- The word "freedom" which can be interpreted in various
ways, is defined by us as follows:
- Freedom is the right to do what the law allows.
This interpretation of the word will, at the proper time, be of service
to us because all freedom will then be in our hands; since the laws
will abolish or create only what is desirable for us according to the
above-mentioned program.
- We shall deal with the media in the following
way: What is the role played by the media today? It
sometimes serves to excite and inflame those passions which are needed
for our purpose, and at other times it serves the selfish desires of
other parties.
It is often bland, unjust, dishonest, and the majority of the public
haven’t the slightest idea what purpose the media really
serves. We shall saddle and bridle it with a tight
chain. We shall also do the same with all other productions
of the printing press; for what would be the sense of getting rid of
attacks from newspapers if we remain targets via pamphlets and books?
The output of the media is nowadays a source of heavy expense owing to
the necessity of censoring it. We will turn it into a very
lucrative source of income to our State by laying a special stamp tax
on it and requiring deposits of caution-money before permitting any new
media companies from being established. They will then be
required to guarantee our government against any kind of attack from
their media.
For any attempt to attack us (if that’s still possible) we
shall inflict fines without mercy. Such measures as stamp
tax, deposit of caution-money and fines secured by these deposits, will
bring in a huge income to the government.
It is true that political groups which have money to spare might still
attack us for the sake of publicity regardless of these
fines. But these we shall shut up at the second attack upon
us. No one shall lay a finger on the aura of our government
infallibility without being punished.
The pretext for stopping any publication will be the alleged plea that
it is agitating the public mind without good reason or at an
inappropriate time. I
beg you to note that among those making
attacks upon us will also be entities established by us; but they will
only attack points of our plan which we have already decided to alter.
We
Control the Media
- Not
a single announcement will reach the public without our control.
Even now this is being achieved by us due to the fact that all news
items are received by only a few agencies, and their offices are a
focal point for news coming in from all parts of the world.
These agencies will already be entirely owned by us and will only
publish what we dictate to them.
- We have effectively taken possession of the minds of the
Goy communities to such an extent that they have all come to look upon
the events of the world through the colored glasses which we have
placed on their noses.
Already now there is not a single State which has barriers preventing
us from gaining access to what Goyim stupidity call “State
secrets”. What will our positions be when we are
acknowledged as supreme lords of the world, and have one of our persons
as the king of all the world...
- Let’s turn again to the future of the printing press.
Every one desirous of being a publisher, librarian, or printer, will be
obliged to first acquire a special license for that purpose, which in
case of any fault, will be immediately suspended.
With such measures the
thoughts of the people will be under the control of our government, who
will educate them appropriately, and won’t allow the masses
to be led along different paths and by fantasies about the blessings of
progress.
All of us here know that these delusional blessings give rise to
fanciful dreaming which leads to anarchy among the people and towards
authority. This is a bad thing because progress, or rather
the idea of progress, has brought forth all sorts of ideas about
gaining freedom, but has failed to establish its limits...
All the so-called libertarians are anarchists, either in thought or in
reality. Every one of them, in hunting for the phantoms of
freedom, ends up involved in anarchy, and protests for the sake of
protesting...
Free
Press Destroyed
- We turn now to the periodical
press. We shall impose on it, and on all printed matter,
stamp taxes per sheet and deposits of caution-money.
Books of less than 30 sheets will pay double. We shall
classify them as pamphlets for two reasons: firstly to reduce the
number of magazines, because these are the worst form of printed
poison, and secondly, to force writers to make such lengthy productions
that they will be little read, especially seeing that they will also be
costly.
At the same time what we shall publish pamphlets ourselves to influence
mental development in the desired direction. Our publications
will be cheap and eagerly read. This will
also
bring us some profits.
The tax will bring uninteresting literary ambitions within reach and
the risk of possible penalties will make literary men dependent upon us.
And if anyone is desirous of writing against us – they will
not find any person eager to put their productions in print because the
publisher or printer will first have to apply to the authorities for
permission to do so.
Thus we shall have advanced knowledge of all tricks being preparing
against us and shall nullify them by getting in ahead with our
explanations on the subject being discussed.
- Literature and journalism are two of the most important
educative forces, and therefore our government will become proprietor
of the majority of the journals.
This will neutralize the injurious influence of the privately-owned
press and will put us in possession of a tremendous influence upon the
public mind... If we give permits for ten privately-owned
journals, we shall establish thirty journals of our own, and so forth
in the same proportion.
This, however, must in no way be suspected by the public. For
this reason all journals published by us will be very opposite, in
appearance, tendencies and opinions to our official stance.
