Fake News
Posted: March 11th, 2019 | Author: baeldraca | Filed under: Labyrinthos Mythologicus, O9A, O9A Nine Angles, Order of Nine Angles, Order of the Nine Angles, The Sinister Dialectic, The Sinister Tradition, The Sinisterly Numinous Tradition | Tags: David Myatt, Fake News, Hope Not Hate, Labyrinthos Mythologicus, O9A, Occultism, Order of Nine Angles, Order of the Nine Angles, Satanism, Traditional Satanism | Comments Off on Fake NewsÂ
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Exposing Twelve Basic Errors
In a recent report much quoted in mainstream Media the anti-fascist ‘special interest’ group calling itself “Hope not hate†devoted two sections (pages 80-85) to the Order of Nine Angles (O9A, ONA) and David Myatt.
The shoddy and propagandistic – the “fake news†– nature of the report is evident in the fact that in those two sections there are over twelve basic, factual, errors ranging from outright fabrications to misquotations.
Another fundamental – damning – flaw is that various O9A and other articles are quoted but without providing references to the date and place of publication and without giving the name of the author on the original text with some articles which are falsely attributed to Myatt having been written by others.
Other fundamental flaws are that the author of the sections on the O9A and Myatt provided no evidence for their many assumptions (such as that Myatt=Long) and did not balance their claims by asking those they libelled for their comments.
That the mainstream Media published articles which extensively quoted from the pages about the O9A and Myatt in the report yet did not have its journalists ask those maligned by the report for comments, and did not have its journalists check the facts beforehand, is indicative of how even the mainstream Media is complicit in spreading “fake newsâ€.
Had a mainstream journalist or journalists bothered to check the facts they would have found the following.
§ Quote: “For Myatt, satanism and fascism are inextricably linked.†p.84
A fabrication by the author, since Myatt in his extensive critique of Occultism first published in 1997 by Renaissance Press in New Zealand wrote:
                  “National-Socialism and Occultism are fundamentally, and irretrievably, incompatible and opposed to each other.†{1}
§ The author gives a quote allegedly written by Myatt: “National Socialism is the only real theory in existence, since it is based solely on the highest ideals of Honour, Loyalty and Duty, championed over and above selfish individual pursuits. It calls for a revolution of the Soul; a Triumph of the Will; a return of racial pride and defiance. In a very important sense, National Socialism IS contemporary Paganism.†p.84
The author not only misquotes the original text but mistakenly attributes it to Myatt.
° The correct quotation is:
                  “National Socialism (with the esoteric exception of Traditional Satanism) is the only real Heresy in existence, since it is based solely on the highest ideals of Honour, Loyalty and Duty, championed over and above selfish individual pursuits. It calls for a revolution of the Soul; a Triumph of the Will; a return of racial pride and defiance – of all that epitomizes the genuine Western ethos. It is a form that cannot be bought by The System, and thus the only option for the latter is to jail or kill National Socialists, and smash through innumerable legislative variations National Socialist influence, naturally dormant in the Western – or Aryan – people. It is the only form which frightens The System, and is thus the only form capable of achieving System Breakdown.â€
The quotation is from a Temple 88 newsletter published in a compilation by Caput Mortuum in May 2004 via the now defunct website. {2}
° In addition and importantly, according to the Anti-Defamation League
                  “the berserker brotherhood is a relatively new motorcycle division of temple 88, a white supremacist group that describes itself as a brotherhood of white separatists. The berserker brotherhood colors have a skull in the middle of an iron cross, flanked on the right by the number 88. One anonymous berserker brotherhood member claimed on a social networking Web site that temple 88 originally formed in South Carolina’s Allendale Correctional Institute.†{3}
§ Quote: “The three volumes of The Black Book of Satan are considered so extreme that they are kept is a special section of the British Library and not available to the general public.†p.81
In fact, only two versions of the first volume are kept in the British Library. The first version was published in 1984 and is at General Reference Collection Cup.815/51.
The second version was published in 1992 under the title Codex Saerus and is at General Reference Collection YK.1994.b.12337.
Other O9A items kept in the British Library include the rare edition of Naos: a practical guide to modern magick published by Coxland Press in 1990, available at General Reference Collection YK.1993.a.13307.
