David Icke

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Answers to / controlled by

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Dates

• 1980s (national speaker for the Green Party)
• 1987 (Harmonic Convergence, which he says triggered his "spiritual alarm clock")
• 1989 (meets Heath on a TV election programme)
• 1990 (spiritual awakening; leaves sports presenting)
• 1990–91 (kundalini awakening, which destroyed his television career)
• 1991 (ridiculed across the UK, including for saying he is God)
• 1994 (banned from the Green Party conference; sits by the 13th pillar of the Pont de l'Alma unknowingly)
• June 1995 (visits the Bilderberg meeting at Burgenstock)
• 1995 (condemned in Glastonbury by David Taylor)
• August 1996 (first US talks, in Denver)
• early 1997 (predicts Blair's May 1st election)
• 1997 (visits Bohemian Grove)
• February 1998 (first meets Credo Mutwa)
• 1998 (meets P. W. Botha)
• 1999 (films Mutwa)^[6]

Places

BritainGlastonburyBurgenstock (Switzerland)the United Stateseastern CanadaAustraliaSouth Africa (AT-12-2, AT-22-2, BS-05, BS-18-1, BS-26)

Key events

• 1990–91: his public spiritual awakening ends his television career and brings years of ridicule^[7]
• 1994: banned by the Green Party hierarchy from its national conference and branded a Nazi over his use of the Protocols, which he renames the "Illuminati Protocols"^[8]
• June 1995: visits the heavily guarded Bilderberg meeting at Burgenstock, which he uses to show how the pyramid uses unknowing people such as the Swiss police and military^[9]
• a stage show at which he is seated next to Jimmy Carter and, that night, experiences "the consciousness that controls the world" for 15 to 20 minutes, until he opens his heart and it leaves^[10]

Members / notable people

Opponents he names: Derek Wall and David Black (the 1994 Green Party campaign), Penny Kemp, Matthew Kalman, John Murray, David Taylor, Mark Honigsbaum ("The Dark Side of David Icke", Evening Standard), Paul Brown (The Guardian), The New Statesman ("New Age Nazism"), the Jewish Chronicle, the Daily Record ("Cult Lord"), the Anti-Nazi League, the Raelian Foundation, Jon Ronson and the BBC programme Good Morning With Anne And Nick^[11]allies and sources: Colonel Barry Turner (mutual exchange of information), Credo Mutwa^[12]

