PROTOCOL NO. XIII

The need of daily bread forces the GOYS to silence and compels them to

remain our obedient servants. The agents taken from among them for our

press will discuss the facts they are ordered to publish, when it is

inconvenient for us to publish statements openly in official documents.

While discussion and dispute are taking place, we will simply pass the

measures we desire and present them to the public as an accomplished

fact. Nobody will dare to demand the rejection of measures thus passed,

and the more so as they will be interpreted as an improvement. At this

point the press will divert the thoughts of the people to new problems

(we having accustomed the people always to seek new emotions). Those

brainless creators of destiny, who heretofore have been unable to

understand and do not now understand that they are ignorant of matters

which they undertake to discuss, will also hasten to discuss these new

problems. Political questions are meant to be understood only by those

who have created them and have been directing them for many centuries.

From all this you will realize that by aiming to control the opinion of

the mob we will only facilitate the functioning of our mechanism, and you

will also notice that we seek approbation, not for actions but for words

uttered by us on various occasions. We always declare that we are guided

in all our policies by the hope and certainty of serving the general good.

To divert the over-restless people from discussing political problems,

we now make it appear that we provide them with new problems, namely,

those pertaining to industry. Let them become excited over this subject

as much as they like. The masses will consent to remain inactive, to

rest from so-called political activity (to which we ourselves accustomed

them for the purpose of helping us in our struggle against the GOY

government), only on condition of a new occupation in which we can show

them supposedly the same political background.

To prevent them from reaching any independent decisions, _we will divert

their minds by amusements, games, pastimes, passions, and cultural

centers for the people_. We will soon begin to offer prize contests,

through the press, in the field of art, and sports of all kinds. Such

attractions will definitely deflect the mind from problems over which we

would otherwise have to fight with the people. By losing more and more

the custom of independent thought, they will begin to talk in unison with

us, because we alone will provide new lines of thought through persons

with whom of course we will presumably have no connection.

The rôle of liberal Utopians will be definitely terminated when our

government is recognized. Until that time, they will do us good service.

For this reason we will still direct thought towards different fantastic

theories which will appear to be progressive. For it was by the word

“progress” that we have successfully turned the brains of the stupid

GOYS. There are no brains among the GOYS to realize that this word is

but a cover for digression from the truth, unless it is applied to

material inventions, _since there is but one truth and there is no room

for progress_. Progress, being a false conception, serves to conceal the

truth so that nobody may know it except ourselves, God’s elect, who are

its guardians.

When our kingdom is established, our orators will discuss the great

problems which have stirred humanity for the purpose of bringing it

finally under our blessed rule.

Who will then suspect that all _these problems were instigated by us,

according to a political plan which has not been disclosed by any one

during so many centuries_.

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