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CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
Who are the Elders?
Protocol I The Basic Doctrine
Protocol II Economic Wars
Protocol III Methods of Conquest
Protocol IV Materialism Replace Religion
Protocol V Despotism and Modern Progress
Protocol VI Take-Over Technique
Protocol VII World-Wide Wars
Protocol VIII Provisional Government
Protocol IX Re-education
Protocol X Preparing for Power
Protocol XI The Totalitarian State
Protocol XII Control of the Press
Protocol XIII Distractions
Protocol XIV Assault on Religion
Protocol XV Ruthless Suppression
Protocol XVI Brainwashing
Protocol XVII Abuse of Authority
Protocol XVIII Arrest of Opponents
Protocol XIX Rulers and People
Protocol XX Financial Programme
Protocol XXI Loans and Credit
Protocol XXII Power of Gold
Protocol XXIII Instilling Obedience
Protocol XXIV Qualities of the Ruler
PREFACE
(Translated by Victor E. Marsden)
The author of this translation of the famous Protocols was himself a victim of
the Revolution. He had lived for many years in Russia and was married to a
Russian lady. Among his other activities in Russia he had been for a number of
years a Russian Correspondent of the MORNING POST, a position which he
occupied when the Revolution broke out, and his vivid descriptions of events
in Russia will still be in the recollection of many of the readers of that Journal.
Naturally he was singled out for the anger of the Soviet.
On the day that Captain Cromie was murdered by Jews, Victor Marsden
was arrested and thrown into the Peter-Paul Prison, expecting every day to
have his name called out for execution. This, however, he escaped, and
eventually he was allowed to return to England very much of a wreck in
bodily health. However, he recovered under treatment and the devoted care
of his wife and friends. One of the first things he undertook, as soon as
he was able, was this translation of the Protocols.
Mr. Marsden was eminently well qualified for the work. His intimate
acquaintance with Russia, Russian life and the Russian language on the one
hand, and his mastery of a terse literary English style on the other, placed
him in a position of advantage which few others could claim. The consequence
is that we have in his version an eminently readable work, and though the
subject-matter is somewhat formless, Mr. Marsden's literary touch reveals the
thread running through the twenty-four Protocols. It may be said with truth
that this work was carried out at the cost of Mr. Marsden's own life's blood.
He told the writer of this Preface that he could not stand more than
an hour at a time of his work on it in the British Museum, as the diabolical spirit
of the matter which he was obliged to turn into English made him positively ill.
Mr. Marsden's connection with the MORNING POST was not severed by
his return to England, and he was well enough to accept the post of special
correspondent of that journal in the suite of H.R.H., the Prince of Wales on his
Empire tour. From this he returned with the Prince, apparently in much better
health, but within a few days of his landing he was taken suddenly ill, and died after a very brief illness.
May this work be his crowning monument! In it he has performed an
immense service to the English-speaking world, and there can be little doubt
that it will take its place in the first rank of the English versions of "THE PROTOCOLS of the Meetings of the LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION."
INTRODUCTION
Of the Protocols themselves little need be said in the way of
introduction. The book in which they are embodied was published by Sergyei
Nilus in Russia in 1905. A copy of this is in the British Museum bearing the date
of its reception, August 10, 1906. All copies that were known to exist in Russia
were destroyed in the Kerensky regime, and under his successors the
possession of a copy by anyone in Soviet land was a crime sufficient to ensure
the owner's of being shot on sight. The fact is in itself sufficient proof of the
genuineness of the Protocols. The Jewish journals, of course, say that they are
a forgery, leaving it to be understood that Professor Nilus, who embodied them
in a work of his own, had concocted them for his own purposes.
Mr. Henry Ford, in an interview published in the New York WORLD,
February 17th, 1921, put the case for Nilus tersely and convincingly thus:
"The only statement I care to make about the PROTOCOLS is that they fit in
with what is going on. They are sixteen years old, and they have fitted the
world situation up to this time. THEY FIT IT NOW." Indeed they do!
The word "Protocol" signifies a precis gummed on to the front of a
document, a draft of a document, minutes of proceedings. In this instance,
"Protocol" means minutes of the proceedings of the Meetings of the Learned
Elders of Zion. These Protocols give the substance of addresses delivered to
the innermost circle of the Rulers of Zion. They reveal the converted plan of
action of the Jewish Nation developed through the ages and edited by the
Elders themselves up to date. Parts and summaries of the plan have been
published from time to time during the centuries as the secrets of the Elders
have leaked out.
The claim of the Jews that the Protocols are forgeries is in itself an
admission of their genuineness, for they NEVER ATTEMPT TO ANSWER THE
FACTS corresponding to the THREATS which the Protocols contain, and,
indeed, the correspondence between prophecy and fulfilment is too glaring to
be set aside or obscured. This the Jews well know and therefore evade.
The presumption is strong that the Protocols were issued, or reissued,
at the First Zionist Congress held at Basle in 1897 under the presidency of the
Father of Modern Zionism, the late Theodore Herzl. There has been recently
published a volume of Herzl's "Diaries," a translation of some passages which
appeared in the JEWISH CHRONICLE of July 14, 1922.
Herzl gives an account of his first visit to England in 1895, and his
conversation with Colonel Goldsmid, a Jew brought up as a Christian, an
officer in the English Army, and at heart a Jew Nationalist all the time. Goldsmid
suggested to Herzl that the best way of expropriating the English aristocracy,
and so destroying their power to protect the people of England against Jew
domination, was to put excessive taxes on the land. Herzl thought this an
excellent idea, and it is now to be found definitely embodied in Protocol VI!
The above extract from Herzl's DIARY is an extremely significant bit
of evidence bearing on the existence of the Jew World Plot and authenticity
of the Protocols, but any reader of intelligence will be able from his own
knowledge of recent history and from his own experience to confirm the
genuineness of every line of them, and it is in the light of this LIVING comment
that all readers are invited to study Mr. Marsden's translation of this terribly
inhuman document. And here is another very significant circumstance.
The present successor of Herzl, as leader of the Zionist movement,
Dr.Weizmann, quoted one of these sayings at the send-off banquet given to
Chief Rabbi Hertz on October 6, 1920. The Chief Rabbi was on the point of
leaving for HIS Empire tour of H.R.H., the Prince of Wales. And this is the
"saying" of the Sages which Dr. Weizmann quoted: "A beneficent protection
which God has instituted in the life of the Jew is that He has dispersed him all
over the world." (JEWISH GUARDIAN, Oct. 8, 1920.) Now compare this with the
last clause of but one of Protocol XI. "God has granted to us, His Chosen
People, the gift of dispersion, and from this, which appears to all eyes to be
our weakness, has come forth all our strength, which has now brought us to
the threshold of sovereignty over all the world."
The remarkable correspondence between these passages proves several
things. It proves that the Learned Elders exist. It proves that Dr. Weizmann
knows all about them. It proves that the desire for a "National Home" in
Palestine is only camouflage and an infinitesimal part of the Jew's real object.
It proves that the Jews of the world have no intention of settling in Palestine
or any separate country, and that their annual prayer that they may all meet
"Next Year in Jerusalem" is merely a piece of their characteristic make-believe.
It also demonstrates that the Jews are now a world menace, and that the
Aryan races will have to domicile them permanently out of Europe.
WHO ARE THE ELDERS?
This is a secret which has not been revealed. They are the Hidden hand.
They are not the "Board of Deputies" (the Jewish Parliament in England) or the
"Universal Israelite Alliance" which sits in Paris. But the late Walter Rathenau of
the Allgemeiner Electricitaets Gesellschaft has thrown a little light on the
subject and doubtless he was in possession of their names, being, in all
likelihood, one of the chief leaders himself. Writing in the WIENER FREIE PRESSE,
December 24, 1912, he said: "Three hundred men, each of whom knows all the
others, govern the fate of the European continent, and they elect their
successors from their entourage."
In the year 1844, on the eve of the Jewish Revolution of 1848,
Benjamin Disraeli, whose real name was Israel, and who was a "damped," or
baptized Jew, published his novel, CONINGSBY, in which occurs this ominous
passage: "The world is governed by very different personages from what is
imagined by those who are not behind the scenes." And he went on to show
that these personages were all Jews.
Now that Providence has brought to the light of day these secret
Protocols all men may clearly see the hidden personages specified by Disraeli at
work "behind the scenes" of all the Governments. This revelation entails on all
white peoples the grave responsibility of examining and revising AU FOND their
attitude towards the Race and Nation which boasts of its survival over all
Empires.
Notes I. - "Agentur" and "The Political." There are two words in this
translation which are unusual, the word "AGENTUR" and "political" used as
a substantive, AGENTUR appears to be a word adopted from the original and
it means the whole body of agents and agencies made use of by the Elders,
whether members of the tribe or their Gentile tools. By "the Political"
Mr. Marsden means, not exactly the "body politic" but the entire machinery of
politics.
Notes II - The Symbolic Snake of Judaism. Protocol III opens with a
reference to the Symbolic Snake of Judaism. In his Epilogue to the 1905
Edition of the Protocols, Nilus gives the following interesting account of this
symbol: "According to the records of secret Jewish Zionism, Solomon and other
Jewish learned men already, in 929 B.C., thought out a scheme in theory for a
peaceful conquest of the whole universe by Zion.
As history developed, this scheme was worked out in detail and
completed by men who were subsequently initiated in this question. These
learned men decided by peaceful means to conquer the world for Zion with the
slyness of the Symbolic Snake, whose head was to represent those who have
been initiated into the plans of the Jewish administration, and the body of the
Snake to represent the Jewish people - the administration was always kept
secret, EVEN FROM THE JEWISH NATION ITSELF. As this Snake penetrated into
the hearts of the nations which it encountered it undermined and devoured all
the non-Jewish power of these States.
It is foretold that the Snake has still to finish its work, strictly adhering
to the designed plan, until the course which it has to run is closed by the return
of its head to Zion and until, by this means, the Snake has completed its round
of Europe and has encircled it - and until, by dint of enchaining Europe, it has
encompassed the whole world. This it is to accomplish by using every endeavor
to subdue the other countries by an ECONOMICAL CONQUEST
. The return of the head of the Snake to Zion can only be accomplished
after the power of all the Sovereign of Europe has been laid low, that is to say,
when by means of economic crises and wholesale destruction effected
everywhere, there shall have been brought about a spiritual demoralization and
a moral corruption, chiefly with the assistance of Jewish women masquerading
as French, Italians, etc.. These are the surest spreaders of licentiousness into
the lives of the leading men at the heads of nations.
