David Icke

{{bronze}}[[File:David Icke by Stef (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|165px|Icke, reptoid-watching.]]{{conspiracynav|1}}{{cquote|Just take David Icke, the local British curiosity famous for claiming that the moon isn't real and that the world is run by shape-shifting alien reptiles. Laugh all you want — that dude has a net worth of 10 million pounds, accumulated through book sales and expensive, sold-out live talks. Whether people are generally interested in the reptilian moon people or they're just paying absurd cash to watch a crazy guy humiliate himself for a few hours, that money adds up.|||Adam Wears<ref>Wears, [http://www.cracked.com/article_21341_5-ways-every-conspiracy-theory-makes-world-worse.html "5 Ways Conspiracy Theories are Destroying the World"], ''[[Cracked]]''.</ref>}}
'''David Vaughan Icke''' {{lived|1952}}<ref group=note>Pronounced like "[[Ike]]", not "Icky", although "Icky" would be more fitting.</ref> is a human [[singularity]] of [[insanity]] best known for his "[[reptilians|reptoid]]" [[conspiracy theory]]. He came to fame as an [[England|English]] [[Fun:fútbol|footballer]] and [[sports]] commentator and used to be a spokesman for the [[Green Party#The Green Party in the UK|Green Party of England and Wales]], but since 1991, he has devoted his life to informing the world that it's actually secretly controlled by evil shape-shifting lizard-people from the 4th dimension. Genuinely.<ref group=note>The icke (symbol: Ie) is to batshit as the curie is to [[radioactivity]] — a grotesquely huge unit of measure that requires most [[Irony meter#Measurable quantities|real-world measurements]] to be expressed in small fractions of an icke.</ref> As you could expect, this makes [[Poe's Law]] a pretty big issue on the topic of this guy.

Combining messages of wide-ranging conspiracy themes with that of the "answer" to all the problems humanity is facing being the kind of love and consciousness Icke have, and more, Icke is a prototypical example of an early popularizer of modern [[conspirituality]] (conspiracy-spirituality) beliefs.<ref name=teoc>Ward, Charlotte and Voas, David (2011) ‘The Emergence of Conspirituality’, ''Journal of Contemporary Religion'', '''26'''(1): 103-121. [https://www.conspirituality.net/s/ward0-voas2011.pdf PDF copy.]</ref> While many groups and individuals in that area have risen to varying levels of fame and infamy since the 1990s, Icke has become a modern classic with staying power.

He often accused high profile British figures of being involved in the [[Child sexual abuse|sexual abuse of children]]. One such figure was Jimmy Savile, who may be the most prolific child molester in British history. After Savile's death, David claimed he had warned about Jimmy's exploits, but no evidence has ever been presented.  Even if he did, one could cite the legend of the boy who cried wolf on that one.

==Descent into woo==
During the late 1980s, while he was still with the Green Party, Icke began to look to [[alternative medicine]] for a cure for the arthritis that had ended his football career. This also brought him in contact with the local members of the [[New Age]] movement. In 1989, he experienced neurological symptoms (impression of a presence, momentary paralysis of lower extremities, auditory [[hallucination]], facial sensations) that he interpreted as [[spirit]]s trying to contact him.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090907122851/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4UyEUldOLQ Should we be surprised?]</ref> In 1990, he met a [[psychic]] he called his "soul mate," who began to introduce him to hardcore New Age [[woo]].<ref>[http://www.social-ecology.org/1991/01/left-green-perspectives-24/ "Green Party Cofounder Icke Goes New Age"] by Wendy Grossman</ref> He went off the deep end shortly thereafter. He left the party in 1990 and was formally banned from it in 1994, with the Greens calling his views "[[fascist]]".<ref>[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/greens-bar-icke-1448269.html Greens bar Icke], ''The Independent''</ref>

==Views==
{{cquote| Some of my friends have urged me to tell people the basic story, but "for God's sake don't mention the reptiles" ||| David Icke, <i>The Biggest Secret</i>}}

