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Information
I have found some very credible articles in
French that clearly demonstrate two things:
First: About 40% of the following
Protocols are made of some sentences coming from a previous
work, also written in French, which is
untitled: "Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu".
This work was published in Brussels in 1864 by
Maurice Joly, an antibonapartiste lawyer who
wanted to demonstrate that the emperor
Bonaparte and his relatives were plotting in hope of getting
all the powers of the French society. Using
this forgotten text, the writer of the Protocols had
replaced the words "France" by "the
world" and "Napoléon III" by "the Jews." There are
25 "Dialogues" in all, whereas there are
24 "Protocols;" the first Protocol being made with the fusion
of the first two Dialogues.
Second: A very serious Russian
historian, Mikhail Lepekhine, has established the author of the
document called "The Protocols of the Elders
of Zion." His name is Mathieu Golovinski, who
made this work in Paris, in the beginning of
the century, for the delegate in France of the political
police of the Russian tsar.
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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."
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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
Zionist 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.
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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 II - The Symbolic Snake of Judaism.
Protocol III opens with a reference to the
Symbolic Snake of Judaism. In his Epilogue to the
1905 Edition of the Protocols, Nilus gives the following
interesting account of this symbol:
"According to the records of secret Jewish Zionism,
Solomon and other Jewish learned men already, in 929 B.C., thought out
a scheme in theory for a peaceful conquest of the whole universe by
Zion. As history developed, this scheme was worked out in detail and
completed by men who were subsequently initiated in this question. These
learned men decided by peaceful means to conquer the world for Zion
with the slyness of the Symbolic Snake, whose head was to represent
those who have been initiated into the plans of the Jewish administration,
and the body of the Snake to represent the Jewish people -
the administration was always kept secret, EVEN FROM THE JEWISH NATION
ITSELF. As this Snake penetrated into the hearts of the nations
which it encountered it undermined and devoured all the non-Jewish power
of these States. It is foretold that the Snake has still to finish
its work, strictly adhering to the designed plan, until the course which
it has to run is closed by the return of its head to Zion and
until, by this means, the Snake has completed its round of
Europe and has encircled it - and until, by dint of enchaining
Europe, it has encompassed the whole world. This it is to accomplish
by using every endeavor to subdue the other countries by an ECONOMICAL
CONQUEST. The return of the head of the Snake to Zion
can only be accomplished after the power of all the Sovereign of
Europe has been laid low, that is to say, when by means of economic
crises and wholesale destruction effected everywhere, there shall have
been brought about a spiritual demoralization and a moral corruption,
chiefly with the assistance of Jewish women masquerading as French,
Italians, etc.. These are the surest spreaders of licentiousness into the
lives of the leading men at the heads of nations. A map of the course of
the Symbolic Snake is shown as follows: - Its first stage in
Europe was in 429 B.C. in Greece, where, about the time of
Pericles, the Snake first started eating into the power of that
country. The second stage was in Rome in the time of Augustus,
about 69 B.C.. The third in Madrid in the time of Charles V,
in A.D. 1552. The fourth in Paris about 1790, in the time of
Louis XVI. The fifth in London from 1814 onwards (after the
downfall of Napoleon). The sixth in Berlin in 1871 after the
Franco-Prussian war. The seventh in St. Petersburg, over
which is drawn the head of the Snake under the date of 1881. [This "Snake"
is now being drawn through the Americas and in the United States
of America, it is been partially identified as the
"Counsel on
Foreign Relations" (C.F.R.) and the
"Tri-Lateral
Commission"]. All these States which the Snake traversed have had the
foundations of their constitutions shaken, Germany, with its
apparent power, forming no exception to the rule. In economic conditions,
England and Germany are spared, but only till the conquest
of Russia is accomplished by the Snake, on which at present [i.e.,
1905] all its efforts are concentrated. The further course of the Snake is
not shown on this map, but arrows indicate its next movement towards
Moscow, Kieft and Odessa. It is now well known to us to what
extent the latter cities form the centuries of the militant Jewish race.
Constantinople is shown as the last stage of the Snake's course
before it reaches Jerusalem. (This map was drawn years before the
occurrence of the "Young Turk" - i.e., Jewish - Revolution in
Turkey). den.
Notes III. - The term "Goyim," meaning Gentile
or non-Jews, is used throughout the
Protocols and is retained by Mr. Marsden
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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 terrorization, 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 program 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 GOYIM 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.
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.
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PROTOCOL No. 2
1. It is indispensable for our purpose that wars,
so far as possible, should not result in territorial gains: war will thus
be brought on to the economic ground, where the nations will not fail to
perceive in the assistance we give the strength of our predominance, and
this state of things will put both sides at the mercy of our international
AGENTUR; which possesses millions of eyes ever on the watch and
unhampered by any limitations whatsoever. Our international rights will
then wipe out national rights, in the proper sense of right, and will rule
the nations precisely as the civil law of States rules the relations of
their subjects among themselves.
