PROTOCOL No. 16, No. 17
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1. In order to effect the destruction of all collective forces except
ours we shall emasculate the first stage of collectivism - the UNIVERSITIES,
by reeducating them in a new direction. THEIR OFFICIALS AND PROFESSORS WILL
BE PREPARED FOR THEIR BUSINESS BY DETAILED SECRET PROGRAMS OF ACTION FROM
WHICH THEY WILL NOT WITH IMMUNITY DIVERGE, NOT BY ONE IOTA. THEY WILL BE
APPOINTED WITH ESPECIAL PRECAUTION, AND WILL BE SO PLACED AS TO BE WHOLLY
DEPENDENT UPON THE GOVERNMENT.
2. We shall exclude from the course of instruction State Law as also all
that concerns the political question. These subjects will be taught to a few
dozen of persons chosen for their preeminent capacities from among the
number of the initiated. THE UNIVERSITIES MUST NO LONGER SEND OUT FROM THEIR
HALLS MILK SOPS CONCOCTING PLANS FOR A CONSTITUTION, LIKE A COMEDY OR A
TRAGEDY, BUSYING THEMSELVES WITH QUESTIONS OF POLICY IN WHICH EVEN THEIR OWN
FATHERS NEVER HAD ANY POWER OF THOUGHT.
3. The ill-guided acquaintance of a large number of persons with
questions of polity creates utopian dreamers and bad subjects, as you can
see for yourselves from the example of the universal education in this
direction of the GOYIM. We must introduce into their education all those
principles which have so brilliantly broken up their order. But when we are
in power we shall remove every kind of disturbing subject from the course of
education and shall make out of the youth obedient children of authority,
loving him who rules as the support and hope of peace and quiet.
WE SHALL CHANGE HISTORY
4. Classicism as also any form of study of ancient history, in which
there are more bad than good examples, we shall replace with the study of
the program of the future. We shall erase from the memory of men all facts
of previous centuries which are undesirable to us, and leave only those
which depict all the errors of the government of the GOYIM. The study of
practical life, of the obligations of order, of the relations of people one
to another, of avoiding bad and selfish examples, which spread the infection
of evil, and similar questions of an educative nature, will stand in the
forefront of the teaching program, which will be drawn up on a separate plan
for each calling or state of life, in no wise generalizing the teaching.
This treatment of the question has special importance.
5. Each state of life must be trained within strict limits corresponding
to its destination and work in life. The OCCASIONAL GENIUS HAS ALWAYS
MANAGED AND ALWAYS WILL MANAGE TO SLIP THROUGH INTO OTHER STATES OF LIFE,
BUT IT IS THE MOST PERFECT FOLLY FOR THE SAKE OF THIS RARE OCCASIONAL GENIUS
TO LET THROUGH INTO RANKS FOREIGN TO THEM THE UNTALENTED WHO THUS ROB OF
THEIR PLACES WHO BELONG TO THOSE RANKS BY BIRTH OR EMPLOYMENT. YOU KNOW
YOURSELVES IN WHAT ALL THIS HAS ENDED FOR THE "GOYIM" WHO ALLOWED THIS
CRYING ABSURDITY.
6. In order that he who rules may be seated firmly in the hearts and
minds of his subjects it is necessary for the time of his activity to
instruct the whole nation in the schools and on the market places about this
meaning and his acts and all his beneficent initiatives.
7. We shall abolish every kind of freedom of instruction. Learners of
all ages have the right to assemble together with their parents in the
educational establishments as it were in a club: during these assemblies, on
holidays, teachers will read what will pass as free lectures on questions of
human relations, of the laws of examples, of the philosophy of new theories
not yet declared to the world. These theories will be raised by us to the
stage of a dogma of faith as a traditional stage towards our faith. On the
completion of this exposition of our program of action in the present and
the future I will read you the principles of these theories.
8. In a word, knowing by the experience of many centuries that people
live and are guided by ideas, that these ideas are imbibed by people only by
the aid of education provided with equal success for all ages of growth, but
of course by varying methods, we shall swallow up and confiscate to our own
use the last scintilla of independence of thought, which we have for long
past been directing towards subjects and ideas useful for us. The system of
bridling thought is already at work in the so-called system of teaching by
OBJECT LESSONS, the purpose of which is to turn the GOYIM into unthinking
submissive brutes waiting for things to be presented before their eyes in
order to form an idea of them .... In France, one of our best agents,
Bourgeois, has already made public a new program of teaching by object
lessons.
