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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 fulfillment 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 countriesby 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. Mars.
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
un- reasoning 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.
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 knowledges 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.
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. (The Biblical "Anti-Christ?")
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.
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.
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 loseness 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 is 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 verbiage, 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 (European Common Market?). 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.
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 un-conditional 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.
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.
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.
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 (European Common Market??).
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
manoeuvre 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.
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 plottings. 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.
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.
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 andcontroverting, 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 tranquillize 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.
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 unattainable for
any save those who have guided it already for many ages, the creators.
2. From all this you will see that in seeming the opinion of the mob we are only
facilitating the working of our machinery, and you may remark that it is not for
actions but for words issued by us on this or that question that we seem to seek
approval. We are constantly making public declaration that we are guided in all
our undertakings by the hoope, joined to the conviction, that we are serving the
common weal.
WE DECEIVE WORKERS
3. In order to distract people who may be too troublesome from discussions of
questions of the political we are now putting forward what we allege to be new
questions of the political, namely, questions of industry. In this sphere let
them discuss themselves silly! The masses are agreed to remain inactive, to take
a rest from what they suppose to be political (which we trained them to in order
to use them as a means of combating the GOY governments) only on condition of
being found new employments, in which we are prescribing them something that
looks like the same political object. In order that the masses themselves may
not guess what they are about WE FURTHER DISTRACT THEM WITH AMUSEMENTS, GAMES,
PASTIMES, PASSIONS, PEOPLE'S PALACES .... SOON WE SHALL BEGIN THROUGH THE PRESS
TO PROPOSE COMPETITIONS IN ART, IN SPORT IN ALL KINDS: these interests will
finally distract their minds from questions in which we should find ourselves
compelled to oppose them. Growing more and more dis- accustomed to reflect and
form any opinions of their own, people will begin to talk in the same tone as we
because we alone shall be offering them new directions for thought ... of course
through such persons as will not be suspected of solidarity with us.
4. The part played by the liberals, utopian dreamers, will be finally played out
when our government is acknowledged. Till such time they will continue to do us
good service. Therefore we shall continue to direct their minds to all sorts of
vain conceptions of fantastic theories, new and apparently progressive: for have
we not with complete success turned the brainless heads of the GOYIM with
progress, till there is not among the GOYIM one mind able to perceive that under
this word lies a departure from truth in all cases where it is not a question of
material inventions, like a fallacious idea, serves to obscure truth so that
none may know it except us, the Chosen of God, its guardians.
5. When, we come into our kingdom our orators will expound great problems which
have turned humanity upside down in order to bring it at the end under our
beneficent rule.
6. Who will ever suspect then that ALL THESE PEOPLES WERE STAGE-MANAGED BY US
ACCORDING TO A POLITICAL PLAN WHICH NO ONE HAS SO MUCH AS GUESSED AT IN THE
COURSE OF MANY CENTURIES?
PROTOCOL No. 14
1. When we come into our kingdom it will be undesirable for us that there should
exist any other religion than ours of the One God with whom our destiny is bound
up by our position as the Chosen People and through whom our same destiny is
united with the destinies of the world. We must therefore sweep away all other
forms of belief. If this gives birth to the atheists whom we see to-day, it will
not, being only a transitional stage, interfere with our views, but will serve
as a warning for those generations which will hearken to our preaching of the
religion of Moses, that, by its stable and thoroughly elaborated system has
brought all the peoples of the world into subjection to us. Therein we shall
emphasize its mystical right, on which, as we shall say, all its educative power
is based .... Then at every possible opportunity we shall publish articles in
which we shall make comparisons between our beneficent rule and those of past
ages. The blessing of tranquillity, though it be a tranquillity forcibly brought
about by centuries of agitation, will throw into higher relief the benefits to
which we shall point. The errors of the GOYIM governments will be depicted by us
in the most vivid hues. We shall implant such an abhorrence of them that the
peoples will prefer tranquillity in a state of serfdom to those rights of
vaunted freedom which have tortured humanity and exhausted the very sources of
human existence, sources which have been exploited by a mob of rascally
adventurers who know not what they do .... USELESS CHANGES OF FORMS OF
GOVERNMENT TO WHICH WE INSTIGATED THE "GOYIM" WHEN WE WERE UNDERMINING THEIR
STATE STRUCTURES, WILL HAVE SO WEARIED THE PEOPLES BY THAT TIME THAT THEY WILL
PREFER TO SUFFER ANYTHING UNDER US RATHER THAN RUN THE RISK OF ENDURING AGAIN
ALL THE AGITATIONS AND MISERIES THEY HAVE GONE THROUGH.
