THE MEETING OF THE LEARNED ELDES OF ZION NUMBER EIGHTEEN.

This publication of the Learned Elders of Zion, it is simply being quoted by the author, the author did not write this article, the author opinion does not reflect  any bias polarity toward this article, the posting of this protocol number Eighteen of Twenty Four, it is simply to understand the worldly views of the various beliefs systems of the different races on this planet to broaden ones understanding and more importantly to understand one self through the eyes and opinion of others feelings and their views of this world.

As for the old saying goes, know thy self.

However the author does insist that the reader not to make any irrational decision of his or her personal view, until have read the entire twenty four protocols. They will be posted in a sequential order in a timely manner. 

One must keep in mind that Light and darkness they exist side by side, at the end of the posting of all the protocols one will be able to discern which is which.

"PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE 

LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION.

PROTOCOL No. 18 

    1. When it becomes necessary for us to strengthen the strict measures of secret defense (the most 

fatal poison for the prestige of authority) we shall arrange a simulation of disorders or some 

manifestation of discontents finding expression through the co- operation of good speakers. Round 

these speakers will assemble all who are sympathetic to his utterances. This will give us the pretext for 

domiciliary prerequisitions and surveillance on the part of our servants from among the number of the 

GOYIM police .... 

    2. As the majority of conspirators act of love for the game, for the sake of talking, so, until they 

commit some overt act we shall not lay a finger on them but only introduce into their midst 

observation elements .... It must be remembered that the prestige of authority is lessened if it 

frequently discovers conspiracies against itself: this implies a presumption of consciousness of 

weakness, or, what is still worse, of injustice. You are aware that we have broken the prestige of the 

GOY kings by frequent attempts upon their lives through our agents, blind sheep of our flock, who are 

easily moved by a few liberal phrases to crimes provided only they be painted in political colors. WE 

HAVE COMPELLED THE RULERS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR WEAKNESS IN ADVERTISING 

OVERT MEASURES OF SECRETE DEFENSE AND THEREBY WE SHALL BRING THE PROMISE OF 

AUTHORITY TO DESTRUCTION.

    3. Our ruler will be secretly protected only by the most insignificant guard, because we shall not 

admit so much as a thought that there could exist against him any sedition with which he is not strong 

enough to contend and is compelled to hide from it. 

    4. If we should admit this thought, as the GOYIM have done and are doing, we should IPSO FACTO 

be signing a death sentence, if not for our ruler, at any rate for his dynasty, at no distant date. 

GOVERNMENT BY FEAR 

    5. According to strictly enforced outward appearances our ruler will employ his power only for the 

advantage of the nation and in no wise for his own or dynastic profits. Therefore, with the observance 

of this decorum, his authority will be respected and guarded by the subjects themselves, it will receive 

an apotheosis in the admission that with it is bound up the well-being of every citizen of the State, for 

upon it will depend all order in the common life of the pack .... 

    6. OVERT DEFENSE OF THE KIND ARGUES WEAKNESS IN THE ORGANIZATION OF HIS 

STRENGTH. 

    7. Our ruler will always be among the people and be surrounded by a mob of apparently curious men 

and women, who will occupy the front ranks about him, to all appearance by chance, and will restrain 

the ranks of the rest out of respect as it will appear for good order. This will sow an example of 

restraint also in others. If a petitioner appears among the people trying to hand a petition and forcing 

his way through the ranks, the first ranks must receive the petition and before the eyes of the 

petitioner pass it to the ruler, so that all may know that what is handed in reaches its destination, that consequently, there exists a control of the ruler himself. The aureole of power requires for is existence 

that the people may be able to say: "If the king knew of this," or: "the king will hear it." 

    8. WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICIAL DEFENSE, THE MYSTICAL PRESTIGE OF 

AUTHORITY DISAPPEARS: given a certain audacity, and everyone counts himself master of it, the 

sedition- monger is conscious of his strength, and when occasion serves watches for the moment to 

make an attempt upon authority .... For the GOYIM we have been preaching something else, but by 

that very fact we are enabled to see what measures of overt defense have brought them to .... 

    9. CRIMINALS WITH US WILL BE ARRESTED AT THE FIRST, more or less, well-grounded 

SUSPICION: it cannot be allowed that out of fear of a possible mistake an opportunity should be given 

of escape to persons suspected of a political lapse of crime, for in these matters we shall be literally 

merciless. If it is still possible, by stretching a point, to admit a reconsideration of the motive causes in 

simple crimes, there is no possibility of excuse for persons occupying themselves with questions in 

which nobody except the government can understand anything .... And it is not all governments that 

understand true policy. 

