{The Gestapo had a lot of citizen help and Nazis of Germany would be impressed with denial of citizens going on today. There are strong indicators of major dependencies which lead away from freedom and people aren't even aware they aren't free due to legalization and forced attendance at school not in existence in time these ideas were formulated.} -'In our program one-third of (the masses) will keep rest under observation from a sense of duty, on principle of volunteer service to State. {Machiavelli might say giving people perceived power to inform on others appeals to a lot of basic human urges.} It will be no disgrace to be a spy and informer, but a merit... how else (are) we to. .. increase… disorders?' (Protocol 17) 'Sedition-mongering is nothing more than yapping of a lap-dog at an elephant... In order to destroy prestige of heroism, for political crime we shall send it for trial in category of thieving, murder and every kind of abominable and filthy crime. {The invocation of National Interest, increase in mutiny of sea, fomentation of racial prejudices and like served well for a century or more.} Public opinion will then... brand it with same contempt.' (Protocol 19) 'Until (dissenters) commit some overt act we shall not lay a finger on them but only introduce into their midst observation elements...' (Protocol 18)

{The use of Weathermen by J. Edgar Hoover was a fine example of this kind of management and encouragement to create a whipping dog to keep others from questioning whether government was fair and open to criticism. Then they were brought down from within.}

Later Protocols deal with finances. Protocol 20 called for general taxation, 'the lawful confiscation of all sums of every kind for regulation of their circulation in State.' This would be followed by a 'progressive tax on property' and then finally a graduated income tax, a 'tax increasing in a percentage ratio to capital' as well as taxes on sales, 'receipt of money', inheritance, and property transfers. {The lack of actual taxes paid by very rich allows further question. For example Rupert Murdoch is able to get preferred status by creation of Congressional allowances just for him. Donations to agencies of Masons or churches are tax free and investment in certain things they wanted allowed tax avoidance.} There was a discussion of 'the substitution of interest-bearing paper:' money since 'Economic crises have been produced by us... by no other means than withdrawal of money from circulation.'

The Protocols also discuss at great length - loans, which it states 'hang like a sword of Damocles over heads of rulers, who, instead of taking from their subjects by a temporary tax, come begging with outstretched palm to our bankers.'…

Despite their dubious origin, Protocols were taken seriously by many powerful people, including Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II, Russia's Czar Nicholas II, and American industrialist Henry Ford, who used them to persuade U.S. Senate not to join President Wilson's League of Nations.

The Ochrana's plan worked a bit too well. A counterrevolution took place and pogroms against Russian Jews were instituted by vigilantes called 'The Black Guard', incensed by Czarist propaganda. Continuing instability and violence finally resulted in 1905 Russian Revolution, during which Protocols again were trotted out by pro-czarist elements to inflame public.

Hitler saw Protocols as a real proclamation despite evidence of fabrication. In Mein Kampf he wrote, 'They are supposed to be a 'forgery' Frankfurter Zeitung moans and cries out to world once a week; best proof that they are genuine after all... But best criticism applied to them is reality. He who examines historical development of past hundred years, from points of view of this book (the Protocols), will also immediately understand clamor of Jewish press. For once this book has become common property of a people, Jewish danger is bound to be considered as broken.'

Author of Diverse Druids

Columnist for The ES Press Magazine