THE BISHOP AND THE PROTOCOLS

From a visitor to this site -

Dear Mr. Grossklas:

This is the information I mentioned to you on Bishop Williamson.  I have included a blurb written by me in which I briefly explain the origins of the Protocols of [the Learned Elders of] Zion and show Williamson's use of it.  Although we cannot know his interior intentions, his words speak for themselves.

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Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion

[The] Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is a forged document purportedly drawn up in 1897 by Jews and Freemasons, plotting to bring about the collapse of Christian society as a prelude to establishing a non-Christian society under their control.   The origin of the document has been traced to an obscure political satire published in 1864, Dialogues aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu, by Maurice Joly. ¹

The actual Protocols appeared in Russia in 1905 as an addendum to a fanatical book by Sergius Nilius predicting the imminent arrival of the Antichrist.  In 1921, Philip Graves of the London Times demonstrated the similarity of Protocols to Dialogues aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu.  A Russian historian, Vladimir Burtsev, traced the forgeries to the Russian secret police.  The Protocols are, in the vernacular, phony as a three dollar bill. ²

Nevertheless, over the years, Protocols has often served as an effective tool for those who hate the Jews.  Unsurprisingly, Adolf Hitler was among it devotees.   Here are his own words in Mein Kampf.

    "The extent to which the whole existence of (the Jewish) people is based on a continual life is show in an incomparable manner in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which the Jews hate so tremendously. The Frankfurter Zeitung is forever moaning to the public that they are supposed to be based on a forgery; which is the surest proof that they are genuine. What many Jews do, perhaps unconsciously, is here consciously exposed. But that is what matters. It is a matter of indifference which Jewish brain produced these revelations. What matters is that they uncover, with really horrifying reliability, the nature and activity of the Jewish people, and expose them in their inner logic and their final aims. But reality provides the best commentary. Whoever examines the historical development of the last hundred years from the standpoint of this book will at once understand why the Jewish press makes such an uproar. Far when once this book becomes generally familiar to a people, the Jewish menace can be regarded as already vanquished." ³

    "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... We shall set clericalism and clericals into such narrow frames as to make their influence move in retrogressive proportion to its former progress."

Bishop Williamson is smart enough not to tell the seminary’s friends and benefactors the origin of this citation. May I quote from Protocol No. 17 of Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion?

    "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. We shall set clericalism and clericals into such narrow frames as to make their influence move in retrogressive proportion to its former progress." ⁴

Here is Bishop Williamson's quote, word for word, straight out of Protocols. I challenge anyone to find another source from 'nearly one hundred years' before 1990 which contains this same quote verbatim.

Just in case someone is able do so, I further adduce Williamson's November 3, 1991 letter to 'Dear Friends and Benefactors' of St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary as evidence that he believes in Protocols. In this letter, speaking of the sexual harassment charges against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, Bishop Williamson wntes:

    "Now the vile media played no doubt a large part in inflating the issue out of all proportion, in order amongst other things, whichever side won, to bring the Supreme Court into disrepute: ‘...it is indispensable to stir up the people's relations with their governments in all countries so as utterly to exhaust humanity with dissension, hatred, struggle, envy... so that the goyim see no other course open to them than to take refuge in our complete sovereignty in money and all else’" (Pr. 10).

Perhaps Bishop Williamson thinks that the unsuspecting reader would see "Pr. 10 and assume the material in quotation marks came from Proverbs. However. to the best of my knowledge, the word 'goyim' is nowhere to be found in Proverbs. This quote is directly from Protocol No. 10 of Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, wherein one finds these words:

    "...it is indispensable to trouble in all countries the people’s relations with their governments so as to utterly exhaust humanity with dissension, hatred, struggle...so that the goyim see no other issue than to take refuge in our complete sovereignty in money and all else." ⁵

The very slight differences between this quote from Protocol No. 10 and Williamson's quote from 'Pr 10' are simply due to the fact that different translations of Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion exist.

One quote from Protocols would bad enough. To make matters far worse, later in the same November 3, 1991 letter Williamson writes:

    "Take another example of this grave disruption of nature in the U.S.A. today: the invasion of public life by gays and lesbians, men and women being ‘delivered up to shameful affections...changing the natural use into that which is against nature’ (Rom. I, 26, 27), then flaunting their unnatural vice in public and being rewarded by the vile media with a blaze of publicity. And decent citizens seem unable to do much about it, partly no doubt because ‘in countries known as progressive and enlightened, we have created a senseless, filthy, abominable literature’ (Pr. 14)..."

No, the quote from 'Pr. 14' is not from Proverbs either, for in Protocol No. 14 of Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion one finds:

    "In countries known as progressive and enlightened we have created a senseless, filthy, abominable literature." ⁶

How does this make matters far worse? In the same paragraph, Williamson has included a quote from the Epistle of St Paul to the Romans and a quote from Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. He is putting the New Testament on an equal footing with Protocols. That is utterly obscene.

¹ Encyclopedia Americana, 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion', Vol. 22 p. 694, 1996.

2 Ibid.

3 Mein Kampf, Eleventh edition, Munich, 1942, p. 337.

4 Marsden, V., The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion, 1934, p 204.

5 Marsden, pp. 178-9.

6 Marsden, pp. 191.