Icke is a proponent of a [[Unified Conspiracy Theory|super-duper grand unified conspiracy theory]] that mixes together just about ''every'' conspiracy theory you can think of; this he calls the "[[Babylon]]ian Brotherhood."<ref group=note>Whether he knows anything about the actual civilization is unknown.</ref> All members of the [[media]], the [[science|scientific community]], the [[banking crisis|banking system]], and the [[religion]]s and militaries of the world's [[nation]]s are mere foot-soldiers of the conspiracy. These [[sheeple|stooges]] are in turn controlled by the usual suspects: the [[United Nations]], the [[Bilderberg Group]], the [[Trilateral Commission]], the [[Illuminati]], the [[Freemasons]], the [[Council on Foreign Relations]], the [[Rothschild family]], the World Bank, etc. All of ''these'' groups are merely the puppets of "the global [[elite]]," which are controlled by "the prison wardens."

===Reptoids===
[[File:David Icke self-portrait.jpg|thumb|right|165px|A self-portrait by David Icke.{{nofact}}]][[File:Janebadler-sm.jpg|thumb|right|165px|I, for one, welcome our new reptilian overlords.]]
{{cquote|In the very late 1800s, a controversial document came to light called the ''Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion''. I call them the Illuminati Protocols and I quote many extracts from them in ''The Robots' Rebellion''.|||David Icke, ''And the Truth Shall Set You Free''}}{{cquote|The whole senario [sic] was planned centuries ago because the reptilians, operating from the lower fourth dimension, and indeed whatever force controls them, have a very different version of "time" than we have, hence they can see and plan down the three-dimensional "time"-line in a way that those in three-dimensional form cannot.|||David Icke<ref>http://www.skepdic.com/illuminati.html</ref>}}

With the release of his book ''The Biggest Secret'' in 1999, Icke added the final layer on top of the pyramid of conspiracy: interdimensional shape-shifting lizard-people from a rift in the [[space]]-[[time]] continuum near the constellation Draco, often referred to as "[[reptile|reptilians]]" or "reptoids". Partially ripping off [[Zecharia Sitchin]], he claims these [[Extraterrestrial|aliens]] are the [[Anunnaki]] and have interbred with [[human]]s throughout history. Much of the "evidence" of reptoids that Icke's worshipers put forth is pictures of world leaders with enlarged pupils or redeye — the everyday kind in which camera flashes illuminate retinas. This supposedly signifies that the reptoids have momentarily lapsed in their shape-shifting.

You may have already spotted the tell-tale astronomical flaw here: that constellations aren't specific places in outer space, but only how a group of stars happens to appear from Earth. The stars that make up a given constellation could be dozens of parsecs apart. This misuse of constellations is reminiscent of when people say "intergalactic" to instead mean "interstellar, but fancier!"

Reasonable speculation about the source of his space-lizard theory may point to British progressive rock band {{wpl|King Crimson}}'s 1971 album {{wpl | Lizard (album) | ''Lizard''}}, which features [[metaphor]]ical references to lizards as politico-religious enemies of a "Prince Rupert" in the title track. Ironically, these "lizards" seem to honor the [[Sabbath]], promise [[Eden]], and have a "sacred tablet".  The song also references British writer William Blake's figure {{wpl|Urizen|"Urizen"}}, Blake's parody and criticism of the [[God]] of the [[Old Testament]], which Blake viewed as simultaneously extremely tyrannical and misguidedly benevolent.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MbaylnDYmU King Crimson - Lizard I (Lizard)]</ref> Another source may have been the 1980s TV series {{wpl | V (1984 TV series) | ''V''}}, which features lizard aliens in human disguise who took over [[Earth]] from [[Agent provocateur|within society]]. Another potential inspiration is the 1987 book "Beyond the Supernatural" which contained descriptions of ''D'arota'', lizards from another dimension who drank human blood and who could morph into human form.

