Letter of the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece Ieronimos

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Letter of the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece Ieronimos, regarding the issues of taxation of the Orthodox Church of Greece and of the payroll of Its clergy to Greek PM and the leaders of the EU

Prompted by repeated publications in a part of the European Press regarding the issues of taxation of the Orthodox Church of Greece and of the payroll of Its clergy, and whose authors, in violation of any notion of ethics, avoid addressing relevant questions to the competent Press Office for their complete information, we are obliged to proceed to the following clarifications in order to restore the truth:

A. Taxation of the Church. The latest tax exemptions in favour of the Orthodox Church as well as in favour of all known religions in Greece with no exception, were repealed on April 23, 2010 by law No. 3842/2010. Henceforth, the legal entities of the Orthodox Church have been disbursing : (1) a tax on their real estate, and indeed at a tax rate three times as high as the one applying to the rest of the public organisations of the country; (2) a tax on the rents they receive each year from their real estate at a tax rate of 20% of their value, namely higher than the one applying to private individuals; (3) a complementary tax on their revenues from edifices and leased lands at a rate of 3%; (4) an advance payment of tax for the following year at a rate of 55% of the value of the aforementioned complementary tax; (5) a tax on inheritance and donations at a rate of 0.5% of their value; (6) a stamp duty fee and Agricultural Insurance Organisation rights at a total rate of 2.40% on each pecuniary contribution from the faithful to the Holy Churches by reason of sacred practices. Moreover, the aforementioned legal entities of the Church withhold and pay to the Greek Government all taxes which private tax payers are also obliged to withhold and pay in their transactions with third parties (tax on salaried services, VAT etc.). In accordance with tax law, only spaces used for worship and public benefit purposes by all religions and denominations with no exception are exempted from the tax on real estate. Thus the Central Service of the Church of Greece, the Holy Metropolises, the Parishes, the Holy Monasteries and the Ecclesiastic Foundations paid for the year 2011 a total amount of 12,584,139.92€ in taxes.

B. The payroll of the clergy. The payroll of the clergy is disbursed by the Government in compliance with a contractual obligation of the latter, assumed by it as of the year 1833 vis-à-vis the Church, since 65% (i.e. two thirds) of the rural and urban real estate property of the Church at the time came to the State. Henceforth and up to this day 96% of the remaining aforementioned property has also come to the State — either unilaterally (through a number of laws passed by the Greek Government) or through donations offered by the Church. The largest mass land concessions by the Church to the State took place in order to assist the refugees of the Asia Minor Disaster (1922) as well as the landless cultivators after 1945. Furthermore, the most significant public edifices of the capital (housing academic institutions, hospitals etc.) have been erected on real estate conceded by the Church free of charge for this purpose.

Today the largest part of Church property consists of forest extents, with regard to which, in accordance with the Greek Constitution, no change of their purpose and use is permitted, and of a few urban estates, upon most of which urban planning compulsory purchase has been imposed by the State so that they may be turned into communal spaces, without, however, the Orthodox Church legal entities’ having been compensated for them, due to the lack of financial resources of the relevant Municipalities. It is worth noting at this point that the salaries of the Deacons and of the Presbyters of the Orthodox Church are stipulated by the same law as those of Public Servants and are subject to the same cuts and tax allowances.

C. The revenues of the Church. The revenues of the Church derive from the rents of Its remaining real estate, the dividends from bank shares and voluntary contributions from the faithful. It should be noted that, as of 2008, paying dividends to bank shareholders has been suspended by law, while the real estate market is also going through a severe crisis. Despite all that, in October 2010 the Church of Greece supported the Greek economy by partaking of the share capital increase of the National Bank of Greece with the amount of 27 million euro, derived from bank borrowing. Today these shares, apart from the fact that they yield no dividend, have almost zero resale value. It should be emphasised that the Church of Greece has no revenues from commercial ventures or business activities in general.

D. The social work of the Church. Ever since the establishment of the Modern Greek State and up to this day, uninterruptedly, and of course these days in particular, when our people is suffering, Holy Metropolises, Holy Parishes, and Ecclesiastic Foundations have developed a large number of actions and charitable initiatives for the relief of those in need. Today the Church of Greece operates: 2,325 funds for the poor (Philoptocha), 10 nursery schools, 10 kindergartens, 19 hospices for the elderly within the Holy Archdiocese of Athens and a further 66 in the Holy Metropolitanates, 13 healthcare clinics for persons with chronic diseases, 8 foundations for persons with special needs, 10 hospitals and medical centres, 7 mental health hospices, 6 hostels for the homeless, 1 hostel for the accommodation of patients’ relatives, 36 boarding schools and orphanages, many foundations dedicated to child protection, over 200 free food distribution centres, with the number of portions of food offered constantly increasing, social supermarkets, free distribution points for clothing and foot ware, and student boarding houses.

The number of persons hosted in all the aforementioned forms of social infrastructure of the Church for the year 2011 (accommodation, boarding, medical and pharmaceutical healthcare) rose to 5,862. Moreover, 54 camping centres are operated, where more than 15,000 children are hosted each year. Furthermore, there is a special service operated by the Holy Synod for the reception of immigrants and for the provision of legal assistance to them, should they wish to submit asylum requests. Finally, it should be taken into account that daily pecuniary aid is provided to the destitute, and academic scholarships are granted to Greek and foreign students. In total, for the year 2010, all agencies of the Orthodox Church of Greece spent on their charitable and social work the amount of 96,234,510.47 euro.

It should be taken into consideration that the aforementioned data do not regard the Monastic Community of the Holy Mount, the Church of Crete or the Holy Metropolitanates of the Dodecanese, which constitute administratively independent ecclesiastic jurisdictions (and distinct from the Church of Greece) in accordance with Greek law.

We deem the dispatch of the present to be appropriate so that things may be put back in their right perspective; so that the irresponsible reproduction of erroneous and stereotypical information as well as the creation of distorted impressions at the expense of the Orthodox Church of Greece may cease, being obviously aimed at serving unfathomable expediencies.

 

http://www.ecclesia.gr/epikairotita/default.asp

A time for darkness

Some may have noticed.  In solidarity with Wikipedia, John of Ad Orientum, the blogger Visibilium, a fan site of Republican nominee for United States President Ron Paul, The Daily Paul as well as many other websites, I blacked out my blog yesterday along with them.

Why?  Since I have mentioned Wikipedia, here is why.

Having mentioned Dr. Ron Paul, I would like to also publicly endorse him as the candidate of my choice.  There are many reasons for this but do not necessarily  want to state them.  John of Ad Orientum wrote a nice piece of why he, too, endorsed the good Dr.  With several nuances, I think his piece states my position as well.  Also, see the Caveman's post on his endorsement of Ron Paul.  As always, VSO is blunt and to the point.  Another excellent endorsement with some very good information and links about Ron Paul can be found at Nathan Lee Lewis' blog Journey to Orthodoxy.

What does all this have to do with Orthodoxy?  Well, I guess one could say everything and nothing.  I will for the time being say nothing either way.

China Agrees To Erase Portion Of U.S. Debt If Americans Dress Up In Costumes And Perform Silly Dance For Them

Chinese president Hu Jintao said Americans should begin thinking of dance steps now.

Ok, so it seems everyone is doing the political thing on their blog so here's my stab.

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BEIJING—In what it's describing as a magnanimous gesture toward an economy in decline, the Chinese government announced Monday it would forgive a portion of the staggering U.S. debt if Americans agreed to dress up in costumes and perform silly dances for their amusement.

