David Icke strikes: Reptiles in the Royal Family? Secret Societies? Organized assassinations?

Question

Has anyone else heard of these conspiracy theories that David Icke subscribes to? I've got a DVD of them and they sure are a lot of fun.

Washington DC's town layout in the shape of an owl or pentagram?

Republicans partying with Moloch, the owl God?

The Windsor family really a race of human/reptile hybrids?

Diana's death a planned event?

Her burial on an island surrounded by evil guards?

Who believes them and why?

Answer 1

WHAT ABOUT THE 10% and the people who are and dont know(human/reptile)does he really know grey eyes

Answer 2

Washington, D. C. *does* have a pentagon in its street pattern; this was done on purpose.

Everything else Mr. Icke claims is weird insanity, though.

Answer 3

Yeah, I don't know which is the more dismaying thought: that he makes a packet of money peddling this nonsense knowing that it is nonsense, or that he really believes it himself.

Answer 4

Probably, at some level, David Icke realises that what he's coming out with is complete bollocks, but he's too far down the road to say "Just kidding guys!" and return to the real world.  No alternative but to keep going and support himself selling DVDs and books which perpetuate this nonsense.  It wouldn't surprise me at all if one morning the guy got up and decided to swallow the entire contents of his medicine cupboard washed down with a bottle of scotch.

Answer 5

I genuinely feel sorry for David and others that share those beliefs. It sort of hurts to see him on his videos saying it all with such conviction. Half his touring audience is there for the spectacle and he can't seem to realise it. Most of his ideas can be proven false with critical thought or evidence. In spite of this, he and the fans make counter claims that the rest of us are gullible and slaves.

It seems impossible to 'turn' a conspiracy theorist once they go down the path. John Lear is another great example. I honestly believe it's new form of mental illness.

Answer 6

Is Icke still wearing nothing other than turqouise shellsuits these days? Does he still claim in public that he's The Son of God?

I would very much like to believe that a lot of the people in the audience for his lectures are there only to watch a freakshow, but I'm cynical enough about people to really doubt that's the case.

Conspiracy theories are horribly attractive to a certain sort of personality and it seems that the attraction is inversely proportional to the plausibility.

The suggestion that Diana's death was the result of a security services plot rather than just another drunken idiot smashing a car into a wall when the dumber passengers were not wearing seatbelts has a certain appeal, but it's much cooler to think that Queen Elizabeth II is actually a lizard in human disguise who's main job is actually controlling the production of cocaine and it's import into the USA.

My conclusion is that the people who tend to believe this guff are people who feel that they are helpless pawns in a game which never has and never will benefit them. Interesting how the real home of conspiracy theories is the USA, whose fundamental ethos is that anyone can make it big if he tries. If you start out buying that, then it's far easier to believe that the reason you _haven't_ made it big is because you're a victim of hidden, malign forces than it is to accept that you've not succeeded simply because you're just not all that good compared to everyone else.