinking about the work published on Lulu and our private correspondence for quite some time. I guess my first question is – have you ever met Anton Long?
Hi Mark, not a problem.. and no. Not in person. Only as an idea.
An Idea?
Sure. I think there are still a lot of people unsure as to why David refuses to be seen as Anton Long despite all the evidence that’s been produced to favour an obvious conclusion.
When I first began my walk with the ONA in 2000, all I initially wanted, was to travel to Shropshire and meet and train with the enigmatic Grandmaster. I even tried to send the ONA a letter asking for admission into the Order. It was returned though, the box must have been closed by then. However, the older I got, and the more involved I became in living the Sinister Way – the more insight I gathered, all kinds of previous preconceived idea I had about Satanism began to fall away. There’s a big difference in a magical path from the outside than there is on the inside. Mine has been charged with a feeling of dynamism and excitement, and so I’m lucky, but it’s not like you can subsist forever on mystical nonsense, if you want to get anywhere you have to have a big dose of realism, and that comes with trying to follow something like the Sinister Path. The insights revealed are not necessarily the one’s you expect. And slowly I began to feel that Anton Long, whom I eventually linked with Myatt, was something/someone other than what it/he appeared, and that AL, was actually created for something. Something deeply profound and something beyond the Mythos being weaved.
You have to remember that Myatt was born in the 1950’s – and men born back then had a completely different outlook on the world than someone born in the 70’s. AL was also born into a life that involved a lot of travel – a lot of realism and seeing the world as it really is. And I think from this, the persona of Long developed. For me, Long is the personification of an “idea”, and I don’t mean the term “idea” lightly, the phrase “External Wraith or Manifestation developed to represent an Outer-formed, Inner-felt Development of a Unique Perennial Pagan Ethos based on a scrutiny of Sacred Geometry from a Way of Living that garners experience directly from many of the forms given great worship as means and guides by Humanity to alter an Ingrained Ethos” is probably better than “idea”. Even his name, “Along” is synchronous with the underlying aims of the ONA, which are so often misunderstood, generally by a) people who have never devoted themselves to actually living its Tradition for themselves and remain on the outside theorizing from what is written down and disseminated; moreover who expect and believe in some predetermined outcome or objective result from such a way of Living which I assure you is never the case and that each Initiate learns differently even though they utilize the same base core system and b) believe that the concept of the ONA has only one layer and is related “as is” via its manuscripts and own admissions – and which, is most definitely not the case: with a perception in tow that the ONA is represented “as is” via its manuscripts: the ONA can only appear as a contradiction of extreme complexity. The secret to perceiving the ONA lies in living and experiencing the practical means and methods relayed for oneself, the alchemy of which results in drastic alchemical magical and philosophical changes, unique to each Initiate; for only then is the necessary internal groundwork laid to understand the extreme simplicity of the ONA.
For me, Long is a species of free-floating consciousness with great power to create significant changes; an embodiment of the archetype Satan, yes; partly through his tremendous promethean tenacity to live the way he has and understand so much by himself; and partly because of his emphasis and development of the dis-connected unification of acausal consciousness between all beings; but a consciousness more unrestricted than the box “Satan”; a unique embodiment of personality that I have not seen in my thirty years of living in any other human being. Some people sometimes show me some aspects of that consciousness: but AL is the first and only man I’ve encountered whose essence has deeply affected who I am and what I try to do with my life. Aside of course, from the character of Satan.
Why do you think Long is Myatt, like evidence-wise?
Well, assuming, loosely, that Myatt does not have his material written out by someone else before he releases it, Myatt and Long both use long strings of commas to break up sentences in a very similar way, as does ‘Julie Wright’.
[Comment by RS: Personally, I can't see much, if any comparison, between the style of the voluminous writings of Myatt/Long, and the few articles, about Myatt, written by Ms Wright. One might also refer to her psuedononymous article, "A Personal Encounter With DWM".]