With his nation holding $1.16 trillion in federal bonds and the U.S. showing no signs of ending its dependence on foreign credit, President Hu Jintao told reporters that allowing Americans to ease their fiscal burden in proportion to the number and quality of colorful dance numbers they perform is a mutually beneficial arrangement for both countries.
"Our great nation has generously agreed to decrease the considerable financial obligations of the United States," said Hu, standing before an enormous rack containing elaborate dance attire such as sequined vests and metallic lamé pants. "All we ask in return is that Americans put on outfits such as these and amuse us with buffoonish little kicks and twirls, preferably while slapping their big fat tummies. The U.S. will receive much needed debt relief, and China will enjoy watching the graceless flailing of decadent capitalists."

Addressing Americans directly, Hu continued: "In the seconds it will take you to object, your nation will slip hundreds of thousands of dollars further into our debt. That will mean 50 more of your countrymen having to put on a George Washington costume with a skirt and prance around with big smiles and heavily rouged cheeks while we pelt them with bits of your worthless currency from the windows of the Chinese embassy."

While Hu offered few specific rules to govern the debt-reduction scheme, he did provide a number of guidelines that he said would affect the amount deducted. Large, ambitious routines—the entire population of Ohio dressed in bright green leotards doing a high-stepping jig with Big Macs stuffed in their mouths, for example—could shave $20 billion from the debt in a matter of minutes. Meanwhile, smaller groups of Americans and even individuals could do their part by dressing up as cancan dancers and performing a kick line in front of the Vietnam Memorial, or by painting the Mandarin character for 'gorilla' on their faces and jumping up and down on their desks at work like "great big immoral apes."
Hu added that the dollar value of all dances could be increased by incorporating chants such as "I have no work ethic," "Look at what our pathetic democracy has done to us," and "I am so fat I must drive an SUV to go purchase a prostitute" into the routine. Conversely, acts may be disqualified entirely if professional dancers are employed or if participants do not seem suitably engaged in their performance.

Hu later confirmed that wearing brightly colored hats with bells on them could only help.

"All dancers will be required to demonstrate an exceptional level of commitment," said Hu, adding that, should a very large American dress up in a form-fitting outfit with his stomach hanging visibly over his waistband, and then pass out from physical exertion while his overweight children dance around him, an extra $12 million would be instantly knocked off the tab. "It will be insufficient to go through the motions. Any dancer who hand jives without proper rehearsal and a big smile is wasting his time."

"That is especially important," Hu added. "We want nice, big smiles from America."

Although any U.S. citizen is eligible to participate in the program, dances performed by members of the armed forces or practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism will be considered more valuable. Persons holding high office in the federal government stand to make the largest financial impact, especially, Hu said, if all 535 members of Congress perform a Yiddish bottle dance during his next state visit.

"I do not savor what I am going to do this evening," said a solemn President Obama, sitting at his Oval Office desk in the tiger-striped scoop neck he will wear for a salsa performance expected to cut the American debt by a whopping $30 billion. "I know that my partner, Speaker Boehner, shares my reluctance, but that we will both do what we must for the financial well-being of our country."

"But let me be clear," added a defiant Obama, the beads on his lacy sleeve jiggling as he emphatically pointed at the camera. "The United States will never dance for any nation on earth more than once. There will be no encore."

Poland's President Lech Kaczynski and scores of others are killed as their plane crashes in Russia after hitting trees in foggy weather

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev & Prime Minister Vladimir Putin

cross themselves as they light candles for the Polish victims in the

chapel at the Gorki residence outside Moscow.

Hat tip to Steve.

Read more about this here.  You will find video at this link also.

New-Martyr Saint Eugene Rodionov & Warrior for Christ

I really like this blog, Milk and Honey.

It has this really neat, well, feel to it. Just the way of its lay out with its colors and the posts put up there. Visit them often, dear reader.

I was visiting there and came across this story on the New Martyr, Eugene Rodionov, Warrior for Christ. The story really just got me so I will post the entire thing as it is posted on Milk and Honey.

Pray for us Saint Eugene!

Eugene Rodionov,19 years old, did not lose his faith despite horrible tortures “The Chechen captivity is the most horrid, the most inhuman and barbaric thing that can ever happen,” says Eugene’s mother. She had to survive hell to find her son, the body of her son, to be more precise. Eugene’s death coincided with his 19th birthday. Eugene’s mother, Lubov, was a little late: she was just seven kilometers far from the place of her son’s execution.

“Eugene was born 30 minutes after midnight on May 23, 1977. His delivery was not hard. He was a good and healthy child, his weight was 3900 grams. I was so relieved, when I heard his first cry. As if he was trying to say: “I came into this world, love me!” I incidentally looked at the window. It was dark outside, and I suddenly saw a falling star. I went pale, my heart turned to a cold small piece. Doctors tried to convince me that it was a good sign. They told me
that a falling star was a sign of good life for my baby. However, I had to live with a sense of something dangerous coming over us. Time made me forget about it, but I had to remember the sign in 19 years.”

The Russian patriotic press has already reported about the deed of a 19-year-old Russian soldier, Eugene Rodionov. This young man found himself in the Chechen captivity in 1996. He did not betray either his fatherland or his faith. He did not take off his cross even at the hardest moment of beastly tortures. The state decorated Eugene with the Order of Courage. People’s donations made it possible to put a two-meter high Orthodox cross on his grave. People come to visit his grave from most distant parts of Russia. His mother, Lubov Rodionova, says that people’s attitude changed her entire awareness of life. A WWII veteran once came to visit Eugene’s grave. He took off his military decoration – the Bravery Medal – and put in on the tombstone. Eugene Rodionov’s biography was published in a book that came out in 2002. The book was called “The New Martyr of Christ, Warrior Eugene.” This is not really a book, but a booklet, which was written by priest Alexander Shargunov. However, we know little about Eugene’s inmost thoughts, feelings, emotions, or what he had to go through during three months of the Chechen hell. A lot of things remain a mystery.

Lubov Rodionova shared her thoughts with the priest about her son’s childhood, his interests at school, his attitude to the military service. She also shared her most horrible thoughts – about the news of his alleged desertion from the army, and what followed that news afterwards.

Eighteen-year-old Eugene Rodionov was taken captive with three other soldiers at night of February 14th, not far from the Chechen settlement of Galashki. The guys arrived from the Kaliningrad region. They patrolled the border between the republics of Chechnya and Ingushetia. Their control and registration post was located some 200 meters far from the security detachment. The post was just a small cabin, without any light or wire communication. The cabin did not even have a military support, in spite of the fact that it was a single cabin on the mountainous road, which was used for carrying weapons, ammunition, captives, drugs and so on. The border guards stopped an ambulance vehicle to check it. More than ten armed Chechens got out of the vehicle. Needless to mention that it was very easy for them to cope with young inexperienced soldiers. The guys showed as much resistance as they could, but the outcome of the fight was evident before it even started. Lubov Rodionova believes that this incident happened over officers’ negligence, basically.

“The captivity has always been considered to be the most horrible thing that can ever happen to a person. It implies no freedom, but only tortures and humiliation. Experience showed that the Chechen captivity is the most horrid, the most inhuman and barbaric thing that can ever happen,” Lubov Rodionova believes.

As soon as she learned that her son was a captive of Chechen guerrillas, she started looking for him all over Chechnya for nine months. She had to go through every horror imaginable. “I think that God was watching over me. I was walking along mined roads, but I did not step on a bomb. He protected me from bombings, he did not let me die, because my duty was to find my son, to bury him on his native land, according to Christian traditions. I have realized that recently. When I was walking along those military roads, I just kept silence, praying to God in my heart.”