THE MEETING OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION NUMBER SEVENTEEN.

This publication of the Learned Elders of Zion, it is simply being quoted by the author, the author did not write this article, the author opinion does not reflect  any bias polarity toward this article, the posting of this protocol number Seventeen of Twenty Four, it is simply to understand the worldly views of the various beliefs systems of the different races on this planet to broaden ones understanding and more importantly to understand one self through the eyes and opinion of others feelings and their views of this world.

As for the old saying goes, know thy self.

However the author does insist that the reader not to make any irrational decision of his or her personal view, until have read the entire twenty four protocols. They will be posted in a sequential order in a timely manner. 

One must keep in mind that Light and darkness they exist side by side, at the end of the posting of all the protocols one will be able to discern which is which.

"PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE 

LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION.

PROTOCOL No. 17 

    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 well 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 "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 act 

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 [The Antichrist??]. 

    5. But, IN THE MEANTIME, while we are reeducating 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 out 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. 

THE MEETING OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION NUMBER SIXTEEN.

This publication of the Learned Elders of Zion, it is simply being quoted by the author, the author did not write this article, the author opinion does not reflect  any bias polarity toward this article, the posting of this protocol number Sixteen of Twenty Four, it is simply to understand the worldly views of the various beliefs systems of the different races on this planet to broaden ones understanding and more importantly to understand one self through the eyes and opinion of others feelings and their views of this world.

As for the old saying goes, know thy self.

However the author does insist that the reader not to make any irrational decision of his or her personal view, until have read the entire twenty four protocols. They will be posted in a sequential order in a timely manner. 

One must keep in mind that Light and darkness they exist side by side, at the end of the posting of all the protocols one will be able to discern which is which.

"PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE 

LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION.

PROTOCOL No. 16

    1. In order to effect the destruction of all collective forces except ours we shall emasculate the first 

stage of collectivism - the UNIVERSITIES, by reeducating them in a new direction. THEIR OFFICIALS 

AND PROFESSORS WILL BE PREPARED FOR THEIR BUSINESS BY DETAILED SECRET 

PROGRAMS OF ACTION FROM WHICH THEY WILL NOT WITH IMMUNITY DIVERGE, NOT BY 

ONE IOTA. THEY WILL BE APPOINTED WITH ESPECIAL PRECAUTION, AND WILL BE SO 

PLACED AS TO BE WHOLLY DEPENDENT UPON THE GOVERNMENT. 

    2. We shall exclude from the course of instruction State Law as also all that concerns the political 

question. These subjects will be taught to a few dozen of persons chosen for their preeminent 

capacities from among the number of the initiated. THE UNIVERSITIES MUST NO LONGER SEND 

OUT FROM THEIR HALLS MILK SOPS CONCOCTING PLANS FOR A CONSTITUTION, LIKE A 

COMEDY OR A TRAGEDY, BUSYING THEMSELVES WITH QUESTIONS OF POLICY IN WHICH 

EVEN THEIR OWN FATHERS NEVER HAD ANY POWER OF THOUGHT. 

    3. The ill-guided acquaintance of a large number of persons with questions of polity creates utopian 

dreamers and bad subjects, as you can see for yourselves from the example of the universal education 

in this direction of the GOYIM. We must introduce into their education all those principles which have 

so brilliantly broken up their order. But when we are in power we shall remove every kind of 

disturbing subject from the course of education and shall make out of the youth obedient children of 

authority, loving him who rules as the support and hope of peace and quiet. 

WE SHALL CHANGE HISTORY 

    4. Classicism as also any form of study of ancient history, in which there are more bad than good 

examples, we shall replace with the study of the program of the future. We shall erase from the 

memory of men all facts of previous centuries which are undesirable to us, and leave only those which 

depict all the errors of the government of the GOYIM. The study of practical life, of the obligations of 

order, of the relations of people one to another, of avoiding bad and selfish examples, which spread the 

infection of evil, and similar questions of an educative nature, will stand in the forefront of the 

teaching program, which will be drawn up on a separate plan for each calling or state of life, in no wise 

generalizing the teaching. This treatment of the question has special importance. 

