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Protocols of the Learned
Elders of Zion
Translated by Victor E. Marsden
PROTOCOL 13: DISTRACTIONS
1. 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 orders 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.
2. From all this you will see that in seeming 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 we are serving the common weal.
WE DECEIVE WORKERS
3. 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 (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
IN 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 dis-accustomed 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.
4. 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, like a fallacious idea, serves to
obscure truth so that none may know it except us, the Chosen of God, its
guardians.
5. 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.
6. Who will ever suspect then that ALL THESE PEOPLES 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?
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