2. The administrators, whom we shall choose from
among the public, with strict regard to their capacities for servile
obedience, will not be persons trained in the arts of government, and will
therefore easily become pawns in our game in the hands of men of learning
and genius who will be their advisers, specialists bred and reared from
early childhood to rule the affairs of the whole world. As is well known
to you, these specialists of ours have been drawing to fit them for rule
the information they need from our political plans from the lessons of
history, from observations made of the events of every moment as it
passes. The GOYIM are not guided by practical use of unprejudiced
historical observation, but by theoretical routine without any critical
regard for consequent results. We need not, therefore, take any account of
them - let them amuse themselves until the hour strikes, or live on hopes
of new forms of enterprising pastime, or on the memories of all they have
enjoyed. For them let that play the principal part which we have persuaded
them to accept as the dictates of science (theory). It is with this object
in view that we are constantly, by means of our press, arousing a blind
confidence in these theories. The intellectuals of the GOYIM will
puff themselves up with their knowledge's 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.
Notes II - The Symbolic Snake of Judaism.
Protocol III opens with a reference to the
Symbolic Snake of Judaism. In his Epilogue to the
1905 Edition of the Protocols, Nilus gives the following
interesting account of this symbol:
"According to the records of secret Jewish Zionism,
Solomon and other Jewish learned men already, in 929 B.C., thought out
a scheme in theory for a peaceful conquest of the whole universe by
Zion. As history developed, this scheme was worked out in detail and
completed by men who were subsequently initiated in this question. These
learned men decided by peaceful means to conquer the world for Zion
with the slyness of the Symbolic Snake, whose head was to represent
those who have been initiated into the plans of the Jewish administration,
and the body of the Snake to represent the Jewish people -
the administration was always kept secret, EVEN FROM THE JEWISH NATION
ITSELF. As this Snake penetrated into the hearts of the nations
which it encountered it undermined and devoured all the non-Jewish power
of these States. It is foretold that the Snake has still to finish
its work, strictly adhering to the designed plan, until the course which
it has to run is closed by the return of its head to Zion and
until, by this means, the Snake has completed its round of
Europe and has encircled it - and until, by dint of enchaining
Europe, it has encompassed the whole world. This it is to accomplish
by using every endeavor to subdue the other countries by an ECONOMICAL
CONQUEST. The return of the head of the Snake to Zion
can only be accomplished after the power of all the Sovereign of
Europe has been laid low, that is to say, when by means of economic
crises and wholesale destruction effected everywhere, there shall have
been brought about a spiritual demoralization and a moral corruption,
chiefly with the assistance of Jewish women masquerading as French,
Italians, etc.. These are the surest spreaders of licentiousness into the
lives of the leading men at the heads of nations. A map of the course of
the Symbolic Snake is shown as follows: - Its first stage in
Europe was in 429 B.C. in Greece, where, about the time of
Pericles, the Snake first started eating into the power of that
country. The second stage was in Rome in the time of Augustus,
about 69 B.C.. The third in Madrid in the time of Charles V,
in A.D. 1552. The fourth in Paris about 1790, in the time of
Louis XVI. The fifth in London from 1814 onwards (after the
downfall of Napoleon). The sixth in Berlin in 1871 after the
Franco-Prussian war. The seventh in St. Petersburg, over
which is drawn the head of the Snake under the date of 1881. [This "Snake"
is now being drawn through the Americas and in the United States
of America, it is been partially identified as the
"Council 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.
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PROTOCOL No. 3
1. To-day I may tell you that our goal is now only
a few steps off. There remains a small space to cross and the whole long
path we have trodden is ready now to close its cycle of the Symbolic
Snake, by which we symbolize our people. When this ring closes, all
the States of Europe will be locked in its coil as in a powerful
vice.
2. The constitution scales of these days will
shortly break down, for we have established them with a certain lack of
accurate balance in order that they may oscillate incessantly until they
wear through the pivot on which they turn. The GOYIM are under the
impression that they have welded them sufficiently strong and they have
all along kept on expecting that the scales would come into equilibrium.
But the pivots - the kings on their thrones - are hemmed in by their
representatives, who play the fool, distraught with their own uncontrolled
and irresponsible power. This power they owe to the terror which has been
breathed into the palaces. As they have no means of getting at their
people, into their very midst, the kings on their thrones are no longer
able to come to terms with them and so strengthen themselves against
seekers after power. We have made a gulf between the far-seeing Sovereign
Power and the blind force of the people so that both have lost all
meaning, for like the blind man and his stick, both are powerless apart.
