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Having watched the two hour video interview of David Icke, featured in the video section of this site,  and read some of the stuff that gets posted on his forum, it would seem he has, through being a well known media personality, become a leading figure in what many would believe to be a cult movement.

The dictionary on my computer gives the following as the definition of the word cult:

Cult
Cult Cult (k[u^]lt) n. [F. culte, L. cultus care, culture, fr.
colere to cultivate. Cf. Cultus.]
1. Attentive care; homage; worship.
[1913 Webster]

Every one is convinced of the reality of a better
self, and of the cult or homage which is due to it.
--Shaftesbury.
[1913 Webster]

2. A system of religious belief and worship.
[1913 Webster]

That which was the religion of Moses is the
ceremonial or cult of the religion of Christ.
--Coleridge.
[1913 Webster]

3. A system of intense religious veneration of a particular
person, idea, or object, especially one considered
spurious or irrational by traditional religious bodies;
as, the Moonie cult.
[PJC]

4. The group of individuals who adhere to a cult (senses 2 or
3).
[PJC]

5. A strong devotion or interest in a particular person, idea
or thing without religious associations, or the people
holding such an interest; as, the cult of James Dean; the
cult of personality in totalitarian societies.
[PJC]

-- From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

There is only one sentence from those definitions that come close to what David and the like minded people who believe in the, for want of a better word, doctrine, are about.

'Every one is convinced of the reality of a better self'

The rest describe religion, which this is not. There is no belief in an almighty supreme power that homage is paid to, they don't preach a gospel of their beliefs.

Here I quote from the County Press web site, the first is a report from Ross Findon. The second from Charlotte Hofton's column:

THE Island has been described as a cesspit of corruption, Satanism and paedophilia by former sportsman turned conspiracy theorist David Icke.
In his latest newsletter, Mr Icke, of Dover Street, Ryde, said he loved the Island, but claimed its police were one of the most corrupt forces in the country and there was a staggering level of drug-running, with amazing quantities of drugs delivered by yachts and transported to the mainland by ferry and hovercraft.
He alleged that Island police, main media and council planning members were controlled by Freemasons, who were at the centre of an Island mafia, also made up of lawyers, businessmen, drug runners, child abusers and devil-worshippers.
When asked by the County Press for evidence to support his allegations, Mr Icke, 57, declined to comment.
Red Funnel and Wightlink said they worked with police to tackle drug issues, while the police said any issues of corruption were robustly dealt with.
Acting Isle of Wight commander Supt Norman Mellors said: "I have been a police officer for over 27 years and am proud to have served on the Island for the last 17 months.
"The officers and staff working here are the most dedicated, professional and effective team I have ever worked with."
He highlighted significant falls in crime on the Island with detection rates among the best in the country.
"Of course we are human and sadly we may not provide a perfect service on every occasion. We have procedures to deal with this and evidence shows poor performance, or worse still, criminal allegations are investigated robustly and very professionally within our force, including the Island," said Supt Mellors, who encouraged Mr Icke to pass any information on to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

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I AM dispirited at the lack of progress in my campaign for David Icke to bring renown to the Island by standing as our celebrity parliamentary candidate.
The May bank holiday falls just before the likely election date and we could easily turn it into a themed day trip, with visitors thrilling to the latest notions to emerge from the dizzy delights of Mr Icke's brain.
Distressingly, there has, as yet, been no word from my preferred candidate. I hear his forthcoming appearance at the O2 Brixton Academy is a sell-out, which further endorses my campaign. After all, we've had him for years. Why should Brixton profit from our man?
I am, furthermore, alarmed by my latest tour of Mr Icke's website. While I very much like "the real story of the men who stare at goats" (remote psychic spying in the US army) and Al Qaeda doctors ("some trained at Britain's leading teaching hospitals") fitting exploding breast implants, I feel his take on Gordon Brown is not nice.
There is a headline on the Icke homepage, the only repeatable bit of which is "British Prime Minister Gordon Brown." The rest is not suitable for this newspaper and, quite honestly, seems pretty unlikely, whatever you think of Mr Brown.
I sighted my candidate only last week. He was buying a Daily Mail, a very bad sign in itself. He then read his paper in one of those cafes that have scones and crumpets on the menu, looking more like a Middle-England crosspatch on his elevenses than the son of God on a mission.
I don't know if the Daily Mail is responsible for Mr Icke's extraordinary allegation about Gordon Brown but I am not hopeful. Our man should be standing on a mountain (Tennyson Down would do) clothed in a glorious turquoise robe, preaching to the thousands who couldn't get tickets for Brixton. He should not be perched in a downtown Ryde cafe, reading the Daily Mail. I am deeply disappointed. I may have to ask Shaw Taylor to step into the breach.

In this country we have freedom of speech, the media for one have been getting away with more in the last couple of decades than they would of 40 or 50 years ago.

Both of the above articles are intended to ridicule the man because of his beliefs, and yet 95% of the worlds population believe that a man named Jesus Christ turned water into wine and fed 5000 people with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish.

Unless I'm very much mistaken David Icke and his beliefs haven't been the cause of war, famine, poverty and holocaust, unlike those of the majority of the world.

Jesus Christ is a multi billion pound industry, if David Icke is able to cut in on some of the action with his books and lectures, more power to him.