Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion: Protocol No. 4...
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 toward faith
and country are obliterated 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.
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 it is.
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 eye 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.
Moreover, the art of deflecting 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. ln 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.
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.
"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 yet 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.
Capital, if it is to co-operate untrammelled, 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 catch up and interpret the ideas of others to suit ourselves
than to eradicate them. The principal 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.
In all ages the peoples 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.
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.
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.
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 million, 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
action 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. 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.
...Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion: Protocol No. 6.
And please, keep in mind... this is a hoax.