Friday, May 06, 2005

Icke, redux

Further to the earlier post about famous residents of the Isle of Wight. What really caught Nick G's attention (and mine) in the Wiki entry about Icke, was this:
In 1999, he published a book claiming that the world had been taken over by an Illuminati that consisted of a race of reptiles called the Babylonian Brotherhood, and that some prominent people were in fact lizards, including George Bush, Bill Clinton, the Queen Mother, and Kris Kristofferson.
Now Icke was doing fine with that list until he got to Kris Kristofferson. Kristofferson? He who wrote:
Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose,
And nothin’ ain’t worth nothin’ but it’s free,
Feelin’ good was easy, lord, when Bobby sang the blues,
And buddy, that was good enough for me,
Good enough for me and Bobby McGee.
Not Kristo. No. Surely some mistake. More likely Icke is confusing Kristo with another briefly bearded bard of that time: the tiresome lead singer of the Doors, Jim Morrison, aka the Lizard King.

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