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			PROTOCOL 15 
			 
			
			
			  
			RUTHLESS SUPPRESSION 
			
			Simultaneous world revolution  Purpose and direction of masonry  
			The Chosen People  Dogmatic right of the strong  
			
			
			 The King of 
			Israel  
			
				
				1. When we at last definitely come into our kingdom by the aid of 
			coups detat prepared everywhere for one and the same day, after 
			being definitely acknowledged (and not a little time will pass 
			before that comes about, perhaps even a whole century), we shall 
			make it our task to see that, against us, such things as plots shall 
			no longer exist. With this purpose we shall slay without mercy all 
			who take arms (in hand) to oppose our coming into our kingdom. Every 
			kind of new institution of anything like a secret society will also 
			be punished with death; those of them which are now in existence; 
			are known to us; serve us and have served us; we shall disband and 
			send into exile to continents far removed from Europe. In this way 
			we shall proceed with those goy masons who know too much; such of 
			these as we may for some reason spare will be kept in constant fear 
			of exile. We shall promulgate a law making all former members of 
			secret societies liable to exile from Europe as the centre of rule. 
				 2. Resolutions of our government will be final, without appeal. 
				 3. In the goy societies, in which we have planted and deeply rooted 
			discord and protestantism, the only possible way of restoring order 
			is to employ merciless measures that prove the direct force of 
			authority: no regard must be paid to the victims who fall, they 
			suffer for the well-being of the future. The attainment of that 
			well-being, even at the expense of sacrifices, is the duty of any 
			kind of government that acknowledges, as justification for its 
			existence, not only its privileges but also its obligations. The 
			principal guarantee of stability of rule is to confirm the aureole 
			of power, and this aureole is attained only by such a majestic 
			inflexibility of might, as shall carry on its face the emblems of 
			inviolability from mystical causes  from the choice of God. Such 
			was, until recent times, the Russian autocracy, the one and only 
			serious foe we had in the world, without counting the Papacy. Bear 
			in mind the example when Italy, drenched with blood, never touched a 
			hair of the head of Sulla who had poured forth that blood: Sulla 
			enjoyed an apotheosis for his might in him, but his intrepid return 
			to Italy ringed him round with inviolability. The people do not lay 
			a finger on him who hypnotizes them by his daring and strength of 
			mind.   
				
				SECRET SOCIETIES 
				
				4. Meantime, however, until we come into our kingdom, we shall act 
			in the contrary way: we shall create and multiply free masonic 
			lodges in all the countries of the world, absorb into them all who 
			may become or who are prominent in public activity, for these lodges 
			we shall find our principal intelligence office and means of 
			influence. All these lodges we shall bring under one central 
			administration, known to us alone and to all others absolutely 
			unknown, which will be composed of our learned elders. The lodges 
			will have their representatives who will serve to screen the 
			above-mentioned administration of masonry and from whom will issue 
			the watchword and program. In these lodges we shall tie together the 
			knot which binds together all revolutionary and liberal elements. 
			Their composition will be made up of all strata of society. The most 
			secret political plots will be known to us and fall under our 
			guiding hands on the very day of their conception. Among the members 
			of these lodges will be almost all the agents of international and 
			national police, since their service is, for us, irreplaceable, in 
			the respect that the police is in a position not only to use its own 
			particular measures with the insubordinate, but also to screen our 
			activities and provide pretexts for discontents, et cetera.
  5. The class of people who most willingly enter into secret 
			societies are those who live by their wits, careerists, and in 
			general, people; mostly light-minded; with whom we shall have no 
			difficulty in dealing and in using to wind-up the mechanism of the 
			machine devised by us. If this world grows agitated, the meaning of 
			that will be, that which we have had to stir-up in order to break up 
			its too great solidarity. But if there should arise in its midst a 
			plot, then at the head of that plot will be no other than one of our 
			most trusted servants. It is natural that we and no other should 
			lead masonic activities, for we know whither we are leading; we know 
			the final goal of every form of activity; whereas the goyim have 
			knowledge of nothing, not even of the immediate effect of action 
			they put before themselves; usually, the momentary reckoning of the 
			satisfaction of their self-opinion, in the accomplishment of their 
			thought; without even remarking that the very conception never 
			belonged to their initiative, but to our instigation of their 
			thought....   
				