Chechen bandits murdered Eugene Rodionov on May 23, 1996 in the Chechen settlement of Bamut. Russian troops occupied the village the next day. Lubov Rodionova learned about her son’s death only in September. She had to put a mortgage on her own apartment in order to find Eugene’s body and to take it away along with the bodies of his murdered friends. A Chechen man agreed to show her the place, where Eugene was buried. She had to pay him a lot of money for that.

“When I came to Chechnya in the middle of February, a living private cost ten million rubles. This price was 50 million in August. A friend of mine was told to pay 250 million rubles for her son, since he was an officer. It was nighttime, when I and some sappers were digging the pit, in which the bodies of four Russian soldiers were thrown. I was praying all the time, hoping that my Eugene was not going to be there. I could not and did not want to believe that he was murdered. When we were taking out the remnants, I recognized his boots. However, I still refused to accept the fact of his death, until someone found his cross. Then I fainted.” Eugene Rodionov was murdered by Ruslan Khaikhoroyev. This bandit confessed that himself. “Your son had a choice to stay alive. He could have converted to Islam, but he did not agree to take his cross off. He also tried to escape once,” said Khaikhoroyev. The guerrilla was killed together with his bodyguards on August 23, 1999 in a fight between armed Chechen groups.

When Lubov Rodionova came back home, Eugene’s father died five days after the funeral. He could not stand the loss of his son. Archpriest Demetrius Smirnov, acting chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for cooperation with the Armed Forces, says that Eugene Rodionov will definitely be canonized. The adequate inquiry has already been made, although more information about Eugene’s fate is needed. Father Demetrius said that Eugene would be canonized as soon as the information was collected.

A sign in memory of the brave Russian border guard was put at the entrance to the school, where he studied. There was also a documentary released about him. The writings on Eugene’s grave cross run: “Russian
soldier Eugene Rodionov is buried here. He defended his Fatherland and did not disavow Christ. He was executed on May 23, 1996, on the outskirts of Bamut.” “We know that he had to go through horrible long-lasting sufferings that could be compared to the ones of great martyrs in ancient times. They were beheaded, dismembered, but they remained devoted to Jesus Christ anyway,” priest Alexander Shargunov said during the requiem in Eugene Rodionov’s memory.

Taken from Desert Wisdom Book Room at All Saints of North America Orthodox Church.

Just when you thought the news made some sense...

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Outed...As A Jew

From here.

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I wasn't really sure we could top last week's list of disclosures about celebrities and politicians. To recap: David Letterman is a philanderer. John Edwards is an (alleged) serial philanderer. And if there were any remaining doubts, Roman Polanksi really is a child rapist. But here's one secret I'm quite certain none of us saw coming: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is...wait for it...Jewish.
Wow.

This guy has had one helluva summer: Electoral fraud. Torture allegations. Oh, yes and that pesky little nuclear facility he's been building. Now it turns out he's Jewish to boot? Say it ain't so, Mahmoud.

But apparently it is. According to a story that broke over the weekend in London's Daily Telegraph, a photograph of the President holding up his national identity card during the recent Iranian elections provides evidence that he is Jewish.

That document reveals that his original last name - Sabourjian - is a well-known Jewish surname in Iran, one that even connotes that his family was once observant. A note scribbled on the card also shows that his parents changed their last name to "Ahmadinejad" after they converted to Islam when he was born. Although Ahmadinejad has never denied that his name was changed, he has never offered an explanation.

To be fair, he's not the first famous person to be "discovered" to be Jewish. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is probably the most prominent American in recent times. (If you haven't read Michael Kinsley's send-up of this phenomenon in Slate, it's a must.)

But Ahmadinejad is in a category all by himself. While Albright - improbably, perhaps - claims that she really didn't know she was Jewish, Ahmadinejad did. As The Daily Telegraph speculates, this fact goes a long way towards explaining why he's been at such pains over the years...well, basically to hate Jews. And not just hate them in some sort of mild way, hate them in the most vile and despicable fashion: by denying the Holocaust ever occurred. He needed desperately to do so in order to shore up his cred in radical Shia circles.

Hey, I'm a big believer in unlocking family secrets as a way to cleanse yourself and move forward. And I do now feel that I have some insight into this guy that had heretofore been lacking.

I'm also a big believer in tolerance and making room for as many people as possible under any given umbrella. As someone married to a Jewish man for 11 years with two kids we'd like to raise as Jewish, I'm all for inclusiveness when it comes to broadening the definition of "who counts" as a Jew.

But on this one I have to say, sorry, pal. You're on your own. This is a club where we don't want you.

What's in a Family Tree?

"I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play Just like yesterday
And I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again"

Won't Get Fooled Again-The Who

When Barack Obama took office we all saw democracy in action. From amongst the cream of the crop of our population we culled the very best of our citizenry to run for the highest office in our Land and were afforded the opportunity to once again breathe well that those who have our best interests at heart are the ones we get to choose from to vote for to be our Maste...er, servants, did we not?

We threw off oppressive royalty in 1776 and since then we have paraded "We the People" in action on the world stage and taken a special American pride that those who serve "We the People" are "We the People".

When we voted in Barack Obama we voted for "Change" and "Change" is what we got, right?
Hmm...

I wonder what these dumb videos are all about then.


Barack's family line. Which incidentally casts a new light on "The Birthers" who contend that he is not a natural born American citizen. Maybe that debate is moot.



And it doesn't look any better for the guy he replaced.



Ha, ha, ha. This is all such a hoot. In their own words now.

Books I've Read(or am reading)-Twenty: "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" by Victor E. Marsden (E)

This book is a very controversial one and I would like the reader to know that I post this with some reservation because it may be assumed that I hold positions as a result of such a book that may not actually be mine in fact.

The fact is that this book has had a major effect on history. Whether it is indeed a forgery, as its detractors claim, or whether it is true as its author claims, peoples' ideas have been set into motion as a result of this collection of these protocols and perhaps to understand the previous century and the one we are now in it is necessary to read such a book to see what, if any, effect this book may have had.

I myself will offer no comment except to note that the protocols have a very detailed and profound understanding of the human condition and in a C.S. Lewis, Screwtape Letters type of way, the Protocols view the human being in the reverse of the Benevolent God Who desires the healing of the human being through union with Himself and Who accurately expounds on the human condition so as to bring about this healing.

In the Protocols we have the same viewing of the fallen condition which is prone to sin and error but with the aim of exploiting this weakness to bring about the subjugation of the human being using this understanding of the psychology of the fallen human condition against itself. There is a certain wisdom in these protocols which surprised me.

Also, interestingly, Plato's Republic came to mind when I read this book. As the reader may know, in his work, Plato argued that Rule should be in the hands of a born and bred Philosopher King whose rule alone should be desired over the other forms of government he speaks of in descending value from the Philosopher King: Tyranny(and remember that a "tyrant", in the ancient Greek usage of this word denotes something other what a modern user of this word means, Oligarchy(the rule of the few) and in Plato's mind the worst form of government, Democracy.

Along these lines, it must be noted that in the aim of the protocols there is also manifested a certain desire by those orchestrating the events to bring about the good of those to be ruled for their own good as they, if left to themselves cannot rule. So the "takeover" is viewed in a "positive"light by the one being instructed in the protocols for the ultimate good of those to be ruled who cannot, because of an inherent weakness, rule themselves.

I will over the course of time print all the protocols. It is a fascinating work. I will preface each post with the above primer I have provided.

Protocol XXI

Loans and Credit

1. To what I reported to you at the last meeting I shall now add
a detailed explanation of internal loans. Of foreign loans I shall
say nothing more, because they have fed us with the national
moneys of the GOYIM, but for our State there will be no
foreigners, that is, nothing external.

