April 8, 2017

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. Civil Service protects the people from political patronage; that is citizens do not suffer loss of valuable public servants on the whims of elected officials. 

 

The Advocate makes itself an enemy of a civic people when it anticipates that Mayor Broome will prevail over the people’s code. 

 

A civic people includes the recent victims of the Council on Aging (COA), who call themselves “African Americans,” but also are citizens entitled to public protection. A civic people would not have a COA that is a predator against families of old people. The Metro-Council, fully aware that there were management problems authorized an unfair tax vote to support COA. Now, apparent predation against innocent youths has surfaced. Perhaps COA leadership should be qualified by civil service.

 

“The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career bureaucrats hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership.” See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_service . “Pursuant to its rule making authority, the Commission defines cause for termination as “conduct which impairs the efficient or orderly operation of the public service.” See civilservice.louisiana.gov/CSRules/Index.aspx .

 

This morning’s editorial is so irresponsible I reviewed my copy of “A Free and Responsible Press,” 1947, Ed. Robert D. Leigh, Midway Reprint 1974. Thank you Jack Hamilton. I commend The Advocate to read it.

 

Cameras: A civic people neither impose nor tolerate force or coercion. It is immoral for a policeman to wear a video camera to create records which others may use to entrap him or her in memory-formed-under-duress. The policeman must review the tapes before signing his or her final records.

 
People who, knowingly or not, legislate arbitrary coercion/force beg woe, and woe inevitably comes.

Today’s thought 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18. Imaginations (and public-power bids) ran wild during the eight decades after Jesus was born, and Paul’s was among the worst. During the recent 1900 years, humankind has discovered much more than Paul could consider. MWD thinks this passage, 5:16-18, is egocentric.

  

The Gospels asserted that believers in Jesus rather than non-believing-Jews were God’s chosen people; that’s arrogance against the Lord from Exodus 20:7. Also, Paul asserted that resurrected believers would be spirits rather than flesh like the resurrected Jesus.

My opinion is imagination’s errors are gradually corrected by the-objective-truth, revealed by discovery of the-indisputable-facts: the-objective-truth exists and humankind works to discover its evidences. I do not know the-objective-truth.

However, it is my privilege to both appreciate life-and-living and share the-objective-truth---without expecting favor for any phantasm in afterdeath. Afterdeath is that vast time after body, mind, and person stop functioning.

Nevertheless, especially because I do not know, I would neither spoil the hopes of peaceful people who pursue the afterdeath they want nor impose ignorance-about-the-afterdeath on others.

Letters

State protection of monuments (Marksbury). I recall your great letter last year, still online at theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_34ccbfed-91ea-5cb5-ae16-d38b37b8da9e.html and moreover your guest column theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_c70183ae-dc23-546c-94c6-20d6584d520d.html

By considering the 3800 years history from Hammurabi till 2017, every person may consider themselves victims of the evil of slavery. We need to recall this history as a civic people rather than as competition by the Black Legislative Caucus vs We the People of the United States. The distinction comes from the preamble, which is for all citizens of the USA and always was---for everyone.

I attended the debate last year, as recorded at senate.la.gov/video/videoarchive.asp?v=senate/2016/04/040616S~G_0 , with your wonderful speech at 106 minutes.

For clarification, it was April 6, 2016, for SB 276, Mizell’s first bill, hearing before the Senate and Government Affairs Committee, beginning just past 78 minutes. Billy Nungesser speaks after 82 minutes. At 87 minutes they enact a 5 minute speaker time. The first green card speaker, Leslie Tassin started at 88 minutes, speaking for posterity (children) and Louisiana, speaking for “heritage and education,” at 92 minutes. The next considered SB 276 with similar bills in other states with approval of SB 276 ending at 97 minutes. A New Orleans resident and represented the “slippery slope” for other monuments targeted for removal, ending at 102 minutes. Peter McGraw castigated the committee for not listening; Sanator Carter addressed it as not an act of disrespect. Marksbury started at 106 minutes and finished at 112. Peter McGraw is a monuments contractor ending at 119. Justice Decote spoke for veterans against political correctness ending at 124. Senator Peterson put him on the spot, asking if the committee was responsible. He rebutted very well ending 125. Senator Guillory at 126 spoke eloquently on history and education, emphasizing children, ending 130. Randy Jareau started for Point Coupe Parish emphasizing leather-necks. Bernard Cyrus, writer for black musicians and now on Abraham Lincoln, started at 132 and was cautioned at 139. John Dunlap historical foundation at 140 asserting that it is a state issue. Phil Beaver at 141; appreciation; adults collaborate to help each child and child to be born and thus ourselves; seems political and power; Abraham Lincoln revised to 1776 the founding; to trump the constitution for the USA; neighbor thought the preamble starts the Declaration of Independence; must be grounded in the facts; amend it to focus on the facts; the commission could have a timeline that they maintain; I have a timeline to review with you; amend monuments to (146 interrupted by laughter) the unfolding of awareness; complete required: Commission needs to be aware of all history; slavery 4000 years ago; African commodity; 400 AD; 500 years ago; we are all victims; we need to recognize it and collaborate for human supremacy. 149 (eight minutes). Expert spoke on standards, working with his brothers and sisters ending at 156. Jennifer Treadway at 157, a lawyer; the issue seemed to be pigeonholed a white-supremacy hate insignia; need Catholic thinking; protect historical relics as it became the melting pot; should not hurt tourism; ending at 161 not about racism. Mizell came back for closure to allow all history to be preserved for teaching future generations. Senator Bishop objected to Walsworth’s motion to favor at 163; 4 yes 5 nays. Killed.