My experience has taught me that people, artists especially, are very particular about language when they write. Due to the audio inflection they hear in their head, they write a certain way, to express how they hear conversation, where pauses, when/how emotion, and so on play out in a conversation and in how people interact with one another; also in what details are captured and which are omitted, in the breadth of vocabulary, for example. All these are particulars that can’t help but emanate the consistent underlying structure of how language is understood and perceived in its conveyance by the writer. Their Iambic Pentameter is the same too.
Myatt writes so much that to consistently maintain any conscious focus to disrupt that style of writing would be too much of a strain to keep up – moreover, Myatt is probably not aware of, or recognizes the impossibility of cleaning up, the “linguistic” trail he leaves behind. The word ‘fastly’ rather than quickly is idiosyncratic, as is the consistent “misspelling” of ‘past’ with ‘passed’, the omission by both AL and DM of ornate description, as though the style of prose adopted for the Deofel Quintet coloured everything written since… it’s my opinion that Myatt wants people to know he is AL. And damn right, AL is the best thing to happen to Satanism in the last four decades.
What the hell is Iambic Meter?
So far as I understand it, it’s a fancy way of indicating the measure of both the mathematical and poetic rhythm or spacing in verse and the overall measure of meter to which they flow. Eminem and Dr. Seuss are two great examples for this. When reading Dr. Seuss, for instance, there is an impulse to insert an extra syllable in some lines to give more order and poise to the prose, which often seems stilted because it is missing a syllable in a place that interrupts the smooth rhythm of the prose. On the other hand, Eminem is a wordsmith whose masterful use of rhythm is a powerful example of correct Iambic (Penta) Meter or perfectly measured verse. As is the Haiku poem, which uses five syllables, then seven syllables, then five again, a style favoured in Japan.
Going back, what do you mean Anton Long was created for something?
I mean that AL is a deliberate magickal creation. There are powers and actions granted via a channel emanating a certain personality that AL can perform, but which David Myatt, cannot. Likewise, actions and stances that ONA, can perform and hold: as a separate entity: which David Myatt cannot. All because of the different codes of conduct each possess, or more accurately that he has given them the power to possess.
THEM have come along and penned Liber Dabih at an extremely fortuitous time, because over the years, each of Myatt’s lived forms have been treated superficially, seen simplistically as snapshots which described Myatt, and each form with its own attached tirade of ignorant outside observation and commentary. And one of Myatt’s most infamous actions was a conversion to the Islaamic faith much to the chagrin and disgust of many pro-National Socialist circles: who, never really understood why Myatt was seen to be joining them in the first place, at all. At this time, like all his other forms, Myatt’s Islaamic learning can now be placed within a fair context. I think Myatt is genuine about using Islaam to attack the Magian, it is a role that makes a lot of sense from the perspective put forth by both AL and DM about championing Heresy.
Yet Myatt’s recent tally of shape-shifting confessions have brought him to a place where his over-arching concern is for the level of suffering needlessly endured by the promulgation of forms, illusions and divisions that man-made abstractions have the power to do, and a deep sadness that humanity has learnt or is in danger of learning, nothing from its past five thousand years; and thus that all forms such as National Socialism, Militant Coups, Islamic Fundamentalism, etc, should no longer play a part; but, he is caught irrevocably in-between Knowledge and Time.
While he Knows/Lives with these profound integrated discoveries of suffering and the Numinous Way intimately as David Myatt: the struggle to do nothing and the struggle to do something clearly rages within. As Myatt, he can do nothing to try and change the flow and precession of suffering – for Myatt is Above Time: but as the ONA, as Long, he can actively continue to struggle against the odds of the Times (Long is the means by which David can manifest In/Against Time) we live in by using a variety of forms, the complete ONA being one of these, to infuse the consciousness, the deep learning of David Myatt, into the world through the Seven-Fold Sinister Way. Thus not just the results of his learning, but also the way in which he set about teaching himself.