3. In order to incite seekers after power to a
misuse of power we have set all forces in opposition one to another,
breaking up their liberal tendencies towards independence. To this
end we have stirred up every form of enterprise, we have armed all
parties, we have set up authority as a target for every ambition. Of
States we have made gladiatorial arenas where a lot of confused issues
contend .... A little more, and disorders and bankruptcy will be universal
....
4. Babblers, inexhaustible, have turned into
oratorical contests the sittings of Parliament and Administrative Boards.
Bold journalists and unscrupulous pamphleteers daily fall upon executive
officials. Abuses of power will put the final touch in preparing all
institutions for their overthrow and everything will fly skyward under the
blows of the maddened mob.
POVERTY OUR WEAPON
5. All people are chained down to heavy toil by
poverty more firmly than ever. They were chained by slavery and serfdom;
from these, one way and another, they might free themselves. These could
be settled with, but from want they will never get away. We have included
in the constitution such rights as to the masses appear fictitious and not
actual rights. All these so-called "Peoples Rights" can exist only
in idea, an idea which can never be realized in practical life. What is it
to the proletariat laborer, bowed double over his heavy toil, crushed by
his lot in life, if talkers get the right to babble, if journalists get
the right to scribble any nonsense side by side with good stuff, once the
proletariat has no other profit out of the constitution save only those
pitiful crumbs which we fling them from our table in return for their
voting in favor of what we dictate, in favor of the men we place in power,
the servants of our AGENTUR ... Republican rights for a poor man
are no more than a bitter piece of irony, for the necessity he is under of
toiling almost all day gives him no present use of them, but the other
hand robs him of all guarantee of regular and certain earnings by making
him dependent on strikes by his comrades or lockouts by his masters.
WE SUPPORT COMMUNISM
6. The people, under our guidance, have annihilated
the aristocracy, who were their one and only defense and foster- mother
for the sake of their own advantage which is inseparably bound up with the
well-being of the people. Nowadays, with the destruction of the
aristocracy, the people have fallen into the grips of merciless
money-grinding scoundrels who have laid a pitiless and cruel yoke upon the
necks of the workers.
7. We appear on the scene as alleged saviors 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.
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PROTOCOL No. 4
1. Every republic passes through several stages.
The first of these is comprised in the early days of mad raging by the
blind mob, tossed hither and thither, right and left: the second is
demagogy from which is born anarchy, and that leads inevitably to
despotism - not any longer legal and overt, and therefore responsible
despotism, but to unseen and secretly hidden, yet nevertheless sensibly
felt despotism in the hands of some secret organization or other, whose
acts are the more unscrupulous inasmuch as it works behind a screen,
behind the backs of all sorts of agents, the changing of whom not only
does not injuriously affect but actually aids the secret force by saving
it, thanks to continual changes, from the necessity of expanding its
resources on the rewarding of long services.
2. Who and what is in a position to overthrow an
invisible force? And this is precisely what our force is. GENTILE
masonry blindly serves as a screen for us and our objects, but the
plan of action of our force, even its very abiding-place, remains for the
whole people an unknown mystery.
WE SHALL DESTROY GOD
3. But even freedom might be harmless and have its
place in the State economy without injury to the well-being of the peoples
if it rested upon the foundation of faith in God, upon the brotherhood of
humanity, unconnected with the conception of equality, which is negatived
by the very laws of creation, for they have established subordination.
With such a faith as this a people might be governed by a wardship of
parishes, and would walk contentedly and humbly under the guiding hand of
its spiritual pastor submitting to the dispositions of God upon earth.
This is the reason why IT IS INDISPENSABLE FOR US TO UNDERMINE ALL
FAITH, TO TEAR OUT OF THE MIND OF THE "GOYIM" THE VERY PRINCIPLE OF
GOD-HEAD AND THE SPIRIT, AND TO PUT IN ITS PLACE ARITHMETICAL CALCULATIONS
AND MATERIAL NEEDS.
4. In order to give the GOYIM no time to
think and take note, their minds must be diverted towards industry and
trade. Thus, all the nations will be swallowed up in the pursuit of gain
and in the race for it will not take note of their common foe. But again,
in order that freedom may once for all disintegrate and ruin the
communities of the GOYIM, we must put industry on a speculative
basis: the result of this will be that what is withdrawn from the land by
industry will slip through the hands and pass into speculation, that is,
to our classes.
5. The intensified struggle for superiority and
shocks delivered to economic life will create, nay, have already created,
disenchanted, cold and heartless communities. Such communities will foster
a strong aversion towards the higher political and towards religion. Their
only guide is gain, that is Gold, which they will erect into a veritable
cult, for the sake of those material delights which it can give. Then will
the hour strike when, not for the sake of attaining the good, not even to
win wealth, but solely out of hatred towards the privileged, the lower
classes of the GOYIM will follow our lead against our rivals for
power, the intellectuals of the GOYIM.