				GENTILES ARE STUPID 
				
				6. The goyim enter the lodges out of curiosity, or in the hope by 
			their means to get a nibble at the public pie, and some of them in 
			order to obtain a hearing before the public for their impracticable 
			and groundless fantasies: they thirst for the emotion of success and 
			applause, of which we are remarkably generous. And the reason why we 
			give them this success is to make use of the high conceit of 
			themselves to which it gives birth, for that insensibly disposes 
			them to assimilate our suggestions; without being on their guard 
			against them; in the fullness of their confidence that it is their 
			own infallibility which is giving utterance to their own thoughts 
			and that it is impossible for them to borrow those of others....You 
			cannot imagine to what extent the wisest of the goyim can be brought 
			to a state of unconscious naivete in the presence of this condition 
			of high conceit of themselves, and at the same time how easy it is 
			to take the heart out of them by the slightest ill-success, though 
			it be nothing more than the stoppage of the applause they had, and 
			to reduce them to a slavish submission for the sake of winning a 
			renewal of success....By so much as ours disregard success, if only 
			they can carry through their plans: by so much the goyim are willing 
			to sacrifice any plans only to have success. This psychology of 
			theirs materially facilitates for us the task of setting them in the 
			required direction. These tigers in appearance have 
			the souls of sheep and the wind blows freely through their heads. We 
			have set them on the hobby-horse of an idea about the absorption of 
			individuality by the symbolic unit of collectivism....They have 
			never yet and they never will have the sense to reflect that this 
			hobby-horse is a manifest violation of the most important law of 
			nature, which has established from the very creation of the world 
			one unit unlike another and precisely for the purpose of instituting 
			individuality....
  7. If we have been able to bring them to such a pitch of stupid 
			blindness is it not a proof, and an amazingly clear proof, of the 
			degree to which the mind of the goyim is undeveloped in comparison 
			with our mind? This it is, mainly, which guarantees our success. 
				  
				
				GENTILES ARE CATTLE 
				
				8. And how far-seeing were our learned elders in ancient times, when 
			they said, that to attain a serious end, it behoves not to stop at 
			any means or to count the victims sacrificed for the sake of that 
			end....We have not counted the victims of the seed of the goy 
			cattle, though we have sacrificed many of our own, but for that we 
			have now already given them such a position on the Earth as they 
			could not even have dreamed of. The comparatively small numbers of 
			the victims, from the number of ours, have preserved our nationality 
			from destruction.
  9. Death is the inevitable end for all. It is better to bring that 
			end nearer to those who hinder our affairs than to ourselves, to the 
			founders of this affair. We execute masons in such wise that none 
			save the brotherhood can ever have a suspicion of it, not even the 
			victims themselves of our death-sentence, they all die when 
			required, as if from a normal kind of illness..... Knowing this, even 
			the brotherhood in its turn dare not protest. By such methods we 
			have plucked out of the midst of masonry the very root of protest 
			against our disposition. While preaching liberalism to the goy we at 
			the same time keep our own people and our agents in a state of 
			unquestioning submission.
  10. Under our influence the execution of the laws of 
				the goyim has 
			been reduced to a minimum. The prestige of the law has been exploded 
			by the liberal interpretations introduced into this sphere. In the 
			most important and fundamental affairs and questions, judges decide 
			as we dictate to them; see matters in the light wherewith we enfold 
			them for the administration of the goyim, of course, through persons 
			who are our tools, though we do not appear to have anything in 
			common with them  by newspaper opinion or by other means....Even 
			senators and the higher administration accept our counsels. The 
			purely brute mind of the goyim is incapable of use for analysis and 
			observation, and still more for the foreseeing whither a certain 
			manner of setting a question may tend.
  11. In this difference, in capacity for thought, between 
				the goyim 
			and ourselves, may be clearly discerned the seal of our position as 
			the Chosen People and of our higher quality of humanness, in 
			contradistinction to the brute mind of the goyim. Their eyes are 
			open, but see nothing before them (Isaiah 42:16-25) and do not 
			invent (unless perhaps, material things). From this it is plain that 
			nature herself has destined us to guide and rule the world.   
				
