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VISITING
"THE PROTOCOLS"
When an international mass circulation magazine
like The Reader's Digest decides to run an article on the documents
generally known as The Protocols, in which Eric Butler and The
League of Rights are critically mentioned, there must be a purpose.
About the same time as The Reader's Digest article, which basically
regurgitates the view that these documents are either a forgery
or a fabrication, the Oxford University Press released a publication,
The Right Road, by Dr. Andrew Moore, senior lecturer in Australian
history at the University of Western Sydney.
Moore's work is subtitled "A History of Right-Wing Politics
in Australia", but its clear purpose is to suggest that it is "The
Australian League of Rights" which is the main threat to what is
termed "liberal democracy". Eric Butler receives special attention,
it being claimed that he exercises considerable international influence.
Blatant misrepresentations of the Social Credit movement and historical
events are masked by what purports to be a carefully documented
academic study.
We will not at this time attempt to analyze either The
Reader's Digest article on The Protocols or Moore's work, The Right
Road. But by coincidence we have recently received an article from
a Canadian, Peter L. Lorden of Calgary, who offers some comments
on The Protocols, which are appropriate:
It has been generally asserted for many years past that
a document called The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is
a forgery. Supposedly a report of speeches given at the 1897 First
Zionist Congress in Basle, it pictures an international Jewish conspiracy
to undermine Christian institutions and pave the way for world domination.
Gerald Krefetz remarked in his 1982 Jews and Money; the Myths and
the Reality that the Protocols - "apparently the plagiarized concoction
of a Russian religious mystic"- had long since been discredited
as propaganda promoted by the Czarist secret police to justify their
own anti-Semitism.
Yet if so long discredited, why have they become what he
calls the most successful piece of propaganda in the twentieth century?
"For a spurious document", says Krefetz, "it has had a remarkably
long and influential life." Could this be due simply to continuing
anti-Semitism? Indeed, it is hard to see how this document could
have been a genuine record of speeches at the Congress. Would people
clever enough to engineer such a global conspiracy as the Protocols
reflect have been dumb enough to let an outsider take notes of their
proceedings, let alone live to publish them? And is such a plot
any more credible now than it was then? The recent decline of some
big Jewish houses, coupled with the emergence of wealthy Asian conglomerates,
seems rather to spoil the picture for those inclined to fantasize
about an unstoppable international conspiracy guided only by Jewish
financiers!
A book which became a best seller in 1972---None Dare Call
It Conspiracy, by Gary Allen shows in some detail how the had simultaneously
financed both the Soviet Union (page 71) and the Third Reich (page
85), like people fattening birds for a cock-fight. The book is quite
even-handed. While it indicts such Jewish luminaries as Rothschild,
Warburg and Schiff's Kuhn Loeb and Company, it also assigns prominent
roles to many Gentile houses, including and Rockefeller's.
David Rockefeller seems to have had a finger in everything.
many famous names in politics, Nixon and Kissinger, were alumni
of his system, whose imperial reach was by NO means confined to
the United States. (Apparently the surest way to wealth and power
is on the coattails of a man who already has these things and will
"look after" you so long as you do his bidding. Kruschev's downfall
seems to have come about when he stopped doing it). How closely
Jewish and Gentile "insiders" worked together is shown throughout
the book. Chase Manhattan Bank, for instance, was formed by merging
Warburg and Rockefeller units. And a roster of blue-chip American
corporations, along with prominent politicians of both parties,
joined the "insiders" in the immensely influential Council for Foreign
Relations (page 88).
Though Allen's predictions have failed so far, his book
makes a compelling case for the existence of a conspiracy -or at
least a close working relationship between financiers of international
clout. And it seems likely that an even greater centralization of
money-power in the Western world has occurred since 1972. But isn't
that inevitable given the current globalization? As to his thesis
that the ultimate aim of the "insiders" was to create a totalitarian
World Government in which they would control everything as a spider
sitting in the center controls his web, we should note that co-operation
between international financiers today -whatever it may have been
in the past - is not necessarily of evil intent. And that a great
many other people have long since come to see some kind of world
government as a necessary goal. The next big war may be about who
gets to control it!)
A
SPURIOUS DOCUMENT?
What light does Allen's book, throw on the Protocols? A
negative one, it would seem, in as much as he shows Gentile interests
to have as much clout as the Jewish. Yet the Protocols are not to
be dismissed so easily. For if they are false un one sense, a reader
cannot help feeling that they are genuine in another! What makes
them seem genuine is that they are not at all what one would expect
from "a Russian religious mystic". They show too deep an understanding
both of Gentile weaknesses familiar to us all and of the sort of
mind set which might ruthlessly exploit them for sectarian gain.
