PROTOCOL NO. 19
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 rebutment to prove the short-sightedness of one who
judges wrongly.
Sedition-mongering is nothing more than the yapping of a lap-dog
at an elephant. For a government well organised, 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.
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 this category of crime with
the disgrace attaching to every other and will brand it with the
same contempt.
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 schoolbooks on history,
we have advertised the martyrdom alleged to have been accepted
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.