    5. Each state of life must be trained within strict limits corresponding to its destination and work in 

life. The OCCASIONAL GENIUS HAS ALWAYS MANAGED AND ALWAYS WILL MANAGE TO SLIP 

THROUGH INTO OTHER STATES OF LIFE, BUT IT IS THE MOST PERFECT FOLLY FOR THE 

SAKE OF THIS RARE OCCASIONAL GENIUS TO LET THROUGH INTO RANKS FOREIGN TO 

THEM THE UNTALENTED WHO THUS ROB OF THEIR PLACES WHO BELONG TO THOSE 

RANKS BY BIRTH OR EMPLOYMENT. YOU KNOW YOURSELVES IN WHAT ALL THIS HAS 

ENDED FOR THE "GOYIM" WHO ALLOWED THIS CRYING ABSURDITY. 

    6. In order that he who rules may be seated firmly in the hearts and minds of his subjects it is necessary for the time of his activity to instruct the whole nation in the schools and on the market 

places about this meaning and his acts and all his beneficent initiatives. 

    7. We shall abolish every kind of freedom of instruction. Learners of all ages have the right to 

assemble together with their parents in the educational establishments as it were in a club: during 

these assemblies, on holidays, teachers will read what will pass as free lectures on questions of human 

relations, of the laws of examples, of the philosophy of new theories not yet declared to the world. 

These theories will be raised by us to the stage of a dogma of faith as a traditional stage towards our 

faith. On the completion of this exposition of our program of action in the present and the future I will 

read you the principles of these theories. 

    8. In a word, knowing by the experience of many centuries that people live and are guided by ideas, 

that these ideas are imbibed by people only by the aid of education provided with equal success for all 

ages of growth, but of course by varying methods, we shall swallow up and confiscate to our own use 

the last scintilla of independence of thought, which we have for long past been directing towards 

subjects and ideas useful for us. The system of bridling thought is already at work in the so-called 

system of teaching by OBJECT LESSONS, the purpose of which is to turn the GOYIM into unthinking 

submissive brutes waiting for things to be presented before their eyes in order to form an idea of them 

.... In France, one of our best agents, Bourgeois, has already made public a new program of teaching by 

object lessons. 

THE MEETING OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION NUMBER FOURTEEN.

This publication of the Learned Elders of Zion, it is simply being quoted by the author, the author did not write this article, the author opinion does not reflect  any bias polarity toward this article, the posting of this protocol number Fourteen of Twenty Four, it is simply to understand the worldly views of the various beliefs systems of the different races on this planet to broaden ones understanding and more importantly to understand one self through the eyes and opinion of others feelings and their views of this world.

As for the old saying goes, know thy self.

However the author does insist that the reader not to make any irrational decision of his or her personal view, until have read the entire twenty four protocols. They will be posted in a sequential order in a timely manner. 

One must keep in mind that Light and darkness they exist side by side, at the end of the posting of all the protocols one will be able to discern which is which.

"PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE 

LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION.

PROTOCOL No. 14

    1. When we come into our kingdom it will be undesirable for us that there should exist any other 

religion than ours of the One God with whom our destiny is bound up by our position as the Chosen 

People and through whom our same destiny is united with the destinies of the world. We must 

therefore sweep away all other forms of belief. If this gives birth to the atheists whom we see to-day, it 

will not, being only a transitional stage, interfere with our views, but will serve as a warning for those 

generations which will hearken to our preaching of the religion of Moses, that, by its stable and 

thoroughly elaborated system has brought all the peoples of the world into subjection to us. Therein 

we shall emphasize its mystical right, on which, as we shall say, all its educative power is based .... 

Then at every possible opportunity we shall publish articles in which we shall make comparisons 

between our beneficent rule and those of past ages. The blessing of tranquility, though it be a 

tranquility forcibly brought about by centuries of agitation, will throw into higher relief the benefits to 

which we shall point. The errors of the GOYIM governments will be depicted by us in the most vivid 

hues. We shall implant such an abhorrence of them that the peoples will prefer tranquility in a state of 

serfdom to those rights of vaunted freedom which have tortured humanity and exhausted the very 

sources of human existence, sources which have been exploited by a mob of rascally adventurers who 

know not what they do .... USELESS CHANGES OF FORMS OF GOVERNMENT TO WHICH WE 

INSTIGATED THE "GOYIM" WHEN WE WERE UNDERMINING THEIR STATE STRUCTURES, 

WILL HAVE SO WEARIED THE PEOPLES BY THAT TIME THAT THEY WILL PREFER TO SUFFER 

ANYTHING UNDER US RATHER THAN RUN THE RISK OF ENDURING AGAIN ALL THE 

AGITATIONS AND MISERIES THEY HAVE GONE THROUGH. 