				WE DEMAND SUBMISSION 
				
				12. When comes the time of our overt rule, the time to manifest its 
			blessing, we shall remake all legislatures, all our laws will be 
			brief, plain, stable, without any kind of interpretations, so that 
			anyone will be in a position to know them perfectly. The main 
			feature which will run right through them is submission to orders, 
			and this principle will be carried to a grandiose height. Every 
			abuse will then disappear in consequence of the responsibility of 
			all down to the lowest unit before the higher authority of the 
			representative of power. Abuses of power subordinate to this last 
			instance will be so mercilessly punished that none will be found 
			anxious to try experiments with their own powers. We shall follow up 
			jealously every action of the administration on which depends the 
			smooth running of the machinery of the State, for slackness in this 
			produces slackness everywhere; not a single case of illegality or 
			abuse of power will be left without exemplary punishment.
  13. Concealment of guilt, connivance between those in the service of 
			the administration  all this kind of evil will disappear after the 
			very first examples of severe punishment. The aureole of our power 
			demands suitable, that is, cruel, punishments for the slightest 
			infringement, for the sake of gain, of its supreme prestige. The 
			sufferer, though his punishment may exceed his fault, will count as 
			a soldier falling on the administrative field of battle, in the 
			interest of authority; principle and law, which do not permit that 
			any of those who hold the reins of the public coach should turn 
			aside from the public highway to their own private paths. For 
			example: our judges will know that whenever they feel disposed to 
			plume themselves, on foolish clemency, they are violating the law of 
			justice which is instituted for the exemplary edification of men by 
			penalties for lapse and not for display of the spiritual qualities 
			of the judge....Such qualities it is proper to show in private life, 
			but not in a public square which is the educational basis of human 
			life.
  14. Our legal staff will serve not beyond the age of 55, firstly 
			because old men more obstinately hold to prejudiced opinions, and 
			are less capable of submitting to new directions, and secondly 
			because this will give us the possibility by this measure of 
			securing elasticity in the changing of staff, which will thus the 
			more easily bend under our pressure: he who wishes to keep his place 
			will have to give blind obedience to deserve it. In general, our 
			judges will be elected by us only from among those who thoroughly 
			understand that the part they have to play is to punish and apply 
			laws and not to dream about the manifestations of liberalism, at the 
			expense of the educational scheme of the State, as the goyim in 
			these days imagine it to be....This method of shuffling the staff 
			will serve also to explode any collective solidarity of those in the 
			same service and will bind all to the interests of the government 
			upon which their fate will depend. The young generation of judges 
			will be trained in certain views, regarding the inadmissibility of 
			any abuses that might disturb the established order of our subjects 
			among themselves.
  15. In these days the judges of the goyim create indulgences to 
			every kind of crimes: not having a just understanding of their 
			office, because the rulers of the present age, in appointing judges 
			to office, take no care to inculcate in them a sense of duty and 
			consciousness of the matter which is demanded of them. As a brute 
			beast lets out its young in search of prey, so do the goyim give to 
			them for what purpose such place was created. This is the reason why 
			their governments are being ruined, by their own forces, through the 
			acts of their own administration.
  16. Let us borrow from the example of the results of these actions 
			yet another lesson for our government.
  17. We shall root out liberalism from all the important strategic 
			posts of our government on which depends the training of 
			subordinates for our State structure. Such posts will fall 
			exclusively to those who have been trained by us for administrative 
			rule. To the possible objection that the retirement of old servants 
			will cost the Treasury heavily, I reply, firstly, they will be 
			provided with some private service, in place of what they lose, and, 
			secondly, I have to remark that all the money in the world will be 
			concentrated in our hands, consequently it is not our government 
			that has to fear expense.   
				
