PROTOCOL No. 10
1. To-day I begin with a
repetition of what I said before, and I BEG YOU TO BEAR IN MIND THAT
GOVERNMENTS AND PEOPLE ARE CONTENT IN THE POLITICAL WITH OUTSIDE
APPEARANCES. And how, indeed, are the GOYIM to perceive the
underlying meaning of things when their representatives give the best
of their energies to enjoying themselves? For our policy it is of the
greatest importance to take cognizance of this detail; it will be of
assistance to us when we come to consider the division of authority
of property, of the dwelling, of taxation (the idea of concealed
taxes), of the reflex force of the laws. All these questions are such
as ought not to be touched upon directly and openly before the
people. In cases where it is indispensable to touch upon them they
must not be categorically named, it must merely be declared without
detailed exposition that the principles of contemporary law are
acknowledged by us. The reason of keeping silence in this respect is
that by not naming a principle we leave ourselves freedom of action,
to drop this or that out of it without attracting notice; if they
were all categorically named they would all appear to have been
already given.
2. The mob cherishes a
special affection and respect for the geniuses of political power and
accepts all their deeds of violence with the admiring response:
"rascally, well, yes, it is rascally, but it's clever! ... a trick,
if you like, but how craftily played, how magnificently done, what
impudent audacity!" ...
OUR GOAL - WORLD POWER
3. We count upon attracting
all nations to the task of erecting the new fundamental structure,
the project for which has been drawn up by us. This is why, before
everything, it is indispensable for us to arm ourselves and to store
up in ourselves that absolutely reckless audacity and irresistible
might of the spirit which in the person of our active workers will
break down all hindrances on our way.
4. WHEN WE HAVE
ACCOMPLISHED OUR COUP D'ETAT WE SHALL SAY THEN TO THE VARIOUS
PEOPLES: "EVERYTHING HAS GONE TERRIBLY BADLY, ALL HAVE BEEN WORN OUT
WITH SUFFERING. WE ARE DESTROYING THE CAUSES OF YOUR TORMENT -
NATIONALITIES, FRONTIERS, DIFFERENCES OF COINAGES. YOU ARE AT
LIBERTY, OF COURSE, TO PRONOUNCE SENTENCE UPON US, BUT CAN IT
POSSIBLY BE A JUST ONE IF IT IS CONFIRMED BY YOU BEFORE YOU MAKE ANY
TRIAL OF WHAT WE ARE OFFERING YOU." ... THEN WILL THE MOB EXALT US
AND BEAR US UP IN THEIR HANDS IN A UNANIMOUS TRIUMPH OF HOPES AND
EXPECTATIONS. VOTING, WHICH WE HAVE MADE THE INSTRUMENT WHICH WILL
SET US ON THE THRONE OF THE WORLD BY TEACHING EVEN THE VERY SMALLEST
UNITS OF MEMBERS OF THE HUMAN RACE TO VOTE BY MEANS OF MEETINGS AND
AGREEMENTS BY GROUPS, WILL THEN HAVE SERVED ITS PURPOSES AND WILL
PLAY ITS PART THEN FOR THE LAST TIME BY A UNANIMITY OF DESIRE TO MAKE
CLOSE ACQUAINTANCE WITH US BEFORE CONDEMNING US.
5. TO SECURE THIS WE MUST
HAVE EVERYBODY VOTE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF CLASSES AND
QUALIFICATIONS, in order to establish an absolute majority, which
cannot be got from the educated propertied classes. In this way, by
inculcating in all a sense of self-importance, we shall destroy among
the GOYIM the importance of the family and its educational value and
remove the possibility of individual minds splitting off, for the
mob, handled by us, will not let them come to the front nor even give
them a hearing; it is accustomed to listen to us only who pay it for
obedience and attention. In this way we shall create a blind, mighty
force which will never be in a position to move in any direction
without the guidance of our agents set at its head by us as leaders
of the mob. The people will submit to this regime because it will
know that upon these leaders will depend its earnings, gratifications
and the receipt of all kinds of benefits.