2. We have taken advantage of the venality of administrators
and slackness of rulers to get our moneys twice, thrice and
more times over, by lending to the GOY governments moneys
which were not at all needed by the States. Could anyone do
the like in regard to us? .... Therefore, I shall only deal with the
details of internal loans.

3. States announce that such a loan is to be concluded and open
subscriptions for their own bills of exchange, that is, for their
interest-bearing paper. That they may be within the reach of all
the price is determined at from a hundred to a thousand; and a
discount is made for the earliest subscribers. Next day by
artificial means the price of them goes up, the alleged reason
being that everyone is rushing to buy them. In a few days the
treasury safes are, as they say, overflowing and there's more
money than they can do with (why then take it?) The
subscription, it is alleged, covers many times over the issue
total of the loan; in this lies the whole stage effect - look you,
they say, what confidence is shown in the government's bills of
exchange.

4. But when the comedy is played out there emerges the fact
that a debit and an exceedingly burdensome debit has been
created. For the payment of interest it becomes necessary to
have recourse to new loans, which do not swallow up but only
add to the capital debt. And when this credit is exhausted it
becomes necessary by new taxes to cover, not the loan, BUT
ONLY THE INTEREST ON IT. These taxes are a debit
employed to cover a debit.... (Hence THE CRY TO
BALANCE THE BUDGET!)

5. Later comes the time for conversions, but they diminish the
payment of interest without covering the debt, and besides they
cannot be made without the consent of the lenders; on
announcing a conversion a proposal is made to return the
money to those who are not willing to convert their paper. If
everybody expressed his unwillingness and demanded his
money back, the government would be hoist on their own
petard and would be found insolvent and unable to pay the
proposed sums. By good luck the subjects of the GOY
governments, knowing nothing about financial affairs, have
always preferred losses on exchange and diminution of interest
to the risk of new investments of their moneys, and have
thereby many a time enabled these governments to throw off
their shoulders a debit of several millions.

6. Nowadays, with external loans, these tricks cannot be played
by the GOYIM for they know that we shall demand all our
moneys back.

7. In this way in acknowledged bankruptcy will best prove to
the various countries the absence of any means between the
interests of the peoples and of those who rule them.

8. I beg you to concentrate your particular attention upon this point and upon the following: nowadays all internal loans are consolidated by so-called flying loans, that is, such as have terms of payment more or less near. These debts consist of moneys paid into the savings banks and reserve funds. If left for long at the disposition of a government these funds evaporate in the payment of interest on foreign loans, and are placed by the deposit of equivalent amount of RENTS.

9. And these last it is which patch up all the leaks in the State
treasuries of the GOYIM.

10. When we ascend the throne of the world all these financial
and similar shifts, as being not in accord with our interests, will
be swept away so as not to leave a trace, as also will be
destroyed all money markets, since we shall not allow the
prestige of our power to be shaken by fluctuations of prices set
upon our values, which we shall announce by law at the price
which represents their full worth without any possibility of
lowering or raising. (Raising gives the pretext for lowering,
which indeed was where we made a beginning in relation to the
values of the GOYIM).

11. We shall replace the money markets by grandiose
government credit institutions, the object of which will be to
fix the price of industrial values in accordance with
government views. These institutions will be in a position to
fling upon the market five hundred millions of industrial paper
in one day, or to buy up for the same amount. In this way all
industrial undertakings will come into dependence upon us.
You may imagine for yourselves what immense power we shall
thereby secure for ourselves ....

Protocol XXII

Power of Gold

1. In all that has so far been reported by me to you, I have endeavored to depict with care the secret of what is coming, of what is past, and of what is going on now, rushing into the flood of the great events coming already in the near future, the secret of our relations to the GOYIM and of financial operations. On this subject there remains still a little for me to add.

2. IN OUR HANDS IS THE GREATEST POWER OF OUR
DAY - GOLD: IN TWO DAYS WE CAN PROCURE FROM
OUR STOREHOUSES ANY QUANTITY WE MAY
PLEASE.

3. Surely there is no need to seek further proof that our rule is
predestined by God? Surely we shall not fail with such wealth
to prove that all that evil which for so many centuries we have
had to commit has served at the end of ends the cause of true
well-being - the bringing of everything into order? Though it
be even by the exercise of some violence, yet all the same it
will be established. (The motto of the Freemasons - "Out of
Chaos, Order"). We shall contrive to prove that we are
benefactors who have restored to the rent and mangled earth
the true good and also freedom of the person, and therewith we
shall enable it to be enjoyed in peace and quiet, with proper
dignity of relations, on the condition, of course, of strict
observance of the laws established by us. We shall make plain
therewith that freedom does not consist in dissipation and in the right of unbridled license any more than the dignity and force of a man do not consist in the right of everyone to promulgate destructive principles in the nature of freedom of conscience, equality and the like, that freedom of the person in no wise consists in the right to agitate oneself and others by abominable speeches before disorderly mobs, and that true freedom consists in the inviolability of the person who honorably and strictly observes all the laws of life in common, that human dignity is wrapped up in consciousness of the rights and also of the absence of rights of each, and not wholly and solely in fantastic imaginings about the subject of one's EGO.

4. One authority will be glorious because it will be all-powerful, will rule and guide, and not muddle along after leaders and orators shrieking themselves hoarse with senseless words which they call great principles and which are nothing else, to speak honestly, but Utopian .... Our authority will be the crown of order, and in that is included the whole happiness of man. The aureole of this authority will inspire a mystical bowing of the knee before it and a reverent fear before it of all the peoples. True force makes no terms with any right, not even with that of God: none dare come near to it so as to take so much as a span from it away.

Protocol XXIII

Instilling Obedience

1. That the peoples may become accustomed to obedience it is
necessary to inculcate lessons of humility and therefore to
reduce the production of articles of luxury. By this we shall
improve morals which have been debased by emulation in the
sphere of luxury. We shall re-establish small master production
which will mean laying a mine under the private capital of
manufactures. This is indispensable also for the reason that
manufacturers on the grand scale often move, though not
always consciously, the thoughts of the masses in directions
against the government. A people of small masters knows
nothing of unemployment and this binds him closely with
existing order, and consequently with the firmness of authority.
For us its part will have been played out the moment authority
is transferred into our hands. Drunkenness also will be
prohibited by law and punishable as a crime against the
humanness of man who is turned into a brute under the
influence of alcohol.

2. Subjects, I repeat once more, give blind obedience only to
the strong hand which is absolutely independent of them, for in
it they feel the sword of defense and support against social
scourges .... What do they want with an angelic spirit in a king?
What they have to see in him is the personification of force and
power.

3. The supreme lord who will replace all now existing rulers,
dragging in their existence among societies demoralized by us,
societies that have denied even the authority of God, from
whose midst breeds out on all sides the fire of anarchy, must
first of all proceed to quench this all-devouring flame.
Therefore he will be obliged to kill off those existing societies,
though he should drench them with his own blood, that he may
resurrect them again in the form of regularly organized troops
fighting consciously with every kind of infection that may
cover the body of the State with sores.

4. This Chosen One of God is chosen from above to demolish
the senseless forces moved by instinct and not reason, by
brutishness and not humanness. These forces now triumph in
manifestations of robbery and every kind of violence under the
mask of principles of freedom and rights. They have
overthrown all forms of social order to erect on the ruins the
throne of the King of the Jews; but their part will be played out
the moment he enters into his kingdom. Then it will be
necessary to sweep them away from his path, on which must be
left no knot, no splinter.

