WEBVTT 00:38.980 --> 00:46.480 Thank you very much for this opportunity to participate in this great graduation 00:46.480 --> 00:49.320 ceremony for the class of 2013. 00:50.180 --> 00:55.000 I am truly honored to be with you today. 00:56.420 --> 01:00.980 First of all, because I'm proud to be a Bronco. 01:06.030 --> 01:09.330 A graduate of both undergrad and law school. 01:10.730 --> 01:16.290 I needed all of the Jesuit grace and blessing I could get in order to survive 01:16.290 --> 01:16.950 in Washington. 01:19.830 --> 01:22.050 And a hell of a lot of Hail Marys. 01:24.010 --> 01:29.490 I want to tell you that Steve Schott, who was in the same class that I was in 01:29.490 --> 01:35.310 here at Santa Clara, we came here at I think what could fairly be called a very 01:35.310 --> 01:36.150 different era. 01:37.250 --> 01:38.850 It was an all-men school. 01:39.950 --> 01:43.950 This was still pretty much a walled campus. 01:45.070 --> 01:46.270 There were no dogs. 01:47.510 --> 01:52.130 But there really were a lot of Jesuits around to make sure that we behaved. 01:56.510 --> 01:58.090 Its emissaries are here. 01:58.090 --> 01:59.770 And who are these emissaries? 02:00.390 --> 02:01.150 They are Jesuits. 02:01.550 --> 02:06.770 The society of men, after exerting their tyranny for upwards of 200 years at 02:06.770 --> 02:11.590 length, became so formidable to the world, threatening the entire subversion of all 02:11.590 --> 02:16.050 social order, that even the Pope, whose devoted subjects they are and must 02:16.050 --> 02:19.630 be, by the vow of their society, was compelled to dissolve them. 02:20.330 --> 02:24.770 From their vow of unqualified submission to the sovereign pontiff, they have been 02:24.770 --> 02:27.050 appropriately called the Pope's bodyguard. 02:27.050 --> 02:30.650 And do Americans need to be told what Jesuits are? 02:31.210 --> 02:35.790 If any are ignorant, let them inform themselves of their history without delay. 02:36.390 --> 02:37.550 No time is to be lost. 02:37.970 --> 02:40.630 Their workings are before you in every day's events. 02:41.230 --> 02:45.550 They are a secret society, a sort of Masonic order, with super-added features 02:45.550 --> 02:50.030 of most revolting odiousness, and a thousand times more dangerous. 02:52.330 --> 02:54.930 Where the Jesuits set foot, it is as with the Turk. 02:55.130 --> 02:56.610 No longer grass grows there. 02:57.110 --> 03:01.790 Lord Palmerston, in 1853, said, The presence of the Jesuits in any country 03:01.790 --> 03:04.510 is likely to disturb the political peace of that country. 03:05.230 --> 03:08.450 There it is declared that the Jesuits' educational establishments tended to 03:08.450 --> 03:12.370 cultivate a spirit which was contrary to the laws of the realm, and that the maxims 03:12.370 --> 03:15.770 which were inculcated and the doctrines which were taught on the subject of 03:15.770 --> 03:19.370 spiritual and temporal power endangered the morality and interfered with the 03:19.370 --> 03:20.690 patriotism of the young. 03:21.330 --> 03:26.010 Ab Armoth said, Do you wish to excite troubles, provoke revenge, to produce the 03:26.010 --> 03:27.570 total ruin of your country? 03:27.870 --> 03:28.810 Call in the Jesuits. 03:29.770 --> 03:33.410 It must be obvious to every fair-minded individual that a society that in less 03:33.410 --> 03:36.950 than three and one-half centuries has brought upon itself over eighty 03:36.950 --> 03:40.930 expulsions, secured and repeated condemnation of princes, parliaments, 03:41.050 --> 03:45.010 and popes, and finally its own complete suppression by the head of the church that 03:45.010 --> 03:49.690 gave it birth, has no strong claims to exceptional favors in any free country. 03:50.350 --> 03:54.470 Probably no other society ever organized among men has ever brought upon itself 03:54.470 --> 03:58.970 such universal execration, excited so much opposition alike from its own allies and 03:58.970 --> 04:02.810 its foes, and received such severe punishment at the hands of legislatures, 04:03.230 --> 04:05.590 courts, and kings as the Society of Jesus. 04:06.970 --> 04:13.010 I needed all of the Jesuit grace and blessing I could get in order to survive 04:13.010 --> 04:13.750 in Washington. 04:13.750 --> 04:13.850 Thanks for watching.