				WE SHALL BE CRUEL 
				
				18. Our absolutism will, in all things, be logically consecutive and 
			therefore, in each one of its decrees, our supreme will be respected 
			and unquestionably fulfilled: it will ignore all murmurs, all 
			discontents of every kind and will destroy, to the root, every kind 
			of manifestation of them in act, by punishment of an exemplary 
			character.
  19. We shall abolish the right of cessation, which will be 
			transferred exclusively to our disposal  to the cognizance of him 
			who rules, for we must not allow the conception, among the people, 
			of a thought that there could be such a thing as a decision, of 
			judges set up by us, that is not right. If, however, anything like 
			this should occur, we shall ourselves cassate (quash) the decision, 
			but inflict therewith such exemplary punishment on the judge; for 
			lack of understanding of his duty and the purpose of his 
			appointment; as will prevent a repetition of such cases....I repeat 
			that it must be born in mind that we shall know every step of our 
			administration, which only needs to be closely watched for the 
			people to be content with us, for it has the right to demand; from a 
			good government; a good official.
  20. Our government will have the appearance of a patriarchal 
			paternal guardianship on the part of the ruler. Our own nation and 
			our subjects will discern in his person a father caring for their 
			every need; their every act; their every inter-relation as subjects 
			one with another, as well as their relations to the ruler. They will 
			then be so thoroughly imbued with the thought that it is impossible 
			for them to dispense with this wardship and guidance; if they wish 
			to live in peace and quiet; that they will acknowledge the autocracy 
			of our ruler, with a devotion bordering on Apotheosis, especially 
			when they are convinced that those whom we set up do not put their 
			own in place of authority, but only blindly execute his dictates. 
			They will be rejoiced that we have regulated everything in their 
			lives, as is done by wise parents who desire to train children in 
			the cause of duty and submission. For the peoples of the world, in 
			regard to the secrets of our polity, are ever, through the ages, 
			only children under age, precisely as are also their governments. 
				 21. As you see, I found our despotism on right and duty: the right 
			to compel the execution of duty is the direct obligation of a 
			government which is a father for its subjects. It has the right of 
			the strong that it may use it for the benefit of directing humanity 
			towards that order which is defined by nature, namely, submission. 
			Everything in the world is in a state of submission, if not to man, 
			then to circumstances or its own inner character, in all cases, to 
			what is stronger. And so shall we be this something stronger for the 
			sake of good.
  22. We are obliged without hesitation to sacrifice individuals, who 
			commit a breach of established order, for in the exemplary 
			punishment of evil lies a great educational problem.
  23. When 
				the King of Israel sets upon his sacred head the crown 
			offered him by Europe he will become patriarch of the world. The 
			indispensable victims offered by him in consequence of their 
			suitability will never reach the number of victims offered in the 
			course of centuries by the mania of magnificence, the emulation 
			between the goy governments.
  24. Our King will be in constant communion with the peoples, making 
			to them, from the tribune, speeches which fame will in that same 
			hour distribute over all the world. 
				
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			PROTOCOL 16 
			 
			
			
			  
			BRAINWASHING 
			
			
			Emasculation of the Universities  Abolition of freedom of 
			instruction  
			
				
				1. In order to effect the destruction of all collective forces, 
			except ours, we shall emasculate the first stage of collectivism  
			the universities, by re-educating them in a new direction. Their 
			officials and professors will be prepared for their business by 
			detailed secret programmes of action from which they will not with 
			immunity diverge, not by one iota. They will be appointed with 
			especial precaution, and will be so placed as to be wholly dependent 
			on the Government.
  2. We shall exclude, from the course of instruction, State Law, as 
			also all that concerns the political question. These subjects will 
			be taught to a few dozen of persons chosen for their pre-eminent 
			capacities from among the number of the initiated. The universities 
			must no longer send out from their halls, milk sops; concocting 
			plans for a constitution, like a comedy or a tragedy; busying 
			themselves with questions of policy, in which even their own fathers 
			never had any power of thought.
  3. The ill-guided acquaintance of a large number of persons with 
			questions of polity, creates utopian dreamers and bad subjects, as 
			you can see for yourselves from the example of the universal 
			education; in this direction; of the goyim. We must introduce into 
			their education all those principles which have so brilliantly 
			broken up their order. But when we are in power we shall remove 
			every kind of disturbing subject from the course of education and 
			shall make, out of the youth, obedient children of authority, loving 
			him who rules as the support and hope of peace and quiet.   
				