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PROTOCOL No. 5
1. What form of administrative rule can be given to
communities in which corruption has penetrated everywhere, communities
where riches are attained only by the clever surprise tactics of
semi-swindling tricks; where looseness reigns: where morality is
maintained by penal measures and harsh laws but not by voluntarily
accepted principles: where the feelings towards faith and country are
obligated by cosmopolitan convictions? What form of rule is to be given to
these communities if not that despotism which I shall describe to you
later? We shall create an intensified centralization of government in
order to grip in our hands all the forces of the community. We shall
regulate mechanically all the actions of the political life of our
subjects by new laws. These laws will withdraw one by one all the
indulgences and liberties which have been permitted by the GOYIM,
and our kingdom will be distinguished by a despotism of such magnificent
proportions as to be at any moment and in every place in a position to
wipe out any GOYIM who oppose us by deed or word.
2. We shall be told that such a despotism as I
speak of is not consistent with the progress of these days, but I will
prove to you that 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 ELOQUENCE.
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.
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PROTOCOL No. 6
1. We shall soon begin to establish huge
monopolies, reservoirs of colossal riches, upon which even, large fortunes
of the GOYIM will depend to such an extent that they will go to the
bottom together with the credit of the States on the day after the
political smash ...
2. You gentlemen here present who are economists,
just strike an estimate of the significance of this combination! ...
3. In every possible way we must develop the
significance of our Super-Government by representing it as the Protector
and Benefactor of all those who voluntarily submit to us.
4. The aristocracy of the GOYIM as a
political force, is dead - We need not take it into account; but as landed
proprietors they can still be harmful to us from the fact that they are
self-sufficing in the resources upon which they live. It is essential
therefore for us at whatever cost to deprive them of their land. This
object will be best attained by increasing the burdens upon landed
property - in loading lands with debts. These measures will check land-
holding and keep it in a state of humble and 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.
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PROTOCOL No. 7
1. The intensification of armaments, the increase
of police forces - are all essential for the completion of the
aforementioned plans. What we have to get at is that there should be in
all the States of the world, besides ourselves, only the masses of the
proletariat, a few millionaires devoted to our interests, police and
soldiers.
2. Throughout all Europe, and by means of
relations with Europe, in other continents also, we must create
ferments, discords and hostility. Therein we gain a double advantage. In
the first place we keep in check all countries, for they will know that we
have the power whenever we like to create disorders or to restore order.
All these countries are accustomed to see in us an indispensable force of
coercion. In the second place, by our intrigues we shall tangle up all the
threads which we have stretched into the cabinets of all States by means
of the political, by economic treaties, or loan obligations. In order to
succeed in this we must use great cunning and penetration during
negotiations and agreements, but, as regards what is called the
"official language," we shall keep to the opposite tactics and assume
the mask of honesty and complacency. In this way the peoples and
governments of the GOYIM, whom we have taught to look only at the
outside whatever we present to their notice, will still continue to accept
us as the benefactors and saviors 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.
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PROTOCOL No. 8
1. We must arm ourselves with all the weapons which
our opponents might employ against us. We must search out in the very
finest shades of expression and the knotty points of the lexicon of law
justification for those cases where we shall have to pronounce judgments
that might appear abnormally audacious and unjust, for it is important
that these resolutions should be set forth in expressions that shall seem
to be the most exalted moral principles cast into legal form. Our
directorate must surround itself with all these forces of civilization
among which it will have to work. It will surround itself with publicists,
practical jurists, administrators, diplomats and, finally, with persons
prepared by a special super-educational training IN OUR SPECIAL SCHOOLS
(Rhode Scholars?). These persons will have consonance of all the
secrets of the social structure, they will know all the languages that can
be made up by political alphabets and words; they will be made acquainted
with the whole underside of human nature, with all its sensitive chords on
which they will have to play. These chords are the cast of mind of the
GOYIM, their tendencies, short-comings, vices and qualities, the
particularities of classes and conditions. Needless to say that the
talented assistants of authority, of whom I speak, will be taken not from
among the GOYIM, who are accustomed to perform their administrative
work without giving themselves the trouble to think what its aim is, and
never consider what it is needed for. The administrators of the GOYIM
sign papers without reading them, and they serve either for mercenary
reasons or from ambition.
2. We shall surround our government with a whole
world of economists. That is the reason why economic sciences form the
principal subject of the teaching given to the Jews. Around us again will
be a whole constellation of bankers, industrialists, capitalists and -
THE MAIN THING - MILLIONAIRES, BECAUSE IN SUBSTANCE EVERYTHING WILL
BE SETTLED BY THE QUESTION OF FIGURES.
3. For a time, until there will no longer be any
risk in entrusting responsible posts in our State to our brother-Jews, we
shall put them in the hands of persons whose past and reputation are such
that between them and the people lies an abyss, persons who, in case of
disobedience to our instructions, must face criminal charges or disappear
- this in order to make them defend our interests to their last gasp.