===''Not'' antisemitic===
{{main|Antisemitism}}
Some people have taken offence to Icke, claiming that "shape-shifting lizard-people" is a [[code word]] for "[[Jews]]".<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/mar/17/features.weekend Beset by Lizards: David Icke, one-time goalkeeper, TV presenter and self-proclaimed Son of God, has re-invented himself as a travelling guru. Would Canada take seriously his warnings of power-hungry extraterrestrial reptiles or would he be dismissed as an anti-Semitic bigot?] by Jon Ronson (17 Mar 2001 08.32 EST) ''The Guardian''.</ref> Icke claims that he is not [[Antisemitism|antisemitic]] and that when he says "shape-shifting lizard-people," he ''quite literally'' means lizards, saying to [[Jon Ronson|Ronson]] in 2001: "There is a tribe of people interbreeding, which do not relate to any Earth race ... This is not a Jewish plot. This is not a plot on the world by Jewish people."<ref>Jon Ronson (2001) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVh-t4DokdQ "The Lizards and The Jews"]</ref>

He does believe the virulently antisemitic ''[[Protocols of the Elders of Zion]]'' is a true document, although he argues that it was not about Jews, because "Jew" ([[ironic]]ally, given the accusation of coded anti-Semitism) was supposedly a code word for actual lizards.<ref name="Ronson2012">{{cite book|author=Jon Ronson|title=Jon Ronson's Adventures With Extraordinary People|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kecaVjRkyZ8C&pg=PT129|date=6 December 2012|publisher=Pan Macmillan|isbn=978-1-4472-1963-7|page=129}}</ref> Icke was not original in this ploy but was preceded by [[William Cooper]]'s 1991 book ''[[Behold a Pale Horse]]''.<ref name=behold>[https://archive.org/details/pdfy-fK_LIU_yIP8YBTfX/page/n83/mode/2up ''Behold a Pale Horse''] by Milton William Cooper (1991) Light Technology Publishing. ISBN 0929385225.</ref>{{rp|4}}

Although he hangs around with some rather [[fringe]] [[right-wing]] nutcases, he [[horseshoe theory|balances]] it all out by being just as insane a believer in New Age mumbo-jumbo. He also has been flirting with [[Holocaust denial]],<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140731004448/http://www.critical-thinking.org.uk/conspiracy-theories/david-icke.php Critical Thinking Association (UK)] on Icke</ref> but in Icke's case it's less likely a sign of antisemitism than yet another manifestation of all-round insanity.

Icke certainly ''wasn't'' an antisemite when he published a book in 2019, called ''The Trigger: The Lie That Changed the World — Who Really Did It and Why'', that essentially [[9/11|blamed 9/11 on the Jews.]]<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/a-hateful-conspiracy-filled-book-just-got-harder-to-buy-thats-no-cause-for-celebration/2019/09/23/9b124716-ddf9-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html "A hateful, conspiracy-filled book just got harder to buy. That’s no cause for celebration."] by Ron Charles, Washington Post, 2019 September 24</ref> No siree, not antisemitic at all.

===Altie===
{{main|Alternative medicine}}
At this point, it shouldn't be surprising that Icke hawks alt-med and every [[crank]] medical idea under the sun through his website and book store: [[Homeopathy]], [[pseudovitamin|vitamin woo]], [[vaccine hysteria|vaccine denial]], [[AIDS denial]], [[water fluoridation]], [[Big Pharma]] conspiracies, [[Global warming denial]], etc. The man has [[Jupiter]]-scale [[crank magnetism]], okay?

===Son of God===
[[File:David Icke on Wogan 1991.JPG|thumb|right|Icke (right) with Terry Wogan in his famous 1991 interview that confirmed his [[crank]] status beyond a shadow of a doubt.]]{{cquote|They're [the audience] laughing ''at'' you, they aren't laughing ''with'' you.|200|50|Terry Wogan to Icke.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20131004011804/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwMNINWcy-A</ref>}}
In 1991, on Terry Wogan's TV chat show, in the middle of talking about football (the subject he was a guest on the show to talk about), Icke announced that he was "the [[Jesus|son of God]]" and that Britain would be devastated by tidal waves and earthquakes (the UK isn't seismically active<ref group="note">Though, in the interests of factual accuracy, it does experience the very occasional ''small'' earthquake, and has suffered four significant seismic tsunamis in the last thousand-plus years: in 1014, 1580, 1608, and 1755.</ref>). He also began wearing all turquoise all the time which furthered claims he was either disturbed or perhaps a reptilian himself.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nMq6gc1yMg Wogan interview footage]</ref> The interview propelled Icke from a minor celebrity to a household name and laughing stock of the UK. Not just Icke himself but also his family were unable to appear in public without being ridiculed. His wife and children were considered "fair game" by some "journalists"; they would hover around his house peering into windows and follow his children to school,<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcQzOZmJykk ''David Icke: Was he Right''], Channel five.</ref> proving once more that some journalists are bottom-feeding vultures. In 2006 Wogan admitted that he was "a bit sharp" during his 1991 interview and was "slightly embarrassed" by it.{{fact}}