6. A scheme of government
should come ready made from one brain, because it will never be
clinched firmly if it is allowed to be split into fractional parts in
the minds of many. It is allowable, therefore, for us to have
cognizance of the scheme of action but not to discuss it lest we
disturb its artfulness, the interdependence of its component parts,
the practical force of the secret meaning of each clause. To discuss
and make alterations in a labor of this kind by means of numerous
votings is to impress upon it the stamp of all ratiocinations and
misunderstandings which have failed to penetrate the depth and nexus
of its plotting. We want our schemes to be forcible and suitably
concocted. Therefore WE OUGHT NOT TO FLING THE WORK OF GENIUS OF OUR
GUIDE to the fangs of the mob or even of a select company.
7. These schemes will not
turn existing institutions upside down just yet. They will only
effect changes in their economy and consequently in the whole
combined movement of their progress, which will thus be directed
along the paths laid down in our schemes.
POISON OF LIBERALISM
8. Under various names
there exists in all countries approximately one and the same thing.
Representation, Ministry, Senate, State Council, Legislative and
Executive Corps. I need not explain to you the mechanism of the
relation of these institutions to one another, because you are aware
of all that; only take note of the fact that each of the above-named
institutions corresponds to some important function of the State, and
I would beg you to remark that the word "important" I apply not to
the institution but to the function, consequently it is not the
institutions which are important but their functions. These
institutions have divided up among themselves all the functions of
government - administrative, legislative, executive, wherefore they
have come to operate as do the organs in the human body. If we injure
one part in the machinery of State, the State falls sick, like a
human body, and ... will die.
9. When we introduced into
the State organism the poison of Liberalism its whole political
complexion underwent a change. States have been seized with a mortal
illness - blood poisoning. All that remains is to await the end of
their death agony.
10. Liberalism produced
Constitutional States, which took the place of what was the only
safeguard of the GOYIM, namely, Despotism; and A CONSTITUTION, AS YOU
WELL KNOW, IS NOTHING ELSE BUT A SCHOOL OF DISCORDS,
misunderstandings, quarrels, disagreements, fruitless party
agitations, party whims - in a word, a school of everything that
serves to destroy the personality of State activity. THE TRIBUNE OF
THE "TALKERICS" HAS, NO LESS EFFECTIVELY THAN THE PRESS, CONDEMNED
THE RULERS TO INACTIVITY AND IMPOTENCE, and thereby rendered them
useless and superfluous, for which reason indeed they have been in
many countries deposed. THEN IT WAS THAT THE ERA OF REPUBLICS BECOME
POSSIBLE OF REALIZATION; AND THEN IT WAS THAT WE REPLACED THE RULER
BY A CARICATURE OF A GOVERNMENT - BY A PRESIDENT, TAKEN FROM THE MOB,
FROM THE MIDST OF OUR PUPPET CREATURES, OR SLAVES. This was the
foundation of the mine which we have laid under the GOY people, I
should rather say, under the GOY peoples.
WE NAME PRESIDENTS
11. In the near future we
shall establish the responsibility of presidents.
12. By that time we shall
be in a position to disregard forms in carrying through matters for
which our impersonal puppet will be responsible. What do we care if
the ranks of those striving for power should be thinned, if there
should arise a deadlock from the impossibility of finding presidents,
a deadlock which will finally disorganize the country? ...
13. In order that our
scheme may produce this result we shall arrange elections in favor of
such presidents as have in their past some dark, undiscovered stain,
some "Panama" or other - then they will be trustworthy agents for the
accomplishment of our plans out of fear of revelations and from the
natural desire of everyone who has attained power, namely, the
retention of the privileges, advantages and honor connected with the
office of president. The chamber of deputies will provide cover for,
will protect, will elect presidents, but we shall take from it the
right to propose new, or make changes in existing laws, for this
right will be given by us to the responsible president, a puppet in
our hands. Naturally, the authority of the presidents will then
become a target for every possible form of attack, but we shall
provide him with a means of self-defense in the right of an appeal to
the people, for the decision of the people over the heads of their
representatives, that is to say, an appeal to that some blind slave
of ours - the majority of the mob. Independently of this we shall
invest the president with the right of declaring a state of war. We
shall justify this last right on the ground that the president as
chief of the whole army of the country must have it at his disposal,
in case of need for the defense of the new republican constitution,
the right to defend which will belong to him as the responsible
representative of this constitution.
14. It is easy to
understand them in these conditions the key of the shrine will lie in
our hands, and no one outside ourselves will any longer direct the
force of legislation.