5. Then will it be possible for us to say to the peoples of the
world: "Give thanks to God and bow the knee before him who
bears on his front the seal of the predestination of man, to
which God himself has led his star that none other but Him
might free us from all the before-mentioned forces and evils".

Protocol XXIV

Qualities of the Ruler

1. I pass now to the method of confirming the dynastic roots of King David to the last strata of the earth.

2. This confirmation will first and foremost be included in that
which to this day has rested the force of conservatism by our
learned elders of the conduct of the affairs of the world, in the
directing of the education of thought of all humanity.

3. Certain members of the seed of David will prepare the kings
and their heirs, selecting not by right of heritage but by eminent
capacities, inducting them into the most secret mysteries of the
political, into schemes of government, but providing always
that none may come to knowledge of the secrets. The object of
this mode of action is that all may know that government
cannot be entrusted to those who have not been inducted into
the secret places of its art....

4. To these persons only will be taught the practical application
of the aforenamed plans by comparison of the experiences of
many centuries, all the observations on the politico-economic
moves and social sciences - in a word, all the spirit of laws
which have been unshakably established by nature herself for
the regulation of the relations of humanity.

5. Direct heirs will often be set aside from ascending the throne
if in their time of training they exhibit frivolity, softness and
other qualities that are the ruin of authority, which render them incapable of governing and in themselves dangerous for kingly office.

6. Only those who are unconditionally capable for firm, even if
it be to cruelty, direct rule will receive the reins of rule from
our learned elders.

7. In case of falling sick with weakness of will or other form of
incapacity, kings must by law hand over the reins of rule to
new and capable hands.

8. The king's plan of action for the current moment, and all the
more so for the future, will be unknown, even to those who are
called his closest counselors.

KING OF THE JEWS

9. Only the king and the three who stood sponsor for him will
know what is coming.

10. In the person of the king who with unbending will is master
of himself and of humanity all will discern as it were fate with
its mysterious ways. None will know what the king wishes to
attain by his dispositions, and therefore none will dare to stand
across an unknown path.

11. It is understood that the brain reservoir of the king must
correspond in capacity to the plan of government it has to
contain. It is for this reason that he will ascend the throne not
otherwise than after examination of his mind by the aforesaid
learned elders.

12. That the people may know and love their king, it is
indispensable for him to converse in the market-places with his
people. This ensures the necessary clinching of the two forces
which are now divided one from another by us by the terror.

13. This terror was indispensable for us till the time comes for
both these forces separately to fall under our influence.

14. The king of the Jews must not be at the mercy of his
passions, and especially of sensuality: on no side of his
character must he give brute instincts power over his mind.
Sensuality worse than all else disorganizes the capacities of the
mind and clearness of views, distracting the thoughts to the
worst and most brutal side of human activity.

15. The prop of humanity in the person of the supreme lord of
all the world of the holy seed of David must sacrifice to his
people all personal inclinations.

16. Our supreme lord must be of an exemplary
irreproachability. przion7.htm

Signed by the representative of Zion, of the 33rd Degree

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Books I've Read(or am reading)-Nineteen: "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" by Victor E. Marsden (D)

This book is a very controversial one and I would like the reader to know that I post this with some reservation because it may be assumed that I hold positions as a result of such a book that may not actually be mine in fact.

The fact is that this book has had a major effect on history. Whether it is indeed a forgery, as its detractors claim, or whether it is true as its author claims, peoples' ideas have been set into motion as a result of this collection of these protocols and perhaps to understand the previous century and the one we are now in it is necessary to read such a book to see what, if any, effect this book may have had.

I myself will offer no comment except to note that the protocols have a very detailed and profound understanding of the human condition and in a C.S. Lewis, Screwtape Letters type of way, the Protocols view the human being in the reverse of the Benevolent God Who desires the healing of the human being through union with Himself and Who accurately expounds on the human condition so as to bring about this healing.

In the Protocols we have the same viewing of the fallen condition which is prone to sin and error but with the aim of exploiting this weakness to bring about the subjugation of the human being using this understanding of the psychology of the fallen human condition against itself. There is a certain wisdom in these protocols which surprised me.

Also, interestingly, Plato's Republic came to mind when I read this book. As the reader may know, in his work, Plato argued that Rule should be in the hands of a born and bred Philosopher King whose rule alone should be desired over the other forms of government he speaks of in descending value from the Philosopher King: Tyranny(and remember that a "tyrant", in the ancient Greek usage of this word denotes something other what a modern user of this word means, Oligarchy(the rule of the few) and in Plato's mind the worst form of government, Democracy.

Along these lines, it must be noted that in the aim of the protocols there is also manifested a certain desire by those orchestrating the events to bring about the good of those to be ruled for their own good as they, if left to themselves cannot rule. So the "takeover" is viewed in a "positive"light by the one being instructed in the protocols for the ultimate good of those to be ruled who cannot, because of an inherent weakness, rule themselves.

I will over the course of time print all the protocols. It is a fascinating work. I will preface each post with the above primer I have provided.

Protocol XVI

Brainwashing

1. In order to effect the destruction of all collective forces
except ours we shall emasculate the first stage of collectivism -
the UNIVERSITIES, by re-educating them in a new direction.
THEIR OFFICIALS AND PROFESSORS WILL BE
PREPARED FOR THEIR BUSINESS BY DETAILED
SECRET PROGRAMS OF ACTION FROM WHICH THEY
WILL NOT WITH IMMUNITY DIVERGE, NOT BY ONE
IOTA. THEY WILL BE APPOINTED WITH ESPECIAL
PRECAUTION, AND WILL BE SO PLACED AS TO BE
WHOLLY DEPENDENT UPON THE GOVERNMENT.

2. We shall exclude from the course of instruction State Law as
also all that concerns the political question. These subjects will
be taught to a few dozen of persons chosen for their pre-
eminent capacities from among the number of the initiated.
THE UNIVERSITIES MUST NO LONGER SEND OUT
FROM THEIR HALLS MILK SOPS CONCOCTING PLANS
FOR A CONSTITUTION, LIKE A COMEDY OR A
TRAGEDY, BUSYING THEMSELVES WITH QUESTIONS
OF POLICY IN WHICH EVEN THEIR OWN FATHERS
NEVER HAD ANY POWER OF THOUGHT.

3. The ill-guided acquaintance of a large number of persons
with questions of polity creates Utopian dreamers and bad
subjects, as you can see for yourselves from the example of the
universal education in this direction of the GOYIM. We must
introduce into their education all those principles which have so brilliantly broken up their order. But when we are in power we shall remove every kind of disturbing subject from the course of education and shall make out of the youth obedient children of authority, loving him who rules as the support and hope of peace and quiet.

WE SHALL CHANGE HISTORY

4. Classicism as also any form of study of ancient history, in
which there are more bad than good examples, we shall replace
with the study of the program of the future. We shall erase
from the memory of men all facts of previous centuries which
are undesirable to us, and leave only those which depict all the
errors of the government of the GOYIM. The study of practical
life, of the obligations of order, of the relations of people one to
another, of avoiding bad and selfish examples, which spread
the infection of evil, and similar questions of an educative
nature, will stand in the forefront of the teaching program,
which will be drawn up on a separate plan for each calling or
state of life, in no wise generalizing the teaching. This
treatment of the question has special importance.

