The lawyer’s profession makes people grow cold, cruel, stubborn and
unprincipled, and compels them to take an abstract or purely legal
viewpoint in all matters. They have learned to consider solely the
personal gain derived from every case they handle and not the possibility
of the social benefit of its results. They rarely refuse to take a
case and always strive for acquittal at all cost, clinging to minor
technical points of a legal nature. In this way they demoralize the
courts. Therefore we will limit this profession, converting it into
an executive public office. Lawyers will be deprived of the right of
contact with their clients on the same basis as are the judges. They will
receive their cases only from the court, preparing them on the strength
of written reports and documents and defending their clients after they
have been examined in court on the basis of the facts obtained during the
trial. They will receive a salary, regardless of whether the defense has
been successful or not. They will act as simple exponents of the case on
behalf of the defense in counterbalance to the public prosecutor, who
will act as exponent on behalf of the prosecution. This will shorten
legal procedure and establish an honest and impartial defense, conducted
not for the sake of personal gain, but based on the personal conviction
of the lawyer. This will also eliminate the existing bribery among fellow
lawyers and prevent their allowing the side to win which pays.
We have already taken care to discredit the clergy of the GOYS and thus
to undermine their function, which at the present time could have been
very much in our way. Their influence over the people diminishes daily.
To-day freedom of religion has been proclaimed everywhere; consequently,
it is only a _question of a few years before the complete collapse of
Christendom_. It will be still easier to deal with other religions, but
it is too early to discuss this problem. We will confine clericalism and
clericals within such a narrow field that their influence will have an
effect opposite to what it used to have.
When the moment comes to annihilate the Vatican completely, an invisible
hand, pointing towards this court, will guide the masses in their
assault. When, however, the masses attack, we will come forward as
defenders to prevent too much bloodshed. By this method we will penetrate
its very heart and will not leave it until we have undermined its power.
The King of Israel will become the real Pope of the Universe, the
Patriarch of the International Church.
But until we have accomplished the re-education of the youth to new
transitional religions and finally to our own, _we will not openly attack
the existing churches, but will fight them by means of criticism, thus
creating dissension_.
In general, our press will denounce governmental activities and religion,
and will expose the inefficiency of the GOYS in the most unscrupulous
terms, so as to humiliate them to such an extent as only our ingenious
race is capable of doing. Our rule will simulate the God Vishnu, who
resembles us physically; each of our hundred hands will hold one of the
springs of the social machine. We will see everything without the aid of
the official police; in its present organization, however, which we have
worked out for the GOYS, the police prevent the government from seeing
anything. According to our program, one-third of our subjects will watch
the others from a pure sense of duty, as volunteers for the government.
Then it will not be considered disgraceful to be a spy and an informer;
on the contrary, it will be regarded as praiseworthy. Unfounded reports,
however, will be severely punished to prevent abuse of this privilege.
Our agents will be recruited both from among the highest and the lowest
ranks of society; they will be selected from among the pleasure-loving
governmental officials, editors, printers, booksellers, salesmen,
workmen, drivers, butlers, etc. This police force will have no official
rights or credentials, which give opportunity for the abuse of power,
and consequently it will be powerless; it will merely act as observer
and will make reports. The verification of such reports and the issue
of warrants for arrests will rest with a responsible group of police
controllers. The actual arrests, however, will be made by a gendarme
corps or the municipal police. In case of failure to report any political
matter which has been observed or rumored, the person who should have
reported it may be brought to trial for concealment of crime, if it is
proven that he is guilty.
_In the same way that our brethren are now under obligation to report
on their own initiative on all apostates_, or on any person marked as
being opposed to the Kehillah, so in our Universal Kingdom it will be
obligatory for all subjects to serve the state in that direction.
Such an organization will eliminate all abuse of power and various
kinds of coercion and corruption, in fact, the very things which have
been introduced into the customs of the GOYS by our councils and by the
theories of the rights of supermen. But how otherwise could we foment the
increasing causes for disorder in the midst of their administration? What
other means could we use? Among these means, one of the most important is
the employment of such agents for the preservation of order as are in a
position to manifest their own evil inclinations in the course of their
destructive work, namely, their self-will, abuse of authority, and, most
important of all, bribery.