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I'm Clyde Lewis.

And this is Ground Zero.

The numbers to call tonight, 503-2-5-0-860.

That's 503-2-2-5-0-860.

Have you been on social media lately?

I mean, I have to go on it every day and figure out what the overall feeling is in the zeitgeist.

And what has been happening, I guess you can take it all the way back three weeks ago

when we had the Catholic school shooting and, I'm sure there are many other instances

that you can recall that we feel as though that we're in a demon-haunted world or a demon-haunted nation. And it's always been the case. When you go back in time and you look at like the Manson murders, the son of Sam murders, you look at, you know, what happened when the summer of love turned into the summer of hate. It was there to redefine the battle lines. It was helter-skelter.

It was, you know, the black rising up against the white, according to Charles

Manson.

It was global political warfare, shutting down all the happiness and the flower children

and everything and say, let's get with the real world now.

Let's weaken civil liberties.

Let's put people on trial in the middle of Kent State by shooting them dead and

killing them.

Let's knock off a few people like MLK, JFK, RFK, RFCK, Malcolm X.

And this is to rally us for something bigger.

I know it is.

This is a step-by-step program getting you to accept.

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