5. Each state of life must be trained within strict limits
corresponding to its destination and work in life. The
OCCASIONAL GENIUS HAS ALWAYS MANAGED AND
ALWAYS WILL MANAGE TO SLIP THROUGH INTO
OTHER STATES OF LIFE, BUT IT IS THE MOST
PERFECT FOLLY FOR THE SAKE OF THIS RARE
OCCASIONAL GENIUS TO LET THROUGH INTO RANKS
FOREIGN TO THEM THE UNTALENTED WHO THUS
ROB OF THEIR PLACES THOSE WHO BELONG TO
THOSE RANKS BY BIRTH OR EMPLOYMENT. YOU
KNOW YOURSELVES IN WHAT ALL THIS HAS ENDED FOR THE "GOYIM" WHO ALLOWED THIS CRYING ABSURDITY.

6. In order that he who rules may be seated firmly in the hearts
and minds of his subjects it is necessary for the time of his
activity to instruct the whole nation in the schools and on the
market places about this meaning and his acts and all his
beneficent initiatives.

7. We shall abolish every kind of freedom of instruction.
Learners of all ages have the right to assemble together with
their parents in the educational establishments as it were in a
club: during these assemblies, on holidays, teachers will read
what will pass as free lectures on questions of human relations,
of the laws of examples, of the philosophy of new theories not
yet declared to the world. These theories will be raised by us to
the stage of a dogma of faith as a traditional stage towards our
faith. On the completion of this exposition of our program of
action in the present and the future I will read you the
principles of these theories.

8. In a word, knowing by the experience of many centuries that
people live and are guided by ideas, that these ideas are
imbibed by people only by the aid of education provided with
equal success for all ages of growth, but of course by varying
methods, we shall swallow up and confiscate to our own use
the last scintilla of independence of thought, which we have for
long past been directing towards subjects and ideas useful for
us. The system of bridling thought is already at work in the so-
called system of teaching by OBJECT LESSONS, the purpose
of which is to turn the GOYIM into unthinking submissive
brutes waiting for things to be presented before their eyes in
order to form an idea of them .... In France, one of our best agents, Bourgeois, has already made public a new program of teaching by object lessons.

Protocol XVII

Abuse of Authority

1. The practice of advocacy produces men cold, cruel,
persistent, unprincipled, who in all cases take up an
impersonal, purely legal standpoint. They have the inveterate
habit to refer everything to its value for the defense and not to
the public welfare of its results. They do not usually decline to
undertake any defense whatever, they strive for an acquittal at
all costs, caviling over every petty crux of jurisprudence and
thereby they demoralize justice. For this reason we shall set
this profession into narrow frames which will keep it inside this
sphere of executive public service. Advocates, equally with
judges, will be deprived of the right of communication with
litigants; they will receive business only from the court and
will study it by notes of report and documents, defending their
clients after they have been interrogated in court on facts that
have appeared. They will receive an honorarium without regard
to the quality of the defense. This will render them mere
reporters on law-business in the interests of justice and as
counterpoise to the proctor who will be the reporter in the
interests of prosecution; this will shorten business before the
courts. In this way will be established a practice of honest
unprejudiced defense conducted not from personal interest but
by conviction. This will also, by the way, remove the present
practice of corrupt bargain between advocation to agree only to
let that side win which pays most.....

WE SHALL DESTROY THE CLERGY

2. WE HAVE LONG PAST TAKEN CARE TO DISCREDIT THE PRIESTHOOD OF THE "GOYIM," and thereby to ruin their mission on earth which in these days might still be a great hindrance to us. Day by day its influence on the peoples of the world is falling lower. FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE HAS BEEN DECLARED EVERYWHERE, SO THAT NOW ONLY YEARS DIVIDE US FROM THE MOMENT OF THE COMPLETE WRECKING OF THAT CHRISTIAN RELIGION: as to other religions we shall have still less difficulty in dealing with them, but it would be premature to speak of this now. We shall set clericalism and clericals into such narrow frames as to make their influence move in retrogressive proportion to its former progress.

3. When the time comes finally to destroy the papal court the
finger of an invisible hand will point the nations towards this
court. When, however, the nations fling themselves upon it, we
shall come forward in the guise of its defenders as if to save
excessive bloodshed. By this diversion we shall penetrate to its
very bowels and be sure we shall never come out again until
we have gnawed through the entire strength of this place.

4. THE KING OF THE JEWS WILL BE THE REAL POPE
OF THE UNIVERSE, THE PATRIARCH OF THE
INTERNATIONAL CHURCH

5. But, IN THE MEANTIME, while we are re-educating youth
in new traditional religions and afterwards in ours, WE SHALL
NOT OVERTLY LAY A FINGER ON EXISTING
CHURCHES, BUT WE SHALL FIGHT AGAINST THEM
BY CRITICISM CALCULATED TO PRODUCE SCHISM ..

6. In general, then, our contemporary press will continue to
CONVICT State affairs, religions, incapacities of the GOYIM,
always using the most unprincipled expressions in order by
every means to lower their prestige in the manner which can
only be practiced by the genius of our gifted tribe ... (Calling
the Jim Jones massacre in Guyana a mass suicide, not a
C.I.A./MK-ULTRA/U.S. Government massacre? Denying the
massacre of the Branch Dravidian sect at Waco, Texas, was a
needless and deliberate massacre by the
B.A.T.F./F.B.I/C.I.A/U.S. Government).

7. Our kingdom will be an apologia of the divinity Vishnu, in
whom is found its personification - in our hundred hands will
be, one in each, the springs of the machinery of social life. We
shall see everything without the aid of official police which, in
that scope of its rights which we elaborated for the use of the
GOYIM, hinders governments from seeing. In our programs
ONE-THIRD OF OUR SUBJECTS WILL KEEP THE REST
UNDER OBSERVATION from a sense of duty, on the
principle of volunteer service to the State. It will then be no
disgrace to be a spy and informer, but a merit: unfounded
denunciations, however, will be cruelly punished that there
may be no development of abuses of this right.

8. Our agents will be taken from the higher as well as the lower
ranks of society, from among the administrative class who
spend their time in amusements, editors, printers and
publishers, booksellers, clerks, and salesmen, workmen,
coachmen, lackeys, et cetera. This body, having no rights and
not being empowered to take any action on their own account,
and consequently a police without any power, will only witness and report: verification of their reports and arrests will depend upon a responsible group of controllers of police affairs, while the actual act of arrest will be performed by the gendarmerie and the municipal police. Any person not denouncing anything seen or heard concerning questions of polity will also be charged with and made responsible for concealment, if it be proved that he is guilty of this crime.

9. JUST AS NOWADAYS OUR BRETHREN, ARE
OBLIGED AT THEIR OWN RISK TO DENOUNCE TO THE
KAHAL APOSTATES OF THEIR OWN FAMILY or
members who have been noticed doing anything in opposition
to the KAHAL, SO IN OUR KINGDOM OVER ALL THE
WORLD IT WILL BE OBLIGATORY FOR ALL OUR
SUBJECTS TO OBSERVE THE DUTY OF SERVICE TO
THE STATE IN THIS DIRECTION.


10. Such an organization will extirpate abuses of authority, of
force, of bribery, everything in fact which we by our counsels,
by our theories of the superhuman rights of man, have
introduced into the customs of the GOYIM .... But how else
were we to procure that increase of causes predisposing to
disorders in the midst of their administration? .... Among the
number of those methods one of the most important is - agents
for the restoration of order, so placed as to have the opportunity
in their disintegrating activity of developing and displaying
their evil inclinations - obstinate self-conceit, irresponsible
exercise of authority, and, first and foremost, venality. (Janet
Reno? B.A.T.F.? C.I.A.?)

Protocol XVIII

Arrest of Opponents

1. 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 a 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
prerequisitions and surveillance on the part of our servants
from among the number of the GOYIM police ... (Australia's
One Nation Party? A.D.L./B'nai B'rith activities against the
peace?)

