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David Vaughan Icke
(pronounced "IKE" /aɪk/) (born
April 29, 1952) is a British
writer and public speaker who
has devoted himself since 1990
to researching "who and what is
really controlling the world."
A former professional football
player, reporter, television
sports presenter, and spokesman
for the Green Party, he is the
author of 20 books explaining
his views.
Icke argues that he has
developed a moral and political
worldview that combines New Age
spiritualism with a passionate
denunciation of what he sees as
totalitarian trends in the
modern world, a position that
has been described as "New Age
conspiracism."
At the heart of Icke's theories
is the view that the world is
ruled by a secret group called
the "Global Elite" or
"Illuminati," which he has
linked to The Protocols of the
Elders of Zion, an anti-Semitic
hoax. In 1999, he published The
Biggest Secret, in which he
wrote that the Illuminati are a
race of reptilian humanoids
known as the Babylonian
Brotherhood, and that many
prominent figures are
reptilian, including George W.
Bush, Queen Elizabeth II, Kris
Kristofferson, and Boxcar
Willie.
His son, Gareth Icke, is a
musician and beach soccer
player who has represented
England in international beach
soccer.
According to Political Research
Associates, Icke's speaking
engagements can draw a
substantial audience in Canada,
with his organizers claiming as
many as 1000 people attending
one in Vancouver. During an
October 1999 speaking tour
there, he received a standing
ovation from students after a
four-hour speech at the
University of Toronto, while
his books were removed from the
shelves of Indigo Books across
Ontario after protests from the
Canadian Jewish Congress.
 Early
life
Icke was born in Leicester to
Beric Vaughan Icke (born 1907,
Leicester) and Barbara J. Icke
(née Cooke) (married 1951,
Leicester), and was raised on a
council estate, or public
housing, according to the
biography on his website. He
left school to play football
for Coventry City and Hereford
United in the English league,
playing as a goalkeeper until
forced to retire at the age of
21 because of arthritis.
He found a job with a local
newspaper in Leicester and
became a reporter, moving on to
local sports presenter for BBC
South's Programme South Today.
He appeared on the first
episode of British television's
first national breakfast show
BBC Breakfast Time presenting
the sports news and featured on
the show until 1985. He would
also become strong part of BBC
Sport's presentation team,
often as a stand-in host on
Grandstand and snooker
programmes. He was part of the
BBC team at the 1988 Olympic
Games, but he left the BBC
later that year to become an
activist for the Green Party.
He rose swiftly to the position
of national media spokesperson.
In 1990, he wrote It Doesn't
Have To Be Like This, an
outline of his views on the
environment and his political
philosophy.
Contact
with the spirit
world
In his online autobiography,
Icke writes that, in March
1990, while he was a national
spokesperson for the Green
Party, he received a message
from the spirit world through a
medium, (video) identified by
The Guardian as Betty Shine, a
medium from Brighton. She told
him he was a healer who had
been chosen for his courage and
sent to heal the earth, and
that he had been directed into
football to learn discipline.
He was going to leave politics
and would become famous, she
said, writing five books in
three years, and one day there
would be a great earthquake,
and the "sea will reclaim
land," because human beings
were abusing the earth.
When Icke told the Green Party
leadership what he had
experienced, he was banned from
speaking at public meetings on
their behalf. In 1991, after a
trip to Peru, he wrote Truth
Vibrations, an autobiographical
work which summarized his life
experiences up to that point,
with an emphasis on his recent
spiritual encounters. He began
to wear only turquoise and on
March 27, 1991, held a press
conference to announce: "I am a
channel for the Christ spirit.
The title was given to me very
recently by the Godhead."
In an interview on the Terry
Wogan show that year, he
announced that he was "the son
of God," and that Britain would
be devastated by tidal waves
and earthquakes. His statements
were met with laughter and
ridicule from the studio
audience, derision in the
press, and suggestions that he
was mentally ill. Icke later
said that he had been
misinterpreted by the media.
According to Icke, he used the
term "the son of God" "... in
the sense of being an aspect,
as I understood it at the time,
of the Infinite consciousness
that is everything. As I have
written before, we are like
droplets of water in an ocean
of infinite consciousness"
(Tales From The Time Loop
2003).
