January 1, 2017

Mayor Holden review. Only a reader, I seem unqualified to comment on the poor journalism-research my hometown newspaper does. Perhaps some facts just need to be obfuscated.>>>However, a chemical engineer can easily find from WAFB the reminder of Holden's powerful handling of the White firing: wafb.com/story/20581908/baton-rouge-police-chief-fired . I thought Holden was excessively silent about his certitude, and then I learned why. The why is in The Advocate's archives yet absent from this article.>>>About relationships with NBR people, The Advocate could connect dots respecting local invitations to irresponsible Alinsky-Markist organizations (AMO). Perhaps Holden did not approve connections and influences of anti-USA speakers like Jeremiah Wright. The Advocate archives has inflammatory comments by Charles Steele Jr.: theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/entertainment_life/faith/article_0267ba79-4a92-552a-aaeb-ecc5df56348a.html . Perhaps Steele recruits did not like Holden’s prayer: “Dear God, today we ask you bless our hearts, souls, minds and body. Today, I ask and pray that those who are still searching, that you give them the compass to everlasting life.” See theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/entertainment_life/faith/article_22cef1d2-2919-535e-92fb-a58b64f03b75.html . I speculate Holden was asking people to reject the incitement he was hearing from visitors to Baton Rouge. Some, not The Advocate, might call them radical troublemakers or worse: inciters to riot comes to mind. >>>The litany of “together” by Reginald Pitcher may reflect Holden’s possible sympathy with James Meredith’s claim that during the last five decades the black race his neglected the responsibility-and-duty-side-of-citizenship: concordmonitor.com/Civil-rights-marchers-U-S-still-needs-to-address-inequality-3635924 . The “together” groups have in mind coercing citizens to effect AMO disruptions---sacrifice for social democracy rather than enjoy the individual-independence that the USA offers. >>>Should $170 million for a tram be rounded to $100 million rather than $200 million? See http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/business/article_7a439c12-59c0-11e6-806b-6754c57762c5.html . Will typical workings of the entrepreneurs turn it to $600 million? I hope Baton Rouge capitalizes a mental health facility instead of a tram. >>>The statement “This summer, Holden was silent . . .” is simply false. Holden held a press conference the next day.>>>Beware the raised fist and any substitutes: Beware solidarity respecting anything except iterative collaboration for broadly-defined-civic-safety-and-security, hereafter Security.

Evangeline authorities. Who brought this systematic vigilantism to the fed’s attention if not the citizens involved? Perhaps the reporting citizen was a policeman who perceived top-and-bottom-vigilantism and saw no other recourse but to seek help beyond Louisiana.>>>IMO the solution to this amazing long-standing tyranny disclosed in 2016 lies with the judges and lawyers who entrap first responders in injustice that is obvious only to first responders and criminals. Police officers seem entrapped between 1) judicial failure to indict & convict and 2) group vigilantism within the community. >>>Here are some telling quotes from the article: “. . . detectives instructed patrol officers to . . . bring in a person for questioning.” “. . . Investigators hoped the experience would encourage cooperation.” “. . . testing whether a crime wave subsides while a particular person is in jail.” Draconian ordinances. “They’re basically trying to catch a drug charge on you.” “There’s no jobs and no businesses.” “We’re here to uphold the law.” >>>The police are the personnel a civic people hire for public protection. The police are being denied the civil right to perform a job that government authorized, in this case enforcing statutory law. Like any human caught in a trap, some first responders make the mistake of trying to solve the problem without identifying the cause: Perhaps corrupt judges and lawyers. >>>Observing the huge lawsuits that result, perhaps vigilantism is a judicial-cottage-industry at the expense of a civic people. Perhaps some governors are intimidated.

James Gill column. Isn't the witness protection system itself an injustice to a civic people? Convicting criminals is not easy, but coercing other criminals is costly attempt to make the investigators’ job easier. The people who authorize the short-cut should be held accountable by a civic people.

Rheta Grimsley Johnson column. “. . . if I had another talent besides stringing together words,” seems appropriate assessment. I can’t write but want public-integrity as private-liberty-with-civic-morality.

Aside regarding A Civic People (ACP). My goal is to inspire the people, I think 2/3, who take-for-granted personal behavior for civic morality that overarches real-no-harm social morality. To recognize and appreciate each other and keep personal factions such as religious opinion in appropriate privacy yet be open to sharing private opinion in mutually appreciative settings. I have hoped a civic people would voluntarily help.>>>Each day, I am reminded how uniformed I am and that this, like trying to indoctrinate myself in a religion, is (not seems: is) a futile undertaking. Did you know about Implicit Bias and not inform me?

Implicit Bias. In 2002, I walked out on Maxine Crump’s (YWCA and First Methodist Church sponsored) “Dialogues on Race” attempted indoctrination that Phil Beaver is racist. I walked during the last 10 minutes of six, two-hour inculcation-sessions and all the reading. I left the party-planning. It was a traumatic experience, yet when I encounter “white privilege” accusation today, I rebuke it immediately. This morning, I was embarrassed again with my ignorance as I stumbled on perhaps the real, obfuscated reason Clinton lost election:  nationalreview.com/article/440503/hillary-clintons-implicit-bias-talk-ominous . Implicit bias??? My ignorance of how a person like Clinton can become lost in social democracy is unlimited.>>>I will not give up my dream but think it seems time to change paths.

Recall: Phil Beaver trusts and is committed to, but does not know the-objective-truth of which most is undiscovered yet some is understood. He works for opinion when the-indisputable-facts-of-reality have not been discovered and seeks refinement through other people’s experiences and observations. Please use the comment box below.