A map of the course of the Symbolic Snake is shown as follows: - Its
first stage in Europe was in 429 B.C. in Greece, where, about the time of
Pericles, the Snake first started eating into the power of that country. The
second stage was in Rome in the time of Augustus, about 69 B.C.. The third in
Madrid in the time of Charles V, in A.D. 1552. The fourth in Paris about 1790, in
the time of Louis XVI. The fifth in London from 1814 onwards (after the downfall
of Napoleon). The sixth in Berlin in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian war. The
seventh in St. Petersburg, over which is drawn the head of the Snake under
the date of 1881. [This "Snake" is now being drawn through the Americas and
in the United States of America, it is been partially identified as the "Counsel
on Foreign Relations" (C.F.R.) and the "Tri-Lateral Commission"].
All these States which the Snake traversed have had the foundations
of their constitutions shaken, Germany, with its apparent power, forming no
exception to the rule. In economic conditions, England and Germany are spared, but only till the conquest of Russia is accomplished by the Snake, on which at
present [i.e., 1905] all its efforts are concentrated. The further course of the
Snake is not shown on this map, but arrows indicate its next movement towards
Moscow, Kieft and Odessa. It is now well known to us to what extent the latter
cities form the centuries of the militant Jewish race. Constantinople is shown as
the last stage of the Snake's course before it reaches Jerusalem. (This map was
drawn years before the occurrence of the "Young Turk" - i.e., Jewish Revolution
in Turkey). den.
Notes III. - The term "Goyim," meaning Gentile or non-Jews, is used
throughout the Protocols and is retained by Mr. Marsden.
Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion
PROTOCOL No. 1
1. ....Putting aside fine phrases we shall speak of the significance of
each thought: by comparisons and deductions we shall throw light upon
surrounding facts.
2. What I am about to set forth, then, is our system from the two
points of view, that of ourselves and that of the GOYIM [i.e., non- Jews].
3. It must be noted that men with bad instincts are more in number
than the good, and therefore the best results in governing them are attained by
violence and terrorisation, and not by academic discussions. Every man aims at
power, everyone would like to become a dictator if only he could, and rare
indeed are the men who would not be willing to sacrifice the welfare of all for
the sake of securing their own welfare.
4. What has restrained the beasts of prey who are called men? What
has served for their guidance hitherto?
5. In the beginnings of the structure of society, they were subjected
to brutal and blind force; after words - to Law, which is the same force, only
disguised. I draw the conclusion that by the law of nature right lies in force.
6. Political freedom is an idea but not a fact. This idea one must know
how to apply whenever it appears necessary with this bait of an idea to attract
the masses of the people to one's party for the purpose of crushing another
who is in authority. This task is rendered easier of the opponent has himself
been infected with the idea of freedom, SO-CALLED LIBERALISM, and, for the
sake of an idea, is willing to yield some of his power. It is precisely here that
the triumph of our theory appears; the slackened reins of government are
immediately, by the law of life, caught up and gathered together by a new
hand, because the blind might of the nation cannot for one single day exist
without guidance, and the new authority merely fits into the place of the old
already weakened by liberalism.
GOLD
7. In our day the power which has replaced that of the rulers who were
liberal is the power of Gold. Time was when Faith ruled. The idea of freedom is
impossible of realization because no one knows how to use it with moderation.
It is enough to hand over a people to self-government for a certain length of
time for that people to be turned into a disorganized mob. From that moment on
we get internecine strife which soon develops into battles between classes, in
the midst of which States burn down and their importance is reduced to that of
a heap of ashes.
8. Whether a State exhausts itself in its own convulsions, whether its
internal discord brings it under the power of external foes - in any case it can
be accounted irretrievable lost: IT IS IN OUR POWER. The despotism of Capital,
which is entirely in our hands, reaches out to it a straw that the State,
willy-nilly, must take hold of: if not - it goes to the bottom.
9. Should anyone of a liberal mind say that such reflections as the
above are immoral, I would put the following questions: If every State has two
foes and if in regard to the external foe it is allowed and not considered immoral
to use every manner and art of conflict, as for example to keep the enemy in
ignorance of plans of attack and defense, to attack him by night or in superior
numbers, then in what way can the same means in regard to a worse foe, the
destroyer of the structure of society and the commonweal, be called immoral
and not permissible?
10. Is it possible for any sound logical mind to hope with any success
to guide crowds by the aid of reasonable counsels and arguments, when any
objection or contradiction, senseless though it may be, can be made and when
such objection may find more favor with the people, whose powers of reasoning
are superficial? Men in masses and the men of the masses, being guided solely
by petty passions, paltry beliefs, traditions and sentimental theorems, fall a
prey to party dissension, which hinders any kind of agreement even on the
basis of a perfectly reasonable argument. Every resolution of a crowd depends
upon a chance or packed majority, which, in its ignorance of political secrets,
puts forth some ridiculous resolution that lays in the administration a seed of
anarchy.
11. The political has nothing in common with the moral. The ruler who
is governed by the moral is not a skilled politician, and is therefore unstable on
his throne. He who wishes to rule must have recourse both to cunning and to
make-believe. Great national qualities, like frankness and honesty, are vices in
politics, for they bring down rulers from their thrones more effectively and more
certainly than the most powerful enemy. Such qualities must be the attributes
of the kingdoms of the GOYIM, but we must in no wise be guided by them.
RIGHT IS MIGHT
12. Our right lies in force. The word "right" is an abstract thought and
proved by nothing. The word means no more than: Give me what I want in
order that thereby I may have a proof that I am stronger than you.
13. Where does right begin? Where does it end?
14. In any State in which there is a bad organization of authority, an
impersonality of laws and of the rulers who have lost their personality amid the
flood of rights ever multiplying out of liberalism, I find a new right - to attack
by the right of the strong, and to scatter to the winds all existing forces of
order and regulation, to reconstruct all institutions and to become the
sovereign lord of those who have left to us the rights of their power by laying
them down voluntarily in their liberalism.
15. Our power in the present tottering condition of all forms of power
will be more invincible than any other, because it will remain invisible until the
moment when it has gained such strength that no cunning can any longer
undermine it.
16. Out of the temporary evil we are now compelled to commit will
emerge the good of an unshakable rule, which will restore the regular course
of the machinery of the national life, brought to naught by liberalism. The result
justifies the means. Let us, however, in our plans, direct our attention not so
much to what is good and moral as to what is necessary and useful.
17. Before us is a plan in which is laid down strategically the line from
which we cannot deviate without running the risk of seeing the labor of many
centuries brought to naught.
18. In order to elaborate satisfactory forms of action it is necessary
to have regard to the rascality, the slackness, the instability of the mob, its
lack of capacity to understand and respect the conditions of its own life, or its
own welfare. It must be understood that the might of a mob is blind, senseless
and unreasoning force ever at the mercy of a suggestion from any side. The
blind cannot lead the blind without bringing them into the abyss; consequently,
members of the mob, upstarts from the people even though they should be as
a genius for wisdom, yet having no understanding of the political, cannot come
forward as leaders of the mob without bringing the whole nation to ruin.
19. Only one trained from childhood for independent rule can have
understanding of the words that can be made up of the political alphabet.
20. A people left to itself, i.e., to upstarts from its midst, brings itself
to ruin by party dissensions excited by the pursuit of power and honors and the
disorders arising therefrom. Is it possible for the masses of the people calmly
and without petty jealousies to form judgment, to deal with the affairs of the
country, which cannot be mixed up with personal interest? Can they defend
themselves from an external foe? It is unthinkable; for a plan broken up into as
many parts as there are heads in the mob, loses all homogeneity, and thereby
becomes unintelligible and impossible of execution.
WE ARE DESPOTS
21. It is only with a despotic ruler that plans can be elaborated
extensively and clearly in such a way as to distribute the whole properly among
the several parts of the machinery of the State: from this the conclusion is
inevitable that a satisfactory form of government for any country is one that
concentrates in the hands of one responsible person. Without an absolute
despotism there can be no existence for civilization which is carried on not by
the masses but by their guide, whosoever that person may be. The mob is
savage, and displays its savagery at every opportunity. The moment the mob
seizes freedom in its hands it quickly turns to anarchy, which in itself is the
highest degree of savagery.
22. Behold the alcoholic animals, bemused with drink, the right to an
immoderate use of which comes along with freedom. It is not for us and ours to
walk that road. The peoples of the GOYIM are bemused with alcoholic liquors;
their youth has grown stupid on classicism and from early immorality, into which
it has been inducted by our special agents - by tutors, lackeys, governesses in
the houses of the wealthy, by clerks and others, by our women in the places of
dissipation frequented by the GOYIM. In the number of these last I count also
the so-called "society ladies," voluntary followers of the others in corruption
and luxury.
23. Our countersign is - Force and Make-believe. Only force conquers
in political affairs, especially if it be concealed in the talents essential to
statesmen. Violence must be the principle, and cunning and make-believe the
rule for governments which do not want to lay down their crowns at the feet
of agents of some new power. This evil is the one and only means to attain the
end, the good. Therefore we must not stop at bribery, deceit and treachery
when they should serve towards the attainment of our end. In politics one must
know how to seize the property of others without hesitation if by it we secure
submission and sovereignty.
24. Our State, marching along the path of peaceful conquest, has the
right to replace the horrors of war by less noticeable and more satisfactory
sentences of death, necessary to maintain the terror which tends to produce
blind submission. Just but merciless severity is the greatest factor of strength
in the State: not only for the sake of gain but also in the name of duty, for the
sake of victory, we must keep to the programme of violence and make-believe.
The doctrine of squaring accounts is precisely as strong as the means of which
it makes use. Therefore it is not so much by the means themselves as by the
doctrine of severity that we shall triumph and bring all governments into
subjection to our super-government. It is enough for them to know that we are
too merciless for all disobedience to cease.