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PROTOCOL No. 17
1. The practice of advocacy produces men cold, cruel, persistent,
unprincipled, who in all cases take up an impersonal, purely legal
standpoint. They have the inveterate habit to refer everything to its value
for the defense and not to the public welfare of its results. They do not
usually decline to undertake any defense whatever, they strive for an
acquittal at all costs, caviling over every petty crux of jurisprudence and
thereby they demoralize justice. For this reason we shall set this
profession into narrow frames which will keep it inside this sphere of
executive public service. Advocates, equally with judges, will be deprived
of the right of communication with litigant; they well receive business only
from the court and will study it by notes of report and documents, defending
their clients after they have been interrogated in court on facts that have
appeared. They will receive an honorarium without regard to the quality of
the defense. This will render them mere reporters on law-business in the
interests of justice and as counterpoise to the proctor who will be the
reporter in the interests of prosecution; this will shorten business before
the courts. In this way will be established a practice of honest
unprejudiced defense conducted not from personal interest but by conviction.
This will also, by the way, remove the present practice of corrupt bargain
between advocation to agree only to let that side win which pays most .....
WE SHALL DESTROY THE CLERGY
2. WE HAVE LONG PAST TAKEN CARE TO DISCREDIT THE PRIESTHOOD OF "GOYIM,"
and thereby to ruin their mission on earth which in these days might still
be a great hindrance to us. Day by day its influence on the peoples of the
world is falling lower. FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE HAS BEEN DECLARED EVERYWHERE,
SO THAT NOW ONLY YEARS DIVIDE US FROM THE MOMENT OF THE COMPLETE WRECKING OF
THAT CHRISTIAN RELIGION: as to other religions we shall have still less
difficulty in dealing with them, but it would be premature to speak of this
now. We shall act clericalism and clericals into such narrow frames as to
make their influence move in retrogressive proportion to its former
progress.
3. When the time comes finally to destroy the papal court the finger of
an invisible hand will point the nations towards this court. When, however,
the nations fling themselves upon it, we shall come forward in the guise of
its defenders as if to save excessive bloodshed. By this diversion we shall
penetrate to its very bowels and be sure we shall never come out again until
we have gnawed through the entire strength of this place.
4. THE KING OF THE JEWS WILL BE THE REAL POPE OF THE UNIVERSE, THE
PATRIARCH OF THE INTERNATIONAL CHURCH [The Antichrist??].
5. But, IN THE MEANTIME, while we are reeducating youth in new
traditional religions and afterwards in ours, WE SHALL NOT OVERTLY LAY A
FINGER ON EXISTING CHURCHES, BUT WE SHALL FIGHT AGAINST THEM BY CRITICISM
CALCULATED TO PRODUCE SCHISM ....
6. In general, then, our contemporary press will continue to CONVICT
State affairs, religions, incapacities of the GOYIM, always using the most
unprincipled expressions in order by every means to lower their prestige in
the manner which can only be practiced by the genius of our gifted tribe
....
7. Our kingdom will be an apologia of the divinity Vishnu, in whom is
found its personification - in our hundred hands will be, one in each, the
springs of the machinery of social life. We shall see everything without the
aid of official police which, in that scope of its rights which we
elaborated for the use of the GOYIM, hinders governments from seeing. In our
programs ONE-THIRD OF OUR SUBJECTS WILL KEEP THE REST UNDER OBSERVATION from
a sense of duty, on the principle of volunteer service to the State. It will
then be no disgrace to be a spy and informer, but a merit: unfounded
denunciations, however, will be cruelly punished that there may be
development of abuses of this right.
8. Our agents will be taken from the higher as well as the lower ranks
of society, from among the administrative class who spend their time in
amusements, editors, printers and publishers, booksellers, clerks, and
salesmen, workmen, coachmen, lackeys, et cetera. This body, having no rights
and not being empowered to take any action on their own account, and
consequently a police without any power, will only witness and report:
verification of their reports and arrests will depend upon a responsible
group of controllers of police affairs, while the actual act of arrest will
be performed by the gendarmerie and the municipal police. Any person not
denouncing anything seen or heard concerning questions of polity will also
be charged with and made responsible for concealment, if it be proved that
he is guilty of this crime.
9. JUST AS NOWADAYS OUR BRETHREN, ARE OBLIGED AT THEIR OWN RISK TO
DENOUNCE TO THE KABAL APOSTATES OF THEIR OWN FAMILY or members who have been
noticed doing anything in opposition to the KABAL, SO IN OUR KINGDOM OVER
ALL THE WORLD IT WILL BE OBLIGATORY FOR ALL OUR SUBJECTS TO OBSERVE THE DUTY
OF SERVICE TO THE STATE IN THIS DIRECTION. 10. Such an organization will
extirpate abuses of authority, of force, of bribery, everything in fact
which we by our counsels, by out theories of the superhuman rights of man,
have introduced into the customs of the GOYIM .... But how else were we to
procure that increase of causes predisposing to disorders in the midst of
their administration? .... Among the number of those methods one of the most
important is - agents for the restoration of order, so placed as to have the
opportunity in their disintegrating activity of developing and displaying
their evil inclinations - obstinate self-conceit, irresponsible exercise of
authority, and, first and foremost, venality