Calls to Action: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as presented in Behold a Pale Horse; pp. 281-284

Protocol 5

The way the Protocols works is that it alternates between two tones. The first tone is the one that we expect, it's the plan of the Elders to rule the world of the goyim (or "cattle" according to Cooper's disclaimer). The other is his complaints about the world and how the current world stands in the way of their plans. Most people point out that the real danger in the Protocols is the first tone. This makes sense when we consider that the publishers of the Protocols are trying to expose the plan of the Elders. The reader, knowing the plan, can stop it. 

This isn't correct. The real danger in the Protocols is the second tone. In the last two posts, I pointed out that the Elder had a problem with intellectuals being their real obstacle. The plan, according to the Elder, was not to stop the intellectuals but to inject so much vocabulary and "-isms" that the words would become meaningless and ideas would lose meaning. So what is the audience going to do? Stop the development of ideas? No. They are not, they are going to demonize intellectuals because all the existing "-isms" that they do not understand or like; are going to be considered products of the conspiracy. It's a way to demonize any aspect of society because the conspirators already have it. The Elder complains about things in such a way that his audience will view the world as already having been lost. The future plan is just the icing on the cake. 

The elder writes at the beginning of 5 that they will use the administrative state, which already exists, to "regulate mechanically all the actions of the political life of our subjects by new laws." 

Here we have two things we are supposed to hate. The addition of new laws, but also the administrative state which no one likes. I don't like needing six points of identification to get a license, I don't want to register my dog with the city, or get a parking pass at work. It's worse if I identify the administrative state as a tool of the Elders, but it's also worse if I know that they are going to use it to rule my life. 

It's a rather subtle and clever way of making this kind of point, which is probably how Maurice Joly was able to get it published in its original form. The real target of the Elder is the educated. The Elder claims that his people have no equal in "analysis, observation, on delicacies of fine calculation, in this species of skill we have no rivals, any more than we have either in the drawing up of plans of political action and solidarity."

The Elders are the intelligentsia, and by this claim, the believer is told a very important lesson. The smart people who disagree with them do not disagree because they are smart; e.g. the believer's ideas are bad, but the people who disagree with them are the enemy. 

I attended a wedding once where someone approached a medical doctor and me to call us "liberals" as an insult. I merely regarded the accusation with confusion while the MD just shook his head dismissively. That action, while only a minor interruption is the fruit of this seed. The intelligentsia understand math, planning, and politics; because of this, we are the enemy of the common people. 

The Elder continues from the above quote: "In this respect the Jesuits alone might have compared with us, but we have contrived to discredit them in the eyes of the unthinking mob as an overt organisation, while we ourselves all the while have kept our secret organisation in the shade." 

I wasn't expecting this turn. Most conspiracy works have to make an arbitrary decision as to who is in charge of the whole thing. This book, Cooper's book, has been a mess. It's been the Illuminati, the JASON, the CFR, etc. David Icke has picked the Illuminati, and the Protocols has decided it's the Jewish Cabal. Usually, the other groups are involved in a hierarchy. In Robison, we saw that the Illuminati worked within Masonry. Here the Protocols are saying the Jesuits are rivals that have been exposed as an affront to decent civilization.

In a complete non-sequitur, the Elder begins a discussion about gold and capital. It's very typical conspiracy bullshit but it doesn't belong here. I expect this from Cooper because he cannot help himself. Each protocol seems to have a theme, and I remember that in the last protocol, there was an abrupt subject shift as well. That shift though at least continued through the end of the Protocol. Here there is a brief interlude about gold and using money to oppress people, and then we go right back into demonizing intelligence. 

Most of it is the same plan that he's been talking about: make the people too educated to do anything. The Elder warns, "There is nothing more dangerous than personal initiative; if it has genius behind it, such initiative can do more than can be done by millions of people among whom we have sown discord."

That is a call to action. No one thinks that they are not a genius, especially in the U.S. The elder is saying that the most dangerous person to the conspiracy is a genius who just decides to do something one day. Someone, who is informed of the conspiracy by this book and then acts. That is a dangerous person, which is why the Elders' efforts are directed at educating away the initiative. Make the people feel that there are no simple solutions by offering more perspectives, and then they'll clamor for a despot to rule over them to solve their problems.  

Someone reading this drives to a grocery store in Buffalo NY, or a Mosque in Christchurch NZ, or a summer camp in Otoya, Norway; with an assault rifle and begins murdering people. They have a simple solution and are not tools of Elders. Here is the danger of this book.