After being widely ridiculed,
he disappeared from public
view. He has written that, for
several years, he was unable to
walk down the street without
people pointing and laughing,
and that this experience helped
him find the courage to develop
his controversial ideas,
because he was no longer afraid
of what people thought of him.
He told Jon Ronson:
One of my very greatest fears
as a child was being ridiculed
in public. And there it was
coming true. As a television
presenter, I'd been respected.
People come up to you in the
street and shake your hand and
talk to you in a respectful
way. And suddenly, overnight,
this was transformed into
'Icke's a nutter'. I couldn't
walk down any street in Britain
without being laughed at. It
was a nightmare. My children
were devastated because their
dad was a figure of
ridicule."
Conspiracy
writings
Icke has published at least 20
books outlining his views, a
mixture of New Age philosophy
and apocalyptic conspiracism.
American political scientist
Michael Barkun, in a 2003 study
of conspiracy theory
subculture, writes that Icke is
"the most fluent of conspiracy
authors, which gives his
writings a clarity rarely found
in the genre." His talent for
communicating with people led
The Observer to call him "the
Greens' Tony Blair."
Icke's core ideas are outlined
in four books written over
seven years: The Robots'
Rebellion (1994), ... And the
Truth Shall Set You Free
(1995), The Biggest Secret: The
Book that Will Change the World
(1999), and Children of the
Matrix (2001). The basic
conspiracy theory is that the
world is controlled by a
network of secret societies
referred to as the
"Brotherhood," at the apex of
which stand the "Illuminati" or
"Global Elite." The goal of the
Brotherhood is a world
government, a plan that Icke
says was laid out in the
anti-semitic hoax, The
Protocols of the Elders of
Zion, which Icke says are
really the revealed plans of
the Illuminati. Icke, in common
with many other conspiracy
theorists, says the methods of
these conspirators include
control of the world's
economies and the use of
mind-control techniques.
The Global Elite controls the
Brotherhood and the world using
what Icke calls a "pyramid of
manipulation," consisting of
sets of hierarchical structures
involving banking, business,
the military, education, the
media, religion, drug
companies, intelligence
agencies, and organized crime.
At the very top of the pyramid
are what Icke calls the "Prison
Warders," who are not human. He
writes that: "A pyramidal
structure of human beings has
been created under the
influence and design of the
extraterrestrial Prison Warders
and their overall master, the
Luciferic Consciousness. They
control the human clique at the
top of the pyramid, which I
have dubbed the Global
Elite."
Icke cites the Holocaust, the
Oklahoma City bombing, and the
September 11, 2001 attacks as
examples of events financed and
organized by the Global Elite.
British journalist Simon Jones
writes that, according to Icke,
"Ordinary people are being
massively duped into believing
that the ordinary course of
world events are the
consequence of known political
forces and random,
uncontrollable events. However,
the course of humanity is being
manipulated at every level.
These individuals arrange for
incidents to occur around the
world, which then elicit a
response from the public
('something must be done'), and
in turn allows those in power
to do whatever they had planned
to do in the first place." Icke
refers to this as
problem-reaction-solution, a
variation of Georg Wilhelm
Friedrich Hegel's "Hegelian
Dialectic".
Reptilian
humanoids
In 1999, Icke wrote and
published The Biggest Secret:
The Book that Will Change the
World, in which he identified
the extraterrestrial Prison
Warders as reptilians from the
constellation Draco. They walk
erect and appear to be human,
living not only on the planets
they come from, but also in
caverns and tunnels under the
earth. They have cross-bred
with humans, which has created
"hybrids" who are "possessed"
by the full-blooded reptilians.
The reptiles' hybrid
reptilian-human DNA allows them
to change from reptilian to
human form if they consume
human blood. Icke has drawn
parallels with the 1980s
science-fiction series V, in
which the earth is taken over
by reptiloid aliens disguised
as humans.
According to Icke, the
reptilian group includes many
prominent people and
practically every world leader
from Britain's late Queen
Mother to George H.W. Bush,
Hillary Clinton, Harold Wilson,
and Tony Blair. These people
are either themselves
reptilian, or work for the
reptiles as what Icke calls
slave-like victims of multiple
personality disorder: "The
Rothschilds, Rockefellers, the
British royal family, and the
ruling political and economic
families of the U.S. 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'."
