From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia David Vaughan Icke born April 29 1952 is an English writer and public speaker best known for his views on what he calls who and what is really controlling the world Describing himself as the most controversial speaker in the world he has written 18 books explaining his position and has attracted a substantial following across the political spectrum His 533page The Biggest Secret 1999 has been called the conspiracy theorists Rosetta Stone Icke was a wellknown BBC television sports presenter and spokesman for the Green Party when in 1990 he had an encounter with a psychic who told him he was a healer placed on Earth for a purpose In April 1991 he said on the BBCs Terry Wogan show that he was a son of the godheadthough he said later he had been misinterpretedand predicted that the world would soon be devastated by tidal waves and earthquakes He said the show changed his life turning him from a respected household name into someone who was laughed at whenever he appeared in public He continued nevertheless to develop his ideas and in four books published over seven yearsThe Robots Rebellion 1994 And the Truth Shall Set You Free 1995 The Biggest Secret 1999 and Children of the Matrix 2001set out a moral and political worldview that combined NewAge spiritualism with a passionate denunciation of totalitarian trends in the modern world At the heart of his theories lies the idea that the world is becoming a global fascist state that a secret group of reptilian humanoids called the Babylonian Brotherhood controls humanity and that many prominent figures are reptilian including George W Bush Queen Elizabeth II Kris Kristofferson and Boxcar Willie Michael Barkun has described Ickes position as New Age conspiracism writing that he is the most fluent of the conspiracist genre Richard Kahn and Tyson Lewis argue that the reptilian hypothesis may simply be Swiftian satire a way of giving ordinary people a narrative with which to question what they see around them Description above from the Wikipedia article David Icke licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia