-from David Icke and the Politics of Madness:
Where the New Age Meets the Third Reich
Will Offley, 29 February 2000

As you may have guessed from my enthusiasm in the last post, I did catch David Icke on Coast to Coast AM tonight -- or more accurately, this morning, as Icke didn't come on until midnight. But before I go into my reactions to hearing him speak for the first time, I feel duty-bound to publish a long overdue disclaimer. Though I have done a very good job (if I say so myself) of cloaking my true identity, the fact is that I am an Illuminati/Chitauri lectroid reptile from Planet X by way of the 8th Dimension. There. I feel better already, now that I'm out.

Despite my ungracious words in previous posts here, Icke did not come across as an escapee from the laughing academy. In fact, he seemed a rather more intelligent fellow than your average run-of-the-mill nutcase. As long as you discount his views on reptilian overlords, logging in to some metaphorical-cum-metaphysical mental "internet" (yes, he said this), and "absolutely blissful" Banisteriopsis Caapi vision "downloads" in Brazil (he said that too, that way), he appears to be a reasonably sharp cookie.

I did get the impression, however, that he would have, let us say, peculiarly skewed notions about Jews. And I was right, as this page on his own site amply testifies. Don't ask me how I knew this -- it just seems to go with a certain species of conspiracy theorizing. There's a long tradition. One favored trick of this tradition is to suggest that, while The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is clearly a forgery, the forgery was a super-underhanded meta-trick perpetrated by those damned Jews to to throw us off the scent of... well, those damned Jews. Uh-huh. And the beat goes on.

Dr. Emilio Lizardo would be proud. Hmmm... the more I think about it, it seems as if many of Icke's stranger ideas could well have been lifted from ol' Buckaroo. I'm not talking about outright plagiarism, mind you, but rather, of unconscious influence. Let's face it, many of us who watched the movie in various altered states in the 1980s were operating under a similar... influence. Many of us lost licenses, wives, all sorts of things. In this respect (if not in others), David Icke may be no exception.

Protocols of the Elders Of Zion: a fraudulent document that reported the alleged proceedings of a conference of Jews in the late 19th century, at which they discussed plans to overthrow Christianity through subversion and sabotage and to control the world. The Protocols first appeared in their entirety in Russia in 1905. They were widely disseminated in the 1920s and became a classic defense for anti-Semitism. First published in the United States in 1920, the Protocols were championed by Henry Ford in his newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, and cited throughout the 1930s by some anti-Roosevelt and fascist groups. As early as 1921, the English journalist Philip Graves exposed the similarity between the Protocols and a political satire by Maurice Joly, Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu (1864). Subsequent investigation showed the original document to be a forgery written by members of the Russian secret police.

Bibliography: See H. Bernstein, The Truth about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (1935, repr. 1972 [out of print]); N. Cohn, Warrant for Genocide (1967, repr. 1970).

from: Protocols of the Elders of Zion
source: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2005.
via: HighBeam™ Research

But what David Icke had to say last night about Jung's theory of archetypes and the collective unconscious totally blew my mind. Imagine much belly laughter. Follow along closely here, as this bit is highly counterintuitive and needs more than a casual scan. OK, so Jung proposed a number of archetypes -- the shadow, the divine child, the (male) anima, the (female) animus, and so on. So far so good. But Icke surmises that because the number of these is limited, and because the hyper-super-real (and mondo-mojo-surreal) reality he was describing is unlimited -- his constantly repeated phrase was "infinite possibilities" -- the existence of Jungian archetypes (which is more than I'm willing to swallow, personally; never mind the reptiles) proves that our "bio-computers" have been programmed by evil Illuminati bigwigs so far up the kosmik food-chain we can't even perceive them. That is, we can't. It appears he can.

This is such a stunning display of inside-out imagination, I had to give the guy points for sheer intellectual bravado. I mean, shapeshifting saurians are so passé, and c'mon, "bio-computers"? I'm sorry, that just doesn't count as an insight. Has Icke never heard of John Lilly? What self-respecting freak didn't read all about that silly drug-addled crap decades ago? But the Jung thing is genius. Credit where due. Sure, he's got some (not-so) funny ideas about Jews, and yeah, he's warped as a 2x4 left out in the rain too long, but would that some of these tarted-up, faux-compos-mentis spiritual types were even half as amusing.

I suppose I must bid a half-fond adieu -- or, as the British say, a half-fondue -- to our charming Mr. Icke. It's been fun, but enough is enough. Well, almost...

Beyond our worries about what we consume and the unbalancing of 'nature', the report, GM Nation, signals something far more worrying for Blair himself.

How come this man who, it was once said, sought only ever to be popular, now regularly aligns himself with deeply unpopular causes? Iraq, top-up fees and now GM foods are but three.

He has been given a vision of what the future holds and the rest of us must simply cheer his resolve.

He has come over all David Icke. While Icke now believes the world is controlled by giant alien lizards, Blair knows it is controlled by Republican reptiles and will make human sacrifices to stay in with them.

He is so far gone that there is little room for rational argument. His defence of the war now boils down to little more than he believed it was right, so even if it wasn't, he did what he believed and is therefore invincible.

from: Dr. Tony, a genetically modified David Icke by Suzanne Moore
source: The Mail on Sunday (London), 28 September 2003
via: HighBeam™ Research