PROTOCOL No. 18, No. 19
un Gentile
1. When it becomes necessary for us to strengthen the strict measures of
secret defense (the most fatal poison for the prestige of authority) we
shall arrange a simulation of disorders or some manifestation of discontents
finding expression through the co- operation of good speakers. Round these
speakers will assemble all who are sympathetic to his utterances. This will
give us the pretext for domiciliary prerequisitions and surveillance on the
part of our servants from among the number of the GOYIM police ....
2. As the majority of conspirators act of love for the game, for the
sake of talking, so, until they commit some overt act we shall not lay a
finger on them but only introduce into their midst observation elements ....
It must be remembered that the prestige of authority is lessened if it
frequently discovers conspiracies against itself: this implies a presumption
of consciousness of weakness, or, what is still worse, of injustice. You are
aware that we have broken the prestige of the GOY kings by frequent attempts
upon their lives through our agents, blind sheep of our flock, who are
easily moved by a few liberal phrases to crimes provided only they be
painted in political colors. WE HAVE COMPELLED THE RULERS TO ACKNOWLEDGE
THEIR WEAKNESS IN ADVERTISING OVERT MEASURES OF SECRETE DEFENSE AND THEREBY
WE SHALL BRING THE PROMISE OF AUTHORITY TO DESTRUCTION.
3. Our ruler will be secretly protected only by the most insignificant
guard, because we shall not admit so much as a thought that there could
exist against him any sedition with which he is not strong enough to contend
and is compelled to hide from it.
4. If we should admit this thought, as the GOYIM have done and are
doing, we should IPSO FACTO be signing a death sentence, if not for our
ruler, at any rate for his dynasty, at no distant date.
GOVERNMENT BY FEAR
5. According to strictly enforced outward appearances our ruler will
employ his power only for the advantage of the nation and in no wise for his
own or dynastic profits. Therefore, with the observance of this decorum, his
authority will be respected and guarded by the subjects themselves, it will
receive an apotheosis in the admission that with it is bound up the
well-being of every citizen of the State, for upon it will depend all order
in the common life of the pack ....
6. OVERT DEFENSE OF THE KIND ARGUES WEAKNESS IN THE ORGANIZATION OF HIS
STRENGTH.
7. Our ruler will always be among the people and be surrounded by a mob
of apparently curious men and women, who will occupy the front ranks about
him, to all appearance by chance, and will restrain the ranks of the rest
out of respect as it will appear for good order. This will sow an example of
restraint also in others. If a petitioner appears among the people trying to
hand a petition and forcing his way through the ranks, the first ranks must
receive the petition and before the eyes of the petitioner pass it to the
ruler, so that all may know that what is handed in reaches its destination,
that consequently, there exists a control of the ruler himself. The aureole
of power requires for is existence that the people may be able to say: "If
the king knew of this," or: "the king will hear it."
8. WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICIAL DEFENSE, THE MYSTICAL PRESTIGE OF
AUTHORITY DISAPPEARS: given a certain audacity, and everyone counts himself
master of it, the sedition- monger is conscious of his strength, and when
occasion serves watches for the moment to make an attempt upon authority
.... For the GOYIM we have been preaching something else, but by that very
fact we are enabled to see what measures of overt defense have brought them
to ....
9. CRIMINALS WITH US WILL BE ARRESTED AT THE FIRST, more or less,
well-grounded SUSPICION: it cannot be allowed that out of fear of a possible
mistake an opportunity should be given of escape to persons suspected of a
political lapse of crime, for in these matters we shall be literally
merciless. If it is still possible, by stretching a point, to admit a
reconsideration of the motive causes in simple crimes, there is no
possibility of excuse for persons occupying themselves with questions in
which nobody except the government can understand anything .... And it is
not all governments that understand true policy.
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PROTOCOL No. 19
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 a wise rebuttment to prove the
shortsightedness 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.