PROTOCOL No. 16
1. In order to effect the
destruction of all collective forces except ours we shall emasculate
the first stage of collectivism - the UNIVERSITIES, by reeducating
them in a new direction. THEIR OFFICIALS AND PROFESSORS WILL BE
PREPARED FOR THEIR BUSINESS BY DETAILED SECRET PROGRAMS OF ACTION
FROM WHICH THEY WILL NOT WITH IMMUNITY DIVERGE, NOT BY ONE IOTA. THEY
WILL BE APPOINTED WITH ESPECIAL PRECAUTION, AND WILL BE SO PLACED AS
TO BE WHOLLY DEPENDENT UPON THE GOVERNMENT.
2. We shall exclude from
the course of instruction State Law as also all that concerns the
political question. These subjects will be taught to a few dozen of
persons chosen for their preeminent capacities from among the number
of the initiated. THE UNIVERSITIES MUST NO LONGER SEND OUT FROM THEIR
HALLS MILK SOPS CONCOCTING PLANS FOR A CONSTITUTION, LIKE A COMEDY OR
A TRAGEDY, BUSYING THEMSELVES WITH QUESTIONS OF POLICY IN WHICH EVEN
THEIR OWN FATHERS NEVER HAD ANY POWER OF THOUGHT.
3. The ill-guided
acquaintance of a large number of persons with questions of polity
creates utopian dreamers and bad subjects, as you can see for
yourselves from the example of the universal education in this
direction of the GOYIM. We must introduce into their education all
those principles which have so brilliantly broken up their order. But
when we are in power we shall remove every kind of disturbing subject
from the course of education and shall make out of the youth obedient
children of authority, loving him who rules as the support and hope
of peace and quiet.
WE SHALL CHANGE HISTORY
4. Classicism as also any
form of study of ancient history, in which there are more bad than
good examples, we shall replace with the study of the program of the
future. We shall erase from the memory of men all facts of previous
centuries which are undesirable to us, and leave only those which
depict all the errors of the government of the GOYIM. The study of
practical life, of the obligations of order, of the relations of
people one to another, of avoiding bad and selfish examples, which
spread the infection of evil, and similar questions of an educative
nature, will stand in the forefront of the teaching program, which
will be drawn up on a separate plan for each calling or state of
life, in no wise generalizing the teaching. This treatment of the
question has special importance.
5. Each state of life must
be trained within strict limits corresponding to its destination and
work in life. The OCCASIONAL GENIUS HAS ALWAYS MANAGED AND ALWAYS
WILL MANAGE TO SLIP THROUGH INTO OTHER STATES OF LIFE, BUT IT IS THE
MOST PERFECT FOLLY FOR THE SAKE OF THIS RARE OCCASIONAL GENIUS TO LET
THROUGH INTO RANKS FOREIGN TO THEM THE UNTALENTED WHO THUS ROB OF
THEIR PLACES WHO BELONG TO THOSE RANKS BY BIRTH OR EMPLOYMENT. YOU
KNOW YOURSELVES IN WHAT ALL THIS HAS ENDED FOR THE "GOYIM" WHO
ALLOWED THIS CRYING ABSURDITY.
6. In order that he who
rules may be seated firmly in the hearts and minds of his subjects it
is necessary for the time of his activity to instruct the whole
nation in the schools and on the market places about this meaning and
his acts and all his beneficent initiatives.
7. We shall abolish every
kind of freedom of instruction. Learners of all ages have the right
to assemble together with their parents in the educational
establishments as it were in a club: during these assemblies, on
holidays, teachers will read what will pass as free lectures on
questions of human relations, of the laws of examples, of the
philosophy of new theories not yet declared to the world. These
theories will be raised by us to the stage of a dogma of faith as a
traditional stage towards our faith. On the completion of this
exposition of our program of action in the present and the future I
will read you the principles of these theories.
8. In a word, knowing by
the experience of many centuries that people live and are guided by
ideas, that these ideas are imbibed by people only by the aid of
education provided with equal success for all ages of growth, but of
course by varying methods, we shall swallow up and confiscate to our
own use the last scintilla of independence of thought, which we have
for long past been directing towards subjects and ideas useful for
us. The system of bridling thought is already at work in the
so-called system of teaching by OBJECT LESSONS, the purpose of which
is to turn the GOYIM into unthinking submissive brutes waiting for
things to be presented before their eyes in order to form an idea of
them .... In France, one of our best agents, Bourgeois, has already
made public a new program of teaching by object lessons.