WE SHALL FORBID CHRIST
2. At the same time we shall not omit to emphasize the historical mistakes of
the GOY governments which have tormented humanity for so many centuries by their
lack of understanding of everything that constitutes the true good of humanity
in their chase after fantastic schemes of social blessings, and have never
noticed that these schemes kept on producing a worse and never a better state of
the universal relations which are the basis of human life ....
3. The whole force of our principles and methods will lie in the fact that we
shall present them and expound them as a splendid contrast to the dead and
decomposed old order of things in social life.
4. Our philosophers will discuss all the shortcomings of the various beliefs of
the "GOYIM," BUT NO ONE WILL EVER BRING UNDER DISCUSSION OUR FAITH FROM ITS TRUE
POINT OF VIEW SINCE THIS WILL BE FULLY LEARNED BY NONE SAVE OURS WHO WILL NEVER
DARE TO BETRAY ITS SECRETS.
5. IN COUNTRIES KNOWN AS PROGRESSIVE AND ENLIGHTENED WE HAVE CREATED A
SENSELESS, FILTHY, ABOMINABLE LITERATURE. For some time after our entrance to
power we shall continue to encourage its existence in order to provide a telling
relief by contrast to the speeches, party program, which will be distributed
from exalted quarters of ours .... Our wise men, trained to become leaders of
the GOYIM, will compose speeches, projects, memoirs, articles, which will be
used by us to influence the minds of the GOYIM, directing them towards such
understanding and forms of knowledge as have been determined by us.
PROTOCOL No. 15
1. When we at last definitely come into our kingdom by the aid of COUPS D'ETAT
prepared everywhere for one and the same day, after definitely acknowledged (and
not a little time will pass before that comes about, perhaps even a whole
century) we shall make it our task to see that against us such things as plots
shall no longer exist. With this purpose we shall slay without mercy all who
take arms (in hand) to oppose our coming into our kingdom. Every kind of new
institution of anything like a secret society will also be punished with death;
those of them which are now in existence, are known to us, serve us and have
served us, we shall disband and send into exile to continents far removed from
Europe. IN THIS WAY WE SHALL PROCEED WITH THOSE "GOY" MASONS WHO KNOW TOO MUCH;
such of these as we may for some reason spare will be kept in constant fear of
exile. We shall promulgate a law making all former members of secret societies
liable to exile from Europe as the center of rule.
2. Resolutions of our government will be final, without appeal.
3. In the GOY societies, in which we have planted and deeply rooted discord and
protestantism, the only possible way of restoring order is to employ merciless
measures that prove the direct force of authority: no regard must be paid to the
victims who fall, they suffer for the well-being of the future. The attainment
of that well-being, even at the expense of sacrifices, is the duty of any kind
of government that acknowledges as justification for its existence not only its
privileges but its obligations. The principal guarantee of stability of rule is
to confirm the aureole of power, and this aureole is attained only by such a
majestic inflexibility of might as shall carry on its face the emblems of
inviolability from mystical causes - from the choice of God. SUCH WAS, UNTIL
RECENT TIMES, THE RUSSIAN AUTOCRACY, THE ONE AND ONLY SERIOUS FOE WE HAD IN THE
WORLD, WITHOUT COUNTING THE PAPACY. Bear in mind the example when Italy,
drenched with blood, never touched a hair of the head of Sulla who had poured
forth that blood: Sulla enjoyed an apotheosis for his might in him, but his
intrepid return to Italy ringed him round with inviolability. The people do not
lay a finger on him who hypnotizes them by his daring and strength of mind.
SECRET SOCIETIES
4. Meantime, however, until we come into our kingdom, we shall act in the
contrary way: we shall create and multiply free masonic lodges in all the
countries of the world, absorb into them all who may become or who are prominent
in public activity, for these lodges we shall find our principal intelligence
office and means of influence. All these lodges we shall bring under one central
administration, known to us alone and to all others absolutely unknown, which
will be composed of our learned elders. The lodges will have their
representatives who will serve to screen the above-mentioned administration of
MASONRY and from whom will issue the watchword and program. In these lodges we
shall tie together the knot which binds together all revolutionary and liberal
elements. Their composition will be made up of all strata of society. The most
secret political plots will be known to us and fall under our guiding hands on
the very day of their conception. AMONG THE MEMBERS OF THESE LODGES WILL BE
ALMOST ALL THE AGENTS OF INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL POLICE since their service
is for us irreplaceable in the respect that the police is in a position not only
to use its own particular measures with the insubordinate, but also to screen
our activities and provide pretexts for discontents, ET CETERA.
5. The class of people who most willingly enter into secret societies are those
who live by their wits, careerists, and in general peo
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