The Conspiracy Theorist Who Believes Lizards Run The World Won’t Be Allowed Into Australia
Can probably blame the lizards for this one.
David Icke is a British soccer player turned conspiracy theorist whose widely-mocked opinions are so extreme that it’s sometimes easy to forget that he actually has his supporters.
After all, Icke is best known for his long-standing argument that the human race is being secretly dominated by a group of reptilian overlords (Kris Kristofferson is one of them, apparently); cold-blooded tryants who want to exploit our free labour and capital for reasons that Icke has never properly explained.
That’s not the half of it either — the ‘thinker’ also believes that the moon is a man-made structure, designed to enslave us by filling the left hemisphere of our brain with complex illusions that we mistake for reality.
David Icke won’t be able to conduct his Australian speaking tour because his visa has been cancelled. His beliefs include that Jews funded the holocaust, and that the world is run by an illuminati of lizard people.
— Tom Connell (@tomwconnell) February 20, 2019
Basically, the man has spent the last few decades making a career out of spewing nonsense that resembles a cross between the work of old mate Rene “I Think Therefore I Am” Descartes and the kind of ridiculous, extraterrestrial plotting you’d expect to find in a safety video for a laser tag parlour in the nineties.
Indeed, his (very successful) longterm strategy practically requires his ideas to be outlandish — he frequently sits down with major news organisations who agree to chat to him in the hope that his bizarre and attention-grabbing views will get them clicks, perhaps not realising that in the process they become his private PR firm.
And that’s the problem: a lot of the man’s nonsense also happens to be extremely offensive. Icke is a Holocaust denier, and many of his views about a ‘secret cabal of evil rulers’ align neatly with anti-semitic fears about Jewish people controlling the American media.
Indeed, one must assume that it is Icke’s ties to anti-semitic extremism that have resulted in his Australian Visa getting cancelled, leaving his planned March tour of the country in tatters.
Lizards 1 : David Icke 0#auspol pic.twitter.com/7EmxiU6RFq
— Andy Fleming (@slackbastard) February 20, 2019
Politicians and advocacy groups have been lobbying for the conspiracy theorist’s visa to be cancelled for some time now, with the Anti-Defamation Commission and Labor Candidate Josh Burns both condemning the man and his views.
This is not, it should be noted, the first time that Icke has tried to visit the country — he has toured our shores many times over the years, his PR firm lobbying major media outlets for some press.
But now it looks like there’s a good chance that we’ve seen the last of the man for some time.