WE SHALL END LIBERTY
25. Far back in ancient times we were the first to cry among the masses
of the people the words "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," words many times
repeated since these days by stupid poll- parrots who, from all sides around,
flew down upon these baits and with them carried away the well-being of the
world, true freedom of the individual, formerly so well guarded against the
pressure of the mob. The would-be wise men of the GOYIM, the intellectuals,
could not make anything out of the uttered words in their abstractedness; did
not see that in nature there is no equality, cannot be freedom: that Nature
herself has established inequality of minds, of characters, and capacities, just
as immutably as she has established subordination to her laws: never stopped
to think that the mob is a blind thing, that upstarts elected from among it to
bear rule are, in regard to the political, the same blind men as the mob itself,
that the adept, though he be a fool, can yet rule, whereas the non-adept,
even if he were a genius, understands nothing in the political - to all those
things the GOYIM paid no regard; yet all the time it was based upon these
things that dynastic rule rested: the father passed on to the son a knowledge
of the course of political affairs in such wise that none should know it but
members of the dynasty and none could betray it to the governed. As time
went on, the meaning of the dynastic transference of the true position of
affairs in the political was lost, and this aided the success of our cause.
26. In all corners of the earth the words "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," brought to our ranks, thanks to our blind agents, whole legions who bore our
banners with enthusiasm. And all the time these words were canker-worms at
work boring into the well-being of the GOYIM, putting an end everywhere to
peace, quiet, solidarity and destroying all the foundations of the GOYA States.
As you will see later, this helped us to our triumph: it gave us the possibility,
among other things, of getting into our hands the master card - the destruction
of the privileges, or in other words of the very existence of the aristocracy of
the GOYIM, that class which was the only defense peoples and countries had
against us. On the ruins of the eternal and genealogical aristocracy of the
GOYIM we have set up the aristocracy of our educated class headed by the
aristocracy of money. The qualifications for this aristocracy we have
established in wealth, which is dependent upon us, and in knowledge, for which
our learned elders provide the motive force.
27. Our triumph has been rendered easier by the fact that in our
relations with the men, whom we wanted, we have always worked upon the
most sensitive chords of the human mind, upon the cash account, upon the
cupidity, upon the insatiability for material needs of man; and each one of these
human weaknesses, taken alone, is sufficient to paralyze initiative, for it hands
over the will of men to the disposition of him who has bought their activities.
28. The abstraction of freedom has enabled us to persuade the mob in all
countries that their government is nothing but the steward of the people who
are the owners of the country, and that the steward may be replaced like a
worn-out glove.
29. It is this possibility of replacing the representatives of the people
which has placed at our disposal, and, as it were, given us the power of
appointment.
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PROTOCOL No. 2
1. It is indispensable for our purpose that wars, so far as possible,
should not result in territorial gains: war will thus be brought on to the
economic ground, where the nations will not fail to perceive in the assistance
we give the strength of our predominance, and this state of things will put both
sides at the mercy of our international AGENTUR; which possesses millions of
eyes ever on the watch and unhampered by any limitations whatsoever. Our
international rights will then wipe out national rights, in the proper sense of
right, and will rule the nations precisely as the civil law of States rules the
relations of their subjects among themselves.
2. The administrators, whom we shall choose from among the public,
with strict regard to their capacities for servile obedience, will not be persons
trained in the arts of government, and will therefore easily become pawns in our
game in the hands of men of learning and genius who will be their advisers,
specialists bred and reared from early childhood to rule the affairs of the whole
world. As is well known to you, these specialists of ours have been drawing to
fit them for rule the information they need from our political plans from the
lessons of history, from observations made of the events of every moment as
it passes. The GOYIM are not guided by practical use of unprejudiced historical
observation, but by theoretical routine without any critical regard for
consequent results. We need not, therefore, take any account of them - let
them amuse themselves until the hour strikes, or live on hopes of new forms of
enterprising pastime, or on the memories of all they have enjoyed. For them let
that play the principal part which we have persuaded them to accept as the
dictates of science (theory). It is with this object in view that we are
constantly, by means of our press, arousing a blind confidence in these
theories. The intellectuals of the GOYIM will puff themselves up with their
knowledge and without any logical verification of them will put into effect all
the information available from science, which our AGENTUR specialists have
cunningly pieced together for the purpose of educating their minds in the
direction we want.
DESTRUCTIVE EDUCATION
3. Do not suppose for a moment that these statements are empty
words: think carefully of the successes we arranged for Darwinism, Marxism,
Nietzsche-ism. To us Jews, at any rate, it should be plain to see what a
disintegrating importance these directives have had upon the minds of the
GOYIM.
4. It is indispensable for us to take account of the thoughts,characters,
tendencies of the nations in order to avoid making slips in the political and in
the direction of administrative affairs. The triumph of our system of which the
component parts of the machinery may be variously disposed according to the
temperament of the peoples met on our way, will fail of success if the practical
application of it be not based upon a summing up of the lessons of the past in the light of the present.
5. In the hands of the States of to-day there is a great force that
creates the movement of thought in the people, and that is the Press. The
part played by the Press is to keep pointing our requirements supposed to be
indispensable, to give voice to the complaints of the people, to express and to
create discontent. It is in the Press that the triumph of freedom of speech finds
its incarnation. But the GOYIM States have not known how to make use of this
force; and it has fallen into our hands. Through the Press we have gained the
power to influence while remaining ourselves in the shade; thanks to the Press
we have got the GOLD in our hands, notwithstanding that we have had to
gather it out of the oceans of blood and tears. But it has paid us, though we
have sacrificed many of our people. Each victim on our side is worth in the
sight of God a thousand GOYIM.
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PROTOCOL No. 3
1. To-day I may tell you that our goal is now only a few steps off.
There remains a small space to cross and the whole long path we have
trodden is ready now to close its cycle of the Symbolic Snake, by which we
symbolize our people. When this ring closes, all the States of Europe will be
locked in its coil as in a powerful vice.
2. The constitution scales of these days will shortly break down, for
we have established them with a certain lack of accurate balance in order that
they may oscillate incessantly until they wear through the pivot on which they
turn. The GOYIM are under the impression that they have welded them
sufficiently strong and they have all along kept on expecting that the scales
would come into equilibrium. But the pivots - the kings on their thrones - are
hemmed in by their representatives, who play the fool, distraught with their
own uncontrolled and irresponsible power. This power they owe to the terror
which has been breathed into the palaces. As they have no means of getting
at their people, into their very midst, the kings on their thrones are no longer
able to come to terms with them and so strengthen themselves against seekers
after power. We have made a gulf between the far-seeing Sovereign Power and
the blind force of the people so that both have lost all meaning, for like the
blind man and his stick, both are powerless apart.
3. In order to incite seekers after power to a misuse of power we have
set all forces in opposition one to another, breaking up their liberal tendencies
towards independence. To this end we have stirred up every form of enterprise,
we have armed all parties, we have set up authority as a target for every
ambition. Of States we have made gladiatorial arenas where a lot of confused
issues contend .... A little more, and disorders and bankruptcy will be
universal ....
4. Babblers, inexhaustible, have turned into oratorical contests the
sittings of Parliament and Administrative Boards. Bold journalists and
unscrupulous pamphleteers daily fall upon executive officials. Abuses of power
will put the final touch in preparing all institutions for their overthrow and
everything will fly skyward under the blows of the maddened mob.
POVERTY OUR WEAPON
5. All people are chained down to heavy toil by poverty more firmly
than ever. They were chained by slavery and serfdom; from these, one way
and another, they might free themselves. These could be settled with, but
from want they will never get away. We have included in the constitution
such rights as to the masses appear fictitious and not actual rights. All these
so-called "Peoples Rights" can exist only in idea, an idea which can never be
realized in practical life. What is it to the proletariat laborer, bowed double over
his heavy toil, crushed by his lot in life, if talkers get the right to babble, if
journalists get the right to scribble any nonsense side by side with good stuff,
once the proletariat has no other profit out of the constitution save only those
pitiful crumbs which we fling them from our table in return for their voting in
favor of what we dictate, in favor of the men we place in power, the servants
of our AGENTUR ... Republican rights for a poor man are no more than a bitter
piece of irony, for the necessity he is under of toiling almost all day gives him
no present use of them, but the other hand robs him of all guarantee of regular
and certain earnings by making him dependent on strikes by his comrades or lockouts by his masters.
WE SUPPORT COMMUNISM
6. The people, under our guidance, have annihilated the aristocracy,
who were their one and only defense and foster- mother for the sake of their
own advantage which is inseparably bound up with the well-being of the people.
Nowadays, with the destruction of the aristocracy, the people have fallen into
the grips of merciless money-grinding scoundrels who have laid a pitiless and
cruel yoke upon the necks of the workers.
7. We appear on the scene as alleged saviours of the worker from this
oppression when we propose to him to enter the ranks of our fighting
forces - Socialists, Anarchists, Communists - to whom we always give support
in accordance with an alleged brotherly rule (of the solidarity of all humanity)
of our SOCIAL MASONRY. The aristocracy, which enjoyed by law the labor of
the workers, was interested in seeing that the workers were well fed, healthy,
and strong. We are interested in just the opposite - in the diminution, the
KILLING OUT OF THE GOYIM. Our power is in the chronic shortness of food and
physical weakness of the worker because by all that this implies he is made the
slave of our will, and he will not find in his own authorities either strength or
energy to set against our will. Hunger creates the right of capital to rule the
worker more surely than it was given to the aristocracy by the legal authority
of kings.
8. By want and the envy and hatred which it engenders we shall move
the mobs and with their hands we shall wipe out all those who hinder us on
our way.
9. WHEN THE HOUR STRIKES FOR OUR SOVEREIGN LORD OF ALL THE
WORLD TO BE CROWNED IT IS THESE SAME HANDS WHICH WILL SWEEP AWAY
EVERYTHING THAT MIGHT BE A HINDRANCE THERETO.
10. The GOYIM have lost the habit of thinking unless prompted by the
suggestions of our specialists. Therefore they do not see the urgent necessity
of what we, when our kingdom comes, shall adopt at once, namely this, that IT
IS ESSENTIAL TO TEACH IN NATIONAL SCHOOLS ONE SIMPLE, TRUE PIECE OF
KNOWLEDGE, THE BASIS OF ALL KNOWLEDGE - THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE
STRUCTURE OF HUMAN LIFE, OF SOCIAL EXISTENCE, WHICH REQUIRES
DIVISION OF LABOR, AND, CONSEQUENTLY, THE DIVISION OF MEN INTO
CLASSES AND CONDITIONS.