Icke has since published
additional books on the same
theme. His latest work sees
George W. Bush, also a
reptilian, playing a key role
in what Icke alleges is a 9/11
conspiracy. In Tales From The
Time Loop and other works, Icke
states that most organized
religions, especially Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam, are
Illuminati creations designed
to divide and conquer the human
race through endless conflicts.
In a similar vein, Icke
believes racial and ethnic
divisions are an illusion
promoted by the reptilians, and
that racism fuels the
Illuminati agenda.
Relationship
with the far
right
Michael Barkun, Professor of
Political Science at the
Maxwell School, Syracuse
University, writes that Icke
has moved aggressively to
increase the size of his
audience with the use of an
elaborate website, by arranging
speaking tours in the UK, North
America, Australia, New
Zealand, and South Africa, and
by selling books and
videotapes.
Barkun writes that Icke has
"clearly sought to cultivate
the extreme right," but that
the relationship is tense
because of the New Age
"baggage" that Icke brings with
him. Barkun cites the London
Evening Standard, which wrote
in 1995 that: "uncanny
parallels are emerging between
Icke's thoughts ... and the
writings of senior figures in
the armed militia movement in
America." Barkun writes that
Icke's relationship with
militias and Christian Patriots
is complex. On the one hand,
Icke believes the Christian
patriots to be the only
Americans who understand the
truth about the New World
Order, but on the other, he
allegedly told a Christian
Patriot group: "I don't know
which I dislike more, the world
controlled by the Brotherhood,
or the one you want to replace
it with."
Allegations
of
anti-Semitism
Icke's theories have been
attacked as anti-Semitic
because of his references to a
secret elite that rules the
world, which includes prominent
Jewish banking families, who he
says planned the Holocaust and
financed Adolf Hitler, and his
use of the Protocols of the
Elders of Zion. In ... And the
Truth Shall Set You Free he
wrote:
I strongly believe that a small
Jewish clique which has
contempt for the mass of Jewish
people worked with non-Jews to
create the First World War, the
Russian Revolution, and the
Second World War. This
Jewish/non-Jewish Elite used
the First World War to secure
the Balfour Declaration and the
principle of the Jewish State
of Israel. They then dominated
the Versailles Peace Conference
and created the circumstances
which made the Second World War
inevitable. They financed
Hitler to power in 1933 and
made the funds available for
his rearmament."
In 1995, Alick Bartholomew of
Gateway, at that time Icke's
publisher, told the London
Evening Standard that an early
draft of ... And the Truth
Shall Set You Free contained
"revisionist Holocaust
material."
Icke has cited white
supremacist, neo-Nazi and other
far-right publications in his
books. British journalist Simon
Jones notes that the
bibliography of ... And the
Truth Shall Set You Free lists
The Spotlight, formerly
published by the now-defunct
Liberty Lobby, and which Icke
calls "excellent," and On
Target, published by the
Australian League of Rights,
which has organized speaking
tours for Holocaust denier
David Irving. Jones writes:
"It's tempting to dismiss David
Icke as a confused and ignorant
man, manipulated by extremists
in order to present their
philosophy in a socially
acceptable format. But Icke
clearly understands the
implications of his words."
Mark Honigsbaum has written
about the apparent link between
the more extreme New Age
proponents and the far-right
armed militia movement in the
U.S. Icke's books contain
multiple references to the
"Illuminati," which Icke and
the militia movement believe
constitutes the secret
government they call the "New
World Order". In 1995,
Honigsbaum wrote in the London
Evening Standard that Combat
18, the British neo-Nazi group,
was publicizing Icke's speaking
tour of the UK in its internal
magazine, Putsch. The magazine
wrote that Icke spoke about
"'the sheep' and how the
'illuminati', uses them for its
own ends". The story continued:
" began to talk about the big
conspiracy by a group of
bankers, media moguls etc. —
always being clever enough not
to mention what all these had
in common."
Icke believes that Combat 18 is
a front for the Anti-Defamation
League (ADL), which in turn is
an "Illuminati front." The role
of the ADL, he says, is to
"brand as anti-Semitic" anyone
who gets close to "the truth."
