David Icke

= David Icke = David Icke[note 1] is a human singularity of insanity best known for his "reptoid" conspiracy theory. He came to fame as an English footballer and sports commentator and used to be a spokesman for the Green Party of England and Wales, but since 1991 has devoted his life to informing the world that it's actually secretly controlled by evil shape-shifting lizard-people from the 4th dimension. Genuinely.[note 2] {| class="toc"

Contents
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 * 1 Descent into woo
 * 2 Views
 * 2.1 Reptoids
 * 2.2 Not anti-Semitic
 * 2.3 Altie
 * 2.4 Son of God
 * 2.5 Reality is a hologram
 * 2.6 Headgear
 * 2.7 Patriot movement
 * 3 List of reptilian overlords
 * 3.1 Royalty
 * 3.2 Politicians
 * 3.3 Other
 * 4 Lawsuit
 * 5 Factoids
 * 6 See also
 * 7 External links
 * 8 Notes
 * 9 Footnotes
 * }

[edit]Descent into woo
During the late 1980s while he was still with the Green Party, Icke began to look to alternative medicine for a cure for the arthritis that had ended his football career. This also brought him in contact with the local members of the New Age movement. In 1989, he experienced neurological symptoms (impression of a presence, momentary paralysis of lower extremities, auditory hallucination, facial sensations) that he interpreted as spirits trying to contact him.[2] In 1990, he met a psychic he called his "soul mate" who began to introduce him to hardcore New Age woo.[3] He went off the deep end shortly thereafter. He left the party in 1990 and was formally banned from it in 1994, with the Greens calling his views "fascist".[4]

[edit]Views
Icke is a proponent of a super-duper grand unified conspiracy theory that mixes together just about every conspiracy theory you can think of; this he calls the "Babylonian Brotherhood."[note 3] All members of the media, the scientific community, the banking system, and the religions and militaries of the world's nations are mere foot-soldiers of the conspiracy. These stooges are in turn controlled by the usual suspects: the United Nations, the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission, the Illuminati, the Freemasons, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Rothschild family, the World Bank, etc. All of these groups are merely the puppets of "the global elite," which are controlled by "the prison wardens."

[edit]Reptoids
A self-portrait by David Icke.[citation NOT needed]

I, for one, welcome our new reptilian overlords. With the release of his book The Biggest Secret in 1999, Icke added the final layer on top of the pyramid of conspiracy: Interdimensional shape-shifting lizard-people from a rift in the space-time continuum near the constellation Draco, often referred to as "reptilians" or "reptoids." Partially ripping off Zecharia Sitchin, he claims these aliens are the Anunnaki and that they have interbred with humans throughout history. Much of the "evidence" of reptoids Icke's worshipers put forth are pictures of world leaders with enlarged pupils or red eye — the everyday kind of red eye in which retinas illuminated by camera flashes. This supposedly signifies that they have momentarily lapsed in their shape-shifting.

Reasonable speculation about the source of his space-lizard theory may be the 1970s British progressive rock album Lizard by King Crimson which features metaphoricalreferences to lizards as politico-religious enemies of a "Prince Rupert" in the song "Lizard." Ironically, King Crimson's "lizards" seem to honor the Sabbath, promise Eden, and have a "sacred tablet." The song also references British writer William Blake's figure "Urizen,"[wp] Blake's parody and criticism of the God of the Old Testament which he viewed as simultaneously extremely tyrannical and misguidedly benevolent.[6] Another source may have been the 1980s TV series V, which featured shape-shifting lizard aliens who took over Earth from within society.

[edit]Not anti-Semitic
See the main article on this topic: Antisemitism

Some people have taken offense to Icke, claiming that "shape-shifting lizard-people" is a code word for "Jews".[7] Icke claims that he is not anti-Semitic and that when he says "shape-shifting lizard-people," he quite literally means lizards, saying to Ronson in 2001: "There is a tribe of people interbreeding, which do not relate to any Earth race ... This is not a Jewish plot. This is not a plot on the world by Jewish people."[8]

He does believe the virulently antisemitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a true document, although he argues that it was not about Jews, because "Jew" (ironically, given the accusation of coded anti-Semitism) was supposedly a code word for actual lizards.[9]

Although he hangs around with some rather fringe right-wing nutcases, he balances it all out by being just as insane a believer in New Age mumbo-jumbo. He also has been flirting with Holocaust denial,[10]but in Icke's case it's less likely a sign of anti-Semitism than yet another manifestation of all-round insanity.