It is essential for all to know that OWING TO DIFFERENCE IN THE OBJECTS
OF HUMAN ACTIVITY THERE CANNOT BE ANY EQUALITY, that he, who by any act of his compromises a whole class, cannot be equally responsible before the
law with him who affects no one but only his own honor. The true knowledge
of the structure of society, into the secrets of which we do not admit the
GOYIM, would demonstrate to all men that the positions and work must be
kept within a certain circle, that they may not become a source of human
suffering, arising from an education which does not correspond with the work
which individuals are called upon to do. After a thorough study of this
knowledge, the peoples will voluntarily submit to authority and accept such
position as is appointed them in the State. In the present state of knowledge
and the direction we have given to its development of the people, blindly
believing things in print - cherishes - thanks to promptings intended to mislead
and to its own ignorance - a blind hatred towards all conditions which it
considers above itself, for it has no understanding of the meaning of class and condition.
JEWS WILL BE SAFE
11. THIS HATRED WILL BE STILL FURTHER MAGNIFIED BY THE EFFECTS
of an ECONOMIC CRISES, which will stop dealing on the exchanges and bring
industry to a standstill. We shall create by all the secret subterranean methods
open to us and with the aid of gold, which is all in our hands, A UNIVERSAL
ECONOMIC CRISES WHEREBY WE SHALL THROW UPON THE STREETS WHOLE
MOBS OF WORKERS SIMULTANEOUSLY IN ALL THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE.
These mobs will rush delightedly to shed the blood of those whom, in the
simplicity of their ignorance, they have envied from their cradles, and whose
property they will then be able to loot.
12 "OURS" THEY WILL NOT TOUCH, BECAUSE THE MOMENT OF ATTACK
WILL BE KNOWN TO US AND WE SHALL TAKE MEASURES TO PROTECT OUR OWN.
13. We have demonstrated that progress will bring all the GOYIM to the
sovereignty of reason. Our despotism will be precisely that; for it will know how,
by wise severities, to pacificate all unrest, to cauterize liberalism out of all
institutions.
14. When the populace has seen that all sorts of concessions and
indulgences are yielded it, in the same name of freedom it has imagined itself to
be sovereign lord and has stormed its way to power, but, naturally like every
other blind man, it has come upon a host of stumbling blocks. IT HAS RUSHED
TO FIND A GUIDE, IT HAS NEVER HAD THE SENSE TO RETURN TO THE FORMER
STATE and it has laid down its plenipotentiary powers at OUR feet. Remember
the French Revolution, to which it was we who gave the name of "Great": the
secrets of its preparations are well known to us for it was wholly the work of
our hands.
15. Ever since that time we have been leading the peoples from one
disenchantment to another, so that in the end they should turn also from us in
favor of that KING-DESPOT OF THE BLOOD OF ZION, WHOM WE ARE PREPARING
FOR THE WORLD.
16. At the present day we are, as an international force, invincible,
because if attacked by some we are supported by other States. It is the
bottomless rascality of the GOYIM peoples, who crawl on their bellies to force,
but are merciless towards weakness, unsparing to faults and indulgent to
crimes, unwilling to bear the contradictions of a free social system but patient
unto martyrdom under the violence of a bold despotism - it is those qualities
which are aiding us to independence. From the premier- dictators of the
present day, the GOYIM peoples suffer patiently and bear such abuses as for
the least of them they would have beheaded twenty kings.
17. What is the explanation of this phenomenon, this curious
inconsequence of the masses of the peoples in their attitude towards what
would appear to be events of the same order?
18. It is explained by the fact that these dictators whisper to the
peoples through their agents that through these abuses they are inflicting
injury on the States with the highest purpose - to secure the welfare of the
peoples, the international brotherhood of them all, their solidarity and equality
of rights. Naturally they do not tell the peoples that this unification must be
accomplished only under our sovereign rule.
19. And thus the people condemn the upright and acquit the guilty,
persuaded ever more and more that it can do whatsoever it wishes. Thanks
to this state of things, the people are destroying every kind of stability and
creating disorders at every step.
20. The word "freedom" brings out the communities of men to fight
against every kind of force, against every kind of authority even against God
and the laws of nature. For this reason we, when we come into our kingdom,
shall have to erase this word from the lexicon of life as implying a principle of
brute force which turns mobs into bloodthirsty beasts.
21. These beasts, it is true, fall asleep again every time when they
have drunk their fill of blood, and at such time can easily be riveted into their
chains. But if they be not given blood they will not sleep and continue to struggle
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PROTOCOL No. 4
1. Every republic passes through several stages. The first of these is
comprised in the early days of mad raging by the blind mob, tossed hither and
thither, right and left: the second is demagogy from which is born anarchy, and
that leads inevitably to despotism - not any longer legal and overt, and
therefore responsible despotism, but to unseen and secretly hidden, yet
nevertheless sensibly felt despotism in the hands of some secret organization
or other, whose acts are the more unscrupulous inasmuch as it works behind a
screen, behind the backs of all sorts of agents, the changing of whom not only
does not injuriously affect but actually aids the secret force by saving it,
thanks to continual changes, from the necessity of expanding its resources on
the rewarding of long services.
2. Who and what is in a position to overthrow an invisible force? And
this is precisely what our force is. GENTILE masonry blindly serves as a screen
for us and our objects, but the plan of action of our force, even its very
abiding-place, remains for the whole people an unknown mystery.
WE SHALL DESTROY GOD
3. But even freedom might be harmless and have its place in the State
economy without injury to the well-being of the peoples if it rested upon the
foundation of faith in God, upon the brotherhood of humanity, unconnected
with the conception of equality, which is negatived by the very laws of
creation, for they have established subordination. With such a faith as this a
people might be governed by a wardship of parishes, and would walk
contentedly and humbly under the guiding hand of its spiritual pastor submitting
to the dispositions of God upon earth. This is the reason why IT IS
INDISPENSABLE FOR US TO UNDERMINE ALL FAITH, TO TEAR OUT OF THE MIND
OF THE "GOYIM" THE VERY PRINCIPLE OF GOD-HEAD AND THE SPIRIT, AND TO
PUT IN ITS PLACE ARITHMETICAL CALCULATIONS AND MATERIAL NEEDS.
4. In order to give the GOYIM no time to think and take note, their
minds must be diverted towards industry and trade. Thus, all the nations will
be swallowed up in the pursuit of gain and in the race for it will not take note
of their common foe. But again, in order that freedom may once for all disintegrate and ruin the communities of the GOYIM, we must put industry on a
speculative basis: the result of this will be that what is withdrawn from the land
by industry will slip through the hands and pass into speculation, that is, to
our classes.
5. The intensified struggle for superiority and shocks delivered to
economic life will create, nay, have already created, disenchanted, cold and
heartless communities. Such communities will foster a strong aversion towards
the higher political and towards religion. Their only guide is gain, that is Gold,
which they will erect into a veritable cult, for the sake of those material delights
which it can give. Then will the hour strike when, not for the sake of attaining
the good, not even to win wealth, but solely out of hatred towards the
privileged, the lower classes of the GOYIM will follow our lead against our rivals
for power, the intellectuals of the GOYIM.
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PROTOCOL No. 5
1. What form of administrative rule can be given to communities in
which corruption has penetrated everywhere, communities where riches are
attained only by the clever surprise tactics of semi-swindling tricks; where
looseness reigns: where morality is maintained by penal measures and harsh
laws but not by voluntarily accepted principles: where the feelings towards
faith and country are obligated by cosmopolitan convictions? What form of rule
is to be given to these communities if not that despotism which I shall describe
to you later? We shall create an intensified centralization of government in
order to grip in our hands all the forces of the community. We shall regulate
mechanically all the actions of the political life of our subjects by new laws.
These laws will withdraw one by one all the indulgences and liberties which have been permitted by the GOYIM, and our kingdom will be distinguished by a
despotism of such magnificent proportions as to be at any moment and in
every place in a position to wipe out any GOYIM who oppose us by deed or
word.
2. We shall be told that such a despotism as I speak of is not
consistent with the progress of these days, but I will prove to you that it is.
3. In the times when the peoples looked upon kings on their thrones as
on a pure manifestation of the will of God, they submitted without a murmur to
the despotic power of kings: but from the day when we insinuated into their
minds the conception of their own rights they began to regard the occupants
of thrones as mere ordinary mortals. The holy unction of the Lord's Anointed
has fallen from the heads of kings in the eyes of the people, and when we also
robbed them of their faith in God the might of power was flung upon the streets
into the place of public proprietorship and was seized by us.
MASSES LED BY LIES
4. Moreover, the art of directing masses and individuals by means of
cleverly manipulated theory and verbitage, by regulations of life in common and
all sorts of other quirks, in all which the GOYIM understand nothing, belongs
likewise to the specialists of our administrative brain. Reared on analysis,
observation, on delicacies of fine calculation, in this species of skill we have
no rivals, any more than we have either in the drawing up of plans of political
actions and solidarity. In this respect the Jesuits alone might have compared
with us, but we have contrived to discredit them in the eyes of the unthinking
mob as an overt organization, while we ourselves all the while have kept our
secret organization in the shade. However, it is probably all the same to the
world who is its sovereign lord, whether the head of Catholicism or our despot
of the blood of Zion! But to us, the Chosen People, it is very far from being a
matter of indifference.
5. FOR A TIME PERHAPS WE MIGHT BE SUCCESSFULLY DEALT WITH BY
A COALITION OF THE "GOYIM" OF ALL THE WORLD: but from this danger we are
secured by the discord existing among them whose roots are so deeply seated
that they can never now be plucked up. We have set one against another the
personal and national reckonings of the GOYIM, religious and race hatreds,
which we have fostered into a huge growth in the course of the past twenty
centuries. This is the reason why there is not one State which would anywhere
receive support if it were to raise its arm, for every one of them must bear in
mind that any agreement against us would be unprofitable to itself. We are too
strong - there is no evading our power. THE NATIONS CANNOT COME TO EVEN
AN INCONSIDERABLE PRIVATE AGREEMENT WITHOUT OUR SECRETLY HAVING A
HAND IN IT.
6. PER ME REGES REGNANT. "It is through me that Kings reign." And it
was said by the prophets that we were chosen by God Himself to rule over
the whole earth. God has endowed us with genius that we may be equal to
our task. Were genius in the opposite camp it would still struggle against us,
but even so, a newcomer is no match for the old-established settler: the
struggle would be merciless between us, such a fight as the world has never
seen. Aye, and the genius on their side would have arrived too late. All the
wheels of the machinery of all States go by the force of the engine, which is
in our hands, and that engine of the machinery of States is - Gold. The
science of political economy invented by our learned elders has for long past
been giving royal prestige to capital.
MONOPOLY CAPITAL
7. Capital, if it is to co-operate untrammeled, must be free to establish
a monopoly of industry and trade: this is already being put in execution by an
unseen hand in all quarters of the world. This freedom will give political force
to those engaged in industry, and that will help to oppress the people.