§ Quote: “O9A literature regularly advocates ritualised rape, random attacks on innocent victims.†p.81
A fabrication by the author.
A study of the O9A corpus from the 1980s to 2018 – from the pro-Sapphic novel Breaking The Silence Down {4} to the essay The Anti-Patriarchal O9A Ethos {5} – reveals the O9A attitude toward women, with the O9A code of kindred honour embodying respect for women and gender equality {5} and with the O9A having “more female supporters than either the Church of Satan or the Temple of Set [and] more women with children.†{6}
Nowhere in the corpus of O9A texts written by “Anton Long†between the 1970s and 2011 does the O9A advocate rape.
In fact the O9A consider rapists as suitable candidates for culling {7}.
In addition, nowhere in the corpus of O9A texts written by “Anton Long†between the 1970s and 2011 does the O9A advocate random attacks on innocent victims.
§ Quote: “The ceremony ends with the killing of a chosen one; in a symbolic sacrifice, an animal replaces a person.†p.81
The ceremony in question is The Ceremony of Recalling and nowhere is there any mention of sacrificing an animal, which is fabrication on the part of the author. The ceremony is included in the text Grimoire of Baphomet.
In addition, O9A texts dating from the 1980s and 1990s reveal that they “despise animal sacrifice.†{8}
§ Quote: “When asked in 2005 if the O9A were posing as nazis to recruit and spread their message, Myatt – writing under the name Darkos Lago – responded: You seem to have missed the point about ONA and National Socialism.†p. 82
Where is the evidence for the propagandistic assumption that Myatt used that or any other pseudonym? The author provides no evidence whatsoever.
In addition, the author not only gets the year wrong but misattributes the quote. The post was published in 2016 on the “right-wing†Stormfront internet forum by Dark Logos not by Darkos Lago {9}.
§ Quote: “To Myatt, Satanism represented the Black Order, the only force that could unlock the stranglehold [of] the White Order.†p. 84
A fabrication, for Myatt does not mention a “Black Order†and a “White Order†in any of his writings, be such writings from his time as a National Socialist (1968-1998), as a Muslim (1998-2009) or as an advocate of his numinous way/philosophy of pathei-mathos (2010-present).
Neither does “Anton Long†mention a “Black Order†and a “White Order†in any of his writings.
§ Quote: “In an interview as recently as 2013, Myatt explained their strategy. “Insofar as I understand the matter, it seems that the ‘satanic’ overtones of the ONA serves several subversive purposes.†p.83.
The quoted text was not an interview with Myatt, was not published in 2013 but was posted in 2016 on the “right-wing†Stormfront internet forum by Dark Logos {9}.
§ Quote: “In the 1990s the leadership of the O9A was taken over by Richard Moult.â€
The author reveals a basic lack of understanding of the O9A. For there is not and never was a “leader†of the O9A, as a study of the O9A corpus from the 1980s to 2018 makes clear. {10}
According to Professor Monette the O9A
                  “is not a structured lodge or temple, but rather a movement, a subculture or perhaps metaculture that its adherents choose to embody or identify with.†{11}
That is, the O9A is a collection of autonomous cells (nexions) and individuals who follow or who are inspired by the Occult philosophy and practices described in the O9A corpus.
§ Quote: “In 2001 I met David Myatt in a Shropshire pub, close to where he shared a caravan with Richard Moult.â€
The author fabricates where both Myatt and Moult then lived. At the time Myatt lived in the village of Leigh Sinton near Malvern with his wife and family while Moult lived with his female partner on a farm near Lydbury North in Shropshire.
These facts were known to both the police and MI5 since Myatt was under surveillance following his arrest by Special Branch in 1998 and his interrogation in 1999 by the anti-terrorist squad in relation to Copeland’s nail-bomb attacks in London. At the time of the interview with Lowles, Myatt was still on bail following his 1998 arrest with one of his bail conditions being that he attend Charing Cross police station on a regular basis.
In addition, the places of residence could be confirmed by County Council tax reports, by tax returns from HM Revenue and Customs, and by other official documents, with Myatt at the time working on a farm near Malvern.
Myatt’s version of the interview with Lowles {12} provides a different version of the events.
§ Errors on pseudonyms.
The author gets the following pseudonyms wrong. He has
° Christos Beast – instead of Christos Beest
° Darkos Lago – instead of Dark Logos
° A. A. Morian – instead of A. A. Morain
° Michael Mouthwork – instead of Michael Morthwork
§ Logical Fallacies.