Obviously, the idea that Myatt has split personalities for this theory is appealing, but it would be incorrect. Myatt’s personalities are not split: and from his point of view, and mine, there is no differentiation between the two men and the plethora of other manifestations which each serve different purposes for Myatt: which emanate from one consciousness; but which consciousness is Acausal not Causal. Thus Myatt feels himself, rightly, a part of you, a part of me, a part of something greater, and is moved to express it, i.e. the Numinous.
[ Comment by RS: My view of this matter of Myatt's Numinous Way - and hence of "the question of suffering" - is that there is no Myattian "inner, personal struggle". Instead, there is the insight, the wisdom, and the practicality, of a genuine Mage.
This Numinous Way is thus a deliberate creation of Myatt's, albeit one arising from his personal thinking and his personal life-experience. That is, from his esoteric quest, from Initiate to Master of The Dark Arts, and then beyond.
Why a deliberate creation? To further his long term, Aeonic, aims because - as Anton Long makes clear in his autobiographical MS Emanations of a Mage - it will take centuries, if not a thousand years or more, for us as species to evolve into a new, and higher, type of being. Until then, there will be a variety of human types, with many clinging to the old ways of the Old Aeon, and these types will all have to be appealed to, manipulated, changed, evolved, infected with sinister memes - or culled.
There is, therefore, in my view no dichotomy, no personal inner struggle, between Myatt propounding his own Numinous Way, and between either Myatt - as Anton Long - propounding the sinister disruptive strategy of the ONA, or Myatt - as Abdul Aziz Ibn Myatt - propagating radical Islam. It's just a genuine Mage at work, on a variety of levels, and creating and using a variety of causal forms to achieve specific, and sometimes long term, goals.
As Anton Long states, while a Mage, a true Grand Master/Mistress of the darker esoteric Arts, "has perceived the acausal reality behind and beyond all limited causal forms, and hence experienced, understood and felt the essence from which such things as The Numinous Way arise, there is still an inner imperative to produce, to affect, to cause, to bring-into-being, Change, despite such suffering as may be caused: because that imperative and such Change are not only part of causal life but one essence of a true Mage. And it is a Mage who knows what is necessary, on all levels (exoteric and esoteric), to bring such Change into causal being... Thus is a true Mage an enigma to those lacking empathy and esoteric insight, and thus may a true Mage appear, to those un-evolved ones still imbued with the forms of the Old Aeon, as a contradiction, onto whom they project some -ism or some category in a vain attempt at understanding..." ]
So, okay, do you want to meet Anton Long?
No… I don’t think that it is necessary to do that anymore. Long is a part of my consciousness, a fellow wanderer who feels that awful sadness I have felt with the world and whose own life via the vehicle of the ONA has influenced me profoundly. People who have that feeling have nothing to say to each other – they’re already connected.
What is your impression of David Myatt?
My impression? I perceive a gentle man and a gentleman, doing what he can to make the world a better place. But we’re at a point in time where you have to literally smash someone over the head with a shovel to change their ways. I also believe that Myatt’s age is having an influence on his recent mindset – and that ONA’s forms are currently exhibiting a potent mixture of wisdom and fatalism – possibly due to an acute awareness on his part of his approaching mortality and the amount of time he has left to complete his Wyrd or achieve what he set out to do.
[ Comment by RS: I would say - a mixture of wisdom and practicality, due to an awareness of what is necessary. His age is irrelevant, except that he has over four decades of practical exoteric and esoteric experience of the sinister. Also irrelevant is any "awareness of approaching mortality" - for such causal mortality has no meaning for someone, such as a genuine Mage/GrandMistress, who know both the causal and the acausal for what they are, and who are aware of what awaits in the causal for those who have ventured far enough along our sinister causal path.