Fictional or not, they were written by somebody who knew very well
the kind of men whose utterances they supposedly report. They express
a wealth of hard-headed insight in a tone of arrogant superiority
which is not unfamiliar to us either. We cannot quarrel with the
comment of Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent - which publicized
the Protocols in America around 1921 -that the work was "too terribly
real for fiction, too well-sustained for speculation, too deep in
its knowledge of the secret springs of life for forgery".
Then who did write the Protocols? We may never know that,
but it seems improbable that either a mystic or a bigoted Russian
policeman could have come up with an analysis so penetrating, and
so unfailingly prophetic. "Spurious" the document may be, historically
speaking. But as anyone familiar with current events will instantly
recognize, many passages in it show a remarkable prescience.
That a document first published un 1905 should have predicted
the collapse of European monarchies, the Bolshevik Revolution and
World Wars yielding little change in territory but a big one un
the map of international finance is surprising enough. That it should
also have anticipated a Great Depression caused by the arbitrary
cutting-of credit, the resurgence of Israel, the current squeeze
on countries with large external debt - and even hinted at today's
explosion in "derivatives:" trading----has to impress any thoughtful
reader. ("That's some "mystic"! Or he might echo the comment made
in 1921 by Ford himself: "The only statement I have to make about
the Protocols is that they fit into what has gone on in the world
situation these sixteen years,. They fit it now.)
THE
PROTOCOLS DIGEST-ED
Since discourse in the Protocols is often disjointed, we
have taken the liberty of grouping quotations (from Victor Marsden's
1934 edition) in what seems a logical order of subject. We have
also tried to minimize the more offensive ones. Contemptuous references
to goyim (the unfortunate Talmudic term for Gentiles, meaning cattle)
are scattered throughout the work, as indeed one might expect if
the author were a propagandist determined to present a malign image
of Jewry. One might have preferred to omit such racism altogether,
along with utterances more interesting to students of religious
pathology than to the general reader. But the purported speaker's
ultimate aim to see "the King-Despot of Zion as Patriarch of the
World, is so central to the work that excluding it would give a
wholly false impression. For those who ignore that side (as one
can easily do by substituting Untermenschen for goyim and some other
ideology for the Mosaic), the fascination of the document lies in
its Machiavellian practicality, (its being virtually a manual for
would-be dictators is probably why Adolf Hitler knew it so well.)
The document opens with a flat statement that all "rights"
other than that of "might" are vacuous, that "freedom" is an empty
word, and absolute despotism the only sensible form of government.
ON
POLITICS
"The political has nothing in common with the moral . .
. Our right lies in force . . . Violence must be the principle and
a cunning make-believe the rule if we are to bring all governments
into subjection to our super government."
"The French Revolution was wholly the work of our hands.
. .We were the first to cry among the masses the words Liberty,
Equality Fraternity', since many times repeated by stupid poll-parrots.
This helped us to destroy the natural aristocracy of the goyim,
on whose ruins we have set up the aristocracy of our educated class
headed by the aristocracy of money. . . Our subordinate agents are
boring away at the last remnants of goy authority, striving to overthrow
all established forms of order. . .
"We have advertised sedition-mongers as martyrs for the
common good, though none will be permitted under our rule. This
has brought many liberals into the ranks of our 'cattle'. .
"Having used this freedom-shibboleth,we shall erase that
word from the lexicon; when we come into our kingdom. Freedom of
the Press, of speech, of association and conscience must disappear
forever . . We define freedom as the right to do that which the
law allows; this serves our aim very well, for we shall make the
laws!"
"For our purpose, wars must not result in territorial gain,
the true battlefield will be the economic. Our international rights
will then wipe out national rights."
"We need an intensified centralization of government to
facilitate our control . . . We must so ferment things that the
peoples of the world will eventually cry out for one global government.
. . Useless changes of government to which we instigated the goyim
in undermining their state structures will have so disheartened
the people that they will suffer serfdom under us rather than go
backward. . . One-third of our subjects will keep the rest under
observation from a sense of duty. . . The goyim are a flock of sheep
and we are their wolves.
"Though we have sacrificed many of our people in pursuit
of the goal of world-government, it has paid us. Each victim on
our side is worth in the sight of God a thousand goyim.
