- The message ACP is getting, (with very low to no participation) is not good. With three of us in the June 21 meeting and no one willing to meet routinely, the chance of 65% participation by the people of Baton Rouge by September 17, 2017 seems non-existent, even though recent events highlight the need for ACP more than ever.
- The
Third annual Ratification Day celebration was successful, primarily
because of collaboration with Joyce Goldner (a US history enthusiast and
the only entrant in the writing contest) and Holly Beaver.
- We appreciate Diana Dorroh, Ruth Finklea, and Henry Soniat for making the modern, personal-preamble-writing contest possible. We hope for more contestants for Constitution Day.
- Goldner thought posting the PowerPoint presentation on the website could promote interest. It is posted.
- Our only advertising was the online calendar at The Advocate. Requests for other media help went unanswered. I do not know if anyone who receives these messages promoted the contest. We’ll work harder for September 15. Help would be appreciated.
- Other discussions have led to
- The phrase “the indisputable facts of reality” (TIFR) as the basis for civic morality, where TIFR is discoverable through physics—energy, mass and space-time from which everything on earth emerges.
- The phrase “precious privacy respecting personal pursuits,” is used to avoid controversies over spirituality and such. We appreciate J. T. McQuitty for suggesting a soft approach re Christianity.
- A recent summary statement:A civic life may be established by willing people, using 1) the preamble to the constitution for the USA to coordinate civic collaboration, 2) the indisputable facts of reality to resolve civic issues, 3) precious privacy respecting personal pursuits, and 4) continual improvement of the constitution for the USA.
- The annual report for A Civic People of the United States was accepted by the Secretary of State. Both Dennis Eilers and Hugh Finklea kindly agreed to serve as directors for another year. Perhaps during the coming year there’ll emerge members, officers and a board. We can start weekly or monthly meetings anytime someone wants to. As you may know, I am not going to make that happen, because I am dedicated to collaborating to improve the theory of ACP—reading and writing and taking courses and volunteering where I want to, all above and beyond living my life. (If you regard that as a blatant request for help with ACP, you are correct.)
- Preparations for the third annual Constitution Day celebration are underway.
- It
will feature the articulation that modern democracy is mobocracy, as
always, and that democracy conflicts with the indisputable facts of
reality (TIFR):the 50% plus one vote dominates half the population for
an election cycle. Conflict with TIFR has been obvious to some persons,
but this writer did not heretofore articulate the conflict. The ills of
mobocracy have been illustrated by three current events:
- The Democratic Party staged a sit-in--an adolescent, Alinsky-Marxist, organized act by chronologically adult persons--just before Congress’s Independence Day recess. The perpetrators should be called home by ACP in their states.
- Britain decided to leave the European Union on the vote of the people, and the perpetrator, David Cameron resigned. Thank goodness the ratified constitution for the USA did not specify mobocracy.
- The primary elections produced major candidates for president of the USA neither one of whom fulfills the promises of James Madison’s Federalist 10. The system needs reform, and perhaps there’ll be reform in the conventions. But who is worthy? That’s the main problem: James Madison’s idea in Federalist 10 that patriots with integrity would rise up from the states has not happened in recent decades.
- We
are trying to get media and state help (three elected offices) to
promote the preamble-writing contest. (My metro councilman did not
understand the preamble, and Mayor Holden did not respond to email
requests.) Any help would be appreciated.
- Secretary of State has no funds but referred us
- Lt. Gov.’s office does not respond to phone and email.
- Department of Education has not responded.
- Calls made to my state representatives.
- It
will feature the articulation that modern democracy is mobocracy, as
always, and that democracy conflicts with the indisputable facts of
reality (TIFR):the 50% plus one vote dominates half the population for
an election cycle. Conflict with TIFR has been obvious to some persons,
but this writer did not heretofore articulate the conflict. The ills of
mobocracy have been illustrated by three current events:
- Posts on www.quora.com/ seem well received. Here’s a comparison chart
| Blog | ACP | Quora | ||
| First post | Feb, 2014 | April, 2016 | ||
| Months | 29 | 4 | ||
| Number of posts | 96 | 235 | ||
| Views | 6390 | 21,700 | ||
| Followers | 1 | 8 | ||
| Upvotes | 1 | 94 | ||
| Views/month | 220 | 5425 | ||
| Posts/month | 3.3 | 58.8 | ||
| Views/post | 66.7 | 92.3 | ||
| View/post ratio | 1 | 1.38 |
The nature of these efforts differs. On ACP, I seek to collaborate but get no response, while on Quora, based on my profile initially, and now on my performance, people direct questions to me and I answer them. My learning-rate ratio, Quora:ACP seems like 94:1.
- I rarely read the two to three posts per week-day on the law blog www.libertylawsite.org/ yet had a first positive exchange. I do not feel the professors who use the blog have propriety as fellow citizens—they express that they are above the people, and that we cannot even understand them. I candidly express my opposition in the few posts I enter and have no friends there.
- On theadvocate.com I expressed the opinion that the combination of carrying a gun and resisting the police risks both the citizen’s life and the policeman’s life and ACP does not condone the practice. This simple observation has not been expressed this week by the media or a politician or an official. I wish there had been attention to some of the old posts, such as “The Advocate could earn a Pulitzer Prize ed 7/23/15” and “Open Letter to Baton Rouge Leaders ed 8/15/15,” in the folder, “My Views,” at A Civic People of Baton Rouge . Those posts are part of continuing attempt to understand how to solve the dysfunction.
- For people who are interested
- There’s a scholarly review of the preamble at www.shestokas.com/constitution-educational-series/understanding-the-us-constitutions-preamble-2/ .
- The online-resource suggestions ACP listed in the past are posted in one file at A Civic People of Baton Rouge .
- Any suggestions to add to the list of online resources would be welcomed.
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