Certainly, he is the archetypal English gentleman - well-mannered, polite, reserved in public, and honourable. But as for him now being "gentle", well, according to my info his last serious fight was only a couple of years ago, a fair fight with a much younger man over a woman, and in which successful fight he suffered some broken ribs, although as the cliché goes, "you should have seen the other bloke..."
Notice that I said "as for him now being gentle..." For he has a long history of violence, going back to his youth; has served two terms of imprisonment for violence, and been arrested nearly a dozen times for violent offences, which included conspiracy to murder. he was also once held on remand in Armley prison because the Police believed he might threaten or intimidate witnesses for the prosecution.]
Would you say his involvement in extremist Islaam is making the world a better place?
I don’t believe Myatt actually converted to Islaam. He may have demonically lived the role, but the same underlying messages in his NS writings are the same underpinnings in his Islaamic stuff. It’s just different wrapping paper. Despite all the outer appearances put forth, I don’t believe his heart is in it and as I said to someone else, I think Myatt’s dream of space colonization underpins all of the forms he has taken on, that ONA is his grounding principle, and that all of his efforts revolve around his faith in the Order to deliver.
I have to ask, is THEM really an ONA Nexion?
The short answer is yes.
From my point of view based on ONA’s definition on what a nexion is and what I discern ONA are – how THEM carries on and extends the qualities relating to those definitions: qualifies THEM to present itself as a genuine nexion of the ONA. And that is not to say that my understanding of a nexion is the only, or the right, one.
Before many others, we understood Myatt and the underlying nature of his work beneath the sensationalism of his involvement in this or that form – we were not in thrall to the forms he took, and did not react emotively as he changed through them. We have remained cold and detached watching Myatt work. We understood what he is doing and subsequently could work out what he was doing. We empathize deeply with that work and have vowed to further it (We each took the Initiation Oath in Naos as a serious element of our devotion to the Sinister Quest and the ONA). But we should not be misunderstood as being the same as ONA, because we are not, we are an extension Offspring.
Insofar as THEM understands the ONA and the reasons relating to the propagation of it as a whole and a large number of its parts, re: Dark Gods, Star Game, Culling etc, THEM do claim to represent the ONA from Australia, and not, necessarily, as a Satanic group.
We have the experience and understanding to teach aspects and the spirit of the Seven-Fold Way – Whether or not this connexion is “officially” recognized by the ONA is irrelevant: all the important work is performed in the shadows and with hints anyway….
…. The genius behind ONA is or must be nearing his 60th birthday; and noticeably his attitude has changed as his insight has grown: esp as regards the Numinous Way. And of this attitude, I am in agreement: having come to many similar conclusions myself. The nature of the challenge imposed by the Times for Satanism has certainly changed as has the solution to meet that challenge. Where some see an overt stand as ultimately required in a militant force, coup or army as the right way to conduct Satanic affairs, we do not necessarily agree.
[ Comment by RS: Myatt has always supported the use of violent force; and he still does, as is quite clear from his recent Jihadist diatribes and his continuing support for Al Qaida and the Taliban, a support quite evident in articles of his such as "The Aims of Al Qaida" and "In Reply to Sheikh Salman bin Fahd al-Oadah".
It is also quite clear from Anton Long's recent ONA writings (dated 120 Year of Fayen), particularly those about "sinister tribes". In his most recent one, he writes "we will use whatever means we can and whatever means we desire and which are necessary to establish our feral tribes..." (quoted from "Whose Gonna Run This Town Tonight?" which incidentally is the title of a song by Jay-Z and Rihanna.)
Myatt's sinister strategy regarding force is, in my view, four fold. First, there's the ONA, particularly using such causal forms as sinister, feral, urban tribes to disrupt The System from within. Second, there's practical Jihad by radical Muslims against what he and others have called "the New World Order". Third, there's training some sinister individuals to go out into the word as perform such practical roles as "assassins". Fourth, there's the mythos of Vindex, to try and inspire someone to take up arms against the capitalist New World Order, whether in Europe, America, or elsewhere in the world.
