[UA] Ex MI-5 Spy the new Messiah?

[Bastien Pilon]

The Statosphere messes with the weirdest people.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/070810/oddities/britain_spy_offbeat

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LONDON (AFP) - A renegade former British spy who was jailed after
blowing the whistle on alleged wrongdoing in the intelligence services
has claimed to have new-found powers as a mystic.

David Shayler told British cable channel More4 News that he had
visited a psychic who he believes channelled the spirit of Mary
Magdalene and anointed him as the Messiah.

"Suddenly my whole life made sense," the 41-year-old former officer
with Britain's domestic intelligence service MI5 said in an interview
broadcast Thursday evening.

"I felt a sense of peace, I suddenly realised why it had been how it
had, why I seem to get such a strange deal from the universe, when I
seem to be trying to tell the truth about everything."

Shayler told the programme his new powers included the ability to
change the weather and that he had helped prevent the attempted car
bombings in London and Glasgow in June through meditation.

He also claimed that his favourite football team, English Premiership
side Middlesbrough, won a place in the 2006 UEFA cup final against
Spanish side Seville because he had "channelled the light". Boro lost.

Shayler was released from prison in in 2002 after serving seven weeks
for breaching Britain's Official Secrets Act.

He left MI5 in 1996 and subsequently made a number of allegations,
including that Britain's overseas intelligence service, MI6, plotted
to assassinate the Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi.

He has since tried his hand as a novelist and a conspiracy theorist
about the September 11, 2001 attacks and planned to run against then
prime minister Tony Blair in the 2005 general election on an anti-Iraq
war ticket.

More4 News said his latest claims would provide ammunition for his
critics within the security service that he was a loose cannon,
comparing his comments to those of former BBC sports presenter David
Icke in 1991.

Wearing a lilac-coloured tracksuit, Icke was publicly derided after
proclaiming himself the "son of God" during a television chat show. He
believes the world is run by giant shapeshifting reptiles.

But Shayler denied the reporter's suggestion that he had "lost it".

"Do I look mentally ill? Do I sound mentally ill?... I'm absolutely
convinced, as convinced as I can be, that the universe is changing
shape, that humanity has to change, that I'm here to help teach
people," he said.

-- 
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the
forces of evil...prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom,
no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat
leaden death, demon...
 - Terry Pratchett

"It's a sad fact that there are a lot of people out there whose first
reaction to anything miraculous, wondrous and new consists of two
questions. The first is 'Can I have sex with it?', closely followed by
'Can I make money off it?'"
 - Dirk Allen