WE SHALL FORBID CHRIST 

    2. At the same time we shall not omit to emphasize the historical mistakes of the GOY governments 

which have tormented humanity for so many centuries by their lack of understanding of everything 

that constitutes the true good of humanity in their chase after fantastic schemes of social blessings, 

and have never noticed that these schemes kept on producing a worse and never a better state of the 

universal relations which are the basis of human life .... 

    3. The whole force of our principles and methods will lie in the fact that we shall present them and 

expound them as a splendid contrast to the dead and decomposed old order of things in social life. 

    4. Our philosophers will discuss all the shortcomings of the various beliefs of the "GOYIM," BUT NO 

ONE WILL EVER BRING UNDER DISCUSSION OUR FAITH FROM ITS TRUE POINT OF VIEW 

SINCE THIS WILL BE FULLY LEARNED BY NONE SAVE OURS WHO WILL NEVER DARE TO 

BETRAY ITS SECRETS. 

    5. IN COUNTRIES KNOWN AS PROGRESSIVE AND ENLIGHTENED WE HAVE CREATED A 

SENSELESS, FILTHY, ABOMINABLE LITERATURE. For some time after our entrance to power we 

shall continue to encourage its existence in order to provide a telling relief by contrast to the speeches, 

party program, which will be distributed from exalted quarters of ours .... Our wise men, trained to 

become leaders of the GOYIM, will compose speeches, projects, memoirs, articles, which will be used 

by us to influence the minds of the GOYIM, directing them towards such understanding and forms of 

knowledge as have been determined by us. 

THE MEETING OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION NUMBER TWELVE.

This publication of the Learned Elders of Zion, it is simply being quoted by the author, the author did not write this article, the author opinion does not reflect  any bias polarity toward this article, the posting of this protocol number Twelve of Twenty Four, it is simply to understand the worldly views of the various beliefs systems of the different races on this planet to broaden ones understanding and more importantly to understand one self through the eyes and opinion of others feelings and their views of this world.

As for the old saying goes, know thy self.

However the author does insist that the reader not to make any irrational decision of his or her personal view, until have read the entire twenty four protocols. They will be posted in a sequential order in a timely manner. 

One must keep in mind that Light and darkness they exist side by side, at the end of the posting of all the protocols one will be able to discern which is which.

"PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE 

LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION.

PROTOCOL No. 12 

    1. The word "freedom," which can be interpreted in various ways, is defined by us as follows - 

    2. Freedom is the right to do what which the law allows. This interpretation of the word will at the 

proper time be of service to us, because all freedom will thus be in our hands, since the laws will 

abolish or create only that which is desirable for us according to the aforesaid program. 

    3. We shall deal with the press in the following way: what is the part played by the press to-day? It 

serves to excite and inflame those passions which are needed for our purpose or else it serves selfish 

ends of parties. It is often vapid, unjust, mendacious, and the majority of the public have not the 

slightest idea what ends the press really serves. We shall saddle and bridle it with a tight curb: we shall 

do the same also with all productions of the printing press, for where would be the sense of getting rid 

of the attacks of the press if we remain targets for pamphlets and books? The produce of publicity, 

which nowadays is a source of heavy expense owing to the necessity of censoring it, will be turned by 

us into a very lucrative source of income to our State: we shall law on it a special stamp tax and require 

deposits of caution-money before permitting the establishment of any organ of the press or of printing 

offices; these will then have to guarantee our government against any kind of attack on the part of the 

press. For any attempt to attack us, if such still be possible, we shall inflict fines without mercy. Such 

measures as stamp tax, deposit of caution-money and fines secured by these deposits, will bring in a 

huge income to the government. It is true that party organs might not spare money for the sake of 

publicity, but these we shall shut up at the second attack upon us. No one shall with impunity lay a 

finger on the aureole of our government infallibility. The pretext for stopping any publication will be 

the alleged plea that it is agitating the public mind without occasion or justification. I BEG YOU TO 

NOTE THAT AMONG THOSE MAKING ATTACKS UPON US WILL ALSO BE ORGANS 

ESTABLISHED BY US, BUT THEY WILL ATTACK EXCLUSIVELY POINTS THAT WE HAVE PRE- 

DETERMINED TO ALTER. 

