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David Icke (born April 29, 1952) is a British former footballer and football commentator, now better known as a controversial writer, author of "The Biggest Secret", "The Robots Rebellion","Children of the Matrix", "And the Truth shall set you free, and "Alice in Wonderland and the Truth about the Events of 9-11".
He was born in the city of Leicester in the English Midlands, into a working class family. Having wanted to be a professional footballer for quite some time since boyhood, he left school to play for Coventry City and Hereford United in the English league, where he played as a goalkeeper.
His football career was brought to a premature end by rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 21, at which point he joined the BBC. He became fairly well known as a sports broadcaster in this period.
After leaving the BBC he became an activist for the Green Party rising swiftly to become their media spokesperson. He tired of his job in the Green Party which he is quoted as saying "Became increasingly meaningless". In 1991 and after what he describes "several strange experiences", he quit the Green Party and began to express exceedingly non-mainstream views. He began to wear only turquoise and in different interviews claimed that he was destined to change the world. Consistently saying the same line, "One man can't change the world, but one man can send the message that can change the world". In an infamous interview on the Terry Wogan show in 1991 his announcement that he was "a son of the Godhead" and that "Great Britain will be devastated by tidal waves and earthquakes", was met with laughter from the studio audience, derision in the press and suggestions that he was mentally ill.
In a more general sense, his supporters note that he described all humans as "children of God" or of some sort of god, and that the confusion resulted from his scrambling to explain his spiritual 'apotheosis'. After being widely scrutinized and ridiculed by his peers and the British media, he disappeared from public view for a short time.
He returned to the public eye in the late 1990's with a book, The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World. In it he professes that the world is being manipulated by a New World Order, controlled by a race of " negative reptilain entities".
Mr. Icke purports in it that these entities have manipulating world events from another plane of existence for centuries. The groups of humans he points the finger at in this conspiracy he refers to as "The Illuminati" or "The Babylonian Brotherhood" which he claims are various clandestine "families" (including the well known Rockefeller and Rothschilds) that control world banking and loan interests, Governments(including those of America and Great Britian), clandestine Secret Societies such as the infamous Skull & Bones, Knights_Templar, and Freemasonic Order. Icke implicates that a few world leaders ''are'\' actually Reptilians in guise of a shapeshift or are being controlled by reptillians through attachment to the "Chakras in the solar plexus.
Icke's supporters gravitate toward the mountains of more believable evidence he presents, such as the recurrence of the reptilian archetype in myths worldwide. For example, the Ancient Sumerians worshipped apparently reptilian gods called the Anunnaki, and the Ancient Maya of Mexico claim that all their knowledge of the heavens came from their god of wisdom and astrology, Kukulcan, sometimes depicted in Maya art as a reptilian humanoid with a crest of feathers on his head (this god later became the Aztec god, the Plumed Serpent, Quetzalcoatl).
One of Icke's many themes is that of interweaving bloodlines that weave back many centuries, to the British Monarchy. Icke stresses that the "reptilians" must maintain certain DNA sequences lest they be unable to shift forms from human to reptile essentially blowing their centuries long masquerade as humans. Icke maintains that they select women with certain DNA generations ahead of time to marry into the "elite" bloodlines and bear children. Included in this bloodline theory, is a supposed conspiracy plot to murder the late Princess Diana and the involvement of the Illuminati.
David Icke has come under fire many times for his theories including many incidents in which he has had to cancel events when people would call ahead of time and claim that he was holding communist rallies. One such memorable incident was in 2001, when a dozen people showed up at one of Icke's book signings and hurled pies and insults at him. Concurrently Icke is locked in a legal battle with a man named Richard Warman whom appeared out of obscurity in 2001 and leveled charges at Icke over the content of his writings.
Some anti-semite groups around the Western World have decried Icke's theories as being anti-semitic, saying that when he speaks of reptiles he is speaking of Jews. However, Icke has denied those allegations, Icke has however in his books written that he believes that the Hebrew people have been manipulated by these "reptilian entities". He maintains that the reptilians are not humans of any race, but are extra-dimentional entities that enter and control human minds. He also says that what he calls the "white race" (those with blue eyes in particular) are most susceptible to reptilian influence.
He has since published a number of additional books following the theme of "The Biggest Secret" at various levels of detail. His latest works continue in the same vein, providing his own views to explain the September 11, 2001 attacks as being a part of this reptilian agenda.
His newest written work, "Tales from the Time Loop" argues with the nature of reality and contends that freedom from controlling forces is well within the grasp of the average person. Icke regularly holds workshops, conferences and appears on radio shows.