In ... And the Truth Shall Set
You Free, he wrote: "In
Britain, I am told by an
extremely reliable source very
close to the intelligence
organisations that the
"far-right" group, Combat 18,
is a front for the sinister
Anti-Defamation League, the
United States arm of the
Israeli/Rothschild secret
service, Mossad. The
Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
has been operating in Britain
and Europe since at least 1991
and its role is to brand as
anti-Semitic anyone who is
getting close to the truth of
what is going on. What better
way to discredit an
investigator than to have a
"far-Right" group like Combat
18 to praise them?"
Icke has strongly denied that
his reptiles represent Jews,
calling it "friggin' nonsense."
"I am not an anti-Semite!", he
told The Guardian, "I have a
great respect for the Jewish
people." He maintains that the
reptilians are not human, and
therefore not Jewish, but are
"extra-dimensional entities"
that enter and control human
minds. "This is not a Jewish
plot. This is not a plot on the
world by Jewish people," he
told Jon Ronson.
During a question-and-answer
session after one of his
lectures, Icke told Jones: "I
believe that people have a
right to believe, to read, and
have access to all information,
so that they can then make up
their own minds what to think.
If something is a nonsense, and
if something doesn't stand up,
it will be shown to be a
nonsense in the spotlight of
the public arena."
British journalist Louis
Theroux, reviewing Jon Ronson's
Them: Adventures with
Extremists, cautioned against
accusing Icke of anti-Semitism:
"Icke's 'theory' is basically
The Protocols of the Elders of
Zion with a new cast and a few
script changes. Not
surprisingly, Icke has come
under suspicion of
anti-Semitism.... Not only
might it be unfair to Icke, but
by implying that he is so
dangerous that he has to be
censored, the watchdogs are
giving a patina of seriousness
to ideas that are — let's face
it — very, very silly."
Protests
in Canada
In 1999, Icke's books were
removed from Indigo stores
across Ontario, and several
venues on his speaking tour
were cancelled, after protests
from the Canadian Jewish
Congress. The University of
Toronto allowed his planned
speech there to go ahead,
despite the presence of 70
protesters, including the Green
Party of Ontario, outside the
Hart House Theatre. Icke
received a standing ovation
from the audience after
speaking for five hours.
University of Toronto law
professor Edward Morgan wrote
on September 30, 1999 to the
university's president, Robert
Pritchard: "Having been
involved in a number of the
more renowned cases in Canada
dealing with hate literature,
it is my view that this is
precisely the type of vilifying
material with which the Supreme
Court was concerned in its
decision regarding the Criminal
Code ban. The publications
praise classic anti-Semitic
tracts, and are replete with
references to a secret society
carrying on a global conspiracy
led by a manipulating Jewish
clique. The material which I
have reviewed finds no place in
the Canadian marketplace of
ideas."
Sumari Communications, which
hosted Icke's tour, denied the
allegations: "I dispute the
anti-Semite issue because the
Jewish community has chosen to
isolate anti-Semitic quotes in
David's books which he himself
uses quotes from Jewish authors
to prove his theories. No one
is forcing these people to be
here, but what is important is
that they have the choice. It
is called freedom and David
doesn't even mention the Jews
in his talks."
Icke himself addressed the
concerns during his speech: "Is
this a Jewish plot? No, No, No.
Is it a plot? Yes, Yes, Yes. We
are being manipulated, and I do
not care if you are Jewish,
Chinese, Catholic, etc. We are
all being manipulated. And
those people that are offended
by what I have to say, they
should choose not to be
offended."
Current
activities
Icke lives in Ryde on the Isle
of Wight, where he makes
occasional public
appearances.
In January 2003, he travelled
to Brazil, and later talked
about having used Ayahuasca: "
is a plant – a rain forest
plant – which they turn in to
what they call a turn and
Shaman in South America have
been using it for centuries at
least to take people into other
realms of reality.... I took it
twice and it was an experience
– particularly on the 2nd night
– that completely transformed
my view of life. What it did
was take my intellectual
understanding that the world is
an illusion into the realms of
knowing it’s an illusion and
there’s a difference between
intellectually understanding
it’s an illusion and this level
of knowing it because you’ve
experienced it. I got to the
age of 50 without taking a
single magic mushroom and I
never even had one smoke of pot
or anything."
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