This will create confidence in our journals, bringing over to us quite
unsuspicious opponents, who will thus fall into our trap and be
rendered harmless.
We will divide our media components into three layers or
ranks…
- In the front rank will be publications of an official
character. They will always stand guard over our interests,
and therefore their influence will be comparatively insignificant.
- In the second rank will be the semi-official
publications, whose part it will be to normally support us and
sometimes criticize us, but only over issues of lukewarm importance.
- In the third rank we shall set up what looks like our own
opposing camp, which, in at least one of its publications, will present
what looks like the very enemy of us. Our real opponents at
heart will accept this simulated opposition as their own and will
reveal their identities and plans to us.
- Our newspapers will be of all possible complexions
– aristocratic, republican, revolutionary, even anarchical
– for only as long, of course, as the constitution
exists... Like the Indian idol "Vishnu" they will have a
hundred hands, and every one of them will have a finger on any one of
the public opinions as required.
When an emotive issue arises, these hands will lead opinion in the
direction of our aims; for an excited person loses all power of
judgment and easily yields to suggestion. Those fools who
will think they are repeating the opinion of a newspaper of their own
camp will actually be repeating our opinion or any opinion that seems
desirable for us.
In the vain belief that they are following the ideology of their party
they will, in fact, be following the flag that we have hang out for
them.
- In order to direct our newspaper militia in this way we
must take special and minute care in organizing this matter.
Under the title of Central Department of the Media we shall arrange
literary gatherings at which our agents will, without attracting
attention, issue the orders and specify the ‘important
issues’ of the day which journalists need to cover.
By superficially discussing and opposing, but without touching the
essence of the matter, our appointed people will carry on sham fights
and arguments with the official newspapers solely for the purpose of
giving us a reason to express ourselves more fully than we could have
done from the outset in official announcements, whenever of course
that is to our advantage.
- These
attacks upon us will also serve another purpose, namely, that our
subjects will be convinced of the existence of full freedom of speech
and this gives our agents an occasion to claim that all publications
which oppose us are empty babblers, since they are
incapable of finding any substantial objections to our orders.
Only
Lies Printed
- Methods of organization like these, which
are imperceptible to the public eye but are sure to work, are
calculated as being the best way to succeed in bringing the attention
and the confidence of the public to the side of our government.
Thanks to such methods we shall be in a position, as may be required
from time to time, to excite or calm the public mind on political
questions, to persuade or to confuse, sometimes printing truth,
sometimes lies, facts or their contradictions. We will do
this according to how well these messages are received, and always very
cautiously feeling the ground before stepping upon it...
We shall have an
assured victory over our opponents since they will not have the
appropriate access to the media in which they can give full and final
expression to their views owing to the above-mentioned
methods of dealing with the media.
We shall not even need to refute them except very superficially.
- Trial shots like these, fired by us in the third rank of
our press, will, when necessary, be energetically refuted by us in our
semi-official publications.
- Even nowadays, already, to take only the French press as
an example, there are groups which reveal Masonic-like solidarity in
acting together on the ‘important issues’: all
people of the media are bound together by professional secrecy; and
like the priests of ancient Rome, not one of them will give away the
secret of his sources of information unless the group agrees upon it.
Not one journalist will venture to betray this secret, for not one of
them is ever admitted to practice journalism unless his whole past has
some dark and disgraceful secret in it... For if he did, these secrets
would be immediately revealed.
So long as they remain the secret of a few, the prestige of the
journalist allows him to attack the majority of the country –
and the mob will follow after him with enthusiasm.
- Our mischievous plans are also designed to apply to the
rural areas. It is essential for us to stir up there, those
hopes and impulses which, at any moment, we could also stir up in the
major cities. We shall tell the people of those cities that
these expressions are the independent hopes and impulses of the rural
people.
Naturally, the source of them will be always one and the same
– ours. What
we need is that, until such time as we have the majority of power, the
cities should find themselves stifled by the provincial opinion of the
nations, i.e., of a majority arranged by our agents.
What we need at that psychological moment is that the city-capitals
should not discuss our position of majority power for no other reason
than it has already been accepted by the public opinion of a majority
in the
rural-provinces.
- When we
are in the period of the new regime, but prior to the assumption of our
full sovereignty, we must not allow any revelation by the media to
admit to any form of public dishonesty. It is necessary that
the new regime should be thought to have so perfectly contended
everybody that even criminality has disappeared...
Occurrences of criminality should remain known only to the victims and
to chance witnesses – no one else.
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