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PROTOCOL No. 9
1. In applying our principles let attention be paid
to the character of the people in whose country you live and act; a
general, identical application of them, until such time as the people
shall have been re-educated to our pattern, cannot have success. But by
approaching their application cautiously you will see that not a decade
will pass before the most stubborn character will change and we shall add
a new people to the ranks of those already subdued by us.
2. The words of the liberal, which are in effect
the words of our Masonic watchword, namely, "Liberty, Equality,
Fraternity," will, when we come into our kingdom, be changed by us
into words no longer of a watchword, but only an expression of idealism,
namely, into "The right of liberty, the duty of equality, the ideal of
brotherhood." That is how we shall put it, - and so we shall catch the
bull by the horns ... DE FACTO we have already wiped out every kind
of rule except our own, although DE JURE there still remain a good
many of them. Nowadays, if any States raise a protest against us it is
only PRO FORMA at our discretion and by our direction, for THEIR
ANTI-SEMITISM IS INDISPENSABLE TO US FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF OUR LESSER
BRETHREN. I will not enter into further explanations, for this matter
has formed the subject of repeated discussions amongst us.
JEWISH SUPER-STATE
3. For us there are not checks to limit the range
of our activity. Our Super-Government subsists in extra-legal conditions
which are described in the accepted terminology by the energetic and
forcible word - Dictatorship. I am in a position to tell you with a clear
conscience that at the proper time we, the law-givers, shall execute
judgment and sentence, we shall slay and we shall spare, we, as head of
all our troops, are mounted on the steed of the leader. We rule by force
of will, because in our hands are the fragments of a once powerful party,
now vanquished by us. AND THE WEAPONS IN OUR HANDS ARE LIMITLESS
AMBITIONS, BURNING GREEDINESS, MERCILESS VENGEANCE, HATREDS AND MALICE.
4. IT IS FROM US THAT THE ALL-ENGULFING TERROR
PROCEEDS. WE HAVE IN OUR SERVICE PERSONS OF ALL OPINIONS, OF ALL
DOCTRINES, RESTORATING MONARCHISTS, DEMAGOGUES, SOCIALISTS, COMMUNISTS,
AND UTOPIAN DREAMERS OF EVERY KIND. We have harnessed them all to the
task: EACH ONE OF THEM ON HIS OWN ACCOUNT IS BORING AWAY AT THE LAST
REMNANTS OF AUTHORITY, IS STRIVING TO OVERTHROW ALL ESTABLISHED FORM OF
ORDER. By these acts all States are in torture; they exhort to
tranquility, are ready to sacrifice everything for peace: BUT WE WILL
NOT GIVE THEM PEACE UNTIL THEY OPENLY ACKNOWLEDGE OUR INTERNATIONAL
SUPER-GOVERNMENT, AND WITH SUBMISSIVENESS (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 maneuver of such appalling
terror that the very stoutest hearts quail - the undergrounds,
metropolitans, those subterranean corridors which, before the time comes,
will be driven under all the capitals and from whence those capitals will
be blown into the air with all their organizations and archives.
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PROTOCOL No. 10
1. To-day I begin with a repetition of what I said
before, and I BEG YOU TO BEAR IN MIND THAT GOVERNMENTS AND PEOPLE ARE
CONTENT IN THE POLITICAL WITH OUTSIDE APPEARANCES. And how, indeed,
are the GOYIM to perceive the underlying meaning of things when
their representatives give the best of their energies to enjoying
themselves? For our policy it is of the greatest importance to take
cognizance of this detail; it will be of assistance to us when we come to
consider the division of authority of property, of the dwelling, of
taxation (the idea of concealed taxes), of the reflex force of the
laws. All these questions are such as ought not to be touched upon
directly and openly before the people. In cases where it is indispensable
to touch upon them they must not be categorically named, it must merely be
declared without detailed exposition that the principles of contemporary
law are acknowledged by us. The reason of keeping silence in this respect
is that by not naming a principle we leave ourselves freedom of action, to
drop this or that out of it without attracting notice; if they were all
categorically named they would all appear to have been already given.
2. The mob cherishes a special affection and
respect for the geniuses of political power and accepts all their deeds of
violence with the admiring response: "rascally, well, yes, it is
rascally, but it's clever! ... a trick, if you like, but how craftily
played, how magnificently done, what impudent audacity!" ...
OUR GOAL - WORLD POWER
3. We count upon attracting all nations to the task
of erecting the new fundamental structure, the project for which has been
drawn up by us. This is why, before everything, it is indispensable for us
to arm ourselves and to store up in ourselves that absolutely reckless
audacity and irresistible might of the spirit which in the person of our
active workers will break down all hindrances on our way.