The author of the sections on the O9A and Myatt commits two basic logical fallacies.
° First, he commits the fallacy of Incomplete Evidence, Which is, to quote Myatt, {13} “when material concerning or assumptions about a particular matter are selected and presented to support a particular argument or conclusion, while other material or assumptions which do not support, which contradict, the chosen argument or conclusion are withheld or not discussed. In effect, selective evidence and/or selective argument are used in order to ‘prove’ a particular point.â€
The author thus omits to mention or quote from O9A texts which contradict his assumptions or which place into context the quotations he uses. The author also omits to quote from Myatt’s extensive post-2010 writings about his rejection of extremism and about his mystical, ethical, philosophy of pathei-mathos; quotations which would provide Myatt’s side of the story.
In the case of the O9A the author does not, for example, in the matter of “culling†mention or quote from O9A texts which reveal that there is wide diversity of opinion within the O9A as to whether O9A culling is real or merely part of its Labyrinthos Mythologicus {14} and thus just
                  “a test of occult intuition and a test also designed to put many people off, cause controversy and so generate interest in the O9A.†{15}
As Richard Moult recently wrote:
                  “Regarding culling: I have always understood this to be a mischievous aspect of the O9A’s Labyrinthos Mythologicus, and during my time associated with its Septenary techniques, I experienced nothing to suggest otherwise.†{16}
The same questions regarding the O9A’s Labyrinthos Mythologicus apply in the matter of the O9A suggesting Insight Roles that may involve criminal acts.
° Second, the author of the sections in the report dealing with the O9A and Myatt commits the fallacy of secundum quid et simpliciter. Which is the use of particular individual cases to form a general rule to then use that rule to describe, and thence to blame, or to castigate, or to defame a whole group.
Thus the author uses selective quotes from people who have associated themselves with the O9A and uses his selection to describe and to defame the O9A.
Trusting In Fake News
So many errors and flaws in so few pages exposes the sections on the O9A and Myatt in the report as untrustworthy, as “fake newsâ€, as propaganda designed to discredit written by an author with a particular political agenda.
The sections on the O9A and Myatt are also a masterclass in how to write, distribute, and have the mainstream Media publish fake news, to thus get the public to believe and spread such fake news.
RDM Crew
February 2019
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Note: The on-line texts and web-pages referenced below were available as of 26 February 2019.
{1} Myatt’s Occultism and National-Socialism is available at https://regardingdavidmyatt.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/occultism-and-ns.pdf
{2} qv. http://www.the-serpent.pl/ona/
{4} Available from https://omega9alpha.wordpress.com/deofel-quartet/
{5} https://omega9alpha.wordpress.com/anti-patriarchal-o9a/
{6} J.R Lewis, Satanic Attitudes, in Asbjorn Dyrendal, James R. Lewis, Jesper A. Petersen (editors), The Invention of Satanism, Oxford University Press, 2015. p.191; pp. 194–196.
{7} https://wyrdsister.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/culling-o9a-code-v3.pdf
{8} qv. R. Parker, Praxis and Theory of The Order of Nine Angles – A Précis for Critics, Neophytes, and Academics. 2012.
{9} https://www.stormfront.org/forum/t872799-5/?postcount=44#post13330543
{10} An overview is provided in Authority, Learning, and Culture, In The Sinister Tradition Of The Order of Nine Angles, available at https://omega9alpha.wordpress.com/o9a-authority/
See also https://omega9alpha.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/o9a-anarchy-v1.pdf
{11} Connell Monette, Mysticism in the 21st Century. Sirius Academic Press, 2013. p.89
{12} https://regardingdavidmyatt.wordpress.com/meeting-with-nick-lowles/
{13} David Myatt, A Matter Of Honour, 2012.
{14} qv. https://omega9alpha.wordpress.com/labyrinthos-mythologicus/
{15} The quotation is from The Question Of O9A Culling, available at https://omega9alpha.wordpress.com/o9a-culling/
See also Another Academic Misinterpretation Of The O9A, available at https://omega9alpha.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/misinterpretation-o9a-v5.pdf
{16} https://web.archive.org/web/20190220044334/https://starred-desert.com/statement/