Nowadays it is more important to disarm the peoples than to lead them into
war: more important to use for our advantage the passions which have burst
into flames than to quench their fire: more important to eradicate them. THE
PRINCIPLE OBJECT OF OUR DIRECTORATE CONSISTS IN THIS: TO DEBILITATE
THE PUBLIC MIND BY CRITICISM; TO LEAD IT AWAY FROM SERIOUS
REFLECTIONS CALCULATED TO AROUSE RESISTANCE; TO DISTRACT THE
FORCES OF THE MIND TOWARDS A SHAM FIGHT OF EMPTY CLOQUENCE.
8. In all ages the people of the world, equally with individuals, have
accepted words for deeds, for THEY ARE CONTENT WITH A SHOW and rarely
pause to note, in the public arena, whether promises are followed by
performance. Therefore we shall establish show institutions which will give
eloquent proof of their benefit to progress.
9. We shall assume to ourselves the liberal physiognomy of all parties,
of all directions, and we shall give that physiognomy a VOICE IN ORATORS WHO
WILL SPEAK SO MUCH THAT THEY WILL EXHAUST THE PATIENCE OF THEIR
HEARERS AND PRODUCE AN ABHORRENCE OF ORATORY.
10. IN ORDER TO PUT PUBLIC OPINION INTO OUR HANDS WE MUST
BRING IT INTO A STATE OF BEWILDERMENT BY GIVING EXPRESSION FROM ALL
SIDES TO SO MANY CONTRADICTORY OPINIONS AND FOR SUCH LENGTH OF
TIME AS WILL SUFFICE TO MAKE THE "GOYIM" LOSE THEIR HEADS IN THE
LABYRINTH AND COME TO SEE THAT THE BEST THING IS TO HAVE NO OPINION
OF ANY KIND IN MATTERS POLITICAL, which it is not given to the public to
understand, because they are understood only by him who guides the public.
This is the first secret.
11. The second secret requisite for the success of our government is
comprised in the following: To multiply to such an extent national failings,
habits, passions, conditions of civil life, that it will be impossible for anyone to
know where he is in the resulting chaos, so that the people in consequence will
fail to understand one another. This measure will also serve us in another way,
namely, to sow discord in all parties, to dislocate all collective forces which are
still unwilling to submit to us, and to discourage any kind of personal initiative
which might in any degree hinder our affair. THERE IS NOTHING MORE
DANGEROUS THAN PERSONAL INITIATIVE: if it has genius behind it, such
initiative can do more than can be done by millions of people among whom we
have sown discord. We must so direct the education of the GOYIM communities
that whenever they come upon a matter requiring initiative they may drop their
hands in despairing impotence. The strain which results from freedom of
actions saps the forces when it meets with the freedom of another. From
this collision arise grave moral shocks, disenchantments, failures. BY ALL
THESE MEANS WE SHALL SO WEAR DOWN THE "GOYIM" THAT THEY WILL BE
COMPELLED TO OFFER US INTERNATIONAL POWER OF A NATURE THAT BY ITS
POSITION WILL ENABLE US WITHOUT ANY VIOLENCE GRADUALLY TO ABSORB
ALL THE STATE FORCES OF THE WORLD AND TO FORM A SUPER-GOVERNMENT
In place of the rulers of to-day we shall set up a bogey which will be called
the Super-Government Administration. Its hands will reach out in all directions
like nippers and its organization will be of such colossal dimensions that it
cannot fail to subdue all the nations of the world.
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PROTOCOL No. 6
1. We shall soon begin to establish huge monopolies, reservoirs of
colossal riches, upon which even, large fortunes of the GOYIM will depend to
such an extent that they will go to the bottom together with the credit of the
States on the day after the political smash ...
2. You gentlemen here present who are economists, just strike an
estimate of the significance of this combination! ...
3. In every possible way we must develop the significance of our
Super-Government by representing it as the Protector and Benefactor of all
those who voluntarily submit to us.
4. The aristocracy of the GOYIM as a political force, is dead - We need
not take it into account; but as landed proprietors they can still be harmful to
us from the fact that they are self-sufficing in the resources upon which they
live. It is essential therefore for us at whatever cost to deprive them of their
land. This object will be best attained by increasing the burdens upon landed
property - in loading lands with debts. These measures will check land- holding
and keep it in a state of humble and unconditional submission.
5. The aristocrats of the GOYIM, being hereditarily incapable of
contenting themselves with little, will rapidly burn up and fizzle out.WE SHALL
ENSLAVE GENTILES
6. At the same time we must intensively patronize trade and industry,
but, first and foremost, speculation, the part played by which is to provide a
counterpoise to industry: the absence of speculative industry will multiply
capital in private hands and will serve to restore agriculture by freeing the land
from indebtedness to the land banks. What we want is that industry should
drain off from the land both labor and capital and by means of speculation
transfer into our hands all the money of the world, and thereby throw all the
GOYIM into the ranks of the proletariat. Then the GOYIM will bow down before
us, if for no other reason but to get the right to exist.
7. To complete the ruin of the industry of the GOYIM we shall bring to
the assistance of speculation the luxury which we have developed among the
GOYIM, that greedy demand for luxury which is swallowing up everything. WE
SHALL RAISE THE RATE OF WAGES WHICH, HOWEVER, WILL NOT BRING ANY
ADVANTAGE TO THE WORKERS, FOR, AT THE SAME TIME, WE SHALL PRODUCE
A RISE IN PRICES OF THE FIRST NECESSARIES OF LIFE, ALLEGING THAT IT
ARISES FROM THE DECLINE OF AGRICULTURE AND CATTLE-BREEDING: WE
SHALL FURTHER UNDERMINE ARTFULLY AND DEEPLY SOURCES OF PRODUCTION,
BY ACCUSTOMING THE WORKERS TO ANARCHY AND TO DRUNKENNESS AND
SIDE BY SIDE THEREWITH TAKING ALL MEASURE TO EXTIRPATE FROM THE
FACE OF THE EARTH ALL THE EDUCATED FORCES OF THE "GOYIM."
8. IN ORDER THAT THE TRUE MEANING OF THINGS MAY NOT STRIKE THE
"GOYIM" BEFORE THE PROPER TIME WE SHALL MASK IT UNDER AN ALLEGED
ARDENT DESIRE TO SERVE THE WORKING CLASSES AND THE GREAT PRINCIPLES
OF POLITICAL ECONOMY ABOUT WHICH OUR ECONOMIC THEORIES ARE
CARRYING ON AN ENERGETIC PROPAGANDA
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PROTOCOL No. 7
1. The intensification of armaments, the increase of police forces - are
all essential for the completion of the aforementioned plans. What we have to
get at is that there should be in all the States of the world, besides ourselves,
only the masses of the proletariat, a few millionaires devoted to our interests,
police and soldiers.
2. Throughout all Europe, and by means of relations with Europe, in
other continents also, we must create ferments, discords and hostility. Therein
we gain a double advantage. In the first place we keep in check all countries,
for they will know that we have the power whenever we like to create disorders
or to restore order. All these countries are accustomed to see in us an
indispensable force of coercion. In the second place, by our intrigues we shall
tangle up all the threads which we have stretched into the cabinets of all
States by means of the political, by economic treaties, or loan obligations. In
order to succeed in this we must use great cunning and penetration during
negotiations and agreements, but, as regards what is called the "official
language," we shall keep to the opposite tactics and assume the mask of
honesty and complacency. In this way the peoples and governments of the
GOYIM, whom we have taught to look only at the outside whatever we present
to their notice, will still continue to accept us as the benefactors and saviours
of the human race.
UNIVERSAL WAR
3. We must be in a position to respond to every act of opposition by
war with the neighbors of that country which dares to oppose us: but if these
neighbors should also venture to stand collectively together against us, then
we must offer resistance by a universal war.
4. The principal factor of success in the political is the secrecy of its
undertakings: the word should not agree with the deeds of the diplomat.
5. We must compel the governments of the GOYIM to take action in the
direction favored by our widely conceived plan, already approaching the
desired consummation, by what we shall represent as public opinion, secretly
promoted by us through the means of that so-called "Great Power" - THE PRESS,
WHICH, WITH A FEW EXCEPTIONS THAT MAY BE DISREGARDED, IS ALREADY
ENTIRELY IN OUR HANDS.In a word, to sum up our system of keeping the
governments of the goyim in Europe in check, we shall show our strength to one
of them by terrorist attempts and to all, if we allow the possibility of a general
rising against us, we shall respond with the guns of America or China or Japan.
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PROTOCOL No. 8
1. We must arm ourselves with all the weapons which our opponents
might employ against us. We must search out in the very finest shades of
expression and the knotty points of the lexicon of law justification for those
cases where we shall have to pronounce judgments that might appear abnormally
audacious and unjust, for it is important that these resolutions should be set
forth in expressions that shall seem to be the most exalted moral principles cast
into legal form. Our directorate must surround itself with all these forces of
civilization among which it will have to work. It will surround itself with publicists,
practical jurists, administrators, diplomats and, finally, with persons prepared by
a special super-educational training IN OUR SPECIAL SCHOOLS (Rhode Scholers?).
These persons will have consonance of all the secrets of the social structure,
they will know all the languages that can be made up by political alphabets and
words; they will be made acquainted with the whole underside of human nature,
with all its sensitive chords on which they will have to play. These chords are the
cast of mind of the GOYIM, their tendencies, short-comings, vices and qualities,
the particularities of classes and conditions. Needless to say that the talented
assistants of authority, of whom I speak, will be taken not from among the
GOYIM, who are accustomed to perform their administrative work without giving
themselves the trouble to think what its aim is, and never consider what it is
needed for. The administrators of the GOYIM sign papers without reading them,
and they serve either for mercenary reasons or from ambition.
2. We shall surround our government with a whole world of economists.
That is the reason why economic sciences form the principal subject of the
teaching given to the Jews. Around us again will be a whole constellation of
bankers, industrialists, capitalists and - THE MAIN THING - MILLIONAIRES,
BECAUSE IN SUBSTANCE EVERYTHING WILL BE SETTLED BY THE QUESTION OF
FIGURES.
3. For a time, until there will no longer be any risk in entrusting
responsible posts in our State to our brother-Jews, we shall put them in the
hands of persons whose past and reputation are such that between them and
the people lies an abyss, persons who, in case of disobedience to our
instructions, must face criminal charges or disappear - this in order to make them
defend our interests to their last gasp.