4. WHEN WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED OUR COUP D'ETAT WE SHALL
SAY THEN TO THE VARIOUS PEOPLES: "EVERYTHING HAS GONE TERRIBLY BADLY,
ALL HAVE BEEN WORN OUT WITH SUFFERING. WE ARE DESTROYING THE CAUSES OF
YOUR TORMENT - NATIONALITIES, FRONTIERS, DIFFERENCES OF COINAGES. YOU ARE
AT LIBERTY, OF COURSE, TO PRONOUNCE SENTENCE UPON US, BUT CAN IT POSSIBLY
BE A JUST ONE IF IT IS CONFIRMED BY YOU BEFORE YOU MAKE ANY TRIAL OF WHAT
WE ARE OFFERING YOU." ... THEN WILL THE MOB EXALT US AND BEAR US UP IN
THEIR HANDS IN A UNANIMOUS TRIUMPH OF HOPES AND EXPECTATIONS. VOTING,
WHICH WE HAVE MADE THE INSTRUMENT WHICH WILL SET US ON THE THRONE OF THE
WORLD BY TEACHING EVEN THE VERY SMALLEST UNITS OF MEMBERS OF THE HUMAN
RACE TO VOTE BY MEANS OF MEETINGS AND AGREEMENTS BY GROUPS, WILL THEN HAVE
SERVED ITS PURPOSES AND WILL PLAY ITS PART THEN FOR THE LAST TIME BY A
UNANIMITY OF DESIRE TO MAKE CLOSE ACQUAINTANCE WITH US BEFORE CONDEMNING
US.
5. TO SECURE THIS WE MUST HAVE EVERYBODY VOTE WITHOUT
DISTINCTION OF CLASSES AND QUALIFICATIONS, in order to establish an
absolute majority, which cannot be got from the educated propertied
classes. In this way, by inculcating in all a sense of self-importance, we
shall destroy among the GOYIM the importance of the family and its
educational value and remove the possibility of individual minds splitting
off, for the mob, handled by us, will not let them come to the front nor
even give them a hearing; it is accustomed to listen to us only who pay it
for obedience and attention. In this way we shall create a blind, mighty
force which will never be in a position to move in any direction without
the guidance of our agents set at its head by us as leaders of the mob.
The people will submit to this regime because it will know that upon these
leaders will depend its earnings, gratifications and the receipt of all
kinds of benefits.
6. A scheme of government should come ready made
from one brain, because it will never be clinched firmly if it is allowed
to be split into fractional parts in the minds of many. It is allowable,
therefore, for us to have cognizance of the scheme of action but not to
discuss it lest we disturb its artfulness, the interdependence of its
component parts, the practical force of the secret meaning of each clause.
To discuss and make alterations in a labor of this kind by means of
numerous voting's 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.
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PROTOCOL No. 11
1. The State Council has been, as it were, the
emphatic expression of the authority of the ruler: it will be, as the
"show" part of the Legislative Corps, what may be called the editorial
committee of the laws and decrees of the ruler.
2. This, then, is the program of the new
constitution. We shall make Law, Right and Justice (1) in the guise
of proposals to the Legislative Corps, (2) by decrees of the
president under the guise of general regulations, of orders of the Senate
and of resolutions of the State Council in the guise of ministerial
orders, (3) and in case a suitable occasion should arise - in the
form of a revolution in the State.
3. Having established approximately the MODUS
AGENDI we will occupy ourselves with details of those combinations by
which we have still to complete the revolution in the course of the
machinery of State in the direction already indicated. By these
combinations I mean the freedom of the Press, the right of association,
freedom of conscience, the voting principle, and many another that must
disappear for ever from the memory of man, or undergo a radical alteration
the day after the promulgation of the new constitution. It is only at the
moment that we shall be able at once to announce all our orders, for,
afterwards, every noticeable alteration will be dangerous, for the
following reasons: if this alteration be brought in with harsh severity
and in a sense of severity and limitations, it may lead to a feeling of
despair caused by fear of new alterations in the same direction; if, on
the other hand, it be brought in a sense of further indulgences it will be
said that we have recognized our own wrong-doing and this will destroy the
prestige of the infallibility of our authority, or else it will be said
that we have become alarmed and are compelled to show a yielding
disposition, for which we shall get no thanks because it will be supposed
to be compulsory ... Both the one and the other are injurious to the
prestige of the new constitution. What we want is that from the first
moment of its promulgation, while the peoples of the world are still
stunned by the accomplished fact of the revolution, still in a condition
of terror and uncertainty, they should recognize once for all that we are
so strong, so inexpugnable, so super-abundantly filled with power, that in
no case shall we take any account of them, and so far from paying any
attention to their opinions or wishes, we are ready and able to crush with
irresistible power all expression or manifestation thereof at every moment
and in every place, that we have seized at once everything we wanted and
shall in no case divide our power with them ... Then in fear and trembling
they will close their eyes to everything, and be content to await what
will be the end of it all.