WE CONTROL THE PRESS 

    4. NOT A SINGLE ANNOUNCEMENT WILL REACH THE PUBLIC WITHOUT OUR CONTROL. 

Even now this is already being attained by us inasmuch as all news items are received by a few 

agencies, in whose offices they are focused from all parts of the world. These agencies will then be 

already entirely ours and will give publicity only to what we dictate to them. 

    5. If already now we have contrived to possess ourselves of the minds of the GOY communities to 

such an extent the they all come near looking upon the events of the world through the colored glasses 

of those spectacles we are setting astride their noses; if already now there is not a single State where 

there exist for us any barriers to admittance into what GOY stupidity calls State secrets: what will our 

positions be then, when we shall be acknowledged supreme lords of the world in the person of our king 

of all the world .... 

    6. Let us turn again to the FUTURE OF THE PRINTING PRESS. Every one desirous of being a 

publisher, librarian, or printer, will be obliged to provide himself with the diploma instituted 

therefore, which, in case of any fault, will be immediately impounded. With such measures THE 

INSTRUMENT OF THOUGHT WILL BECOME AN EDUCATIVE MEANS ON THE HANDS OF OUR GOVERNMENT, WHICH WILL NO LONGER ALLOW THE MASS OF THE NATION TO BE LED 

ASTRAY IN BY-WAYS AND FANTASIES ABOUT THE BLESSINGS OF PROGRESS. Is there any one 

of us who does not know that these phantom blessings are the direct roads to foolish imaginings which 

give birth to anarchical relations of men among themselves and towards authority, because progress, 

or rather the idea of progress, has introduced the conception of every kind of emancipation, but has 

failed to establish its limits .... All the so-called liberals are anarchists, if not in fact, at any rate in 

thought. Every one of them in hunting after phantoms of freedom, and falling exclusively into license, 

that is, into the anarchy of protest for the sake of protest .... 

FREE PRESS DESTROYED 

    7. We turn to the periodical press. We shall impose on it, as on all printed matter, stamp taxes per 

sheet and deposits of caution- money, and books of less than 30 sheets will pay double. We shall 

reckon them as pamphlets in order, on the one hand, to reduce the number of magazines, which are 

the worst form of printed poison, and, on the other, in order that this measure may force writers into 

such lengthy productions that they will be little read, especially as they will be costly. At the same time 

what we shall publish ourselves to influence mental development in the direction laid down for our 

profit will be cheap and will be read voraciously. The tax will bring vapid literary ambitions within 

bounds and the liability to penalties will make literary men dependent upon us. And if there should be 

any found who are desirous of writing against us, they will not find any person eager to print their 

productions in print the publisher or printer will have to apply to the authorities for permission to do 

so. Thus we shall know beforehand of all tricks preparing against us and shall nullify them by getting 

ahead with explanations on the subject treated of. 

    8. Literature and journalism are two of the most important educative forces, and therefore our 

government will become proprietor of the majority of the journals. This will neutralize the injurious 

influence of the privately-owned press and will put us in possession of a tremendous influence upon 

the public mind .... If we give permits for ten journals, we shall ourselves found thirty, and so on in the 

same proportion. This, however, must in no wise be suspected by the public. For which reason all 

journals published by us will be of the most opposite, in appearance, tendencies and opinions, thereby 

creating confidence in us and bringing over to us quite unsuspicious opponents, who will thus fall into 

our trap and be rendered harmless. 

    9. In the front rank will stand organs of an official character. They will always stand guard over our 

interests, and therefore their influence will be comparatively insignificant. 

    10. In the second rank will be the semi-official organs, whose part it will be to attack the tepid and 

indifferent. 

    11. In the third rank we shall set up our own, to all appearance, off position, which, in at least one of 

its organs, will present what looks like the very antipodes to us. Our real opponents at heart will accept 

this simulated opposition as their own and will show us their cards. 