PROTOCOL No. 17
1. The practice of advocacy
produces men cold, cruel, persistent, unprincipled, who in all cases
take up an impersonal, purely legal standpoint. They have the
inveterate habit to refer everything to its value for the defense and
not to the public welfare of its results. They do not usually decline
to undertake any defense whatever, they strive for an acquittal at
all costs, caviling over every petty crux of jurisprudence and
thereby they demoralize justice. For this reason we shall set this
profession into narrow frames which will keep it inside this sphere
of executive public service. Advocates, equally with judges, will be
deprived of the right of communication with litigant; they well
receive business only from the court and will study it by notes of
report and documents, defending their clients after they have been
interrogated in court on facts that have appeared. They will receive
an honorarium without regard to the quality of the defense. This will
render them mere reporters on law-business in the interests of
justice and as counterpoise to the proctor who will be the reporter
in the interests of prosecution; this will shorten business before
the courts. In this way will be established a practice of honest
unprejudiced defense conducted not from personal interest but by
conviction. This will also, by the way, remove the present practice
of corrupt bargain between advocation to agree only to let that side
win which pays most .....
WE SHALL DESTROY THE CLERGY
2. WE HAVE LONG PAST TAKEN
CARE TO DISCREDIT THE PRIESTHOOD OF "GOYIM," and thereby to ruin
their mission on earth which in these days might still be a great
hindrance to us. Day by day its influence on the peoples of the world
is falling lower. FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE HAS BEEN DECLARED EVERYWHERE,
SO THAT NOW ONLY YEARS DIVIDE US FROM THE MOMENT OF THE COMPLETE
WRECKING OF THAT CHRISTIAN RELIGION: as to other religions we shall
have still less difficulty in dealing with them, but it would be
premature to speak of this now. We shall act clericalism and
clericals into such narrow frames as to make their influence move in
retrogressive proportion to its former progress.
3. When the time comes
finally to destroy the papal court the finger of an invisible hand
will point the nations towards this court. When, however, the nations
fling themselves upon it, we shall come forward in the guise of its
defenders as if to save excessive bloodshed. By this diversion we
shall penetrate to its very bowels and be sure we shall never come
out again until we have gnawed through the entire strength of this
place.
4. THE KING OF THE JEWS
WILL BE THE REAL POPE OF THE UNIVERSE, THE PATRIARCH OF THE
INTERNATIONAL CHURCH (Antichrist??).
5. But, IN THE MEANTIME,
while we are reeducating youth in new traditional religions and
afterwards in ours, WE SHALL NOT OVERTLY LAY A FINGER ON EXISTING
CHURCHES, BUT WE SHALL FIGHT AGAINST THEM BY CRITICISM CALCULATED TO
PRODUCE SCHISM ....
6. In general, then, our
contemporary press will continue to CONVICT State affairs, religions,
incapacities of the GOYIM, always using the most unprincipled
expressions in order by every means to lower their prestige in the
manner which can only be practiced by the genius of our gifted tribe
....
7. Our kingdom will be an
apologia of the divinity Vishnu, in whom is found its personification
- in our hundred hands will be, one in each, the springs of the
machinery of social life. We shall see everything without the aid of
official police which, in that scope of its rights which we
elaborated for the use of the GOYIM, hinders governments from seeing.
In our programs ONE-THIRD OF OUR SUBJECTS WILL KEEP THE REST UNDER
OBSERVATION from a sense of duty, on the principle of volunteer
service to the State. It will then be no disgrace to be a spy and
informer, but a merit: unfounded denunciations, however, will be
cruelly punished that there may be development of abuses of this
right.
8. Our agents will be taken
from the higher as well as the lower ranks of society, from among the
administrative class who spend their time in amusements, editors,
printers and publishers, booksellers, clerks, and salesmen, workmen,
coachmen, lackeys, et cetera. This body, having no rights and not
being empowered to take any action on their own account, and
consequently a police without any power, will only witness and
report: verification of their reports and arrests will depend upon a
responsible group of controllers of police affairs, while the actual
act of arrest will be performed by the gendarmerie and the municipal
police. Any person not denouncing anything seen or heard concerning
questions of polity will also be charged with and made responsible
for concealment, if it be proved that he is guilty of this
crime.