Myatt also has said, very recently, that our "Dark Imperium" can only be created by the downfall, the destruction of the Old Order, and this can only be done by force. ]
Our understanding is from experience, that change, is very slow and takes a long time: and, that to implement changes, requires patience, wisdom, and patience. Every day we diffuse our Satanic insights into the people in the world around us: every few days, THEM is changing the perspective of someone to enable them to see what we see. Slowly, but surely, we are making gradual, imperceptible, invisible changes via our conduct, via our personalities, via our understanding of magic and of change; in the world: that are being rooted in the consciousness as living thriving ideas and practices. Changing them from the inside permanently not tacking on a badge or uniform temporarily on the outer. THEM are performing the long arduous and often unrewarding implementation of genuine alchemical black magick in the tradition of the ONA with a view to creating a tradition in Australia that gives this country a truly Sinister History. Others will come, and go – but we will persevere against all odds through the next three decades, quietly completing our experiment. Mark my Words.
Having, for instance, shared many of the same intense quiet moments with Nature as Myatt, and been an avid proponent of the ONA for almost a decade, I believe I recognize and thus empathise deeply with what he is doing. But, with such an enormous volume of work available presented from so many stages of his life, it is easy to come in to it at any stage and think one is reading Myatt’s most recent insights.
The pressing underlying crux of David Myatt is a tightrope between extremes, a balanced fulcrum that has its own self-righting equilibrium between sharing the awesome wisdom of the Numinous Way that people might stop, listen, grow, and mature from being inspired by the peaceful acausal symbiosis achieved from exhausting the (ultimately illusory) possibilities of so many forms that promise to guide a person; and having taken them each to their conclusion found still, something lacking. And the explosive destructive elements of Myatt’s nature.
Remember, that the people most likely to make a change in the world, those with a pathological dislike or even hatred for the Status Quo such as those on the fringe of the neat slots that society tries to put people in, and those who have been deeply wronged by the current or prevailing powers or ethos, that is to say, the same people who will gravitate toward unorthodox measures and paths to fight, combat, and dream of using to conquer the Injustice, the Absurdity, the Arrogance of the Century and its Keepers -having the qualities of militancy, aggression, readiness for war, struggle to understand, to know for themselves, to right wrongs, to crusade for mankind or even oneself that one finds in all manner of defiant beings, are not rare, moreover they are the type of beings who gravitate toward something just like, the ONA. And perhaps they will even call themselves a Satanist.
And yet, while the flutes of peace wax lyrically, the talk and suggestion of War as an answer from someone in a highly influential position draws us (and parts of humanity listening to Myatt) closer, perhaps unintentionally on his part, toward the type of typical Religious Armageddon that will inevitably repeat the centuries of bloodshed that seem so lamented by Myatt: viz. in a struggle that will involve real violence, real bombs, real guns, real deaths, in order to enact the ideal of the “Numinous Way”.
[ Comment by RS: "Lamented by Myatt" only in his particular intentional role as mystic philosopher of the Numinous Way. More correctly, possibly, we should say "lamentfully understood" (as Myatt writes) - "by those who currently and in the future possess a certain personal character and that developed empathy that will be evident in the evolved human being of the future, when the Old Order has been destroyed and we have ventured to seed ourselves among the star-systems of our Galaxy and thus have established many new cultures most of which are diverse from each other and which express the ethos of their own specific clan or tribal way of life..."
While I have always been able to see the innate hypocrisy built into language that unfortunately is a part of Any form, any single idea put down which spawns an immediate shadow, I have to ask as one of THEM, as someone with my own distinct identity and understanding of the forces in play by many people: is how this is going, the right way? Is this the only way? Must people be shocked into awakening? Is WAR the only way to cause Change? And do I support this?* I cannot help but see a clever engine of National Socialism prevalent in what I see being laid out by Myatt: A soft sweet tune that preludes the beating of war drums and the annihilation of flesh.