				WE SHALL CHANGE HISTORY 
				
				4. Classicism, as also any form of study of ancient history, in 
			which there are more bad than good examples, we shall replace with 
			the study of the program of the future. We shall erase from the 
			memory of men all facts of previous centuries which are undesirable 
			to us, and leave only those which depict all the errors of the 
			government of the goyim. The study of practical life; of the 
			obligations of order; of the relations of people one to another; of 
			avoiding bad and selfish examples, which spread the infection of 
			evil, and similar questions of an educative nature, will stand in 
			the forefront of the teaching program; which will be drawn up on a 
			separate plan for each calling or state of life; in no wise 
				generalizing the teaching. This treatment of the question has 
			special importance.
  5. Each state of life must be trained within strict limits, 
			corresponding to its destination and work in life. The occasional 
			genius has always managed and will always manage to slip through 
			into other states of life, but it is the most perfect folly; for the 
			sake of this rare occasional genius; to let through, into ranks 
			foreign to them, the untalented who thus rob of their places those 
			who belong to those ranks by birth or employment. You know 
			yourselves in what all this has ended for the goyim who allowed this 
			crying absurdity.
  6. In order that he who rules may be seated firmly in the hearts and 
			minds of his subjects, it is necessary, for the time of his 
			activity, to instruct the whole nation, in the schools and on the 
			market places, about this meaning and his acts and all his 
			beneficent initiatives.
  7. We shall abolish every kind of freedom of instruction. Learners 
			of all ages have the right to assemble together, with their parents, 
			in the educational establishments, as it were in a club: during 
			these assemblies, on holidays, teachers will read what will pass as 
			free lectures on questions of human relations; of the laws of 
			examples; of the philosophy of new theories not yet declared to the 
			world. These theories will be raised by us to the stage of a dogma 
			of faith, as a traditional stage towards our faith. On the 
			completion of this exposition of our program of action, in the 
			present and the future, I will read you the principles of these 
			theories.
  8. In a word, knowing, by the experience of many centuries, that 
			people live and are guided by ideas; that these ideas are imbibed by 
			people only by the aid of education, provided with equal success for 
			all ages of growth; but of course, by varying methods; we shall 
			swallow up and confiscate to our own use, the last scintilla of 
			independence of thought, which we have; for long past; been 
			directing towards subjects and ideas useful for us. The system of 
			bridling thought is already at work in the so-called system of 
			teaching by object lessons, the purpose of which is to turn the 
			goyim into unthinking submissive brutes, waiting for things to be 
			presented before their eyes in order to form an idea of them....In 
			France, one of our best agents, Bourgeois, has already made public a 
			new program of teaching by object lessons.
  
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			PROTOCOL 17  
			
			  ABUSE OF AUTHORITY 
			
			The demoralization of Justice  Wrecking of the Christian religion  
			Jewish Patriarch Pope of the universe  Secret police employing 
			public informers  
			
				
				1. The practice of advocacy produces men cold; cruel; persistent; 
			unprincipled; who in all cases take up an impersonal, purely legal 
			standpoint. They have the inveterate habit to refer everything to 
			its value for the defense and not to the public welfare of its 
			results. They do not usually decline to undertake any defense 
			whatever, they strive for an acquittal at all costs, caviling over 
			every petty crux of jurisprudence and thereby they demoralize 
			justice. For this reason we shall set this profession into narrow 
			frames which will keep it inside this sphere of executive public 
			service. Advocates, equally with judges, will be deprived of the 
			right of communication with litigant; they will receive business 
			only from the court and will study it by notes of report and 
			documents, defending their clients after they have been interrogated 
			in court on facts that have appeared. They will receive an 
			honorarium without regard to the quality of the defense. This will 
			render them mere reporters on law-business in the interests of 
			justice and as counterpoise to the proctor who will be the reporter 
			in the interests of prosecution; this will shorten business before 
			the courts. In this way will be established a practice of honest 
			unprejudiced defense conducted not from personal interest but by 
			conviction. This will also, by the way, remove the present practice 
			of corrupt bargain between advocates to agree only to let that side 
			win which pays most....   
				
