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51
PROTOCOL NO.18
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 as 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 perquisitions and surveillance on the part of our
servants from among the number of the goyim police.
As the majority of conspirators act out 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 secret defense and thereby
we shall bring the promise of authority to destruction.
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.
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.
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 of domestic 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.
Overt defense of the king argues weakness in the organization of his strength.
Our ruler will always among the people be surrounded by a mob 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 its existence that the people may be able to
say: “If the king knew of this,” or: “the king will hear of it.”
With the establishment of official secret defense the mystical prestige authority disappears;
given a certain audacity, and everyone counts him 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 the
very fact we are enabled to see what measures of overt defense have brought them to.
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 in crime, for in these matters we shall be literally
