PROTOCOL NUMBER EIGHT


1. We must arm ourselves with all the weapons which our
opponents might employ against us. We must search out in the
very finest shades of expression and the knotty points of
the lexicon of law justification for those cases where we
shall have to pronounce judgments that might appear
abnormally audacious and unjust, for it is important that
these resolutions should be set forth in expressions that
shall seem to be the most exalted moral principles cast into
legal form. Our directorate must surround itself with all
these forces of civilization among which it will have to
work. It will surround itself with publicists, practical
jurists, administrators, diplomats and, finally, with
persons prepared by a special super-educational training in
our special schools. These persons will have consonance of
all the secrets of the social structure, they will know all
the languages that can be made up by political alphabets and
words; they will be made acquainted with the whole underside
of human nature, with all its sensitive chords on which they
will have to play. These chords are the cast of mind of the
goyim, their tendencies, short-comings, vices and qualities,
the particularities of classes and conditions. Needless to
say that the talented assistants of authority, of whom I
speak, will be taken not from among the goyim, who are
accustomed to perform their administrative work without
giving themselves the trouble to think what its aim is, and
never consider what it is needed for. The administrators of
the goyim sign papers without reading them, and they serve
either for mercenary reasons or from ambition.

2. We shall surround our government with a whole world of
economists. That is the reason why economic sciences form
the principal subject of the teaching given to the Jews.
Around us again will be a whole constellation of bankers,
industrialists, capitalists and - the main thing -
millionaires, because in substance everything will be
settled by the question of figures.

3. For a time, until there will no longer be any risk in
entrusting responsible posts in our State to our
brother-Jews, we shall put them in the hands of persons
whose past and reputation are such that between them and the
people lies an abyss, persons who, in case of disobedience
to our instructions, must face criminal charges or disappear
- this in order to make them defend our interests to their
last gasp.

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