The source of the article by one of THEM is at:
http://templeofthem.wordpress.co
Panorama, Copeland, and Myatt, In Context
Since excerpts featuring Myatt from the 2000 (CE) Panorama TV program about Copeland are flying around in cyberspace again, and being commented upon, it is perhaps germane to give some details about this program and David Myatt’s part in it, thus giving the context to the statements made by Myatt.
One of these excerpts from the program is at:
http://www.dailymotion.com (Copeland video)
A complete transcript of the program is available at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/(transcript)
Background
The program itself was produced by Nick Lowles, who for many years has worked for the notorious pro-Zionist Searchlight organization, and who is now editor of the Searchlight magazine. Searchlight itself has long been rumored to be an MI5 – a British government – asset, specializing in not only spreading rumors and dis-information about those the government deems “right-wing extremists”, but also in obtaining, by dubious means, confidential information and documents about its opponents, all of whom just happen to be anti-Zionist. These dubious means of obtaining information about anti-Zionist “extremists” include burglary of people’s homes and places of work, covert surveillance (often using electronic listening and video devices) and obtaining personal information about people from government and Police databases, usually by bribing people with access to such information, or using contacts in the “intelligence community” and in government.
Thus the program itself was hardly an unbiased documentary, given the opinions and past of its producer, and given the inordinate amount of time given to the opinions of Gerry Gable, another notorious Searchlight operative and another long term MI5 asset.
The program also clearly had an agenda, clearly stated by Gable at the end of the program: Who – other than Copeland – is responsible for all of this? Responsible for the killings, the terror?
The answer that the program gives is that David Myatt was and is responsible. This theme was picked up by many newspapers after the program’s transmission, with one printing a photograph of Myatt on its front-page with the headline: “This is the man who shaped mind of a bomber; Cycling the lanes around Malvern, the mentor who drove David Copeland to kill…” and with the story beginning:
” Riding a bicycle around his Worcestershire home town sporting a wizard-like beard and quirky dress-sense, the former monk could easily pass as a country eccentric or off-beat intellectual.
But behind David Myatt’s studious exterior lies a more sinister character that has been at the forefront of extreme right-wing ideology in Britain since the mid-1960s. Myatt… was the brains behind the country’s most openly neo-nazi organization…..”
Thus, it seems that it was the intention of Gable and his fellow Zionists such as Lowles and Michael Whine (of the Board of Deputies of British Jews) – and with the help of the Panorama program about Copeland – to “point the finger” at Myatt and have the Police sent Myatt to jail for a very long time.
Myatt’s Part in Context
For several days before being accosted by the Panorama TV crew (which included “minders”, or bodyguards, given Myatt’s reputation for violence) Myatt was followed around – to and from his then place of work (a farm) – by a large red van which covertly filmed and photographed him, his place of work, and his home, which home he shared with his wife and family.
After several days of this covert surveillance, Myatt was accosted by the TV crew early one rainy and Winter morning while on his way to work. As is evident from the program, Myatt – well spoken, with a soft, educated accent – was polite, and restrained. As given in the official transcript:
McLAGAN
Mr Myatt, we’re from the BBC. We’re from Panorama. We wanted to ask you some questions about the NSM and David Copeland, the London nailbomber.
Here, the scene shifts to give another view of Myatt and the TV crew, taken from behind, and one of the burly minders can just be seen (with his face blanked out) on the right hand side.
Then – as is common practice – some further comments by Myatt were edited out for transmission, and the edited interview of the encounter continues with:
McLAGAN
But two years ago, when you were head of the NSM, the NSM was calling for the creation of racial terror with bombs.
MYATT
I have no comment to make about the past, as I said, and as…
Here Myatt, in saying “as I said…” is referring to some comments edited out for transmission, which comments referred to his conversion to Islam some months earlier.
