David Icke
- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
David Vaughan Icke is an English writer, public speaker, and former
media personality best known for his views on what he calls "who and
what is really controlling the world". Describing himself as the most
controversial speaker and author in the world, he has written 16 books
explaining his position, dubbed "New Age conspiracism", and has
attracted a substantial following across the political spectrum. His
533-page The Biggest Secret (1999) has been called the conspiracy
theorist's Rosetta Stone.
Icke was a well-known BBC television sports presenter and spokesman for
the Green Party, when he had an encounter in 1990 with a psychic who
told him that he was a healer placed on Earth for a purpose. In April
1991 he announced on the BBC's Terry Wogan show that he was the son of
God, and predicted that the world would soon be devastated by tidal
waves and earthquakes. The show changed his life, turning him
practically overnight from a respected household name into an object of
ridicule.
He continued nevertheless to develop his ideas, and in four books
published over seven years - The Robots' Rebellion (1994), And the
Truth Shall Set You Free (1995), The Biggest Secret (1999), and
Children of the Matrix (2001) - set out 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. At the heart
of his theories lies the idea that a secret group of reptilian
humanoids called the Babylonian Brotherhood controls humanity, and that
many prominent figures are reptilian, including George W. Bush, Queen
Elizabeth II, Kris Kristofferson, and Boxcar Willie.
Icke has been criticized for arguing that the reptilians were the
original authors of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion - a 1903
Russian forgery purporting to be a plan by the Jewish people to achieve
world domination - a claim that has attracted the attention of the far
right and the suspicion of Jewish groups. Icke strongly denies there is
anything antisemitic about this. He was allowed to enter Canada in 1999
only after persuading immigration officials that when he said lizards,
he meant lizards, but his books were still removed from the shelves of
Indigo Books, a Canadian chain, after protests from the Canadian Jewish
Congress.
Icke's problems in Canada became the focus in 2001 of a documentary by
British journalist Jon Ronson, David Icke, the Lizards and the Jews.
media personality best known for his views on what he calls "who and
what is really controlling the world". Describing himself as the most
controversial speaker and author in the world, he has written 16 books
explaining his position, dubbed "New Age conspiracism", and has
attracted a substantial following across the political spectrum. His
533-page The Biggest Secret (1999) has been called the conspiracy
theorist's Rosetta Stone.
Icke was a well-known BBC television sports presenter and spokesman for
the Green Party, when he had an encounter in 1990 with a psychic who
told him that he was a healer placed on Earth for a purpose. In April
1991 he announced on the BBC's Terry Wogan show that he was the son of
God, and predicted that the world would soon be devastated by tidal
waves and earthquakes. The show changed his life, turning him
practically overnight from a respected household name into an object of
ridicule.
He continued nevertheless to develop his ideas, and in four books
published over seven years - The Robots' Rebellion (1994), And the
Truth Shall Set You Free (1995), The Biggest Secret (1999), and
Children of the Matrix (2001) - set out 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. At the heart
of his theories lies the idea that a secret group of reptilian
humanoids called the Babylonian Brotherhood controls humanity, and that
many prominent figures are reptilian, including George W. Bush, Queen
Elizabeth II, Kris Kristofferson, and Boxcar Willie.
Icke has been criticized for arguing that the reptilians were the
original authors of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion - a 1903
Russian forgery purporting to be a plan by the Jewish people to achieve
world domination - a claim that has attracted the attention of the far
right and the suspicion of Jewish groups. Icke strongly denies there is
anything antisemitic about this. He was allowed to enter Canada in 1999
only after persuading immigration officials that when he said lizards,
he meant lizards, but his books were still removed from the shelves of
Indigo Books, a Canadian chain, after protests from the Canadian Jewish
Congress.
Icke's problems in Canada became the focus in 2001 of a documentary by
British journalist Jon Ronson, David Icke, the Lizards and the Jews.