WE ARE WOLVES
4. The GOYIM are a flock of sheep, and we
are their wolves. And you know what happens when the wolves get hold of
the flock? ....
5. There is another reason also why they will close
their eyes: for we shall keep promising them to give back all the
liberties we have taken away as soon as we have quelled the enemies of
peace and tamed all parties ....
6. It is not worth to say anything about how long a
time they will be kept waiting for this return of their liberties ....
7. For what purpose then have we invented this
whole policy and insinuated it into the minds of the GOY without
giving them any chance to examine its underlying meaning? For what,
indeed, if not in order to obtain in a roundabout way what is for our
scattered tribe unattainable by the direct road? It is this which has
served as the basis for our organization of SECRET MASONRY WHICH IS NOT
KNOWN TO, AND AIMS WHICH ARE NOT EVEN SO MUCH AS SUSPECTED BY, THESE
"GOY" CATTLE, ATTRACTED BY US INTO THE "SHOW" ARMY OF MASONIC
LODGES IN ORDER TO THROW DUST IN THE EYES OF THEIR FELLOWS.
8. God has granted to us, His Chosen
People, the gift of the dispersion, and in this which appears in all
eyes to be our weakness, has come forth all our strength, which has now
brought us to the threshold of sovereignty over all the world.
9. There now remains not much more for us to build
up upon the foundation we have laid.
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PROTOCOL No. 12
1. The word "freedom," which can be
interpreted in various ways, is defined by us as follows -
2. Freedom is the right to do what which the law
allows. This interpretation of the word will at the proper time be of
service to us, because all freedom will thus be in our hands, since the
laws will abolish or create only that which is desirable for us according
to the aforesaid program.
3. We shall deal with the press in the following
way: what is the part played by the press to-day? It serves to excite and
inflame those passions which are needed for our purpose or else it serves
selfish ends of parties. It is often vapid, unjust, mendacious, and the
majority of the public have not the slightest idea what ends the press
really serves. We shall saddle and bridle it with a tight curb: we shall
do the same also with all productions of the printing press, for where
would be the sense of getting rid of the attacks of the press if we remain
targets for pamphlets and books? The produce of publicity, which nowadays
is a source of heavy expense owing to the necessity of censoring it, will
be turned by us into a very lucrative source of income to our State: we
shall law on it a special stamp tax and require deposits of caution-money
before permitting the establishment of any organ of the press or of
printing offices; these will then have to guarantee our government against
any kind of attack on the part of the press. For any attempt to attack us,
if such still be possible, we shall inflict fines without mercy. Such
measures as stamp tax, deposit of caution-money and fines secured by these
deposits, will bring in a huge income to the government. It is true that
party organs might not spare money for the sake of publicity, but these we
shall shut up at the second attack upon us. No one shall with impunity lay
a finger on the aureole of our government infallibility. The pretext for
stopping any publication will be the alleged plea that it is agitating the
public mind without occasion or justification. I BEG YOU TO NOTE THAT
AMONG THOSE MAKING ATTACKS UPON US WILL ALSO BE ORGANS ESTABLISHED BY US,
BUT THEY WILL ATTACK EXCLUSIVELY POINTS THAT WE HAVE PRE-DETERMINED TO
ALTER.
WE CONTROL THE PRESS
4. NOT A SINGLE ANNOUNCEMENT WILL REACH THE PUBLIC
WITHOUT OUR CONTROL. Even now this is already being attained by us
inasmuch as all news items are received by a few agencies, in whose
offices they are focused from all parts of the world. These agencies will
then be already entirely ours and will give publicity only to what we
dictate to them.
5. If already now we have contrived to possess
ourselves of the minds of the GOY communities to such an extent the
they all come near looking upon the events of the world through the
colored glasses of those spectacles we are setting astride their noses; if
already now there is not a single State where there exist for us any
barriers to admittance into what GOY stupidity calls State secrets:
what will our positions be then, when we shall be acknowledged supreme
lords of the world in the person of our king of all the world ....
6. Let us turn again to the FUTURE OF THE
PRINTING PRESS. Every one desirous of being a publisher, librarian, or
printer, will be obliged to provide himself with the diploma instituted
therefore, which, in case of any fault, will be immediately impounded.
With such measures THE INSTRUMENT OF THOUGHT WILL BECOME AN EDUCATIVE
MEANS ON THE HANDS OF OUR GOVERNMENT, WHICH WILL NO LONGER ALLOW THE MASS
OF THE NATION TO BE LED ASTRAY IN BY-WAYS AND FANTASIES ABOUT THE
BLESSINGS OF PROGRESS. Is there any one of us who does not know that
these phantom blessings are the direct roads to foolish imaginings which
give birth to anarchical relations of men among themselves and towards
authority, because progress, or rather the idea of progress, has
introduced the conception of every kind of emancipation, but has failed to
establish its limits .... All the so-called liberals are anarchists, if
not in fact, at any rate in thought. Every one of them in hunting after
phantoms of freedom, and falling exclusively into license, that is, into
the anarchy of protest for the sake of protest ....
