Phil Beaver works to establish opinion when the-objective-truth has not been discovered. He seeks to refine his opinion by listening to other people’s experiences and observations. The comment box below invites readers to express facts, opinion, or concern, perhaps to share with people who may follow the blog.
Note: I often connect words in a phrase with dashes in order to represent an idea. For example, frank-objectivity represents the idea of candidly expressing the-objective-truth despite possible error. In other words, the writer expresses his “belief,” knowing he could be in error. People may collaboratively approach the-objective-truth.
The Advocate: See online at theadvocate.com/baton_rouge
Our Views.
To William Bonin: that's right: It's a shell
game with the expenses for rehabilitation being pushed into the future.
I am not encouraged by
The Advocate's editorial-report.
Louisiana needs to
emphasize behavior for personal success, which entails fidelity to
the-objective-truth rather than whetting and satisfying adult appetites and
abuses.
Civic justice comes
from the people rather than from Christianity, faith leaders, and judicial
leniency.
Other states may be
reforming to save money on prison costs, but they are probably funding the
rehabilitation programs and other adult-educations needed to help criminals who
want to reform and discern those who are dissidents for life.
Maybe this session
will serve to bring this kind of balance to the discussion. For example, fund a
mental-health facility for this area, so that mental patients are not housed in
jail.
Today’s
thought, 1 Timothy 6:6-7. It seems clear that Paul, in this passage, perhaps influenced 1765 Great Britain to persuade American colonists to accept taxation of the colonies for England's benefit. Consider the complete text in 1-10:
All [colonists] who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters [in Great Britain] worthy of full respect, so that God’s name and our teaching may not be slandered. 2 Those who have believing masters should not show them disrespect just because they are fellow believers. Instead, they should serve them even better because their masters are dear to them as fellow believers and are devoted to the welfare[a] of their slaves. These are the things you are to teach and insist on. 3 If anyone teaches otherwise and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, 4 they are conceited and understand nothing. They have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions 5 and constant friction between people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.
6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. 8 But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. 9 Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.Anyone can choose verses to express personal opinion, and I am convinced that's G.E. Dean's honest practice. However, honesty is insufficient: the-objective-truth demands integrity. Dean says, "Godliness . . . lasts forever."
I counter: Just as I trust my origins, I conduct my person with integrity: I trust my destiny, whatever it is.
Letters
Oil exploration victims (Guillory). Remember all victims of oil exploration. We benefit from their loss and each family's misery.
Higher education (Boland). I like your passion but think it is misplaced.
LSU acts like an ivory tower of liberal democracy. Education has regressed in the last five decades and needs to reform to representative republicanism before public support may be resumed.
Rich
Lowry column. Trump's views inchoate? Are you kidding yourself?
Trump won the votes in 84% of US counties by having American opinions rather than liberal democrat opinions. Perhaps he did not realize how difficult representative republicanism is.
Your conclusion that Trump is no Jacksonian seems easily correct: You might try to compare Jackson to Trump, but there has been no president like Trump.
Maybe that's because he started his eighth decade before election to political office---as president. Ronald Reagan was almost as old, as elected president, but he had served a governor beforehand.
Michael Gerson column. At last Gerson explicitly expresses emotional-global-liberal-democracy.
The USA cannot be nanny for the dissidents to voluntary civic-integrity in this representative-republic. Good grief! The country is over-run with liberal democrats and has fabricated $20 trillion in debt trying to help adults whet and satisfy adult appetites at the expense of their children and beyond.
And you, Gerson, claim responsibility for social services in foreign lands? You seem insane.
Dana Milbank column (Trump destroying healthy health care system). Milbank honestly cannot recognize integrity.
Alexander and Broome (Page 1A).
Perhaps Mr. Alexander
refers to his 2016 symposium "Moment or Movement?".
Would you say Ms.
Broome and Mr. Alexander invite civic discourse leading to voluntary
public-integrity? I would say they are stonewalling; power playing (Alexander
in the wrong field); un-American. I don’t know but think integrity admits that
the city is split, but on theology-power rather than race.
There are many black
citizens in Baton Rouge who do not think God has skin, much less a skin-color.
I doubt any human image can be imposed on God. I don’t doubt Broome, but am not
confident that Alexander can address such issues. Perhaps his views are too
superficial.
“Moment or Movement?”
was the title of LSU’s Presidential Symposium on October 3-4, 2016 (hosted by
Alexander). It seemed to come from Raymond Jetson.
