“THE nutter has come to Wembley,” David Icke yelled triumphantly from the
stage.
It was his way of mocking the many critics who had ridiculed him mercilessly
after he first dressed in turquoise and announced himself a “Son of the
Godhead” more than 20 years ago.
Looking around at the 5,000 fans who packed Wembley Arena at the weekend for
his biggest ever show, I had to wonder whether he was not the only oddball.
They had travelled from all over the world to hear the 60-year-old former BBC
sports presenter tell them how they — and the rest of us — are merely
holograms living in a virtual reality that has been hacked into by alien
beings, who control us with the help of a ruling elite of reptilian
humanoids.
Perhaps I do Icke a disservice by trying to sum up in a sentence what he took
a bum-numbing 11 hours to explain. After all, I am one of the “mainstream
bloody journalists” he accuses of helping “The Crazies” who run the planet
and control your mind.
I may also do a disservice to his audience, not all of whom buy into every
word. But there were gasps, as if a penny had dropped, when he claimed the
Queen and Prince Philip, like the Queen Mother before them, are kept healthy
with the blood of young children.
And that the Olympic opening ceremony was a giant Satanic ritual to produce
the human energy on which our reptilian masters feed.
Icke has in the past attacked the sheep-like mentality of humans who could do
so much more with their lives than follow the crowd and “work, buy, consume,
die”.
He’s got a point, I thought, as I joined the slow-moving line of the faithful
waiting to get in. Although our reptilian rulers had turned the temperature
to Arctic blast, they were wrong if they thought the cold would deter Icke’s
fans, some of whom had forked out £60 to see him. As they queued, fellow
conspiracy theorists handed out leaflets questioning why the towers really
collapsed on 9/11.
Inside, fans could do some pre-show consuming, with Icke T-shirts at £15,
books at £20 and CDs at £10. They could also get a can of Red Bull from one
of the catering outlets — preferably before they heard Icke brand the
drink’s logo a Satanist symbol.
Apparently, the ruling entitiesbroadcast their mind-altering frequencies from
Saturn, possibly via the moon — which was put where it is by aliens to act
as an amplifier for their signal.
Not everyone was tuned fully into the would-be Messiah. But Icke is a
poster-boy for all sorts of people who simply want to question whether all
is as it seems. With the day-to-day performance of our leaders, the bankers
and the like, you can see why they might wonder.
Twins Virgil and Dante Sparda, 21, from Birmingham, are regulars at Icke’s
shows.
“Don’t you want to know about the alternative knowledge that people in higher
power have hidden for thousands of years?” said Virgil.
“What about the food technology they are poisoning us with?”
Mark Wareham, 52, from Northampton, was attending his first live Icke show. He
said: “He connects the dots so you can see the true picture. You have to
take your truth where you can get it. Time has proved he has been right.”
Mark obviously wasn’t talking about Icke’s prediction in 1991 that the
world would end in 1997.
New Zealander Robbie Peake, 26, said people should not be put off just because
some of Icke’s theories may be “pretty fruity”.
He said: “Someone is controlling us. It runs right to the top.”
As well as the Queen, Barack Obama, Tony Blair and George Bush Snr have all
faced astonishing allegations from Icke, who sees it as vindication that
none of them has ever taken a blind bit of notice.
As justification for his views, he points confidently to the evidence . . . in
Hollywood movies such as The Matrix and Avatar.
Claire Brooker, 34, from Guildford, Surrey, and Amy Rutinsky, 34, from Bognor
Regis, West Sussex, were not entirely won over.
Amy said: “I was quite interested in what he had to say about symbolism and
the more spiritual side of his argument, but not all that reptilian stuff.”
Claire added: “I don’t like the way he connects different things to come up
with some quite radical beliefs.
“It can make you paranoid. It is quite scary. People have to have something to
believe in, I suppose, but I won’t be coming to another of his shows.”
I have to confess that I did not stay to the bitter end. Seven hours was
plenty.
He told his audience not to worry — the world is insane, not them.
The Crazies, he said, include politicians, doctors, teachers, scientists and
The X Factor. He may be right on that last one.