David Icke

[mikey4444]

There was an interesting interview with David Icke in yesterdays Sunday Times Magazine. I am not able to provide a link here but I expect many people will have read it. Here is a link to his own website ::

http://www.davidicke.com/

Does anybody else agree that is man is clearly deranged ?

[bazwillrun]

nobody ever went bust underestimating the stupidity of the public

[Zeuhl]

I think that should be 'overestimating their stupidity'

or 'underestimating their intelligence'

oh never mind...

[China Doll]

Came across as fairly nuts to me when I read Them by Jon Ronson... but you can be nuts and intelligent.

[mikey4444]

Sometimes you are a terrible disappointment here on AB ! I was hoping that somebody was going to defend Icke and tell us why they thought what he was saying was true ! Perhaps I should have sent my original post to Society and Culture section...they seem much more feisty there !

[jim360]

I suppose it takes a certain twisted ingenuity to be able to spew forth even total rubbish in a convincing way. But assuming he takes what he says seriously, I think we're dignifying him too much to call him "clever". Well-read, literate, persuasive apparently. But utterly thick if he believes his claptrap.

[boxtops]

We have a friend who is very taken with this sort of stuff, and commented to us that David Icke is seen as mainstream religion in the States these days. Oh dear.

[sandyRoe]

Wasn't there a society which believed that George V1 hadn't died but had been taken by the Venusians to their home planet? Harmless eccentricity does have its place in the grander scheme.

[LazyGun]

Never heard of that one Sandy.

Harmless eccentricity is fine, as far as it goes - I worry that it is something of a stretch to describe Icke in such terms though. He has many followers, many of whom have a religous zeal for his thought and utterings, and take them totally at face value. And he has views about everything- conspiracy, healthcare, global warming, all of this - and, because of his charisma and standing with his followers, they believe.This can be dangerous, I think, rather than merely eccentric.

David Icke is at that intersection where harmless eccentricity meets dangerous cult leader, in my view.

[ChillDoubt]

David Icke is madder than Mad Jack mcMad, but is turning over a tidy profit on the (rather gullible) US speaker circuit with his 'show'.

[Canary42]

///One of his latest soundbites is that he believes the Royal Family are not human beings but shape-changing lizards ! How can anybody, even the uneducated possibly think that is true ? ////

Camilla ?

[sandyRoe]

Having googled I see it wasn't King George V1 I had half remembered but George King, founder of the Aetherius Society. An easy mistake to make, I suppose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aetherius_Society

[mikey4444]

I'm not terribly surprised if he is a success in America, as our ex-Colonial cousins are quite a bit less incredulous than us over here, although we appear to be catching them rather too fast for my liking.

I just want somebody to explain why THEY believe in this drivel ?

[bibblebub]

Always remember that a religion is simply a cult that has been around a bit longer.

[sandyRoe]

When you come to think of it, has anyone ever seen ER carrying a crocodile skin handbag? They're closely related to lizards and to do so would be almost akin to canniballism.

[RATTER15]

sandyRoe, but maybe she realise the lizard form when when she is in human form!

I must admit I have never seen Liz carrying a lizard skin handbag when in lizard form. Strange that!

[sandyRoe]

And Sarah Ferguson once showed real discomfort during a visit to a reptile house of a zoo. Perhaps she senses something of Andrew in its scaly inhabitants.

[aelmpvw]

i thought it was all a load of nonsense, it's starting to make sense to me now

[RATTER15]

sandyRoe, maybe she recognised the huge trouser snake!

[sandyRoe]

But would that have discomforted her?