I share your hope for more attention to the state’s interest in monuments to history for education.

The-objective-truth on SAP (Richard). I’m just glad it’s not me defending “decades of education training and experience” that scores 48^th nationally---on a 100 point scoring, 30 compared to Massachusetts’ 74. See theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/education/article_267fa724-57f4-11e6-9a77-47e1011b4e6a.html

Cal Thomas column. In my opinion, the Pences represent Christian wholesomeness, which may not be civically moral. 

 

In a civic culture, a person’s status is not dependent on sex; wives do not submit to husbands. In a civic culture, the people collaborate to make use of the-objective-truth rather than dominant opinion.

A civic people neither impose nor tolerate force or coercion. Each person is a person of integrity until proven otherwise. 

Robert Samuelson column. Economics can be viewed as labor viability: can the labor rendered this day sustain life tomorrow?

Technology of all kinds, including civic morality, can multiply the proceeds of labor. Technology also creates income inequalities if not used wisely.

Upward mobility for the poor is made possible by two policies, one public and the other private but perhaps requiring incorporation into pay. First, a person must be able to work 8 hours, 5 days a week 52 weeks a year and receive enough income on which to live. Incorporated into living is enough income to save & invest for the future, especially retirement at perhaps 70 if lifespan is 85.

Both American free-enterprise and civic-living may be tweaked so as to accommodate living income with save & invest.

I disagree with Samuelson’s premise yet nominate this column for the-column-of-the year, so far, respecting the present dysfunction in private-liberty-with-civic-morality. Reform is needed.

Civil service raises (Page 1B). It is important to reward institutional employees who serve the people rather than the temporal-elected-officials.

 

Dispatcher honored (Page 1B). People who can think during chaos are essential. Thank you, Deputy Michel.

U.S. Strikes (Page 1A). To not act after a second poising of citizens would have invited all sorts of evil. Voters who won the recent presidential election were voting for integrity and it seems it is being delivered. Dissidents can bloviate as they wish.

 Gorsuch (Page 1A). Now we can learn what opinions the new justice will render.

30 years prison for marijuana use (Page 3A). It is important to remember this evidence that consuming marijuana candy begs woe.

Michelle Singletary (Page 8A). A civic people owe all children an elite education which may instill in them both 1) authentic learning and 2) using the-objective-truth.

Pope dismisses priest (Page 10A). It seems to me the priest escaped civil justice. But you can’t trust Associated Press writers, here, Michael Casey.

Passover Seder and refugees (Page 1D). I cannot think of a people more qualified to express a first civic principle: Persons may iteratively collaborate for full life, whether a religion is involved after death or not.

Seeing ancestors (Page 4D). I like the admission “gives us hope that people may live on after death.” 

 

However, I ask, “Why does that seem desirable?” To me, life is so rewarding and I appreciate people so much, I have no ambition for my afterdeath. I was not in control before I was conceived: Why should I want to control my afterdeath?

 

Also, I enjoy attracting appreciation for what I do (in the expressions of people) or in my gratitude for people. I do not want an entity to intervene in that civic morality. 

I see Matthew 5:16 as promoting egocentric coercion: I’m supposed to please others in order to glorify the Father and thereby pass to “the other side of death”? I don’t think so.

 

This dilemma illustrates living for the-objective-truth vs dying for what ancients imagined and not-so-ancients canonized.

Chicago cardinal (Page 4D). “civic and religious leaders.” 

This is an illustration of the typical use of the word “civic.” Civic represents both leaders for Chicago---a civil institution, with Catholic leaders---a soul-salvation-business. They comprise the religion-politician-partnership, which perhaps perpetually picks the people’s pockets. 

 

I write to establish civic morality, which is discovered by persons iteratively collaborating to live in public peace so that each may pursue their no-harm private preferences.

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.