In 2012, he announced that the opening ceremony of the [[London]] 2012 games was a [[Satanic]] ritual designed to harness [[Energy#Pseudo-scientific use of the term|negative energy]], and that "The Olympic Stadium is strategically placed on the earth-energy grid to tap into the immense London and British power centres and this is why Glastonbury Tor, one of the most significant earth-vortex points in the UK, is a centrepiece of the opening ceremony."<ref>[http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2012/08/02/opening-ceremony-was-a-satanic-ritual Opening ceremony 'was a satanic ritual'], politics.co.uk</ref>

===Reality is a hologram===
If all of the above wasn't crazy enough, Icke seems to have taken ''[[The Matrix]]'' literally (well, minus the parts with Keanu Reeves and [[Cybernetic revolt|robot overlords]]). He believes that much of [[reality]] is a [[holographic]] projection or sensory illusion being beamed down by our alien overlords from the [[moon]], which is actually a space-station with a hollow interior. No, really... ''[[Poe's Law|no, '''really''']]''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100227031210/http://www.davidicke.com/articles/the-matrix-mainmenu-70 Have a peek at his archive for "Moon Matrix" articles.]</ref>

===Headgear===
{{main|Aluminum foil hat}}
David Icke, as well as his fans, are well known in popular culture for promoting the [[aluminum foil hat|aluminium foil hat]] trend.

===Patriot movement===
Icke's relationship with the [[Tea Party|Christian patriot movement]] in the United States is somewhat complex. The ''London Evening Standard'' wrote in 1995 that there were "uncanny parallels between Icke's thoughts" and other mad ramblings "and the writings of senior figures in the armed militia movement in America".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20171113211225/http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi?orgs/british/combat-18/press/evening-standard.052695 "The Dark Side of David Icke"] ''London Evening Standard'' 28 May 1995. Archived via the [[Nizkor Project]].</ref> It has been alleged that while Icke is trying to court the right-wing to believe his crazy beliefs, his New Age voodoo quackery may actually be putting off supporters. He has also admired ''The Spotlight'', published by the [[Liberty Lobby]], as containing "excellent research" with a "long and proven level of accuracy".<ref name="Barkun2006">{{cite book|author=Michael Barkun|title=[[A Culture of Conspiracy]]: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America|url=|year=2006|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-24812-0|page=107}}</ref>

Although he fully believes that Christian patriots are the only Americans who know the truth about the [[New World Order]], he clearly views them as dogmatists who are nearly as rigid as their adversaries, saying: "I don't know which I dislike more, the world controlled by the Brotherhood, or the one you want to replace it with."<ref name="Barkun2006" /> This has put him at odds with other conspiracy theorists such as [[Mark Dice]] and [[Alex Jones]]. Icke also did not become a follower of [[Donald Trump]] following his election to the White House and believes that Trump is a puppet of 
Russia
 the NWO,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160916172420/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0Hf-zL5MSU Why Donald Trump Is Not The Answer, Alternative Media - David Icke & We Are Change - September 2016] ''youtube'' David Icke 8 September 2016</ref> unlike Jones, Dice and much of the conspiracy theorist and patriot community who became fervent followers of The Donald.  

Icke also encourages people to be skeptical of religious [[fundamentalism]] and religious organisations in general... but just not of his crazy ideas.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8zohMUaUog "David Icke – Religion"]</ref>

==List of reptilian overlords==
Or at least, those people Icke believes to be.

