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" You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology. "

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" Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound. "

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" But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan. "

" Everyone's constantly scrambling around trying to justify their own cruel behavior, trying to come up with psychological tricks to make themselves not feel bad. "

" Yeah, but in the end his followers take what they want from his philosophy. Maybe it doesn't matter what's going on in David Icke's mind. It's how other people take him. "

" I'm not what you'd call a fearless type of person. "

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