15. Besides this we shall,
with the introduction of the new republican constitution, take from
the Chamber the right of interpolation on government measures, on the
pretext of preserving political secrecy, and, further, we shall by
the new constitution reduce the number of representatives to a
minimum, thereby proportionately reducing political passions and the
passion for politics. If, however, they should, which is hardly to be
expected, burst into flame, even in this minimum, we shall nullify
them by a stirring appeal and a reference to the majority of the
whole people ... Upon the president will depend the appointment of
presidents and vice-presidents of the Chamber and the Senate. Instead
of constant sessions of Parliaments we shall reduce their sittings to
a few months. Moreover, the president, as chief of the executive
power, will have the right to summon and dissolve Parliament, and, in
the latter case, to prolong the time for the appointment of a new
parliamentary assembly. But in order that the consequences of all
these acts which in substance are illegal, should not, prematurely
for our plans, upon the responsibility established by use of the
president, WE SHALL INSTIGATE MINISTERS AND OTHER OFFICIALS OF THE
HIGHER ADMINISTRATION ABOUT THE PRESIDENT TO EVADE HIS DISPOSITIONS
BY TAKING MEASURES OF THEIR OWN, for doing which they will be made
the scapegoats in his place ... This part we especially recommend to
be given to be played by the Senate, the Council of State, or the
Council of Ministers, but not to an individual official.
16. The president will, at
our discretion, interpret the sense of such of the existing laws as
admit of various interpretation; he will further annul them when we
indicate to him the necessity to do so, besides this, he will have
the right to propose temporary laws, and even new departures in the
government constitutional working, the pretext both for the one and
the other being the requirements for the supreme welfare of the
State.
WE SHALL DESTROY
17. By such measure we
shall obtain the power of destroying little by little, step by step,
all that at the outset when we enter on our rights, we are compelled
to introduce into the constitutions of States to prepare for the
transition to an imperceptible abolition of every kind of
constitution, and then the time is come to turn every form of
government into OUR DESPOTISM.
18. The recognition of our
despot may also come before the destruction of the constitution; the
moment for this recognition will come when the peoples, utterly
wearied by the irregularities and incompetence - a matter which we
shall arrange for - of their rulers, will clamor: "Away with them and
give us one king over all the earth who will unite us and annihilate
the causes of disorders - frontiers, nationalities, religions, State
debts - who will give us peace and quiet which we cannot find under
our rulers and representatives."
19. But you yourselves
perfectly well know that TO PRODUCE THE POSSIBILITY OF THE EXPRESSION
OF SUCH WISHES BY ALL THE NATIONS IT IS INDISPENSABLE TO TROUBLE IN
ALL COUNTRIES THE PEOPLE'S RELATIONS WITH THEIR GOVERNMENTS SO AS TO
UTTERLY EXHAUST HUMANITY WITH DISSENSION, HATRED, STRUGGLE, ENVY AND
EVEN BY THE USE OF TORTURE, BY STARVATION, BY THE INOCULATION OF
DISEASES, BY WANT, SO THAT THE "GOYIM" SEE NO OTHER ISSUE THAN TO
TAKE REFUGE IN OUR COMPLETE SOVEREIGNTY IN MONEY AND IN ALL
ELSE.
20. But if we give the
nations of the world a breathing space the moment we long for is
hardly likely ever to arrive.
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.
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3. We shall deal with the
press in the following way: what is the part played by the press
to-day? It serves to excite and inflame those passions which are
needed for our purpose or else it serves selfish ends of parties. It
is often vapid, unjust, mendacious, and the majority of the public
have not the slightest idea what ends the press really serves. We
shall saddle and bridle it with a tight curb: we shall do the same
also with all productions of the printing press, for where would be
the sense of getting rid of the attacks of the press if we remain
targets for pamphlets and books? The produce of publicity, which
nowadays is a source of heavy expense owing to the necessity of
censoring it, will be turned by us into a very lucrative source of
income to our State: we shall law on it a special stamp tax and
require deposits of caution-money before permitting the establishment
of any organ of the press or of printing offices; these will then
have to guarantee our government against any kind of attack on the
part of the press. For any attempt to attack us, if such still be
possible, we shall inflict fines without mercy. Such measures as
stamp tax, deposit of caution-money and fines secured by these
deposits, will bring in a huge income to the government. It is true
that party organs might not spare money for the sake of publicity,
but these we shall shut up at the second attack upon us. No one shall
with impunity lay a finger on the aureole of our government
infallibility. The pretext for stopping any publication will be the
alleged plea that it is agitating the public mind without occasion or
justification. I BEG YOU TO NOTE THAT AMONG THOSE MAKING ATTACKS UPON
US WILL ALSO BE ORGANS ESTABLISHED BY US, BUT THEY WILL ATTACK
EXCLUSIVELY POINTS THAT WE HAVE PRE-DETERMINED TO ALTER.