Author's claims · 26

1. 01He wrote ...And The Truth Shall Set You Free, I Am Me I Am Free and The Robots' Rebellion^[13]. Bringers Of The Dawn, he says, cross-confirmed themes of The Robots' Rebellion ("it cross-confirmed some of the themes I had written in The Robots' Rebellion")^[14].
2. 02He has been on "a conscious spiritual journey of discovery" since 1990, and following intuition rather than his rational mind is why he is no longer "presenting sports programmes"^[15].
3. 03In 1994 the Green Party banned him from its conference for, in effect, inciting racial hatred. He blames a campaign "whipped up by two Robot Radicals called Derek Wall and David Black", supported by others, and says some of those calling him a Nazi are connected to the Raelian Foundation ("I was banned by the party hierarchy")^[16].
4. 04The media campaign to discredit him was stepped up with misrepresentations in the Jewish Chronicle and The Guardian^[17]. Jon Ronson's call got a BBC invitation withdrawn^[18].
5. 05He takes information selectively from sources he disagrees with (The Spotlight, Lyndon LaRouche's Executive Intelligence Review, Colonel Barry Turner, Conservative MPs), because "thousands of people who would agree on almost nothing else, agree on the basic foundations of the manipulation"^[19]. Of his bibliography he says: "I am interested in their names-places-dates research, not their belief system"^[10].
6. 06At Burgenstock in 1995 he saw how the pyramid uses people who have no idea what they are shielding: the guards were "playing his part, unknowingly"^[9].
7. 07He experienced the Prison Warder Consciousness after taking in energy from Jimmy Carter's aura, and dispelled it: "I opened my heart energy (love) and in seconds the Prison Warder Consciousness was gone". He concludes that this consciousness "has no control over love" and tells Rockefeller, Kissinger and Carter: "it's over my friends"^[10].
8. 08His remedy in the 1995 book is inner: deprogramming, dropping dogma and labels, and loving, forgiving and respecting oneself, because "the inner revolution becomes the outer revolution"^[20]. Freedom is freedom for all^[19].
9. 09He urges a mass boycott of elections, since "to vote under the present circumstances is to give credence to a system that is an insult to freedom", and building local economies outside the system^[21].
10. 10He will "challenge the New World Order mentality" until he dies, but without hatred; its people are "victims, too" and deserve love, respect and forgiveness, Kissinger, David Rockefeller, Bush and Clinton included^[22]. He denies racism^[22].
11. 11With Credo Mutwa he recorded The Reptilian Agenda videos^[23].
12. 12He says he has experienced psychic attacks from the Brotherhood^[24].
13. 13B'nai B'rith and the ADL labelled him anti-Semitic and blocked him from speaking; a 1999 letter in O'Reilly's paper urged his execution^[25].
14. 14The Daily Mirror dropped his interview after he criticised Al Fayed (June 1998)^[26].
15. 15Sitchin almost warned him off the serpent-race research^[27].
16. 16In 15 days touring the US in 1998 he met more than a dozen people who had seen humans turn into reptiles^[28].
17. 17He does not advocate violence, and he says he loves "the gang", reptilians included^[29]. The 1995 book says the same of the Prison Warders' agents: "Forgive them, they know not what they do"^[10].
18. 18Other researchers and works he draws on in both books include: Stephen Knight's The Brotherhood (1985), on Freemasonry^[30]; Betty Mills's Colonel North, William Casey, And The Knights Of Malta (1990)^[31]; Francis King's Satan And Swastika^[32]; Professor Alfred McCoy's 1972 classic The Politics Of Heroin In South East Asia, showing "CIA helicopters in Vietnam were carrying drugs"^[33]; Basil Lubbock's The Opium Clippers^[33]; Richard Davis's The English Rothschilds^[34]; H. L. Mencken's The American Language, which suggests Roosevelt and Churchill chose the name 'United Nations'^[35]; George C. Andrews's Extra-Terrestrials Among Us (1986) and Extra-Terrestrial Friends And Foes^[36]; Jim Keith's Casebook On Alternative 3^[37]; the former Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky's By Way Of Deception and The Other Side Of Deception, which "massively expose the extent of Mossad's world-wide operations"^[38]; Kissinger On The Couch (1975) by Admiral Chester Ward and Phyllis Schlafly, on the CFR's one-world cliques^[39]; Webster Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin's George Bush, The Unauthorised Biography (1992), "a superb book"^[40]; Tony Collins's Open Verdict (1990), on 25 mysterious deaths in the defence industry^[41]; and Robert Morrow's The Senator Must Die (1988), on the murder of Robert Kennedy^[42].
19. 19Born on 29 April 1952 on a Leicester council estate; a goalkeeper for Coventry City until rheumatoid arthritis ended his career at 21, then a journalist, BBC sports presenter and Green Party national spokesman^[43].
20. 20In 1990 the psychic Betty Shine told him he had been chosen and would face enormous opposition; in early 1991 an energy "download" at Sillustani in Peru opened his mind; a 1991 television interview made him a national figure of ridicule^[4]. In 2003 he took ayahuasca in Brazil and was shown the illusory nature of reality^[44].
21. 21The "anti-Semite" industry has targeted him since the late 1990s; in 2017 his talks were cancelled in Germany, Canada and Britain, and he spoke in Canada that August after a ban of more than a decade^[45].
22. 22He founded his own publishing company in 1995 because no one else would publish him; Ofcom in effect banned UK broadcasters from interviewing him; a February 2021 study found that one in 11 people in Britain trusted his view of the pandemic^[46].
23. 23"When I say Reptilians I mean REPTILIANS", not Jews^[47]. He identifies with consciousness, not race: "We are all one consciousness having different experiences"^[48].
24. 24His books cited in the later books include The Trigger (on 9/11), The Answer, The Perception Deception, Children Of The Matrix and Phantom Self; the artist Neil Hague illustrates them^[49]. He appeared on the History Channel's Ancient Aliens^[50].
25. 25The Campaign Against Antisemitism targeted his son Gareth Icke; his son Jaymie Icke organises his events; Richie Allen hosts a radio show on Davidicke.com^[51]. The Times of Israel blamed him for a meme posted by Yair Netanyahu^[47]. Ofcom's head, Melanie Dawes, was appointed as the hoax was about to play out^[52]. The one-in-11 finding came from the University of Bristol and King's College London^[53].
26. 26He quotes Osho ("no society wants people to be wise"), Rumi, Alan Watts, Socrates, John Milton, Mark Twain ("if voting made a difference they wouldn't let us do it"), Upton Sinclair, Terence McKenna, and the comedians Bill Hicks and George Carlin, who called political correctness "fascism pretending to be manners"^[54].