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Protocols of the Learned
Elders of Zion
Translated by Victor E. Marsden
PROTOCOL 17: ABUSE
OF AUTHORITY
1. 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 defense and not to the public welfare of its results. They do not usually
decline to undertake any defense whatever, they strive for an acquittal at all
costs, caviling over every petty crux of jurisprudence and thereby they
demoralize 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 litigant; they will receive business only from the court and will study it
by notes of report 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 defense. 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 defense conducted not from personal interest but
by conviction. This will also, by the way, remove the present practice of
corrupt bargain between advocation to agree only to let that side win which pays
most .....
WE SHALL DESTROY THE CLERGY
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. THE KING OF THE JEWS WILL BE THE REAL POPE
OF THE UNIVERSE, THE PATRIARCH OF THE INTERNATIONAL CHURCH
5. 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 . . .
6. 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 practiced by the genius of our gifted tribe . . .
7. 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 everything 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 programs
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 development of abuses of
this right.
8. 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, et cetera. 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.
9. 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.
10. Such an organization 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.
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