If any of these individuals are seen [[blood libel|sacrificing children or drinking blood]], they should be reported to {{wpl|The Crocodile Hunter|
Steve
 Bindi Irwin}} immediately.

===Royalty===
[[File:Reptoid Royals.png|thumb|right|165px|*''old lady/reptoid hiss''* ([http://controversy.amorphia-apparel.com/design/reptoid/ Source])]]
*The entire British royal family.<ref name=bibliotecapleyades1 /><ref
name="Bullshit"/><ref name=Stieger>Brad Steiger, Sherry Steiger. Conspiracies and Secret Societies: The Complete Dossier [https://books.google.com/books?id=pPC_yNQew98C&pg=PT679 page 679]</ref> The late Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was apparently "one of highest satanic witches in Europe".<ref>Icke, David. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130916121219/http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/79139-the-british-establishment-paedophiles-everywhere/ The British Establishment … Paedophiles Everywhere]</ref>
*The [[Rothschild family|Rothschild]]s<ref name=bibliotecapleyades1>David Icke, [http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vida_alien/esp_vida_alien_29.htm "The Reptilian Connection"]</ref>
*The [[Rockefeller conspiracy theories|Rockefellers]]<ref name=bibliotecapleyades1 />
*The [[Dan Brown|Merovingians]], a [[medieval]] [[France|French]] dynasty.<ref name=bibliotecapleyades2> David Icke, [http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/merovingians/merovingios_02.htm The Windsor-Bush Bloodline]</ref>
*"The Habsburgs, the most powerful family in Europe under the Holy Roman Empire"<ref name=bibliotecapleyades2 />
*Various [[Egyptian]] [[pharaoh]]s<ref name=bibliotecapleyades2 />
*Basically every royal dynasty ever...

===Politicians===
[[Image:Iguana.jpg|thumb|right|Hail to the chief!]][[File:Obama Reptoid.jpg|thumb|right|Thanks, Obama!<ref>[https://archive.ph/v58hc Reptiod Obama?] Archived from Fantastic Heat Brothers, March 2009.</ref>]]
*[[Winston Churchill]]<ref name="famous_satanists"/>
*[[Joseph Stalin]]<ref name="famous_satanists"/>
*[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]<ref name="famous_satanists"/>
*[[Adolf Hitler]]<ref name="famous_satanists"/>
*[[Lyndon B. Johnson]]<ref name="famous_satanists"/>
*[[Ronald Reagan]]<ref name="famous_satanists"/>
*[[Richard Nixon]]<ref name="famous_satanists"/>
*[[Gerald Ford]]<ref name="famous_satanists"/>
*[[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom#Edward Heath (1970 - 1974)|Ted Heath]]<ref group=note>Icke seems to hold a peculiar amount of bile in store for Heath, frequently denouncing him as some kind of grand [[paedophile]] demagogue at the nexus of a matrix of evil negative energy centred on the Isle of Wight. Whether this is thinly veiled [[homophobia]] on Icke's part or just general inexplicable nonsense remains unclear.</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Baron|first1=Alexander|title=Op-Ed: David Icke dices with criminal libel — again|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110185424/http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/336440|accessdate=28 June 2015|date=8 November 2012}}</ref>
*[[John F. Kennedy]]<ref name="famous_satanists"/>
*[[Henry Kissinger]]<ref name="famous_satanists"/>
*[[George H. W. Bush|Bush the Elder]]; claims that he spoke to many people who saw him change to a Reptoid and back again in front of their eyes.<ref name="Bullshit"/>
*[[Jimmy Carter]]<ref name="famous_satanists"/>
*[[Mikhail Gorbachev]]<ref name=Stieger /><ref name="famous_satanists"/>
*[[Ted Kennedy]]<ref name="famous_satanists"/>
*[[Dick Cheney]]; ''almost'' believable.<ref name="Bullshit"/>
*[[George W. Bush|George "Dubya" Bush]]<ref name=Stieger /><ref name="Bullshit">''[[Penn & Teller: Bullshit!]]'', episode 1.03, ''Alien abductions'' at about 20:50</ref>
*[[Bill Clinton|Bill]] and [[Hillary Clinton]]<ref name=Stieger />
*[[Al Gore]]<ref name="famous_satanists">[https://web.archive.org/web/20000613034402/http://www.davidicke.com/icke/articles/listsatan.html LIST OF FAMOUS SATANISTS, PEDOPHILES, AND MIND CONTROLLERS]</ref>
*[[Jeb Bush]]<ref name=bibliotecapleyades2 />
*[[Tony Blair]]<ref name="famous_satanists"/>
*Dalton McGuinty, former premier of [[Ontario]]<ref>[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/kitten-eater-controversy-litters-battle-for-ontario/article18430647/ "He's an evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet!"]</ref>
*Basically every world leader ever, too...