It does not hurt my
voluntary public-integrity to accept, with warmth, anyone's hope for their God,
as long as the hope does not interfere with their personal civic-morality, but
I do not intend to civically collaborate about my God: the-objective-truth
whatever it is.
I attended the
symposium, and my first Q&A suggestion, in the session, “Journalism and
Social Justice,” drew incredulity from all but one panelist. I stated that the
title “Social Justice” excluded my topic, “civic justice” and asked for
comment. I defined “civic” as connections between people who intend to preserve civic justice in their transactions. The panelist who chose to respond
said, “I agree” and explained control of radio-conversations using selective
phrasing. As the symposium progressed my raised-hand was ignored for reasons I
do not know.
My views on
Alexander’s 2016 event are at
cipbr.blogspot.com/2016/10/lsu-moment-or-movement.html .
To
Phillip Ehlers: The petition is more American and less African-European than
either LSU, Alexander, or Mayor Broome's advisors admit: We certainly don’t live in
Alexander-Broome Jetsonville.
The loyal English
colonists, during the years 1720-1765, gradually realized that England intended
to enslave them and debated the issue on both sides of the Atlantic. The colonists
appealed to their English friends still in Great Britain to influence
Parliament to grant them the freedom to practice the liberty to pursue private
happiness as they had learned as colonists. They knew that England could not
externally provide internal justice. But their English friends and families did
not live in the colonies and therefore could not relate to freedom from oppression that unlocks
the liberty to pursue private happiness. In 1774, they changed their style from
colonies to states and wrote state-constitutions.
[BTW, the colonists
likewise did not recognize that what they had experienced was the liberty to
pursue private-happiness-with-civic-morality rather than the overall good
according to religion (factional-Protestantism in 18th century America).]
In resisting their own
enslavement, by declaring independence and going to revolutionary war, they also knew that
they would eventually assume charge of African slaves who had been a commodity between
Africa and the colonizers. They knew that the freedom they demanded for
themselves would have to be extended to the African slaves. But they had not
the means to simultaneously win freedom and provide emancipation.
Once freedom from
England had been won, thirteen states accepted the independence the king
admitted in 1783. But in only four years, 1787, states realized that to
survive, they must form a nation. The negotiation of the constitution led to a
viable and amendable USA, with 8 slave-states and 5 non-slave states, a plan to
end African slave-trade in 20 years, partial representation for enslaved-inhabitants,
and commitment and trust that emancipation would come when it was feasible. I
imagine some slaves did not know how to accept freedom or deal with the
consequences---did not want to be literally free.
Over 70 years later,
the slave-states ratio had declined to 15:19, and ministers in the South encouraged
legislators to count on Bible interpretation that slavery is an institution of
the Christian God. The Declaration of Secession lists grievances and concludes
that the North is influenced by "more erroneous religious beliefs." Fool-heartedly, 7 slave states engaged the military-power of 27 states in the USA.
Soon, 13 states had joined the folly. It was South-white-Christian-church
against North-white-Christian-church in order to settle Bible interpretation.
Emancipation was accomplished in 1865, but civil rights remained challenged.
A century later, the struggle
for America's freedom from slavery became a civil-rights movement organized in
black church. The moral successes in the 1964-5 anti-discrimination and voting
acts had the potential to unlock liberty to pursue personal happiness, but
Alinsky-Marxist organization (AMO) created 5 decades of regression.
I do not know enough
to label black church "Christian," because it seems to me the very
nature of God is challenged by black church. I cannot alone discern "black-power-and-liberation-theology," as Christian. However, civic-justice comes from the
people and the-objective-truth.
Rather than
stonewalling, iterative collaboration to reach civic-morality can establish
voluntary public-integrity. Explicit extension from the above history of the
American quest for freedom from slavery can begin in Baton Rouge today.
Federal aid (Page 1A). Flood
victims must be grateful to the Louisiana Senators Cassidy and Kennedy.
However, the news that the flood-housing
portion of the second $2 billion would be only $1 billion disappoints me for
the flood victims.
Earth day (Page 1A). To Mark Perkins: I think security against wrongful gun carriers and AMO
disturbances might be better at the zoo and like that aspect of the decision.
Let’s see how it goes.
Edwards hurts flood victims again (Page
1A). On the same day we learn that the second $2 billion requested from
Congress has only $1 billion for flooded homes the grandstanding Gov. Edwards declares
land loss an emergency!