WE CONTROL THE PRESS
4. NOT A SINGLE
ANNOUNCEMENT WILL REACH THE PUBLIC WITHOUT OUR CONTROL. Even now this
is already being attained by us inasmuch as all news items are
received by a few agencies, in whose offices they are focused from
all parts of the world. These agencies will then be already entirely
ours and will give publicity only to what we dictate to them.
5. If already now we have
contrived to possess ourselves of the minds of the GOY communities to
such an extent the they all come near looking upon the events of the
world through the colored glasses of those spectacles we are setting
astride their noses; if already now there is not a single State where
there exist for us any barriers to admittance into what GOY stupidity
calls State secrets: what will our positions be then, when we shall
be acknowledged supreme lords of the world in the person of our king
of all the world ....
6. Let us turn again to the
FUTURE OF THE PRINTING PRESS. Every one desirous of being a
publisher, librarian, or printer, will be obliged to provide himself
with the diploma instituted therefore, which, in case of any fault,
will be immediately impounded. With such measures THE INSTRUMENT OF
THOUGHT WILL BECOME AN EDUCATIVE MEANS ON THE HANDS OF OUR
GOVERNMENT, WHICH WILL NO LONGER ALLOW THE MASS OF THE NATION TO BE
LED ASTRAY IN BY-WAYS AND FANTASIES ABOUT THE BLESSINGS OF PROGRESS.
Is there any one of us who does not know that these phantom blessings
are the direct roads to foolish imaginings which give birth to
anarchical relations of men among themselves and towards authority,
because progress, or rather the idea of progress, has introduced the
conception of every kind of emancipation, but has failed to establish
its limits .... All the so-called liberals are anarchists, if not in
fact, at any rate in thought. Every one of them in hunting after
phantoms of freedom, and falling exclusively into license, that is,
into the anarchy of protest for the sake of protest ....
FREE PRESS DESTROYED
7. We turn to the
periodical press. We shall impose on it, as on all printed matter,
stamp taxes per sheet and deposits of caution- money, and books of
less than 30 sheets will pay double. We shall reckon them as
pamphlets in order, on the one hand, to reduce the number of
magazines, which are the worst form of printed poison, and, on the
other, in order that this measure may force writers into such lengthy
productions that they will be little read, especially as they will be
costly. At the same time what we shall publish ourselves to influence
mental development in the direction laid down for our profit will be
cheap and will be read voraciously. The tax will bring vapid literary
ambitions within bounds and the liability to penalties will make
literary men dependent upon us. And if there should be any found who
are desirous of writing against us, they will not find any person
eager to print their productions in print the publisher or printer
will have to apply to the authorities for permission to do so. Thus
we shall know beforehand of all tricks preparing against us and shall
nullify them by getting ahead with explanations on the subject
treated of.
8. Literature and
journalism are two of the most important educative forces, and
therefore our government will become proprietor of the majority of
the journals. This will neutralize the injurious influence of the
privately-owned press and will put us in possession of a tremendous
influence upon the public mind .... If we give permits for ten
journals, we shall ourselves found thirty, and so on in the same
proportion. This, however, must in no wise be suspected by the
public. For which reason all journals published by us will be of the
most opposite, in appearance, tendencies and opinions, thereby
creating confidence in us and bringing over to us quite unsuspicious
opponents, who will thus fall into our trap and be rendered
harmless.
9. In the front rank will
stand organs of an official character. They will always stand guard
over our interests, and therefore their influence will be
comparatively insignificant.
10. In the second rank will
be the semi-official organs, whose part it will be to attack the
tepid and indifferent.
11. In the third rank we
shall set up our own, to all appearance, off position, which, in at
least one of its organs, will present what looks like the very
antipodes to us. Our real opponents at heart will accept this
simulated opposition as their own and will show us their
cards.
12. All our newspapers will
be of all possible complexions - aristocratic, republican,
revolutionary, even anarchical - for so long, of course, as the
constitution exists .... Like the Indian idol "Vishnu" they will have
a hundred hands, and every one of them will have a finger on any one
of the public opinions as required. When a pulse quickens these hands
will lead opinion in the direction of our aims, for an excited
patient loses all power of judgment and easily yields to suggestion.