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

GOVERNMENT BY FEAR

5. 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 or dynastic 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 ....

6. OVERT DEFENSE OF THE KIND ARGUES WEAKNESS
IN THE ORGANIZATION OF HIS STRENGTH.

7. Our ruler will always be among the people and be
surrounded by a mob of 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 his existence that the people may be able to say: "If the king knew of this," or: "the king will hear it."

8. WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICIAL DEFENSE,
THE MYSTICAL PRESTIGE OF AUTHORITY
DISAPPEARS: given a certain audacity, and everyone counts
himself 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 that very fact we are
enabled to see what measures of overt defense have brought
them to....

9. 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 of crime, for in these matters we shall be literally
merciless. If it is still possible, by stretching a point, to admit a
reconsideration of the motive causes in simple crimes, there is
no possibility of excuse for persons occupying themselves with
questions in which nobody except the government can
understand anything .... And it is not all governments that
understand true policy.

Protocol XIX

Rulers and People

1. If we do not permit any independent dabbling in the political
we shall on the other hand encourage every kind of report or
petition with proposals for the government to examine into all
kinds of projects for the amelioration of the condition of the
people; this will reveal to us the defects or else the fantasies of
our subjects, to which we shall respond either by
accomplishing them or by a wise rebuttment to prove the
shortsightedness of one who judges wrongly.

2. Sedition-mongering is nothing more than the yapping of a
lap-dog at an elephant. For a government well organized, not
from the police but from the public point of view, the lap-dog
yaps at the elephant in entire unconsciousness of its strength
and importance. It needs no more than to take a good example
to show the relative importance of both and the lap-dogs will
cease to yap and will wag their tails the moment they set eyes
on an elephant.

3. In order to destroy the prestige of heroism for political crime
we shall send it for trial in the category of thieving, murder,
and every kind of abominable and filthy crime. Public opinion
will then confuse in its conception this category of crime with
the disgrace attaching to every other and will brand it with the
same contempt.

4. We have done our best, and I hope we have succeeded to obtain that the GOYIM should not arrive at this means of contending with sedition. It was for this reason that through the Press and in speeches, indirectly - in cleverly compiled school-books on history, we have advertised the martyrdom alleged to have been accredited by sedition-mongers for the idea of the commonweal. This advertisement has increased the contingent of liberals and has brought thousands of GOYIM into the ranks of our livestock cattle.

Protocol XX

Financial Programme

1. To-day we shall touch upon the financial program, which I
put off to the end of my report as being the most difficult, the
crowning and the decisive point of our plans. Before entering
upon it I will remind you that I have already spoken before by
way of a hint when I said that the sum total of our actions is
settled by the question of figures.

2. When we come into our kingdom our autocratic government
will avoid, from a principle of self-preservation, sensibly
burdening the masses of the people with taxes, remembering
that it plays the part of father and protector. But as State
organization cost dear it is necessary nevertheless to obtain the
funds required for it. It will, therefore, elaborate with particular
precaution the question of equilibrium in this matter.

3. Our rule, in which the king will enjoy the legal fiction that
everything in his State belongs to him (which may easily be
translated into fact), will be enabled to resort to the lawful
confiscation of all sums of every kind for the regulation of their
circulation in the State. From this follows that taxation will
best be covered by a progressive tax on property. In this
manner the dues will be paid without straitening or ruining
anybody in the form of a percentage of the amount of property.
The rich must be aware that it is their duty to place a part of
their superfluities at the disposal of the State since the State
guarantees them security of possession of the rest of their
property and the right of honest gains, I say honest, for the control over property will do away with robbery on a legal basis.

4. This social reform must come from above, for the time is
ripe for it - it is indispensable as a pledge of peace.

WE SHALL DESTROY CAPITAL

5. The tax upon the poor man is a seed of revolution and works
to the detriment of the State which in hunting after the trifling
is missing the big. Quite apart from this, a tax on capitalists
diminishes the growth of wealth in private hands in which we
have in these days concentrated it as a counterpoise to the
government strength of the GOYIM - their State finances.

6. A tax increasing in a percentage ratio to capital will give
much larger revenue than the present individual or property
tax, which is useful to us now for the sole reason that it excites
trouble and discontent among the GOYIM. (Now we know the
purpose of the 16th Amendment!!)

7. The force upon which our king will rest consists in the
equilibrium and the guarantee of peace, for the sake of which
things it is indispensable that the capitalists should yield up a
portion of their incomes for the sake of the secure working of
the machinery of the State. State needs must be paid by those
who will not feel the burden and have enough to take from.

8. Such a measure will destroy the hatred of the poor man for
the rich, in whom he will see a necessary financial support for
the State, will see in him the organizer of peace and well-being
since he will see that it is the rich man who is paying the necessary means to attain these things.

9. In order that payers of the educated classes should not too
much distress themselves over the new payments they will
have full accounts given them of the destination of those
payments, with the exception of such sums as will be
appropriated for the needs of the throne and the administrative
institutions.

10. He who reigns will not have any properties of his own once
all in the State represented his patrimony, or else the one would
be in contradiction to the other; the fact of holding private
means would destroy the right of property in the common
possessions of all.

11. Relatives of him who reigns, his heirs excepted, who will
be maintained by the resources of the State, must enter the
ranks of servants of the State or must work to obtain the right
to property; the privilege of royal blood must not serve for the
spoiling of the treasury.

12. Purchase, receipt of money or inheritance will be subject to
the payment of a stamp progressive tax. Any transfer of
property, whether money or other, without evidence of
payment of this tax which will be strictly registered by names,
will render the former holder liable to pay interest on the tax
from the moment of transfer of these sums up to the discovery
of his evasion of declaration of the transfer. Transfer
documents must be presented weekly at the local treasury
office with notifications of the name, surname and permanent
place of residence of the former and the new holder of the
property. This transfer with register of names must begin from
a definite sum which exceeds the ordinary expenses of buying and selling necessaries, and these will be subject to payment only by a stamp impost of a definite percentage of the unit.

13. Just strike an estimate of how many times such taxes as
these will cover the revenue of the GOYIM States.

WE CAUSE DEPRESSIONS

14. The State exchequer will have to maintain a definite
complement of reserve sums, and all that is collected above
that complement must be returned into circulation. On these
sums will be organized public works. The initiative in works of
this kind, proceeding from State sources, will bind the working
class firmly to the interests of the State and to those who reign.
From these same sums also a part will be set aside as rewards
of inventiveness and productiveness.

15. On no account should so much as a single unit above the
definite and freely estimated sums be retained in the State
Treasuries, for money exists to be circulated and any kind of
stagnation of money acts ruinously on the running of the State
machinery, for which it is the lubricant; a stagnation of the
lubricant may stop the regular working of the mechanism.

16. The substitution of interest-bearing paper for a part of the
token of exchange has produced exactly this stagnation. The
consequences of this circumstance are already sufficiently
noticeable.

17. A court of account will also be instituted by us, and in it the
ruler will find at any moment a full accounting for State
income and expenditure, with the exception of the current
monthly account, not yet made up, and that of the preceding month, which will not yet have been delivered.

18. The one and only person who will have no interest in
robbing the State is its owner, the ruler. This is why his
personal control will remove the possibility of leakages or
extravagances.

19. The representative function of the ruler at receptions for the
sake of etiquette, which absorbs so much invaluable time, will
be abolished in order that the ruler may have time for control
and consideration. His power will not then be split up into
fractional parts among time-serving favorites who surround the
throne for its pomp and splendor, and are interested only in
their own and not in the common interests of the State.