    12. All our newspapers will be of all possible complexions - aristocratic, republican, revolutionary, 

even anarchical - for so long, of course, as the constitution exists .... Like the Indian idol "Vishnu" they 

will have a hundred hands, and every one of them will have a finger on any one of the public opinions 

as required. When a pulse quickens these hands will lead opinion in the direction of our aims, for an 

excited patient loses all power of judgment and easily yields to suggestion. Those fools who will think 

they are repeating the opinion of a newspaper of their own camp will be repeating our opinion or any 

opinion that seems desirable for us. In the vain belief that they are following the organ of their party 

they will, in fact, follow the flag which we hang out for them. 

  13. In order to direct our newspaper militia in this sense we must take special and minute care in 

organizing this matter. Under the title of central department of the press we shall institute literary 

gatherings at which our agents will without attracting attention issue the orders and watchwords of the 

day. By discussing and controverting, but always superficially, without touching the essence of the 

matter, our organs will carry on a sham fight fusillade with the official newspapers solely for the 

purpose of giving occasion for us to express ourselves more fully than could well be done from the 

outset in official announcements, whenever, of course, that is to our advantage. 

    14. THESE ATTACKS UPON US WILL ALSO SERVE ANOTHER PURPOSE, NAMELY, THAT OUR 

SUBJECTS WILL BE CONVINCED TO THE EXISTENCE OF FULL FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND SO 

GIVE OUR AGENTS AN OCCASION TO AFFIRM THAT ALL ORGANS WHICH OPPOSE US ARE 

EMPTY BABBLERS, since they are incapable of finding any substantial objections to our orders. 

ONLY LIES PRINTED 

    15. Methods of organization like these, imperceptible to the public eye but absolutely sure, are the 

best calculated to succeed in bringing the attention and the confidence of the public to the side of our 

government. Thanks to such methods we shall be in a position as from time to time may be required, 

to excite or to tranquilize the public mind on political questions, to persuade or to confuse, printing 

now truth, now lies, facts or their contradictions, according as they may be well or ill received, always 

very cautiously feeling our ground before stepping upon it .... WE SHALL HAVE A SURE TRIUMPH 

OVER OUR OPPONENTS SINCE THEY WILL NOT HAVE AT THEIR DISPOSITION ORGANS OF 

THE PRESS IN WHICH THEY CAN GIVE FULL AND FINAL EXPRESSION TO THEIR VIEWS owing 

to the aforesaid methods of dealing with the press. We shall not even need to refute them except very 

superficially. 

    16. Trial shots like these, fired by us in the third rank of our press, in case of need, will be 

energetically refuted by us in our semi-official organs. 

    17. Even nowadays, already, to take only the French press, there are forms which reveal masonic 

solidarity in acting on the watchword: all organs of the press are bound together by professional 

secrecy; like the augurs of old, not one of their numbers will give away the secret of his sources of 

information unless it be resolved to make announcement of them. Not one journalist will venture to 

betray this secret, for not one of them is ever admitted to practice literature unless his whole past has 

some disgraceful sore or other .... These sores would be immediately revealed. So long as they remain 

the secret of a few the prestige of the journalist attacks the majority of the country - the mob follow 

after him with enthusiasm. 

    18. Our calculations are especially extended to the provinces. It is indispensable for us to inflame 

there those hopes and impulses with which we could at any moment fall upon the capital, and we shall 

represent to the capitals that these expressions are the independent hopes and impulses of the 

provinces. Naturally, the source of them will be always one and the same - ours. WHAT WE NEED IS 

THAT, UNTIL SUCH TIME AS WE ARE IN THE PLENITUDE POWER, THE CAPITALS SHOULD 

FIND THEMSELVES STIFLED BY THE PROVINCIAL OPINION OF THE NATIONS, I.E., OF A  MAJORITY ARRANGED BY OUR AGENTUR. What we need is that at the psychological moment the 

capitals should not be in a position to discuss an accomplished fact for the simple reason, if for no 

other, that it has been accepted by the public opinion of a majority in the provinces.   19. WHEN WE 

ARE IN THE PERIOD OF THE NEW REGIME TRANSITIONAL TO THAT OF OUR ASSUMPTION 

OF FULL SOVEREIGNTY WE MUST NOT ADMIT ANY REVELATION BY THE PRESS OF ANY 

FORM OF PUBLIC DISHONESTY; IT IS NECESSARY THAT THE NEW REGIME SHOULD BE 

THOUGHT TO HAVE SO PERFECTLY CONTENDED EVERYBODY THAT EVEN CRIMINALITY HAS 

DISAPPEARED ... Cases of the manifestation of criminality should remain known only to their victims 

and to chance witnesses - no more.