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David Icke
David Icke (born April 29, 1952) is a British former footballer and football commentator, now better known as a controversial writer and conspiracy theorist.
Life and Career
He was born in the city of Leicester in the English Midlands, into a working class family. Having wanted to be a professional footballer (soccer player) for quite some time, he left school to play for Coventry City and Hereford United in the English league, where he played as a goalkeeper.
His football career was brought to a premature end by rheumatoid arthritis, at which point he joined the BBC. He became fairly well known as a sports broadcaster in this period.
After leaving the BBC Icke became an activist for the Green Party, rising swiftly to become their media spokesperson. He left politics in 1991 due to a realisation that although appearing to be in conflict, the political parties were anything but at their highest levels. He began to wear only turquoise and in different interviews claimed that he was God or the son of God. In an interview on the Terry Wogan show in 1991 his announcement that he was "a son of the Godhead" and that Britain would be devastated by tidal waves and earthquakes was met with laughter from the studio audience, derision in the press and suggestions that he was mentally ill. In a more general sense, his supporters note that he described all humans as 'children of God' or of some sort of god, and that the confusion resulted from his scrambling to explain his spiritual 'apotheosis'. After being widely derided and ridiculed, he disappeared from public view for a short time.
He now lives in Ryde on the Isle of Wight, where he makes occasional public appearances, for example at the Bestival in 2004, where he preached to festival-goers as they approached an open-air concert.
Tabloids stated in 2004 that he was possibly to appear on the UK Big Brother programme in 2005, but Icke later said that although he had considered it as a possible vehicle for getting across important information, he decided that it would not be a good idea. Icke said of this that he was interested in "the REAL Big Brother, not adding to the diversions that allow him to operate unchallenged".
Conspiracy writings
Icke returned to the limelight in the late 1990s with a book, The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World. In it he claimed to have discovered that the world was being run by a New World Order, controlled by a race of reptilian humanoids or reptiloid aliens (he does not state what exactly they are, only giving possible explanations
- "My own resaerch [sic] suggests that it is from another dimension, the lower fourth dimension, that the reptilian control and manipulation is primarily orchestrated. ...
- Other people know this as the lower astral dimension, the legendary home of demons and malevolent antities [sic] in their black magic rituals.... ").
According to Icke, their 'hybrid reptilian-human DNA' allows some of these aliens to change from reptilian to human form if they can consume human blood, and he has even drawn parallels with the 1980s science fiction series V, in which Earth is taken over by reptiloid aliens disguised as humans.
Michael Barkun, in his 2003 study of conspiracy theory subculture, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America, writes that Icke is "the most fluent of conspiracy authors, which gives his writings a clarity rarely found in the genre."
The group, known as the Babylonian Brotherhood, implicates practically every world leader from Britain's late Queen Mother to Bill Clinton as either a reptilian, or working for them (he suggests that they are slave-like victims of multiple personality disorder).
- "The Rothschilds, Rockefellers, the British royal family, and the ruling political and economic families of the US and the rest of the world come from these SAME bloodlines.
- ...
- It is not because of snobbery, it is to hold as best they can a genetic structure - the reptilian-mammalian DNA combination which allows them to "shape-shift".
- You will also see references on the site to "shape-shifting", the phenomena in which witnesses have reported seeing people (most often those in positions of power), transform before their eyes, from a human form to a reptilian one and then back again.
- ...
- Former US president, President George Herbert Walker Bush, incidentally, is mentioned more than any other person in my experience in relation to shape-shifting."
For example, the Ancient Sumerians worshipped apparently reptilian gods called the Anunnaki, and the Ancient Maya of Mexico claim that all their knowledge of the heavens came from their god of wisdom and astrology, Kukulcan, sometimes depicted in Maya art as a reptilian humanoid with a crest of feathers on his head (this god later became the Aztec god, the Plumed Serpent, Quetzalcoatl). The ancient Egyptians believed that the sun was swallowed by a snake in the evening and traveled through its bowels at night to return the next morning. Dragons played significant roles in both European and Asian culture. Judeo-Christian religion contains the concept of the 'serpent' introducing an innocent Adam and Eve to original sin and causing their fall from Paradise, and snake handling is part of some Christian sects' worship.
Icke links all of his data, both from mainstream sources, and from speculation, together into a set of grand conspiracy theories. The sheer volume of his writings, and the interconnectedness of his ideas, are enough to convince many of his supporters that "something must be going on". They regard skeptics as being either ill-informed or as stooges of the conspiracy.
Some anti-racist activists in the Western world have decried Icke's theories as being anti-semitic, saying that when he speaks of reptiles he is speaking of Jews. However, Icke has strongly and continually denied those allegations. (http://www.davidicke.com/icke/articles3/plot.html) He maintains that the reptilians are not humans of any race, but are extradimensional entities that enter and control human minds. He also says that in fact, what he calls the "white race" (those with blue eyes in particular) are most susceptible to reptilian influence.
He has since published a number of additional books following this theme at various levels of detail, the first being too large to be read by most casual readers. His latest work continues in this thread, an attempt to explain the September 11, 2001 attacks as being a part of this reptile-led conspiracy, with the reptiloid George W. Bush playing the key role. (See also Bush family conspiracy theory.)
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