ON
PROPAGANDA
"Our aim must be to debilitate the public mind by continually
fomenting contradictory opinions and thus distract it from serious
reflections which might cause resistance to our aims. . . Let the
goyim be bewildered, for there is nothing so dangerous as personal
initiative!"
"So that the true meaning of things shall not strike the
goyim until the proper time, we shall mask it under an alleged ardent
desire to serve the working classes. . If any States raise a protest
against us, it is only pro forma and by our direction, for their
anti Semitism is indispensable to us for the management of our lesser
brethren.
"The Press is already in our hands. Not a single announcement
will reach the public without our control. This we have already
attained in large part through our control of those agencies by
which all news items must pass. . . We shall put out our own journals,
disguised as coming from elsewhere so that readers will in effect
be following the flag we hang out for them; these will even be allowed
to feign attacks on us, to convince people they are reading a free
press.... Let them discuss themselves silly!"
"Distraction is one of our principal aims -through amusements
gambling and games of all kinds. . . have we not very successfully
turned the brainless heads of the goyim with 'progress' a fallacious
idea except in terms of material invention, for truth is one and
there can be no place in it for progress? "Progress" serves to obscure
the truth so that none may know it except ourselves, the Chosen
of God, its guardians."
"When we come into our Kingdom, ;it will be undesirable
that there should exist any religion other than ours. We must therefore
sweep away all other forms of belief . . . We have long taken care
to discredit the priesthood of the goyim, whose influence falls
lower day by day. But no one will ever bring our faith under discussion
from its true point of view, since only we shall know that."
ON
EDUCATION
"We have bemused and corrupted the youth of the goyim by
rearing them in principles and theories we know to be false.
"To destroy every collectivism except ours, we shall emasculate
the universities. . . banning classical history and erasing from
the memory of the goyim all historical facts unfavorable to us."
"To discourage independent thinking, our subjects will
be schooled only for the occupations allotted to them. . . Students
shall not busy themselves with questions of polity in which even
their own fathers never had any power of thought."
"We shall choose goy administrators on their capacity for
servile obedience. :"
ON
FREEMASONRY
"Ours is an invisible force, for which Gentile Freemasonry
unknowingly serves as a screen. . . The aims of our organization
of secret masonry are not even suspected by these goy cattle attracted
to it."
"We shall multiply Masonic Lodges as a means of gathering
under our eye all those goyim who (promise to become prominent in
public activity), particularly all agents of international police,
for these are useful both to enforce and to screen our activity.
We puff up their foolish egotism, their need for any little success,
in order to keep them in line, for these tigers in appearance have
the souls of sheep . . They are incapable of the analysis and observation
required for foresight, hence the inevitable subjection to ours
of the brute mind of the goyim.
"Who will ever suspect that all these people have been
stage managed by us according to a political plan which no one has
guessed at these many centuries?"
ON
ECONOMICS
"Capital must be free to establish monopolies so that its
leaders shall have political force."
"By centralizing in our own hands the money-power of the
world, we can throw all goyim into the ranks of the proletariat
. . The goy aristocracy benefited by having their people healthy
and strong, we are interested in just the opposite."
"Hunger creates the right of capital to rule the worker.
By want and envy and the hatred it engenders we shall move the mob.
. . This hatred will be further magnified by the effect of an economic
crisis, which will stop dealings on the changes and bring industry
to a standstill. By creating this crisis we shall throw upon the
street whole mobs of workers simultaneously in all the countries
of Europe."
"We shall surround our government with a whole world of
economists, bankers and millionaires, because in substance everything
will be settled on the basis of figures."
"We must tear out of goyim heads the very principle of
Godhead, replacing it with arithmetical calculation and material
needs . . We must put industry on a speculative basis, for in that
is our strength.
" Economic crises have been produced by us through the
goyim by no other means than the withdrawal of money from circulation
Huge pools of capital have stagnated, forcing States to borrow from
them and thus become their bond-slaves.. . in twenty years, a State
which has borrowed money at 5% has paid the whole sum in interest
without reducing the debt. . . The State is thus forced to impoverish
its masses in order to pay off rich foreigners. Why could those
stupid goyim not have taken the money they needed from their own
people.
"Goy governments could play tricks with internal loans
but not the external, for they know that we shall demand all our
money back."
(Wow! If a "Russian religious mystic" so long ago could
show this good a grasp of money matters, maybe we should try to
get one for our next Minister of Finance!)
(By:
The Christian Defense League )
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