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PROTOCOL No. 9
1. In applying our principles let attention be paid to the character of the
people in whose country you live and act; a general, identical application of
them, until such time as the people shall have been re-educated to our pattern,
cannot have success. But by approaching their application cautiously you will see
that not a decade will pass before the most stubborn character will change and
we shall add a new people to the ranks of those already subdued by us.
2. The words of the liberal, which are in effect the words of our masonic
watchword, namely, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," will, when we come into our
kingdom, be changed by us into words no longer of a watchword, but only an
expression of idealism, namely, into "The right of liberty, the duty of equality, the
ideal of brotherhood." That is how we shall put it, - and so we shall catch the
bull by the horns ... DE FACTO we have already wiped out every kind of rule
except our own, although DE JURE there still remain a good many of them.
Nowadays, if any States raise a protest against us it is only PRO FORMA at our
discretion and by our direction, for THEIR ANTI-SEMITISM IS INDISPENSABLE TO
US FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF OUR LESSER BRETHREN. I will not enter into further
explanations, for this matter has formed the subject of repeated discussions amongst us.
JEWISH SUPER-STATE
3. For us there are not checks to limit the range of our activity. Our
Super-Government subsists in extra-legal conditions which are described in the
accepted terminology by the energetic and forcible word - Dictatorship. I am in a
position to tell you with a clear conscience that at the proper time we, the
law-givers, shall execute judgment and sentence, we shall slay and we shall
spare, we, as head of all our troops, are mounted on the steed of the leader. We
rule by force of will, because in our hands are the fragments of a once powerful
party, now vanquished by us. AND THE WEAPONS IN OUR HANDS ARE LIMITLESS
AMBITIONS, BURNING GREEDINESS, MERCILESS VENGEANCE, HATREDS AND
MALICE.
4. IT IS FROM US THAT THE ALL-ENGULFING TERROR PROCEEDS. WE
HAVE IN OUR SERVICE PERSONS OF ALL OPINIONS, OF ALL DOCTRINES,
RESTORATING MONARCHISTS, DEMAGOGUES, SOCIALISTS, COMMUNISTS, AND
UTOPIAN DREAMERS OF EVERY KIND. We have harnessed them all to the task:
EACH ONE OF THEM ON HIS OWN ACCOUNT IS BORING AWAY AT THE LAST
REMNANTS OF AUTHORITY, IS STRIVING TO OVERTHROW ALL ESTABLISHED
FORM OF ORDER. By these acts all States are in torture; they exhort to
tranquility, are ready to sacrifice everything for peace: BUT WE WILL NOT GIVE
THEM PEACE UNTIL THEY OPENLY ACKNOWLEDGE OUR INTERNATIONAL
SUPER-GOVERNMENT, AND WITH SUBMISSIVENESS
5. The people have raised a howl about the necessity of settling the
question of Socialism by way of an international agreement. DIVISION INTO
FRACTIONAL PARTIES HAS GIVEN THEM INTO OUR HANDS, FOR, IN ORDER TO
CARRY ON A CONTESTED STRUGGLE ONE MUST HAVE MONEY, AND THE MONEY
IS ALL IN OUR HANDS.
6. We might have reason to apprehend a union between the
"clear-sighted" force of the GOY kings on their thrones and the "blind" force of
the GOY mobs, but we have taken all the needful measure against any such
possibility: between the one and the other force we have erected a bulwark in
the shape of a mutual terror between them. In this way the blind force of the
people remains our support and we, and we only, shall provide them with a leader
and, of course, direct them along the road that leads to our goal.
7. In order that the hand of the blind mob may not free itself from our
guiding hand, we must every now and then enter into close communion with it,
if not actually in person, at any rate through some of the most trusty of our
brethren. When we are acknowledged as the only authority we shall discuss with
the people personally on the market, places, and we shall instruct them on
questings of the political in such wise as may turn them in the direction that
suits us.
8. Who is going to verify what is taught in the village schools? But what
an envoy of the government or a king on his throne himself may say cannot but
become immediately known to the whole State, for it will be spread abroad by
the voice of the people.
9. In order to annihilate the institutions of the GOYIM before it is time we
have touched them with craft and delicacy, and have taken hold of the ends of
the springs which move their mechanism. These springs lay in a strict but just
sense of order; we have replaced them by the chaotic license of liberalism. We
have got our hands into the administration of the law, into the conduct of
elections, into the press, into liberty of the person, BUT PRINCIPALLY INTO
EDUCATION AND TRAINING AS BEING THE CORNERSTONES OF A FREE EXISTENCE.
CHRISTIAN YOUTH DESTROYED
10. WE HAVE FOOLED, BEMUSED AND CORRUPTED THE YOUTH OF THE
"GOYIM" BY REARING THEM IN PRINCIPLES AND THEORIES WHICH ARE KNOWN TO
US TO BE FALSE ALTHOUGH IT IS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN INCULCATED.
11. Above the existing laws without substantially altering them, and by
merely twisting them into contradictions of interpretations, we have erected
something grandiose in the way of results. These results found expression in the
fact that the INTERPRETATIONS MASKED THE LAW: afterwards they entirely hid
them from the eyes of the governments owing to the impossibility of making
anything out of the tangled web of legislation.
12. This is the origin of the theory of course of arbitration.
13. You may say that the GOYIM will rise upon us, arms in hand, if they
guess what is going on before the time comes; but in the West we have against
this a maneuver of such appalling terror that the very stoutest hearts quail - the
undergrounds, metropolitans, those subterranean corridors which, before the time
comes, will be driven under all the capitals and from whence those capitals will
be blown into the air with all their organizations and archives.
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PROTOCOL No. 10
1. To-day I begin with a repetition of what I said before, and I BEG YOU
TO BEAR IN MIND THAT GOVERNMENTS AND PEOPLE ARE CONTENT IN THE
POLITICAL WITH OUTSIDE APPEARANCES. And how, indeed, are the GOYIM to
perceive the underlying meaning of things when their representatives give the
best of their energies to enjoying themselves? For our policy it is of the greatest
importance to take cognizance of this detail; it will be of assistance to us when
we come to consider the division of authority, of property, of the dwelling, of
taxation (the idea of concealed taxes), of the reflex force of the laws. All these
questions are such as ought not to be touched upon directly and openly before
the people. In cases where it is indispensable to touch upon them they must not
be categorically named, it must merely be declared without detailed exposition
that the principles of contemporary law are acknowledged by us. The reason of
keeping silence in this respect is that by not naming a principle we leave
ourselves freedom of action, to drop this or that out of it without attracting
notice; if they were all categorically named they would all appear to have
been already given.
2. The mob cherishes a special affection and respect for the geniuses
of political power and accepts all their deeds of violence with the admiring
response: "rascally, well, yes, it is rascally, but it's clever! ... a trick, if you like,
but how craftily played, how magnificently done, what impudent audacity!" ...
OUR GOAL - WORLD POWER
3. We count upon attracting all nations to the task of erecting the new
fundamental structure, the project for which has been drawn up by us. This is
why, before everything, it is indispensable for us to arm ourselves and to store
up in ourselves that absolutely reckless audacity and irresistible might of the
spirit which in the person of our active workers will break down all hindrances on
our way.
4. WHEN WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED OUR COUP D'ETAT WE SHALL SAY
THEN TO THE VARIOUS PEOPLES: "EVERYTHING HAS GONE TERRIBLY BADLY, ALL
HAVE BEEN WORN OUT WITH SUFFERING. WE ARE DESTROYING THE CAUSES OF
YOUR TORMENT - NATIONALITIES, FRONTIERS, DIFFERENCES OF COINAGES. YOU
ARE AT LIBERTY, OF COURSE, TO PRONOUNCE SENTENCE UPON US, BUT CAN IT
POSSIBLY BE A JUST ONE IF IT IS CONFIRMED BY YOU BEFORE YOU MAKE ANY
TRIAL OF WHAT WE ARE OFFERING YOU." ... THEN WILL THE MOB EXALT US AND
BEAR US UP IN THEIR HANDS IN A UNANIMOUS TRIUMPH OF HOPES AND
EXPECTATIONS. VOTING, WHICH WE HAVE MADE THE INSTRUMENT WHICH WILL
SET US ON THE THRONE OF THE WORLD BY TEACHING EVEN THE VERY SMALLEST
UNITS OF MEMBERS OF THE HUMAN RACE TO VOTE BY MEANS OF MEETINGS AND
AGREEMENTS BY GROUPS, WILL THEN HAVE SERVED ITS PURPOSES AND WILL
PLAY ITS PART THEN FOR THE LAST TIME BY A UNANIMITY OF DESIRE TO MAKE
CLOSE ACQUAINTANCE WITH US BEFORE CONDEMNING US.
5. TO SECURE THIS WE MUST HAVE EVERYBODY VOTE WITHOUT
DISTINCTION OF CLASSES AND QUALIFICATIONS, in order to establish an
absolute majority, which cannot be got from the educated propertied classes. In
this way, by inculcating in all a sense of self-importance, we shall destroy among
the GOYIM the importance of the family and its educational value and remove
the possibility of individual minds splitting off, for the mob, handled by us, will not
let them come to the front nor even give them a hearing; it is accustomed to
listen to us only who pay it for obedience and attention. In this way we shall
create a blind, mighty force which will never be in a position to move in any
direction without the guidance of our agents set at its head by us as leaders of
the mob. The people will submit to this regime because it will know that upon
these leaders will depend its earnings, gratifications and the receipt of all kinds
of benefits.
6. A scheme of government should come ready made from one brain,
because it will never be clinched firmly if it is allowed to be split into fractional
parts in the minds of many. It is allowable, therefore, for us to have cognizance
of the scheme of action but not to discuss it lest we disturb its artfulness, the
interdependence of its component parts, the practical force of the secret
meaning of each clause. To discuss and make alterations in a labor of this kind
by means of numerous votings is to impress upon it the stamp of all ratiocinations
and misunderstandings which have failed to penetrate the depth and nexus of its
plotting. We want our schemes to be forcible and suitably concocted. Therefore
WE OUGHT NOT TO FLING THE WORK OF GENIUS OF OUR GUIDE to the fangs of
the mob or even of a select company.
7. These schemes will not turn existing institutions upside down just yet.
They will only effect changes in their economy and consequently in the whole
combined movement of their progress, which will thus be directed along the
paths laid down in our schemes.
