David Myatt and Searchlight Articles
In order to facilitate research into the life and works of Myatt, I
reproduce, below, a pdf file (1.1 Mb) which contains a copy of an
interesting
article
about Myatt which was published in the April 1998 issue of the British
anti-fascist magazine Searchlight, headlined The Most Evil
Nazi in
Britain. I also reproduce, below, another pdf file (155 Kb)
containing a
copy of another article from Searchlight, published in
2000, and dealing with Copeland and the 1998 London bombings, which
article contained a section about Myatt entitled Theoretician of
Terror. These articles - and
others like them, from Searchlight, and other writers - make
various
accusations regarding Myatt's involvement with the Occult.
These two particular Searchlight items are presented here in
order that (1) readers may judge their contents
for themselves; (2) because they are often referred to, and referenced,
in other articles and books with deal with or which comment upon Myatt;
and (3) because they are not readily available elsewhere.
As for Myatt himself, it is perhaps only fair to write that he has
always denied such involvement with the Occult, and
challenged anyone to provide any credible evidence of either such
involvement or him being, or using the pseudonym, Anton Long. Indeed,
and in reference to the claim by Nick Lowles, in the April 1998
article, that Myatt at one time used the same PO Box as the ONA (the
only piece of evidence given in that article), Myatt asserted then that
he was only doing a temporary favor for a long-standing friend, an
assertion
- it should be noted - he had made several times before, including
several years earlier to Professor Jeffrey Kaplan (see, for example,
footnote #51
of Kaplan’s book Nation and Race)
who, again it should be noted, believed that Myatt himself was not
Anton Long, and who, interestingly, assumed that this friend of Myatt's
(who, at the time, was an academic at an Oxford College) was none other
than the 'real' Anton Long. Professor Kaplan also elsewhere mentions
that Myatt told him that although he was friends with this person,
"they agreed to disagree about many things", including, presumably,
about politics and the Occult.
In 2003, Myatt issued a Statement
- from which I give an extract below - regarding the allegations,
published in the Searchlight magazine,
and later reproduced in the book, Homeland. The individuals
Myatt alludes to are author Nick Ryan, and Nick Lowles of Searchlight.
However, this particular Statement, of
his, was
simply a slightly updated re-issue of a similar one he had circulated
years before, in 1998, following the publication of The Most Evil
Nazi in Britain article, and which earlier 'statement' was directed
at
Nick Lowles alone.
"I challenged these individuals to a duel with deadly
weapons,
according to the etiquette of duelling, because of the dishonourable
accusations they made against me in books and articles written by them
and because of the rumours they had spread about me. I sent them a
personal challenge, and also made my challenge public. I did this
because I believe in the concept of personal honour - thus, this is the
honourable thing to do when such accusations are made. I do not regard
the so-called "Courts of Law" in this or any Western land as honourable
or as allowing for personal honour, and therefore cannot in all honour
have recourse to them in such matters...
Both of these
individuals refused my challenge and thus I considered my honour
vindicated, in public just as I considered that by refusing this
challenge they have shown themselves to be dishonourable and cowardly.
Accordingly, whatever they have written about me can be dismissed - it
is the product of dishonourable cowards. Furthermore, anyone of any
honour has a duty to dismiss the writings, the rumours, the ramblings,
the opinions, of such people..."
In a more recent comment on such matters, dated 7 Rabi
al-Thaani 1430, Myatt writes:
" There is a lot of disinformation about me on the Internet
and
in various books; and many unsubstantiated rumours. This is where - yet
again - I find and have found the behaviour of
Muslims to be honourable, for it is principle of Islam for Muslims to
be suspicious of, and to ignore, rumours and allegations about one of
their brothers and sisters. And this honourable behaviour of Muslims is
in complete and stark contrast to the behaviour of the vast
majority of those who call and called themselves "National Socialists"
(or "white nationalists"), as I know from my own experience during my
Jahil days, and is obvious whenever I, as a Muslim, am mentioned by
such individuals today, for they dishonourably persist in believing and
spreading such disinformation, rumours and allegations..."
JR Wright
April 2009 AD