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David Vaughan Icke, pronounced // (born April 29 , 1952 ) is a former professional Football player, reporter, television sports presenter, and British Green Party national spokesperson. Since 1990, he has been what he calls a "full-time investigator into who and what is really controlling the world." {Link without Title} The Green Party distanced itself from him in 1991 after he announced during a television interview that he was "a son of God". He began to dress only in Turquoise and maintained that the world was ruled by a secret group called "The Elite", or " Illuminati ", which he linked to The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion , an Anti-Semitic tract. In 1999, he published ''The Biggest Secret'', in which he wrote that the world is controlled by a race of Reptilian Humanoid s, known as the Babylonian Brotherhood , and that many prominent figures are actually "reptilian," including George W. Bush , Dick Cheney , Queen Elizabeth II , Henry Kissinger , and Kris Kristofferson . He believes that these reptilians engage in Child Molestation , Blood-drinking , Human Sacrifice and Satanism . Icke has further claimed that a small group of Jew s, namely the Rothschild Family , also a "reptilian bloodline," financed Adolf Hitler and supported the Holocaust . As a result, Icke's speaking tours at one time attracted the interest of British Neo-Nazi s such as Combat 18 , and he continues to face opposition from Jewish and anti-racist groups such as the Anti-Defamation League and the B'nai Brith in Canada. Icke has strongly denied that he is an anti-Semite, stressing that the Rothschilds are reptiles, not Jews. Icke argues that he has developed a moral and political worldview combining a passionate denunciation of what he sees as in 1999. He is the author of 15 books explaining his views. LIFE AND CAREER Icke was born in the city of 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 radio, regional television, and eventually national television with the BBC , where he became a sports presenter. He left the BBC to become an activist for the Green Party , rising swiftly to the position of national media spokesperson. In 1990, he wrote his first book, ''It Doesn't Have To Be Like This'', wherein he outlined his environmental positions and political philosophy. In his online autobiography, he writes that, in March 1990, he received a message from the spirit world through a Medium . She told him that he was a healer who had been chosen for his courage and sent to heal the earth, and had been directed into football to learn discipline. He was going to leave politics and would become famous, 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. {Link without Title} When Icke told the Green Party leadership what he had experienced, he was immediately banned from speaking at party public meetings. 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 clothing and in different interviews claimed that he was "a son of God." In an interview on the Terry Wogan show that same year, his announcement that he was "a son of God," and that Britain would be devastated by Tidal Wave s and earthquakes, was met with laughter and ridicule from the studio audience, derision in the press, and suggestions that he was Mentally Ill . Icke later stated that he had been misinterpreted by the media and that due to his experiences in Peru, he had not yet sufficiently grounded himself in order to clearly convey his thoughts. According to Icke, he used the term "a 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). In the Observer 22 Jan 2006 he stated that ''"Everyone is a son or daughter of god"''. He also disputed the claim that he thinks he is Jesus as he claims to have shown in his books that there was no Jesus. [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,,1691336,00.html 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. 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. {Link without Title} He lives in Ryde on the Isle Of Wight , where he makes occasional public appearances. Some newspapers stated in 2004 that he might appear on the UK Big Brother television programme in 2005, but Icke later said that he was interested in "... the REAL Big Brother, not adding to the diversions that allow him to operate unchallenged." CONSPIRACY WRITINGS Icke has published 15 books outlining his views, which are a mixture of New Age philosophy and apocalyptic Conspiracism . 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." At the heart of Icke's ideas is the belief that the world is being controlled by a secret government. In 1996, in his book '' ... and the truth will set you free'', he claimed this government was financed by bankers and businessmen such as the Rockefellers , and also the Rothschilds , which consequently led to accusations of Anti-Semitism . According to British journalist Simon Jones, Icke claims that: 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 ... Now you may be wondering just what nefarious activities these people could possibly get up to. Icke, of course, has the answer. 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. {Link without Title} Icke cites the Holocaust , Oklahoma City Bombing , the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 , the War In Bosnia , and the September 11, 2001 Attacks as examples of events caused by the secret government. The New-Age aspect of Icke's philosophy, writes Jones, argues that people live in a "multi-dimensional consciousness", and should abandon the false existence the world government provides, which will cause the hierarchy to collapse. In 1999, Icke wrote and published ''The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World'', in which he said the planet was being run by a New World Order controlled by a race of reptilian humanoids called the "Babylonian Brotherhood". He wrote: "My own resaerch 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, the reptiles' hybrid reptilian-human DNA allows them to change from reptilian to human form if they consume human blood. He has drawn parallels with the 1980s science-fiction series V , in which the earth is taken over by reptiloid aliens disguised as humans. The reptilian group involves many prominent people and practically every world leader from Britain's late Queen Mother to George H.W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, , 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 '." He has stated that the death of Diana, Princess Of Wales , was actually murder, committed because she had discovered that Charles and Camilla had had a child which had been Sacrificed in a Satanic Ritual . Icke has also written that according to Christine Fitzgerald, a confidante of Diana, she believed that the British royal family was connected to reptiles and that she had seen them shape-shift. He describes "shape-shifting" as a "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". Icke has since published a number of 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 (see also Bush Family Conspiracy Theory ). 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 to also be an "illusion" promoted by the reptilians, and that racism fuels the Illuminati agenda. ALLEGATIONS OF ANTI-SEMITISM Icke's theories have been attacked as Anti-Semitic because his views of a reptilian takeover amid references to international bankers have echoes of conspiracy theories involving Jews. Icke has strongly denied that his reptiles represent Jews. "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. He also says that what he calls the "white race" is most susceptible to reptilian influence, particularly White People with Blue Eyes . [http://www.davidicke.com/icke/articles3/plot.html However, Icke's statements that a cabal of Jewish bankers planned the Holocaust and financed Hitler's rise to power have been described as anti-Semitic. For example, he has written that: :::::: "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." (''...And the truth shall set you free'' p. 130) {Link without Title} He has also cited White Supremacist , Neo-Nazi and other far-right publications in his books. Simon Jones notes that the bibliography of '' ... and the truth will 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." {Link without Title} 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." 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. {Link without Title} before Icke addressed students in 1999]] 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." 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." {Link without Title} POP CULTURE REFERENCES
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