POISON OF LIBERALISM
8. Under various names there exists in all countries approximately one
and the same thing. Representation, Ministry, Senate, State Council, Legislative
and Executive Corps. I need not explain to you the mechanism of the relation of
these institutions to one another, because you are aware of all that; only take
note of the fact that each of the above-named institutions corresponds to some
important function of the State, and I would beg you to remark that the word
"important" I apply not to the institution but to the function, consequently it is
not the institutions which are important but their functions. These institutions
have divided up among themselves all the functions of government -
administrative, legislative, executive, wherefore they have come to operate as
do the organs in the human body. If we injure one part in the machinery of
State, the State falls sick, like a human body, and ... will die.
9. When we introduced into the State organism the poison of Liberalism
its whole political complexion underwent a change. States have been seized with
a mortal illness - blood poisoning. All that remains is to await the end of their
death agony.
10. Liberalism produced Constitutional States, which took the place of
what was the only safeguard of the GOYIM, namely, Despotism; and A
CONSTITUTION, AS YOU WELL KNOW, IS NOTHING ELSE BUT A SCHOOL OF
DISCORDS, misunderstandings, quarrels, disagreements, fruitless party agitations,
party whims - in a word, a school of everything that serves to destroy the
personality of State activity. THE TRIBUNE OF THE "TALKERICS" HAS, NO LESS
EFFECTIVELY THAN THE PRESS, CONDEMNED THE RULERS TO INACTIVITY AND
IMPOTENCE, and thereby rendered them useless and superfluous, for which
reason indeed they have been in many countries deposed. THEN IT WAS THAT
THE ERA OF REPUBLICS BECOME POSSIBLE OF REALIZATION; AND THEN IT WAS
THAT WE REPLACED THE RULER BY A CARICATURE OF A GOVERNMENT - BY A
PRESIDENT, TAKEN FROM THE MOB, FROM THE MIDST OF OUR PUPPET
CREATURES, OR SLAVES. This was the foundation of the mine which we have laid
under the GOY people, I should rather say, under the GOY peoples.
WE NAME PRESIDENTS
11. In the near future we shall establish the responsibility of presidents.
12. By that time we shall be in a position to disregard forms in carrying
through matters for which our impersonal puppet will be responsible. What do we
care if the ranks of those striving for power should be thinned, if there should
arise a deadlock from the impossibility of finding presidents, a deadlock which will
finally disorganize the country? ...
13. In order that our scheme may produce this result we shall arrange
elections in favor of such presidents as have in their past some dark,
undiscovered stain, some "Panama" or other - then they will be trustworthy
agents for the accomplishment of our plans out of fear of revelations and from
the natural desire of everyone who has attained power, namely, the retention of
the privileges, advantages and honor connected with the office of president.
The chamber of deputies will provide cover for, will protect, will elect presidents,
but we shall take from it the right to propose new, or make changes in existing
laws, for this right will be given by us to the responsible president, a puppet in
our hands. Naturally, the authority of the presidents will then become a target
for every possible form of attack, but we shall provide him with a means of
self-defense in the right of an appeal to the people, for the decision of the
people over the heads of their representatives, that is to say, an appeal to that
some blind slave of ours - the majority of the mob.
Independently of this we shall invest the president with the right of declaring a
state of war. We shall justify this last right on the ground that the president as
chief of the whole army of the country must have it at his disposal, in case of
need for the defense of the new republican constitution, the right to defend
which will belong to him as the responsible representative of this constitution.
14. It is easy to understand them in these conditions the key of the
shrine will lie in our hands, and no one outside ourselves will any longer direct the
force of legislation.
15. Besides this we shall, with the introduction of the new republican
constitution, take from the Chamber the right of interpolation on government
measures, on the pretext of preserving political secrecy, and, further, we shall
by the new constitution reduce the number of representatives to a minimum,
thereby proportionately reducing political passions and the passion for politics.
If, however, they should, which is hardly to be expected, burst into flame, even
in this minimum, we shall nullify them by a stirring appeal and a reference to the
majority of the whole people ... Upon the president will depend the appointment
of presidents and vice-presidents of the Chamber and the Senate. Instead of
constant sessions of Parliaments we shall reduce their sittings to a few months.
Moreover, the president, as chief of the executive power, will have the right to
summon and dissolve Parliament, and, in the latter case, to prolong the time for
the appointment of a new parliamentary assembly. But in order that the
consequences of all these acts which in substance are illegal, should not,
prematurely for our plans, upon the responsibility established by use of the
president, WE SHALL INSTIGATE MINISTERS AND OTHER OFFICIALS OF THE
HIGHER ADMINISTRATION ABOUT THE PRESIDENT TO EVADE HIS DISPOSITIONS
BY TAKING MEASURES OF THEIR OWN, for doing which they will be made the
scapegoats in his place ... This part we especially recommend to be given to be
played by the Senate, the Council of State, or the Council of Ministers, but not
to an individual official.
16. The president will, at our discretion, interpret the sense of such of
the existing laws as admit of various interpretation; he will further annul them
when we indicate to him the necessity to do so, besides this, he will have the
right to propose temporary laws, and even new departures in the government
constitutional working, the pretext both for the one and the other being the
requirements for the supreme welfare of the State.
WE SHALL DESTROY
17. By such measure we shall obtain the power of destroying little by
little, step by step, all that at the outset when we enter on our rights, we are
compelled to introduce into the constitutions of States to prepare for the
transition to an imperceptible abolition of every kind of constitution, and then the
time is come to turn every form of government into OUR DESPOTISM.
18. The recognition of our despot may also come before the destruction
of the constitution; the moment for this recognition will come when the peoples,
utterly wearied by the irregularities and incompetence - a matter which we shall
arrange for - of their rulers, will clamor: "Away with them and give us one king
over all the earth who will unite us and annihilate the causes of disorders -
frontiers, nationalities, religions, State debts - who will give us peace and quiet
which we cannot find under our rulers and representatives."
19. But you yourselves perfectly well know that TO PRODUCE THE
POSSIBILITY OF THE EXPRESSION OF SUCH WISHES BY ALL THE NATIONS IT IS
INDISPENSABLE TO TROUBLE IN ALL COUNTRIES THE PEOPLE'S RELATIONS WITH
THEIR GOVERNMENTS SO AS TO UTTERLY EXHAUST HUMANITY WITH
DISSENSION, HATRED, STRUGGLE, ENVY AND EVEN BY THE USE OF TORTURE, BY
STARVATION, BY THE INOCULATION OF DISEASES, BY WANT, SO THAT THE
"GOYIM" SEE NO OTHER ISSUE THAN TO TAKE REFUGE IN OUR COMPLETE
SOVEREIGNTY IN MONEY AND IN ALL ELSE
.
20. But if we give the nations of the world a breathing space the moment
we long for is hardly likely ever to arrive.
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PROTOCOL No. 11
1. The State Council has been, as it were, the emphatic expression of
the authority of the ruler: it will be, as the "show" part of the Legislative Corps,
what may be called the editorial committee of the laws and decrees of the ruler.
2. This, then, is the program of the new constitution. We shall make Law,
Right and Justice (1) in the guise of proposals to the Legislative Corps, (2) by
decrees of the president under the guise of general regulations, of orders of the
Senate and of resolutions of the State Council in the guise of ministerial orders,
(3) and in case a suitable occasion should arise - in the form of a revolution in
the State.
3. Having established approximately the MODUS AGENDI we will occupy
ourselves with details of those combinations by which we have still to complete
the revolution in the course of the machinery of State in the direction already
indicated. By these combinations I mean the freedom of the Press, the right of
association, freedom of conscience, the voting principle, and many another that
must disappear for ever from the memory of man, or undergo a radical alteration
the day after the promulgation of the new constitution. It is only at the moment
that we shall be able at once to announce all our orders, for, afterwards, every
noticeable alteration will be dangerous, for the following reasons: if this
alteration be brought in with harsh severity and in a sense of severity and
limitations, it may lead to a feeling of despair caused by fear of new alterations
in the same direction; if, on the other hand, it be brought in a sense of further
indulgences it will be said that we have recognized our own wrong-doing and this
will destroy the prestige of the infallibility of our authority, or else it will be said
that we have become alarmed and are compelled to show a yielding disposition,
for which we shall get no thanks because it will be supposed to be compulsory ...
Both the one and the other are injurious to the prestige of the new constitution.
What we want is that from the first moment of its promulgation, while the
peoples of the world are still stunned by the accomplished fact of the revolution,
still in a condition of terror and uncertainty, they should recognize once for all
that we are so strong, so inexpugnable, so super-abundantly filled with power,
that in no case shall we take any account of them, and so far from paying any
attention to their opinions or wishes, we are ready and able to crush with
irresistible power all expression or manifestation thereof at every moment and in
every place, that we have seized at once everything we wanted and shall in no
case divide our power with them ... Then in fear and trembling they will close
their eyes to everything, and be content to await what will be the end of it all.
WE ARE WOLVES
4. The GOYIM are a flock of sheep, and we are their wolves. And you
know what happens when the wolves get hold of the flock? ....
5. There is another reason also why they will close their eyes: for we
shall keep promising them to give back all the liberties we have taken away as
soon as we have quelled the enemies of peace and tamed all parties ....
6. It is not worth to say anything about how long a time they will be kept
waiting for this return of their liberties ....
7. For what purpose then have we invented this whole policy and
insinuated it into the minds of the GOY without giving them any chance to
examine its underlying meaning? For what, indeed, if not in order to obtain in a
roundabout way what is for our scattered tribe unattainable by the direct road?
It is this which has served as the basis for our organization of SECRET MASONRY
WHICH IS NOT KNOWN TO, AND AIMS WHICH ARE NOT EVEN SO MUCH AS
SUSPECTED BY, THESE "GOY" CATTLE, ATTRACTED BY US INTO THE "SHOW"
ARMY OF MASONIC LODGES IN ORDER TO THROW DUST IN THE EYES OF THEIR
FELLOWS.
8. God has granted to us, His Chosen People, the gift of the dispersion,
and in this which appears in all eyes to be our weakness, has come forth all our
strength, which has now brought us to the threshold of sovereignty over all the
world.
9. There now remains not much more for us to build up upon the
foundation we have laid.
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PROTOCOL No. 12
1. The word "freedom," which can be interpreted in various ways, is
defined by us as follows -
2. Freedom is the right to do what which the law allows. This
interpretation of the word will at the proper time be of service to us, because all
freedom will thus be in our hands, since the laws will abolish or create only that
which is desirable for us according to the aforesaid program.
