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| + | ====== Protocol No. 12 ====== | ||
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| + | < | ||
| + | <p>1. The word < | ||
| + | interpreted in various ways, is defined by us as follows - </p> | ||
| + | <p>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. </p> | ||
| + | <p>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 lay 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. </p> | ||
| + | <h3 align=" | ||
| + | <p>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. </p> | ||
| + | <p>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 .... </p> | ||
| + | <p>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, | ||
| + | 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.... </p> | ||
| + | <h3 align=" | ||
| + | <p>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, | ||
| + | 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. Before | ||
| + | accepting any production for publication 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. </p> | ||
| + | <p>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. </p> | ||
| + | <p>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. </p> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | part it will be to attack the tepid and indifferent. </p> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | opposition, 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. </p> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | aristocratic, | ||
| + | long, of course, as the constitution exists .... Like the Indian | ||
| + | idol < | ||
| + | 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. </p> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | 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, | ||
| + | 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, | ||
| + | course, that is to our advantage. </p> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | 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. </p> | ||
| + | <h3 align=" | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | 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 | ||
| + | tranquillize the public mind on political questions, to persuade or | ||
| + | to confuse, printing now truth, now lies, facts or their | ||
| + | contradictions, | ||
| + | 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. </p> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | press, in case of need, will be energetically refuted by us in our | ||
| + | semi-official organs. </p> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | 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. </p> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | 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. </p> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | 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.</ | ||
| + | </ | ||