				WE SHALL DESTROY THE 
				CLERGY 
				
				2. We have long past taken care to discredit the priesthood of 
			goyim, and thereby to ruin their mission on Earth which in these 
			days might still be a great hindrance to us. Day by day its 
			influence on the peoples of the world is falling lower. Freedom of 
			conscience has been declared everywhere, so that now only years 
			divide us from the moment of the complete wrecking of that Christian 
			religion: as to other religions we shall have still less difficulty 
			in dealing with them, but it would be premature to speak of this 
			now. We shall act clericalism and clericals into such narrow frames 
			as to make their influence move in retrogressive proportion to its 
			former progress.
  3. When the time comes finally to destroy the papal court the finger 
			of an invisible hand will point the nations towards this court. 
			When, however, the nations fling themselves upon it, we shall come 
			forward in the guise of its defenders as if to save excessive 
			bloodshed. By this diversion we shall penetrate to its very bowels 
			and be sure we shall never come out again until we have gnawed 
			through the entire strength of this place.
  4. The King of the Jews will be the real Pope of the Universe, the 
			patriarch of the international Church.
  5. But, in the meantime, while we are re-educating youth in new 
			traditional religions and afterwards in ours, we shall not overtly 
			lay a finger on existing churches, but we shall fight against them 
			by criticism calculated to produce schism
.
  6. In general, then, our contemporary press will continue to 
				criticize State affairs; religions; incapacities of the goyim; 
			always using the most unprincipled expressions in order, by every 
			means, to lower their prestige in the manner which can only be 
				practiced by the genius of our gifted tribe....
  7. Our kingdom will be an apologia of the divinity Vishnu, in whom 
			is found its personification  in our hundred hands will be, one in 
			each, the springs of the machinery of social life. We shall see 
			everything without the aid of official police which, in that scope 
			of its rights which we elaborated for the use of the goyim, hinders 
			governments from seeing. In our programs one-third of our subjects 
			will keep the rest under observation from a sense of duty, on the 
			principle of volunteer service to the State. It will then be no 
			disgrace to be a spy and informer, but a merit: unfounded 
			denunciations, however, will be cruelly punished so that there may 
			be no development of abuses of this right.
  8. Our agents will be taken from the higher as well as the lower 
			ranks of society, from among the administrative class who spend 
			their time in amusements; editors; printers and publishers; 
			booksellers; clerks and salesmen; workmen; coachmen; lackeys; et 
			cetera. This body, having no rights and not being empowered to take 
			any action on their own account, and consequently a police without 
			any power, will only witness and report: verification of their 
			reports and arrests will depend upon a responsible group of 
			controllers of police affairs, while the actual act of arrest will 
			be performed by the gendarmerie and the municipal police. Any person 
			not denouncing anything seen or heard concerning questions of polity 
			will also be charged with and made responsible for concealment, if 
			it be proved that he is guilty of this crime.
  9. Just as nowadays our brethren are obliged, at their own risk, to 
			denounce to the kabal; apostates of their own family, or members who 
			have been noticed doing anything in opposition to the kabal; so, in 
			our kingdom over all the world, it will be obligatory for all our 
			subjects to observe the duty of service to the State in this 
			direction.
  10. Such an organization will extirpate abuses of authority; of 
			force; of bribery; everything in fact which we, by our counsels; by 
			our theories of the superhuman rights of man; have introduced into 
			the customs of the goyim....But how else were we to procure that 
			increase of causes predisposing to disorders in the midst of their 
			administration?....Among the number of those methods, one of the 
			most important is  agents for the restoration of order, so placed 
			as to have the opportunity, in their disintegrating activity, of 
			developing and displaying their evil inclinations  obstinate 
			self-conceit, irresponsible exercise of authority, and, first and 
			foremost, venality.
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			PROTOCOL 18  
			
			  
			ARREST OF OPPONENTS 
			
			Measures of secret defense  Undermining authority  
			
				
				1. When it becomes necessary for us to strengthen the strict 
			measures of secret defense (the most fatal poison for the prestige 
			of authority) we shall arrange a simulation of disorders, or some 
			manifestation of discontents finding expression through the 
			co-operation of good speakers. Round these speakers will assemble 
			all who are sympathetic to his utterances. This will give us the 
			pretext for domiciliary perquisitions (diligent searches) and 
			surveillance on the part of our servants from among the number of 
			the goyim police....
  2. As the majority of conspirators act of love for the game, for the 
			sake of talking, so, until they commit some overt act we shall not 
			lay a finger on them, but only introduce into their midst 
			observation elements....It must be remembered that the prestige of 
			authority is lessened if it frequently discovers conspiracies 
			against itself: this implies a presumption of consciousness of 
			weakness, or, what is still worse, of injustice. You are aware that 
			we have broken the prestige of the goy kings by frequent attempts 
			upon their lives through our agents, blind sheep of our flock, who 
			are easily moved by a few liberal phrases, to crimes, provided only 
			they be painted in political colors. We have compelled the rulers 
			to acknowledge their weakness in advertising overt measures of 
			secret defense and thereby we shall bring the promise of authority 
			to destruction.
  3. Our ruler will be secretly protected only by the most 
			insignificant guard, because we shall not admit so much as a thought 
			that there could exist, against him, any sedition with which he is 
			not strong enough to contend and is compelled to hide from it. 
				 4. If we should admit this thought, as the goyim have done and are 
			doing, we should ipso facto be signing a death-sentence, if not for 
			our ruler, at any rate for his dynasty, at no distant date.   
				
