{"id":249,"date":"2004-08-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-08-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-12T00:00:00","slug":"The \u2018Son of God\u2019 & the \u2018Secret Rulers of the World\u2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Son of God\u2019 & the \u2018Secret Rulers of the World\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten years ago David Icke came out, so to speak, and declared himself the \u201cSon of God\u201d on a popular TV talk show. A decade later and he\u2019s dropped the \u201cSon of God\u201d claim; now he\u2019s speaking to packed audiences across the globe and telling them about the world\u2019s secret rulers: about the Trilateral Commision, the Bilderbergers and the Illuminati. Names which you don\u2019t normally hear in the main-stream media; ideas and research that Icke has largely taken from others and which his audiences are lapping up.<\/p>\n

On Sunday May 6 2001 David Icke was the feature of an hour-long documentary on prime time British TV, entitled \u2018The Secret Rulers of the World\u2019. And from start to finish it was an object lesson in disinformation. <\/p>\n

The program itself portrayed Icke in a sympathetic light; as a genuine, personable but deeply misunderstood figure and, most importantly, not once during its entire sixty minutes did it refer to his views on Christianity. Even more significant was the fact that Icke was \u2018set up\u2019 to be hit with custard pies at a book signing in Toronto at the programs end. This was done with the full knowledge of the shows presenter Jon Ronsson, who divulged not a word of it to Icke, presumably to enhance its effect. Which prompts one to ask: what else did Ronsson omit to mention for the sake of effect? <\/p>\n

By the look of things a whole lot more. For example Team Satan, the alleged crop circle-makers, host a web site that until recently featured recruitment adverts for no less than MI5, MI6, GCHQ and the Security Intelligence Services. Now however those adverts have been replaced by a link promoting Jon Ronson, his web site and the book that accompanied \u2018The Secret Rulers of the World.\u2019 And while the TV series itself was no great revelation the episode devoted to David Icke was a real eye opener, not because it said anything new, but rather because of what it omitted to say.<\/p>\n

\"Recruitment
\nAs mentioned Icke has built up a sizable audience presenting material that is largely based on other people\u2019s research. Much of which is quite credible, it\u2019s just that things get a little dubious when Icke starts adding his own ideas. However \u2018The Secret Rulers of the World\u2019 specifically looked at Icke\u2019s contention that we are ruled by a mutant race of shape shifting Reptiods. In itself the idea is ridiculous enough but Ronson muddied the waters still further by continually asking: \u201cWas this a coded reference to Jews?\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course the answer is no, but it certainly caught Ronson\u2019s attention. So much so that you\u2019d almost think that he was trying to obscure the other ideas Icke presents by continually focusing on the Reptiod\u2019s and their alleged anti-Semitic symbolism. For the duration of the entire program he persisted on this one idea as if everything else Icke said was too ludicrous to consider.<\/p>\n

But then in the words of Dave Starbuck, yet another who\u2019s given Icke research material and seen him use it without any acknowledgement, Icke is simply a \u201cpresenter.\u201d That\u2019s what the former sports reporter used to do and that\u2019s what he does today, except that instead of presenting sports reports David Icke now presents other people\u2019s conspiracy research. And instead of examining that, Ronson spent nearly an hour looking at Icke\u2019s allegedly \u201canti-Semitic Reptiods.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stranger still was the fact that the most powerful episode in the whole series simply disappeared without trace. The program in question was devoted to microwaves and their potential as a weapon and tool of oppression. In it scientist Tim Rifat showed how a microwave oven could be cut in two and how a horn antennae could then be placed on the wave guide, turning it into weapon with an effective distance of hundreds of feet and how at close range it could literally fry human flesh. The Billion dollar question, Tim asked was: how do we know that the authorities are not already using this as a weapon? <\/p>\n

\"The
\nMaybe Channel 4 thought the program was too hot to handle for judging from what we\u2019ve been told it could have had serious repercussions. So perhaps they decided not to screen it, assuming that they even saw it, for throughout the filming Ronson kept asking Tim: \u201cHow do you know that I\u2019m not working for the other side?\u201d<\/p>\n

Which simply underlines the contention that Jon Ronson is as bent as a nine pound note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ten years ago David Icke came out, so to speak, and declared himself the \u201cSon of God\u201d on a popular TV talk show. A decade later and he\u2019s dropped the \u201cSon of God\u201d claim; now he\u2019s speaking to packed audiences across the globe and telling them about the world\u2019s secret rulers: about the Trilateral Commision, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Behind_The_News"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}