PROTOCOL NO. 17
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 defence and not to the public welfare of
its results. They do not usually decline to undertake any defence
whatever, they strive for an acquittal at all costs, cavilling
over every petty crux of jurisprudence and thereby they demoralise
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 litigants; they will receive business
only from the court and will study it by notes of re- port 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 defence. 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 defence 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 HAVE LONG PAST TAKEN CARE TO DISCREDIT THE PRIESTHOOD OF THE
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 set clericalism and clericals into such narrow frames as
to make their influence move in retrogressive proportion to its
former progress.
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.
THE KING OF THE JEWS WILL BE THE REAL POPE OF THE UNIVERSE, THE
PATRIARCH OF AN INTERNATIONAL CHURCH.
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...
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 practised by the
genius of our gifted tribe...
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 every- thing 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 programme 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 no development of abuses of this right.
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, etcetera. 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.
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.
Such an organisation 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.