===Other===
*Kris Kristofferson<ref name=Stieger />
*Charlotte Cooper<ref name=Stieger />
*The Nagas (gods of the Indus valley).<ref name=bibliotecapleyades1 /> Mythical creatures are ''really'' other mythical creatures. This is some advanced conspiracy. To be fair, Nagas are associated with reptiles, so there is a small amount of basis here...but in this case, not lizards but snakes.

==Lawsuit==
In January 2015 Icke paid $90,000CAN in settlement of a lawsuit by Richard Warman, a Canadian [[human rights]] lawyer. Icke had defamed Warman in his 2001 book ''Children of the Matrix''<ref>''Children of the Matrix''. Bridge of Love Publications, 2001. ISBN 0-9538810-1-6</ref> by making allegations of [[Satanic ritual abuse|Satanic child abuse]] and murder.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20021214122637/http://www.cyberclass.net/million$claim.htm], Court submission</ref> This was in addition to an out of court settlement of $120,000CAN Warman had already received from three Canadian book stores who continued to sell the book after being named as co-respondents in the case.<ref>[http://www.richardwarman.ca/], Warman's website</ref>

In a public statement in March 2015, Warman said "This settlement exposes Icke’s argument that no one had ever sued him because his allegations were true as nothing more than a fallacy."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150311150315/http://yournewswire.com/david-icke-defeat-conspiracy-author-made-to-pay-117000-for-lies], Yournewswire report</ref>

In response to this 
monumental legal victory
 expensive defeat Icke posted a video response on his website explaining the background to the case which, unsurprisingly (and probably wisely), doesn't even mention it.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150313045457/http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/the-warman-case-is-over-here-is-the-background/], David and Carl... Together at last</ref> Instead, and with a breathtaking 
display of chutzpah
 [[Not even wrong|lack of awareness]], he invokes the memory of [[Carl Sagan]].

==COVID-19==
{{main|2019-20 COVID-19 outbreak}}
He wouldn’t be a [[conspiracy]] theorist if he hasn’t talked about the Coronavirus! 

Icke has fully embraced [[crank magnetism]], and uses his social media channels to spread whatever [[bullshit]] trends in the conspiracy world are at the moment. 

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Icke livestreamed an interview on 7 April 2020, where he asked if there is "a link between [[5G]] and this health crisis". He then claimed that implementing 5G will mean "human life as we know it is over", insisted that any COVID-19 vaccine that develops will include "nanotechnology microchips" that would allow humans to be controlled, and blamed [[Bill Gates]] for the pandemic. Basically, he states that Bill Gates is Thanos converting people into trackable zombie dogs and installing 5G towers which are actually siren heads. In other social media posts, Icke made a number of other claims: a [[Antisemitism|Jewish group was behind the virus]], [[Not even wrong|5G would leave people unable to absorb oxygen]], [[Germany]] was moving to "legalise rape" for Muslim men, and you cannot spread the virus by shaking hands.

For once, [[YouTube]] and [[Facebook]] got fed up with this [[bullshit]] and subsequently booted him off these social networks.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52198946 "Coronavirus: YouTube tightens rules after David Icke 5G interview"] by Leo Kelion, BBC News, April 7 2020</ref><ref>[https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-david-icke-channel-2020-5 "YouTube finally deleted notorious conspiracy theorist David Icke's channel after he spread COVID-19 misinformation"] by Charlie Wood, Business Insider, 2020 May 4</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52501453 "Coronavirus: David Icke kicked off Facebook"] by BBC News, 2020 May 1</ref> He remained on [[Twitter]], and as expected, his Twitter feed largely shifted to bitching and crying about how he has been banned from social media.<ref>[http://archive.ph/FNsEe @DavidIcke feed,] archived on 2020 May 3</ref> However in early November 2020, he was banned from Twitter as well for his promotion of fake COVID-related material. Whether this had anything to do with the almost simultaneous US election is not known.