				GOVERNMENT BY FEAR 
				
				5. According to strictly enforced outward appearances our ruler will 
			employ his power only for the advantage of the nation and in no wise 
			for his own or dynastic profits. Therefore, with the observance of 
			this decorum, his authority will be respected and guarded by the 
			subjects themselves, it will receive an apotheosis in the admission 
			that with it is bound up the well-being of every citizen of the 
			State, for upon it will depend all order in the common life of the 
			pack....
  6. Overt defense of this kind argues weakness in the 
				organization of 
			his strength.
  7. Our ruler will always be among the people and be surrounded by a 
			mob of apparently curious men and women, who will occupy the front 
			ranks about him, to all appearance by chance, and will restrain the 
			ranks of the rest, out of respect, as it will appear for good order. 
			This will sow an example of restraint also in others. If a 
			petitioner appears among the people trying to hand a petition and 
			forcing his way through the ranks, the first ranks must receive the 
			petition and before the eyes of the petitioner pass it to the ruler, 
			so that all may know that what is handed-in reaches its destination, 
			that consequently, there exists a control of the ruler himself. The 
			aureole of power requires for is existence that the people may be 
			able to say: "If the king knew of this," or: "the king will hear 
			it."
  8. With the establishment of official defense, the mystical prestige 
			of authority disappears: given a certain audacity, and everyone 
			counts himself master of it, the sedition-monger is conscious of his 
			strength, and, when occasion serves, watches for the moment to make 
			an attempt upon authority....For the goyim we have been preaching 
			something else, but by that very fact we are enabled to see what 
			measures of overt defense have brought them to....
  9. Criminals with us will be arrested at the first, more or less, 
			well-grounded suspicion: it cannot be allowed that, out of fear of a 
			possible mistake, an opportunity should be given of escape to 
			persons suspected of a political lapse of crime, for, in these 
			matters, we shall be literally merciless. If it is still possible, 
			by stretching a point, to admit a reconsideration of the motive 
			causes in simple crimes, there is no possibility of excuse for 
			persons occupying themselves with questions in which nobody, except 
			the government, can understand anything....And it is not all 
			governments that understand true policy.
  
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			PROTOCOL 19  
			
			  RULERS AND PEOPLE 
			
			Making use of public petitions  debasing heroism  Martyrdom of 
			sedition-mongers  
			
				
				1. If we do not permit any independent dabbling in the political, we 
			shall on the other hand encourage every kind of report or petition 
			with proposals for the government, to examine into all kinds of 
			projects for the amelioration of the condition of the people; this 
			will reveal to us the defects or else the fantasies of our subjects, 
			to which we shall respond either by accomplishing them or by wisely 
			rebutting them to prove the short-sightedness of one who judges 
			wrongly.
  2. Sedition-mongering is nothing more than the yapping of a lap-dog 
			at an elephant. For a government well organized, not from the police 
			but from the public point of view, the lap-dog yaps at the elephant 
			in entire unconsciousness of its strength and importance. It needs 
			no more than to take a good example to show the relative importance 
			of both and the lap-dogs will cease to yap and will wag their tails 
			the moment they set eyes on an elephant.
  3. In order to destroy the prestige of heroism, for political crime, 
			we shall send it for trial in the category of thieving, murder, and 
			every kind of abominable and filthy crime. Public opinion will then 
			confuse; in its conception of this category of crime; with the 
			disgrace attaching to every other and will brand it with the same 
			contempt.
  4. We have done our best, and I hope we have succeeded, to obtain 
			that the goyim should not arrive at this means of contending with 
			sedition. It was for this reason that through the Press and in 
			speeches, indirectly  in cleverly-compiled school-books on history, 
			we have advertised the martyrdom alleged to have been accredited by 
			sedition-mongers for the idea of the commonweal. This advertisement 
			has increased the contingent of liberals and has brought thousands 
			of goyim into the ranks of our livestock cattle.
  
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