PROTOCOL NO. 13
The need for daily bread forces the goyim to keep silence and
be our humble servants. Agents taken on to our press from among
the goyim will at our order 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.
From all this you will see that in securing 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 hope, joined to the conviction,
that are we serving the common weal.
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 activity (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 OF 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 disaccustomed 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.
The part played by the liberals, utopian dreamers, will be finally
played out when our government is acknowledged. Till such time
they will continue to do us good service. Therefore we shall
continue to direct their minds to all sorts of vain conceptions
of fantastic theories, new and apparently progressive: for have
we not with complete success turned the brainless heads of the
goyim with progress till there is not among the goyim one mind
able to perceive that under this word lies a departure from truth
in all cases where it is not a question of material inventions,
for truth is one and in it there is no place for progress. Progress,
like a fallacious idea serves to obscure truth so that none may
know it except us the Chosen of God, its guardians.
When we come into our kingdom our orators will expound great
problems which have turned humanity upside down in order to bring
it at the end under our beneficent rule.
Who will ever suspect then that ALL THESE PEOPLE WERE STAGE-MANAGED
BY US ACCORDING TO A POLITICAL PLAN WHICH NO ONE HAS SO MUCH AS
GUESSED AT IN THE COURSE OF MANY CENTURIES? . . .