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David Vaughan Icke, (born April 29, 1952 in Leicester, England) is a former professional soccer player, reporter, BBC television sports presenter, and national spokesperson for the UK Green Party. Since 1990, he has been what he calls a "dot-connector" - i.e. a "full-time investigator into who and what is really controlling the world." [1]
[edit] After 1990The Green Party distanced itself from him in 1991 after he announced during a television interview that he was "a Son of God" whereas in fact, this looks to have been misinterpreted as Mr. Icke notes that he considers everyone to be a Son of God. He began to dress only in turquoise and later 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. In 1999, he published The Biggest Secret, in which he wrote that the world is controlled by a race of reptilian humanoids, known in ancient times as the Babylonian Brotherhood, and who for the last centuries have operated through Masonic lodges, and that many prominent people are descended from them, including George W. Bush, Queen Elizabeth II, and the Rothschild family. He has also published Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center, in which he exposes the official version of 9/11 as an American inside job. According to Political Research Associates, an American research group that tracks right-wing groups, Icke's ideas are popular in Canada, where the New Age aspect of his philosophy overshadows his more controversial beliefs. [2] He received a standing ovation after a five-hour speech to students at the University of Toronto in 1999. More recently, Mr. Icke has expanded his focus to include viewing the Universe in a manner increasingly consistent with the world-view offered by the Upanishads, where man in reality is an immortal spirit on a human journey and that the world is an illusion, he refers to as the matrix. [edit] Life and careerIcke was born in the city of Leicester in the Midlands to a Beric Vaughan Icke (born 1907, Leicester) and Barbara J. Icke (nee Cooke) (married 1951, Leicester), a working class family, and raised on a council estate, or public housing, according to the biography on his website. [3] He left school to play soccer 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 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 soccer 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. [4] When Icke told the Green Party leadership what he had experienced, he was immediately banned from speaking at party public meetings. [5] In 1991, after a trip to Peru, he wrote Truth Vibrations, an autobiographical work which summarised 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." or “a son of the Godhead” in an interview on the Terry Wogan shows. This announcement and that Britain would be devastated by tidal waves 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 the media had misinterpreted him 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. [6] Icke views the experience of being ridiculed for his beliefs on UK prime time television as a liberation. 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. [7] [edit] TheoriesIcke 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 a family of bloodlines controls the world and has been doing so for millennia. In his 1996 book ... and the truth will set you free, he wrote that today these bloodlines are found among bankers and businessmen such as the Rockefellers, and the Rothschilds, as well as politicians. His writings on the way the Rothschild have exploited that Jewish cause during WWII and today uses Israel to pursue the agenda these bloodlines have resulted in Anti-Defamation League operatives branding him an anti-semite. 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 these bloodlines for the purpose of establishing a New World Order. According to Icke, these bloodlines are carriers of reptilian DNA-strain injected into them by ET's which allows key figures of these bloodlines to shape-shift between reptilian and human form (the reptilian form being their base or default state). The bloodlines 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 (a 33 degree mason). He has stated that the death of Diana, Princess of Wales was in fact a carefully crafted human sacrifice, along the lines of practices found in ancient Babylon (and which Icke argues never stopped, as far as concern the inner core of these bloodlines). In Tales From The Time Loop Icke states that most organised 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. [edit] CriticismA decade ago attempts to discredit David Icke and his message as anti-semitic were in swing. The attempts resulted in Icke's books being removed from Indigo Books and Music stores across Ontario - as well as several venues on his Canada 1999 speaking tour being cancelled (happened after protests from the Canadian Jewish Congress). On the other hand, the University of Toronto simultaneously resisted the pressure from some 70 protesters and the presence of the Green Part of Ontario, and allowed his planned speech there to go ahead. At the time Icke's critics said that they believed that his statements about human-reptilian half-breed blood lines being in economical and political control of mankind were in fact references to the theme of a global Jewish banking conspiracy controlling the planet. David Icke has refuted any such allegations including as well as having ties to British Neo-nazis. Perusing Icke's own writings it is evident that he does not consider Jews to be a semite race at all, but the result of a mass-conversion of a people once living in the Caucasus Mountains and having since relocated to Europe (the so-called Khazar empire). Moreover, and as Icke has pointed out on several occassions, The Rothschild family is really of German stock - the Rothschild name meaning 'Red Shield' in the German language. [edit] Alleged ReptiloidsIcke has hypothesised about a great many individuals whom he believes are a part of the reptilian conspiracy. These include politicians, military chiefs, high-ranking intelligence officials, business leaders, royalty, aristocrats, writers, academics, journalists and even popular entertainers. Icke says he arrives at his conclusions either after researching the genealogy of the person concerned or because of other reasons for suspicion such as witness testimony with regard to shape-shifting, association with certain organisations and so on. In some cases, Icke simply alleges that these individuals are reptilian shape-shifters, work for the reptilians or are 'in' on the conspiracy, but in other cases he makes specific allegations detailing involvement in government mind control programs, Satanism or other occult practices, torture, child abuse and even human sacrifice. As far as is known, none of the people Icke accuses has ever responded publicly to his allegations or threatened to sue, which Icke claims is further evidence of their guilt. Most importantly perhaps, Mr. Icke also theorises that a number of prominent U.S political and business dynasties are reptilian, including the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, the Astors and the Duponts. Some of the prominent figures that Icke has actually accused of being reptilians include:
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