[edit]Altie
See the main article on this topic: Alternative medicine

At this point, it shouldn't be surprising that Icke hawks alt-med and every crank medical idea under the sun through his website and book store: Homeopathy, vitamin woo, vaccine denial, AIDS denial, water fluoridation, Big Pharma conspiracies, Global warming denial, etc. The man has Jupiter-scale crank magnetism, okay?

[edit]Son of God
with Terry Wogan in his famous 1991 interview that confirmed hiscrank status without a shadow of a doubt. In 1991, on Terry Wogan's TV chat show, in the middle of talking about football (the subject he was a guest on the show to talk about), Icke announced that he was "theson of God" and that Britain would be devastated by tidal waves and earthquakes (the UK isn't seismically active[12]). He also began wearing all turquoise all the time which furthered claims he was either disturbed or perhaps a reptilian himself.[13] The interview propelled Icke from a minor celebrity to a household name and laughing stock of the UK. Not just his Icke himself, but also his family were unable to appear in public without being ridiculed. His wife and children were considered "fair game" by some "journalists"; they would hover around his house peering into windows and follow his children to school.[14] Proving, once more, that some journalists are bottom-feeding vultures. In 2006 Wogan admitted that he was "a bit sharp" during his 1991 interview and was "slightly embarrassed" by it.

In 2012, he announced that the opening ceremony of the London 2012 games was a Satanic ritual designed to harness negative energy, and that "The Olympic Stadium is strategically placed on the earth-energy grid to tap into the immense London and British power centres and this is why Glastonbury Tor, one of the most significant earth-vortex points in the UK, is a centrepiece of the opening ceremony."[15]

[edit]Reality is a hologram
If all of the above wasn't crazy enough, Icke seems to have taken The Matrix literally (well, minus the parts with Keanu Reeves and robot overlords). He believes that much of reality is a holographicprojection or sensory illusion being beamed down by our alien overlords from the moon, which is actually a space-station with a hollow interior. No, really... no, really.[16]

[edit]Headgear
See the main article on this topic: Aluminum foil hat

David Icke, as well as his fans, are well known in popular culture for promoting the aluminum foil hat trend. This trend started as a way of keeping [insert evil conspiracy group here] from being able to read the mind of the person wearing the hat, but the trend has grown to be popular in some mental hospitals, as well as in certain American militia movement meeting places.[citation needed]

[edit]Patriot movement
Icke's relationship with the Christian patriot movement in the United States is somewhat complex. The London Evening Standard wrote in 1995 that there were "uncanny parallels between Icke's thoughts" and other mad ramblings "and the writings of senior figures in the armed militia movement in America".[17] It has been alleged that while Icke is trying to court the right-wing to believe his crazy beliefs, his New Age voodoo quackery may actually be putting off supporters. He has also admired The Spotlight, published by the Liberty Lobby, as containing "excellent research" with a "long and proven level of accuracy".[18]

Although he fully believes that Christian patriots are the only Americans who know the truth about the NWO, he clearly views them as dogmatists who are nearly as rigid as their adversaries, saying: "I don't know which I dislike more, the world controlled by the Brotherhood, or the one you want to replace it with."[18] This has put him at odds with other conspiracy theorists such as Mark Dice and Alex Jones.

Icke also encourages people to be skeptical of religious fundamentalism and religious organisations in general... but just not of his crazy ideas.[19]

[edit]List of reptilian overlords
Or at least, those people Icke believes to be.

If any of these individuals are seen sacrificing children or drinking blood, they should be reported to  Steve  Bindi Irwin[wp] immediately.