It took 7,000 years for sediment from the
Mississippi River to deposit that land, preventing the observation of
countering subsidence due to plate tectonics. But after levee building after
the 1927 flooding, jettisoning the sediment into the Gulf of Mississippi has accelerated
both subsidence and erosion. Seven millennia of buildup has been significantly attacked
by 90 years of global-engineering.
We don’t need more haste for future
engineering fiascoes, but flood victims without a home lives are ticking by.
Somebody please awaken
Gov. Edwards from egocentric stupor: pride. The best defense is humility, or
silence rather than prayer.
Broome’s director (April 17). To Glen Miller: I'm not as certain as you that Ms. Newman's point about Mayor
Broome's skin color can be generalized as "Mr. Bell's race." Readers
may consider Mr. Bell's groove---past crime reports and employment records---to
catch Newman's point.
Many black people have
more voluntary public-integrity than the average white person. Public-integrity
is grounded in fidelity to the-objective-truth, to self, to family, to extended
family, to the people, to the nation, to the world, and to the universe, both
respectively and collectively.
Voluntary
public-integrity cannot come from Mayor Broome’s subjects---dialogues on racism
and church.
Each
human has the possibility to perfect his or her fidelity, by not repeating
human mistakes---misery and loss---that inevitably come. However, when people continually
invite woe, woe eventually stays.
Georgia house (Page 2A). Readers can’t trust the Associated Press.
Bill Barrow and
Erica Werner reported Handel was a distant second to Gassoff. The vote was
48.1% D and 19.8% Handel. The D was motivated to win in the primary, and making
up a 28.3% spread with 51.9% of the available vote does not seem “distant” for
the runoff.
Also,
recognition is growing that Trump the amazing politician (with 84% of US
counties voting for him) may be an amazing president. The people of Georgia
want a republican form of government rather than liberal-democracy.
Israel (Page 2A). Readers
can’t trust the Associated Press.
Josef Federman expresses personal
opinion in the statement, “Israel welcomed the strike on its northern neighbor.”
Everyone likes
rebuke of poisoning citizens, but that does not translate to aggression against
a neighbor.
Nepotism rule (Page 3A). An exclusion for this unique circumstance could be granted
as an executive order.
State Rep. Jack McFarland must have
something else in mind. I agree with Rafael Goyeneche and Metropolitan Crime
Commission.
I wish The
Advocate had told readers the bill number.
ExxonMobil to Texas (Page 8A). I doubt $6 million in state incentives
made the difference.
But what did Texas offer that Louisiana cannot? Louisiana rated 50th
state by US News and World Report?
With voluntary
public-integrity we can rise to No. 1: The idea and developed theory exist right here
in Baton Rouge.
However, the
complete theory, ready for collaboration, is expressed in the essay, “Voluntary public-integrity,”
available world-wide at promothepreamble.blogspot.com.
Foreign favor in the past (Page 3A). Some voluntary public-integrity may
exist even in the Associated Press.
Paul Wiseman
describes Trump’s “Buy American” order data finding respecting potential enforcement
of existing US laws. The-objective-truth is what is required to make good civic
decisions, and President Trump has ordered collection of the data.
Legislative leaders give to themselves
(Page 3A). I
want that $9 million to go to ethics oversight, the Legislative Auditor, and
the Attorney General.
Racketeering debate (Page 9A). N.O. D.A. Leon Cannizzaro must have been magnificent in his
bid to add armed robbery to the list of 1984 crimes that could be considered
gang related and add to penalties.
However, the
Louisiana Legislature does not like good ideas coming from outside. Cannizzaro
kindly said, “It showed me how serious they’re taking their roles.”
BESE timeout (Page 9A). At least the chance remains to stop
promoting an aggressive game in high schools. I just watched a visceral collage
of fist-fighting by EBR teenagers taken from last year’s Earth Day.
Iran deal a failure (Page 10A). Rex Tillerson expresses his own
excellence.
N. Korea: don’t start a fight (Page 10A). Nikki Haley expresses her own excellence.
Other forums
Gullibility.
The cure is humility.
Phil
Beaver does not “know” the-indisputable-facts. Phil
trusts and is committed to the-objective-truth of which most is
undiscovered and some is understood.
Phil Beaver is agent for A Civic People of the United
States, a Louisiana, education non-profit. See online at
promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.
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