Whatever he is or isn't, David Icke has certainly made a nice wedge of cash out of peddling his theories to the credulous and the naive.
(I have in the past received bitter comments from people who think that when I call them 'credulous' and 'naive' I am actually calling them "stupid." I am not, here is the difference:
Credulity: a state of willingness to believe in one or many people or things
in the absence of reasonable proof or knowledge. Credulity is not simply belief in something that may be false. The subject of the belief
may even be correct, but a credulous person will believe it
without good evidence.
Naïveté: Ignoring the obvious or lacking the experience to determine the obvious.)
Twenty years ago Icke announced at a press conference that he was the earthly channel for the Christ spirit (lol) and that the world would end in 1997. He said that before the year was out (1991) Los Angeles would be an island, New Zealand would have disappeared, and the cliffs of Kent would be under water. It didn't happen... By 1999 everyone seemed to have forgotten all that and he had reinvented himself as a New Age conspiracy theorist making a lot of money selling his conspiracy theories.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xvp66UP7_E