9. JUST AS NOWADAYS OUR
BRETHREN, ARE OBLIGED AT THEIR OWN RISK TO DENOUNCE TO THE KABAL
APOSTATES OF THEIR OWN FAMILY or members who have been noticed doing
anything in opposition to the KABAL, SO IN OUR KINGDOM OVER ALL THE
WORLD IT WILL BE OBLIGATORY FOR ALL OUR SUBJECTS TO OBSERVE THE DUTY
OF SERVICE TO THE STATE IN THIS DIRECTION. 10. Such an
organization will extirpate abuses of authority, of force, of
bribery, everything in fact which we by our counsels, by out theories
of the superhuman rights of man, have introduced into the customs of
the GOYIM .... But how else were we to procure that increase of
causes predisposing to disorders in the midst of their
administration? .... Among the number of those methods one of the
most important is - agents for the restoration of order, so placed as
to have the opportunity in their disintegrating activity of
developing and displaying their evil inclinations - obstinate
self-conceit, irresponsible exercise of authority, and, first and
foremost, venality.
PROTOCOL No. 18
1. When it becomes
necessary for us to strengthen the strict measures of secret defense
(the most fatal poison for the prestige of authority) we shall
arrange a simulation of disorders or some manifestation of
discontents finding expression through the co- operation of good
speakers. Round these speakers will assemble all who are sympathetic
to his utterances. This will give us the pretext for domiciliary
prerequisitions and surveillance on the part of our servants from
among the number of the GOYIM police ....
2. As the majority of
conspirators act of love for the game, for the sake of talking, so,
until they commit some overt act we shall not lay a finger on them
but only introduce into their midst observation elements .... It must
be remembered that the prestige of authority is lessened if it
frequently discovers conspiracies against itself: this implies a
presumption of consciousness of weakness, or, what is still worse, of
injustice. You are aware that we have broken the prestige of the GOY
kings by frequent attempts upon their lives through our agents, blind
sheep of our flock, who are easily moved by a few liberal phrases to
crimes provided only they be painted in political colors. WE HAVE
COMPELLED THE RULERS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR WEAKNESS IN ADVERTISING
OVERT MEASURES OF SECRETE DEFENSE AND THEREBY WE SHALL BRING THE
PROMISE OF AUTHORITY TO DESTRUCTION.
3. Our ruler will be
secretly protected only by the most insignificant guard, because we
shall not admit so much as a thought that there could exist against
him any sedition with which he is not strong enough to contend and is
compelled to hide from it.
4. If we should admit this
thought, as the GOYIM have done and are doing, we should IPSO FACTO
be signing a death sentence, if not for our ruler, at any rate for
his dynasty, at no distant date.
GOVERNMENT BY FEAR
5. According to strictly
enforced outward appearances our ruler will employ his power only for
the advantage of the nation and in no wise for his own or dynastic
profits. Therefore, with the observance of this decorum, his
authority will be respected and guarded by the subjects themselves,
it will receive an apotheosis in the admission that with it is bound
up the well-being of every citizen of the State, for upon it will
depend all order in the common life of the pack ....
6. OVERT DEFENSE OF THE
KIND ARGUES WEAKNESS IN THE ORGANIZATION OF HIS STRENGTH.
7. Our ruler will always be
among the people and be surrounded by a mob of apparently curious men
and women, who will occupy the front ranks about him, to all
appearance by chance, and will restrain the ranks of the rest out of
respect as it will appear for good order. This will sow an example of
restraint also in others. If a petitioner appears among the people
trying to hand a petition and forcing his way through the ranks, the
first ranks must receive the petition and before the eyes of the
petitioner pass it to the ruler, so that all may know that what is
handed in reaches its destination, that consequently, there exists a
control of the ruler himself. The aureole of power requires for is
existence that the people may be able to say: "If the king knew of
this," or: "the king will hear it."
8. WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT
OF OFFICIAL DEFENSE, THE MYSTICAL PRESTIGE OF AUTHORITY DISAPPEARS:
given a certain audacity, and everyone counts himself master of it,
the sedition- monger is conscious of his strength, and when occasion
serves watches for the moment to make an attempt upon authority ....
For the GOYIM we have been preaching something else, but by that very
fact we are enabled to see what measures of overt defense have
brought them to ....
9. CRIMINALS WITH US WILL
BE ARRESTED AT THE FIRST, more or less, well-grounded SUSPICION: it
cannot be allowed that out of fear of a possible mistake an
opportunity should be given of escape to persons suspected of a
political lapse of crime, for in these matters we shall be literally
merciless. If it is still possible, by stretching a point, to admit a
reconsideration of the motive causes in simple crimes, there is no
possibility of excuse for persons occupying themselves with questions
in which nobody except the government can understand anything ....
And it is not all governments that understand true policy.
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