20. Economic crises have been produced by us for the GOYIM
by no other means than the withdrawal of money from
circulation. Huge capitals have stagnated, withdrawing money
from States, which were constantly obliged to apply to those
same stagnant capitals for loans. These loans burdened the
finances of the State with the payment of interest and made
them the bond slaves of these capitals .... The concentration of
industry in the hands of capitalists out of the hands of small
masters has drained away all the juices of the peoples and with
them also the States .... (Now we know the purpose of the
Federal Reserve Bank Corporation!!)

21. The present issue of money in general does not correspond
with the requirements per head, and cannot therefore satisfy all
the needs of the workers. The issue of money ought to
correspond with the growth of population and thereby children
also must absolutely be reckoned as consumers of currency
from the day of their birth. The revision of issue is a material question for the whole world.

22. YOU ARE AWARE THAT THE GOLD STANDARD
HAS BEEN THE RUIN OF THE STATES WHICH
ADOPTED IT, FOR IT HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO
SATISFY THE DEMANDS FOR MONEY, THE MORE SO
THAT WE HAVE REMOVED GOLD FROM
CIRCULATION AS FAR AS POSSIBLE.

GENTILE STATES BANKRUPT

23. With us the standard that must be introduced is the cost of
working-man power, whether it be reckoned in paper or in
wood. We shall make the issue of money in accordance with
the normal requirements of each subject, adding to the quantity
with every birth and subtracting with every death.

24. The accounts will be managed by each department (the
French administrative division), each circle.

25. In order that there may be no delays in the paying out of
money for State needs the sums and terms of such payments
will be fixed by decree of the ruler; this will do away with the
protection by a ministry of one institution to the detriment of
others.

26. The budgets of income and expenditure will be carried out
side by side that they may not be obscured by distance one to
another.

27. The reforms projected by us in the financial institutions and
principles of the GOYIM will be clothed by us in such forms as
will alarm nobody. We shall point out the necessity of reforms in consequence of the disorderly darkness into which the GOYIM by their irregularities have plunged the finances. The first irregularity, as we shall point out, consists in their beginning with drawing up a single budget which year after year grows owing to the following cause: this budget is dragged out to half the year, then they demand a budget to put things right, and this they expend in three months, after which they ask for a supplementary budget, and all this ends with a liquidation budget. But, as the budget of the following year is drawn up in accordance with the sum of the total addition, the annual departure from the normal reaches as much as 50 per cent in a year, and so the annual budget is trebled in ten years. Thanks to such methods, allowed by the carelessness of the GOY States, their treasuries are empty. The period of loans supervenes, and that has swallowed up remainders and brought all the GOY States to bankruptcy. (The United States was declared "bankrupt" at the Geneva Convention of 1929! [see 31 USC 5112, 5118, and 5119).

28. You understand perfectly that economic arrangements of
this kind, which have been suggested to the GOYIM by us,
cannot be carried on by us.

29. Every kind of loan proves infirmity in the State and a want
of understanding of the rights of the State. Loans hang like a
sword of Damocles over the heads of rulers, who, instead of
taking from their subjects by a temporary tax, come begging
with outstretched palm to our bankers. Foreign loans are
leeches which there is no possibility of removing from the
body of the State until they fall off of themselves or the State
flings them off. But the GOY States do not tear them off; they
go on in persisting in putting more on to themselves so that they must inevitably perish, drained by voluntary blood-letting.

TYRANNY OF USURY

30. What also indeed is, in substance, a loan, especially a
foreign loan? A loan is - an issue of government bills of
exchange containing a percentage obligation commensurate to
the sum of the loan capital. If the loan bears a charge of 5 per
cent, then in twenty years the State vainly pays away in interest
a sum equal to the loan borrowed, in forty years it is paying a
double sum, in sixty - treble, and all the while the debt remains
an unpaid debt.

31. From this calculation it is obvious that with any form of
taxation per head the State is baling out the last coppers of the
poor taxpayers in order to settle accounts with wealthy
foreigners, from whom it has borrowed money instead of
collecting these coppers for its own needs without the
additional interest.

32. So long as loans were internal the GOYIM only shuffled
their money from the pockets of the poor to those of the rich,
but when we bought up the necessary persons in order to
transfer loans into the external sphere, (Woodrow Wilson and
F.D. Roosevelt) all the wealth of States flowed into our cash-
boxes and all the GOYIM began to pay us the tribute of
subjects.

33. If the superficiality of GOY kings on their thrones in regard
to State affairs and the venality of ministers or the want of
understanding of financial matters on the part of other ruling
persons have made their countries debtors to our treasuries to
amounts quite impossible to pay it has not been accomplished without, on our part, heavy expenditure of trouble and money.

34. Stagnation of money will not be allowed by us and
therefore there will be no State interest-bearing paper, except a
one per-cent series, so that there will be no payment of interest
to leeches that suck all the strength out of the State. The right
to issue interest-bearing paper will be given exclusively to
industrial companies who find no difficulty in paying interest
out of profits, whereas the State does not make interest on
borrowed money like these companies, for the State borrows to
spend and not to use in operations. (Now we know why
President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 when he refused
to borrow any more of the "Bank Notes" from the bankers of
the Federal Reserve Bank and began circulating non-interest
bearing "Notes" of the "United States of America"!!!).

35. Industrial papers will be bought also by the government
which from being as now a paper of tribute by loan operations
will be transformed into a lender of money at a profit. This
measure will stop the stagnation of money, parasitic profits and
idleness, all of which were useful for us among the GOYIM so
long as they were independent but are not desirable under our
rule.

36. How clear is the undeveloped power of thought of the
purely brute brains of the GOYIM, as expressed in the fact that
they have been borrowing from us with payment of interest
without ever thinking that all the same these very moneys plus
an addition for payment of interest must be got by them from
their own State pockets in order to settle up with us. What
could have been simpler than to take the money they wanted
from their own people?

37. But it is a proof of the genius of our chosen mind that we
have contrived to present the matter of loans to them in such a
light that they have even seen in them an advantage for
themselves.

38. Our accounts, which we shall present when the time comes,
in the light of centuries of experience gained by experiments
made by us on the GOY States, will be distinguished by
clearness and defmiteness and will show at a glance to all men
the advantage of our innovations. They will put an end to those
abuses to which we owe our mastery over the GOYIM, but
which cannot be allowed in our kingdom.

39. We shall so hedge about our system of accounting that
neither the ruler nor the most insignificant public servant will
be in a position to divert even the smallest sum from its
destination without detection or to direct it in another direction
except that which will be once fixed in a definite plan of
action. (Is this why a "private corporation," known as the
"Internal Revenue Service," is in charge of collecting the
"payments" of the "Income Taxes" and the IRS always deposits
those "payments" to the Federal Reserve bank and never to the
Treasury of the United States??)

40. And without a definite plan it is impossible to rule.
Marching along an undetermined road and with undetermined
resources brings to ruin by the way heroes and demi-gods.

41. The GOY rulers, whom we once upon a time advised
should be distracted from State occupations by representative
receptions, observances of etiquette, entertainments, were only
screens for our rule. (Like the House of Windsor (Guelph) and
the rest of the "Black Nobility"?) The accounts of favorite courtiers who replaced them in the sphere of affairs were drawn up for them by our agents, and every time gave satisfaction to short-sighted minds by promises that in the future economies and improvements were foreseen .... Economies from what? From new taxes? - were questions that might have been but were not asked by those who read our accounts and projects.

42. You know to what they have been brought by this carelessness, to what pitch of financial disorder they have arrived, notwithstanding the astonishing industry of their peoples ....

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