Formerly best-known as a TV sports commentator and leading spokesman for the British Green Party, David Icke (45) now tours the world spilling the beans about government conspiracies such as the international drug trade involving George Bush, Bill Clinton and other big names, the Oklahoma City bombing, collective and individual mind control, to mention but a few topics.
The fact that no one has sued him only lends further credence to his claims. A tireless campaigner for truth, Icke has written 10 books showing that the same few people, secret societies and organizations control the daily directions of our lives. They engineer wars, revolutions, terrorist outrages and political assassinations; they control the world market in hard drugs and the media.
"The secret government of the world is manipulating the human mind to accept a centralized global tyranny, as we speak. This tyranny is called the New World Order, and unless we wake up it will manifest as a world government; a world central bank, currency and army and a microchipped population linked to a global computer.
"Already domestic animals are being microchipped and linked to a computer. The Queen of England has had her pet corgis microchipped. Prince Charles will be next, you watch," he laughs.
Only it's no laughing matter. Icke says the move to phase out the use of coins and notes is underway and all money transactions will become electronic via a credit or smart card.
"Today if you go into a shop to buy anything and your credit card is refused by the computer, you can pay with cash. What happens when there is no cash? If the computer refuses your card or microchip, you have no means to buy anything. We will then be robots in every sense of the word, an extension of a computer program."
Icke says The Elite plan includes the microchipping of all babies at birth. "The technology already exists, and all that remains is to persuade the public to accept it. One way this will be done is to highlight missing children stories, including the abduction of babies from maternity wards.
"Another selling point of this would be the phasing out of passports. In the UK people are already being microchipped with their medical records. Even more frightening is that the microchip can be used to modify behavior."