3. We shall deal with the press in the following way: what is the part
played by the press to-day? It serves to excite and inflame those passions
which are needed for our purpose or else it serves selfish ends of parties. It is
often vapid, unjust, mendacious, and the majority of the public have not the
slightest idea what ends the press really serves. We shall saddle and bridle it with
a tight curb: we shall do the same also with all productions of the printing press,
for where would be the sense of getting rid of the attacks of the press if we
remain targets for pamphlets and books? The produce of publicity, which
nowadays is a source of heavy expense owing to the necessity of censoring it,
will be turned by us into a very lucrative source of income to our State: we shall
law on it a special stamp tax and require deposits of caution-money before
permitting the establishment of any organ of the press or of printing offices;
these will then have to guarantee our government against any kind of attack on
the part of the press. For any attempt to attack us, if such still be possible, we
shall inflict fines without mercy. Such measures as stamp tax, deposit of
caution-money and fines secured by these deposits, will bring in a huge income
to the government. It is true that party organs might not spare money for the
sake of publicity, but these we shall shut up at the second attack upon us. No
one shall with impunity lay a finger on the aureole of our government infallibility.
The pretext for stopping any publication will be the alleged plea that it is
agitating the public mind without occasion or justification. I BEG YOU TO NOTE
THAT AMONG THOSE MAKING ATTACKS UPON US WILL ALSO BE ORGANS
ESTABLISHED BY US, BUT THEY WILL ATTACK EXCLUSIVELY POINTS THAT WE
HAVE PRE-DETERMINED TO ALTER. WE CONTROL THE PRESS
4. NOT A SINGLE ANNOUNCEMENT WILL REACH THE PUBLIC WITHOUT OUR
CONTROL. Even now this is already being attained by us inasmuch as all news
items are received by a few agencies, in whose offices they are focused from all
parts of the world. These agencies will then be already entirely ours and will give
publicity only to what we dictate to them.
5. If already now we have contrived to possess ourselves of the minds
of the GOY communities to such an extent the they all come near looking upon
the events of the world through the colored glasses of those spectacles we are
setting astride their noses; if already now there is not a single State where there
exist for us any barriers to admittance into what GOY stupidity calls State
secrets: what will our positions be then, when we shall be acknowledged supreme
lords of the world in the person of our king of all the world ....|
6. Let us turn again to the FUTURE OF THE PRINTING PRESS. Every one
desirous of being a publisher, librarian, or printer, will be obliged to provide himself
with the diploma instituted therefore, which, in case of any fault, will be
immediately impounded.With such measures THE INSTRUMENT OF THOUGHT WILL
BECOME AN EDUCATIVE MEANS ON THE HANDS OF OUR GOVERNMENT, WHICH
WILL NO LONGER ALLOW THE MASS OF THE NATION TO BE LED ASTRAY IN
BY-WAYS AND FANTASIES ABOUT THE BLESSINGS OF PROGRESS. Is there any
one of us who does not know that these phantom blessings are the direct roads
to foolish imaginings which give birth to anarchical relations of men among
themselves and towards authority, because progress, or rather the idea of
progress, has introduced the conception of every kind of emancipation, but has
failed to establish its limits .... All the so-called liberals are anarchists, if not in
fact, at any rate in thought. Every one of them in hunting after phantoms of
freedom, and falling exclusively into license, that is, into the anarchy of protest
for the sake of protest ....
FREE PRESS DESTROYED
7. We turn to the periodical press. We shall impose on it, as on all
printed matter, stamp taxes per sheet and deposits of caution- money, and
books of less than 30 sheets will pay double. We shall reckon them as pamphlets
in order, on the one hand, to reduce the number of magazines, which are the
worst form of printed poison, and, on the other, in order that this measure may
force writers into such lengthy productions that they will be little read, especially
as they will be costly. At the same time what we shall publish ourselves to
influence mental development in the direction laid down for our profit will be
cheap and will be read voraciously. The tax will bring vapid literary ambitions
within bounds and the liability to penalties will make literary men dependent upon
us. And if there should be any found who are desirous of writing against us, they
will not find any person eager to print their productions in print the publisher or
printer will have to apply to the authorities for permission to do so. Thus we shall
know beforehand of all tricks preparing against us and shall nullify them by
getting ahead with explanations on the subject treated of.
8. Literature and journalism are two of the most important educative
forces, and therefore our government will become proprietor of the majority of
the journals. This will neutralize the injurious influence of the privately-owned
press and will put us in possession of a tremendous influence upon the public
mind .... If we give permits for ten journals, we shall ourselves found thirty, and
so on in the same proportion. This, however, must in no wise be suspected by
the public. For which reason all journals published by us will be of the most
opposite, in appearance, tendencies and opinions, thereby creating confidence
in us and bringing over to us quite unsuspicious opponents, who will thus fall into
our trap and be rendered harmless.
9. In the front rank will stand organs of an official character. They will
always stand guard over our interests, and therefore their influence will be
comparatively insignificant.
10. In the second rank will be the semi-official organs, whose part it will
be to attack the tepid and indifferent.
11. In the third rank we shall set up our own, to all appearance, off
position, which, in at least one of its organs, will present what looks like the very
antipodes to us. Our real opponents at heart will accept this simulated opposition
as their own and will show us their cards.
12. All our newspapers will be of all possible complexions - aristocratic,
republican, revolutionary, even anarchical - for so long, of course, as the
constitution exists .... Like the Indian idol "Vishnu" they will have a hundred
hands, and every one of them will have a finger on any one of the public opinions
as required. When a pulse quickens these hands will lead opinion in the direction
of our aims, for an excited patient loses all power of judgment and easily yields
to suggestion. Those fools who will think they are repeating the opinion of a
newspaper of their own camp will be repeating our opinion or any opinion that
seems desirable for us. In the vain belief that they are following the organ of
their party they will, in fact, follow the flag which we hang out for them.
13. In order to direct our newspaper militia in this sense we must take
special and minute care in organizing this matter. Under the title of central
department of the press we shall institute literary gatherings at which our agents
will without attracting attention issue the orders and watchwords of the day. By
discussing and controverting, but always superficially, without touching the
essence of the matter, our organs will carry on a sham fight fusillade with the
official newspapers solely for the purpose of giving occasion for us to express
ourselves more fully than could well be done from the outset in official
announcements, whenever, of course, that is to our advantage.
14. THESE ATTACKS UPON US WILL ALSO SERVE ANOTHER PURPOSE,
NAMELY, THAT OUR SUBJECTS WILL BE CONVINCED TO THE EXISTENCE OF FULL
FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND SO GIVE OUR AGENTS AN OCCASION TO AFFIRM THAT
ALL ORGANS WHICH OPPOSE US ARE EMPTY BABBLERS, since they are incapable
of finding any substantial objections to our orders.
ONLY LIES PRINTED
15. Methods of organization like these, imperceptible to the public eye but
absolutely sure, are the best calculated to succeed in bringing the attention and
the confidence of the public to the side of our government. Thanks to such
methods we shall be in a position as from time to time may be required, to excite
or to tranquilize the public mind on political questions, to persuade or to confuse,
printing now truth, now lies, facts or their contradictions, according as they may
be well or ill received, always very cautiously feeling our ground before stepping
upon it .... WE SHALL HAVE A SURE TRIUMPH OVER OUR OPPONENTS SINCE THEY
WILL NOT HAVE AT THEIR DISPOSITION ORGANS OF THE PRESS IN WHICH THEY
CAN GIVE FULL AND FINAL EXPRESSION TO THEIR VIEWS owing to the aforesaid
methods of dealing with the press. We shall not even need to refute them except
very superficially.
16. Trial shots like these, fired by us in the third rank of our press, in
case of need, will be energetically refuted by us in our semi-official organs.
17. Even nowadays, already, to take only the French press, there are
forms which reveal masonic solidarity in acting on the watchword: all organs of
the press are bound together by professional secrecy; like the augurs of old, not
one of their numbers will give away the secret of his sources of information
unless it be resolved to make announcement of them. Not one journalist will
venture to betray this secret, for not one of them is ever admitted to practice
literature unless his whole past has some disgraceful sore or other .... These
sores would be immediately revealed. So long as they remain the secret of a few
the prestige of the journalist attacks the majority of the country - the mob
follow after him with enthusiasm.
18. Our calculations are especially extended to the provinces. It is
indispensable for us to inflame there those hopes and impulses with which we
could at any moment fall upon the capital, and we shall represent to the capitals
that these expressions are the independent hopes and impulses of the provinces.
Naturally, the source of them will be always one and the same - ours. WHAT WE
NEED IS THAT, UNTIL SUCH TIME AS WE ARE IN THE PLENITUDE POWER, THE
CAPITALS SHOULD FIND THEMSELVES STIFLED BY THE PROVINCIAL OPINION OF
THE NATIONS, I.E., OF A MAJORITY ARRANGED BY OUR AGENTUR. What we need
is that at the psychological moment the capitals should not be in a position to
discuss an accomplished fact for the simple reason, if for no other, that it has
been accepted by the public opinion of a majority in the provinces.
19. WHEN WE ARE IN THE PERIOD OF THE NEW REGIME TRANSITIONAL
TO THAT OF OUR ASSUMPTION OF FULL SOVEREIGNTY WE MUST NOT ADMIT
ANY REVELATION BY THE PRESS OF ANY FORM OF PUBLIC DISHONESTY; IT
IS NECESSARY THAT THE NEW REGIME SHOULD BE THOUGHT TO HAVE SO
PERFECTLY CONTENDED EVERYBODY THAT EVEN CRIMINALITY HAS DISAPPEARED
... Cases of the manifestation of criminality should remain known only to their
victims and to chance witnesses - no more.
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PROTOCOL No. 13
1. The need for daily forces the GOYIM to keep silence and be our
humble servants. Agents taken on to our press from among the GOYIM will at
our orders discuss anything which it is inconvenient for us to issue directly in
official documents, and we meanwhile, quietly amid the din of the discussion so
raised, shall simply take and carry through such measures as we wish and then
offer them to the public as an accomplished fact. No one will dare to demand the
abrogation of a matter once settled, all the more so as it will be represented as
an improvement ... And immediately the press will distract the current of thought
towards, new questions, (have we not trained people always to be seeking
something new?). Into the discussions of these new questions will throw
themselves those of the brainless dispensers of fortunes who are not able even
now to understand that they have not the remotest conception about the
matters which they undertake to discuss. Questions of the political are
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