FREE PRESS DESTROYED
7. We turn to the periodical press. We shall impose
on it, as on all printed matter, stamp taxes per sheet and deposits of
caution- money, and books of less than 30 sheets will pay double. We shall
reckon them as pamphlets in order, on the one hand, to reduce the number
of magazines, which are the worst form of printed poison, and, on the
other, in order that this measure may force writers into such lengthy
productions that they will be little read, especially as they will be
costly. At the same time what we shall publish ourselves to influence
mental development in the direction laid down for our profit will be cheap
and will be read voraciously. The tax will bring vapid literary ambitions
within bounds and the liability to penalties will make literary men
dependent upon us. And if there should be any found who are desirous of
writing against us, they will not find any person eager to print their
productions in print the publisher or printer will have to apply to the
authorities for permission to do so. Thus we shall know beforehand of all
tricks preparing against us and shall nullify them by getting ahead with
explanations on the subject treated of.
8. Literature and journalism are two of the most
important educative forces, and therefore our government will become
proprietor of the majority of the journals. This will neutralize the
injurious influence of the privately-owned press and will put us in
possession of a tremendous influence upon the public mind .... If we give
permits for ten journals, we shall ourselves found thirty, and so on in
the same proportion. This, however, must in no wise be suspected by the
public. For which reason all journals published by us will be of the most
opposite, in appearance, tendencies and opinions, thereby creating
confidence in us and bringing over to us quite unsuspicious opponents, who
will thus fall into our trap and be rendered harmless.
9. In the front rank will stand organs of an
official character. They will always stand guard over our interests, and
therefore their influence will be comparatively insignificant.
10. In the second rank will be the semi-official
organs, whose part it will be to attack the tepid and indifferent.
11. In the third rank we shall set up our own, to
all appearance, off position, which, in at least one of its organs, will
present what looks like the very antipodes to us. Our real opponents at
heart will accept this simulated opposition as their own and will show us
their cards.
12. All our newspapers will be of all possible
complexions - aristocratic, republican, revolutionary, even anarchical -
for so long, of course, as the constitution exists .... Like the Indian
idol "Vishnu" they will have a hundred hands, and every one of them
will have a finger on any one of the public opinions as required. When a
pulse quickens these hands will lead opinion in the direction of our aims,
for an excited patient loses all power of judgment and easily yields to
suggestion. Those fools who will think they are repeating the opinion of a
newspaper of their own camp will be repeating our opinion or any opinion
that seems desirable for us. In the vain belief that they are following
the organ of their party they will, in fact, follow the flag which we hang
out for them.
13. In order to direct our newspaper militia in
this sense we must take special and minute care in organizing this matter.
Under the title of central department of the press we shall institute
literary gatherings at which our agents will without attracting attention
issue the orders and watchwords of the day. By discussing and
controverting, but always superficially, without touching the essence of
the matter, our organs will carry on a sham fight fusillade with the
official newspapers solely for the purpose of giving occasion for us to
express ourselves more fully than could well be done from the outset in
official announcements, whenever, of course, that is to our advantage.
14. THESE ATTACKS UPON US WILL ALSO SERVE ANOTHER
PURPOSE, NAMELY, THAT OUR SUBJECTS WILL BE CONVINCED TO THE EXISTENCE OF
FULL FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND SO GIVE OUR AGENTS AN OCCASION TO AFFIRM THAT
ALL ORGANS WHICH OPPOSE US ARE EMPTY BABBLERS, since they are
incapable of finding any substantial objections to our orders.
ONLY LIES PRINTED
15. Methods of organization like these,
imperceptible to the public eye but absolutely sure, are the best
calculated to succeed in bringing the attention and the confidence of the
public to the side of our government. Thanks to such methods we shall be
in a position as from time to time may be required, to excite or to
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.
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PROTOCOL No. 13
1. The need for daily forces the GOYIM to
keep silence and be our humble servants. Agents taken on to our press from
among the GOYIM will at our orders discuss anything which it is
inconvenient for us to issue directly in official documents, and we
meanwhile, quietly amid the din of the discussion so raised, shall simply
take and carry through such measures as we wish and then offer them to the
public as an accomplished fact. No one will dare to demand the abrogation
of a matter once settled, all the more so as it will be represented as an
improvement ... And immediately the press will distract the current of
thought towards, new questions, (have we not trained people always to
be seeking something new?). Into the discussions of these new
questions will throw themselves those of the brainless dispensers of
fortunes who are not able even now to understand that they have not the
remotest conception about the matters which they undertake to discuss.
Questions of the political are 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