Those fools who will think they are repeating the opinion of a
newspaper of their own camp will be repeating our opinion or any
opinion that seems desirable for us. In the vain belief that they are
following the organ of their party they will, in fact, follow the
flag which we hang out for them.
13. In order to direct our
newspaper militia in this sense we must take special and minute care
in organizing this matter. Under the title of central department of
the press we shall institute literary gatherings at which our agents
will without attracting attention issue the orders and watchwords of
the day. By discussing and controverting, but always superficially,
without touching the essence of the matter, our organs will carry on
a sham fight fusillade with the official newspapers solely for the
purpose of giving occasion for us to express ourselves more fully
than could well be done from the outset in official announcements,
whenever, of course, that is to our advantage.
14. THESE ATTACKS UPON US
WILL ALSO SERVE ANOTHER PURPOSE, NAMELY, THAT OUR SUBJECTS WILL BE
CONVINCED TO THE EXISTENCE OF FULL FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND SO GIVE OUR
AGENTS AN OCCASION TO AFFIRM THAT ALL ORGANS WHICH OPPOSE US ARE
EMPTY BABBLERS, since they are incapable of finding any substantial
objections to our orders.
ONLY LIES PRINTED
15. Methods of organization
like these, imperceptible to the public eye but absolutely sure, are
the best calculated to succeed in bringing the attention and the
confidence of the public to the side of our government. Thanks to
such methods we shall be in a position as from time to time may be
required, to excite or to tranquilize the public mind on political
questions, to persuade or to confuse, printing now truth, now lies,
facts or their contradictions, according as they may be well or ill
received, always very cautiously feeling our ground before stepping
upon it .... WE SHALL HAVE A SURE TRIUMPH OVER OUR OPPONENTS SINCE
THEY WILL NOT HAVE AT THEIR DISPOSITION ORGANS OF THE PRESS IN WHICH
THEY CAN GIVE FULL AND FINAL EXPRESSION TO THEIR VIEWS owing to the
aforesaid methods of dealing with the press. We shall not even need
to refute them except very superficially.
16. Trial shots like these,
fired by us in the third rank of our press, in case of need, will be
energetically refuted by us in our semi-official organs.
17. Even nowadays, already,
to take only the French press, there are forms which reveal masonic
solidarity in acting on the watchword: all organs of the press are
bound together by professional secrecy; like the augurs of old, not
one of their numbers will give away the secret of his sources of
information unless it be resolved to make announcement of them. Not
one journalist will venture to betray this secret, for not one of
them is ever admitted to practice literature unless his whole past
has some disgraceful sore or other .... These sores would be
immediately revealed. So long as they remain the secret of a few the
prestige of the journalist attacks the majority of the country - the
mob follow after him with enthusiasm.
18. Our calculations are
especially extended to the provinces. It is indispensable for us to
inflame there those hopes and impulses with which we could at any
moment fall upon the capital, and we shall represent to the capitals
that these expressions are the independent hopes and impulses of the
provinces. Naturally, the source of them will be always one and the
same - ours. WHAT WE NEED IS THAT, UNTIL SUCH TIME AS WE ARE IN THE
PLENITUDE POWER, THE CAPITALS SHOULD FIND THEMSELVES STIFLED BY THE
PROVINCIAL OPINION OF THE NATIONS, I.E., OF A MAJORITY ARRANGED BY
OUR AGENTUR. What we need is that at the psychological moment the
capitals should not be in a position to discuss an accomplished fact
for the simple reason, if for no other, that it has been accepted by
the public opinion of a majority in the provinces. 19. WHEN WE
ARE IN THE PERIOD OF THE NEW REGIME TRANSITIONAL TO THAT OF OUR
ASSUMPTION OF FULL SOVEREIGNTY WE MUST NOT ADMIT ANY REVELATION BY
THE PRESS OF ANY FORM OF PUBLIC DISHONESTY; IT IS NECESSARY THAT THE
NEW REGIME SHOULD BE THOUGHT TO HAVE SO PERFECTLY CONTENDED EVERYBODY
THAT EVEN CRIMINALITY HAS DISAPPEARED ... Cases of the manifestation
of criminality should remain known only to their victims and to
chance witnesses - no more.
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