fiercely independent, it's common sense with Dan Karlin.

I want to read you a paragraph from Richard Nixon, former president, Richard Nixon's memoirs.

And those of you who've listened to everything we've done and there are a few of you out

there will know that I've quoted this phrase before, this paragraph before because it's

shocking.

But if we're not careful, it's where we're heading again.

It's from the section in Nixon's memoirs that deal with the year 1970.

And Nixon writes quote.

From January 1969 through April 1970, that's 13 months folks, there were, by conservative

count, over 40,000 bombings, attempted bombings and bomb threats.

An average of over 80 a day, over 21 million, that's more than 143 million in today's

dollars, over 21 million dollars in property was destroyed.

43 people were killed.

Of these 40,000 incidents, 64% were by bombers whose identity and motive were unknown.

And quote.

1970 was smack dab in the center of one of the last real extremist era as an American

history.

We may be heading towards that again now.

And those of you who fought forest fires in your life will be very aware of what I'm

talking about now, but, but I'd like to draw an analogy.

In a forest fire, you often have obviously raging flames, but once you've knocked those

down, you have, you know, areas of hot spots burning embers that glow and that if you're

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