[edit]Royalty
* old lady/reptoid hiss* (Source)
 * The entire British royal family.[20][21][22] The late Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was apparently "one of highest satanic witches in Europe".[23]
 * The Rothschilds[20]
 * The Rockefellers[20]
 * The Merovingians, a medieval French dynasty.[24]
 * "The Habsburgs, the most powerful family in Europe under the Holy Roman Empire"[24]
 * Various Egyptian pharaohs[24]
 * Ok, basically every royal dynasty ever...

[edit]Politicians
Hail to the chief!

Thanks, Obama! (Source)
 * Dick Cheney; almost believable.[21]
 * George "Dubya" Bush[22][21]
 * Bush the Elder; claims that he spoke to many people who've seen him change to a Reptoid and back again in front of their eyes.[21]
 * Jeb Bush[24]
 * Bill and Hillary Clinton[22]
 * Al Gore[25]
 * Gerald Ford[25]
 * Ronald Reagan[25]
 * Jimmy Carter[25]
 * Richard Nixon[25]
 * Lyndon B. Johnson[25]
 * John F. Kennedy[25]
 * Ted Kennedy[25]
 * Henry Kissinger[25]
 * Franklin Roosevelt[25]
 * Ted Heath[note 4][26]
 * Winston Churchill[25]
 * Tony Blair[25]
 * Dalton McGuinty, former premier of Ontario[27]
 * Mikhail Gorbachev[22][25]
 * Stalin[25]
 * Hitler[25]
 * Ok, basically every world leader ever...

[edit]Other

 * Kris Kristofferson[22]
 * Charlotte Cooper [22]
 * The Nagas (gods of the Indus valley).[20] Mythical creatures are really other mythical creatures. This is some advanced conspiracy.

[edit]Lawsuit
In January 2015 Icke paid $90,000CAN in settlement of a lawsuit by Richard Warman, a Canadian human rights lawyer. Icke had defamed Warman in his 2001 book Children of the Matrix[28] by making allegations of Satanic child abuse and murder.[29] This was in addition to an out of court settlement of $120,000CAN Warman had already received from three Canadian book stores who continued to sell the book after being named as co-respondants in the case.[30]

In a public statement in March 2015 Warman said "This settlement exposes Icke’s argument that no one had ever sued him because his allegations were true as nothing more than a fallacy."[31]

In response to this  monumental legal victory  expensive defeat Icke posted a video response on his website explaining the background to the case which, unsurprisingly (and probably wisely), doesn't even mention it.[32] Instead, and with an breathtaking  display of chutzpah  lack of awareness, he invokes the memory of Carl Sagan.

[edit]Factoids
Here are some  reptoids  factoids about Icke:
 * Icke was even passed over for Celebrity Big Brother in 2006 for being too weird.[citation needed]
 * In 2008, Icke ran for election to Parliament as an independent candidate in the Haltemprice and Howden by-election.[33] He got only 110 votes, and lost his deposit.[34] If the lizard people (who live between Selby and Hull) had let him win, he would not have actually entered Parliament as he vowed not to actually take the oath to the Queen required[33] (as he believes Her Majesty and the rest of the Royal Family to be lizard people as well). Because the irony does not stop with this fellow, Prince Charles agrees with Icke on the alternative medicine stuff.
 * Icke was the only non-American interviewee on the life-saving DVD The Fall of America and the Western World.
 * Icke considers himself the most controversial writer in the world. Non-British people who don't pay much attention to the weirder sections of the bookstore consider him "who?"

[edit]See also
Si vous voulez cet article en français, il peut être trouvé à David Icke (français).
 * LSD
 * New World Order
 * Robert France
 * Water fluoridation
 * Paranoia
 * The Reptilians

[edit]External links

 * Icke's own webshite
 * Information on Reptilians - Including pictures, videos, and the reptilian agenda. Your life may depend on it.
 * Reptiloid on TinWiki
 * Skeptics are controlled by the Reptilians (according to Icke)
 * Icke entry at the JREF Encyclopedia
 * David Icke and Jon Ronson special
 * Son of God says the flu vaccine will kill your kids
 * A website which debunks the outrageous claims of David Icke
 * Stargate was real! Roland Emmerich was trying to send a message!
 * Don't trust anything you hear, unless I say it!
 * Seven signs you're dating a Reptilian.
 * David Icke: Was he Right; Channel five documentary.