The broadcast conversation continues:
Myatt’s reference to “God” refers back to his edited-out comment about his recent conversion to Islam.
Myatt then went on, in the Muslim persona he had by that time adopted (for whatever reason and from whatever motive), to explain that he would be happy to continue the interview, and answer any questions, later than day or at a convenient time, at his local Mosque with the Imaam of the Mosque present. These further comments, by Myatt, were never broadcast.
Myatt’s personal appearance in the program is noteworthy because his mustache is shaved in the fashion of Muslims following what is called Hanafi fiqh – that is, trimmed and shaved well above the upper lip.
Also relevant to Myatt’s comments – apart from his then public persona as a Muslim – is the fact that he was, at the time, still on bail following his arrest, over a year earlier, by Detectives from Scotland Yard’s SO12 unit, when his house was searched for seven hours by seven Police officers, and computers and other items seized. Myatt was facing charges of conspiracy to murder, incitement to racial hatred, and incitement to murder, and – as a condition of his bail – had to regularly report to a London Police station where he was interrogated by officers from Special Branch. In addition, some months earlier, Myatt had been questioned, at his home, and once at Oxford Police Station, by Detectives from the Anti-Terrorism branch.
Speculations
Seasoned observers of Myatt’s peregrinations and activities will quite naturally assume that one of the practical reasons Myatt may have adopted his Muslim persona some time before this BBC “interview” – and made his comments about God during that interview – was in preparation for what he then assumed would be his forthcoming trial, in a British Court of Law, on charges of incitement and conspiracy, connected to both the neo-nazi NSM and Copeland.
Perhaps Myatt intended to portray himself as some “devout Muslim”, or perhaps – and this is more likely, in my view – he intended to take himself to some Muslim country from whence he could not be extradited, or where he would simply disappear from public view. For he had already made arrangements to visit Iran (which even then welcomed “holocaust deniers”), and had already begun writing polemical, Islamist, articles in support of the Taliban, so that it is plausible that his intention, after creating a public Muslim persona for himself – helped by the Panorama program which we may assume he was delighted to take advantage of to bolster his Muslim credentials – was to decamp to Egypt, or Afghanistan, or some other Muslim country.
Whatever the reason, some months after the Panorama program was broadcast, the British Police dropped its criminal investigation of Myatt’s activities, citing “insufficient evidence to proceed to trial”. As for Myatt himself, he would continue to pen his Islamist tracts and openly agitate for Jihad against the West, earning a reputation which led to him being mentioned at several NATO conferences into Islamic extremism; being called, by the author Martin Amis, a ferocious jihadi, and being the subject of full page article in The Times, of London, newspaper under the headline Muslim Extremists in Britain.
If we assume that Myatt had – on the spur of the moment when approached by the TV crew – intended to use his appearance in the Panorama program to boost his Muslim credentials, world-wide, then it perhaps did not work out as he might have wished. For the editors of that program made no mention whatsoever of Myatt’s conversion to Islam, and edited out all his comments about Islam, Allah, and his conversion, and instead choose to portray him as still a die-hard neo-nazi, leaving in only his apparently odd statement about “God”.
^^^
Update:
As for items such as the statement at http://www.aryan-nations.org/reichsfolk/reply1.html – which were allegedly issued by Myatt sometime in 2000 CE after the Panorama program was broadcast – it is my view that these, if genuine, were either merely Myatt’s rather cynical (and some might argue, sinister) attempts at that particular time to “play both sides against the middle”; or (more likely) a propagandistic ruse designed to keep his enemies, and the Police and the security services, guessing about his real intentions. That the Reply to Allegations item contains an old recycled article written by Myatt some time before his conversion to Islam – rather than a newly written item – seems, in my view, to support the propaganda ruse theory.
- Allegations About David Myatt
- David Myatt
- Personal Comments About David Myatt
on October 21, 2009 at 2:45 pm Comments OffTags: David Myatt and Anton Long, Myatt Mythos