Separately, television programme {{wpl|London Live (TV programme)|''London Live''}} was found to be in breach of standards with UK communication regulators {{wpl|Ofcom}} for airing an interview where Icke freely babbled his 5G bullshit and other conspiracies, without any attempt of a counterpoint whatsoever.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-52358920 "Coronavirus: Ofcom rules on Eamonn Holmes and David Icke comments"], BBC News, 2020 April 20</ref><ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/apr/20/tv-stations-interview-with-david-icke-posed-threat-to-public-health TV station's interview with David Icke 'posed threat to public health] by Jim Waterson, The Guardian, 2020 Apr 20</ref>

==Factoids==
Here are some 
reptoids
 factoids about Icke:
*Icke claims that he was passed over for ''Celebrity Big Brother''.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2006/feb/17/smalltalk.sportinterviews David Icke Small talk interview] ''small talk'' Paul Doyle, 17 February 2006</ref>
*In 2008, Icke ran for election to Parliament as an independent candidate in the Haltemprice and Howden by-election.<ref name=s1e>{{cite web|title=David Icke to stand in "Big Brother" election|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20080511130227/http://www.davidicke.com/content/blogcategory/30/82/|work=David Icke website}} (archived)</ref> He got only 110 votes, and lost his deposit.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7501046.stm Haltemprice and Howden: Result in full ]</ref> If the lizard people (who live between Selby and Hull) had let him win, he would not have actually entered Parliament as he vowed not to actually take the oath to the [[Monarchy|Queen]] required<ref name=s1e /> (as he believes Her Majesty and the rest of the Royal Family to be lizard people as well).  Because the irony does not stop with this fellow, [[Prince Charles]] agrees with Icke on the alternative medicine stuff.
*Icke was the only non-[[America]]n interviewee on the life-saving{{nofact}} DVD ''[[The Fall of America and the Western World]]''.
*Icke considers himself the most controversial writer in the world. Non-British people who don't pay much attention to the weirder sections of bookshops consider him "Who?"

==See also==
* [[Brotherhood of the Snake]]
* [[Reptilians]]
* [[Robert France]]
* [[Laura Knight-Jadczyk]]
* [[Conspirituality]]
* [[Paranoia]]
* [[New World Order]]
* [[LSD]]
* [[Water fluoridation]]

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==External links==
*[http://www.davidicke.com/index.php/ Icke's own webshite]
*[http://alien-ufo-research.com/reptilians Information on Reptilians] - Including pictures, videos, and the reptilian agenda. Your life may depend on it.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20061005061310/http://tinwiki.org/wiki/Reptiloid Reptiloid] on [[TinWiki]]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yO0NMZIfs4 Skeptics are controlled by the Reptilians (according to Icke)]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140731004307/http://www.randi.org/encyclopedia/Icke,%20David.html Icke entry] at the [[JREF]] Encyclopedia
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVh-t4DokdQ David Icke and Jon Ronson special]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140731004448/http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/2009/08/son-of-god-says-the-flu-vaccine-will-kill-your-kids/ Son of God says the flu vaccine will kill your kids]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090705084640/http://www.icke-exposed.co.uk/ A website which debunks the outrageous claims of David Icke]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110928225453/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p91Ne-vM-i0&gl=US&hl=en&amp;has_verified=1 Stargate was real!] [[Roland Emmerich]] was trying to send a message!
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20121217210820/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGM43jGjXkU&gl=US&hl=en Don't trust anything you hear, unless I say it!]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S3e2oj0m6o Seven signs you're dating a Reptilian.]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcQzOZmJykk ''David Icke: Was he Right'']; Channel five documentary.

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