April 9, 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. The Advocate printed a lot of words that obfuscated a simple message: The people of Louisiana need public-integrity in state government.
 
Gov. John Bel Edwards failed tax reform for two years now, by favoring divisive insiders rather than working for Louisiana’s No. 1: the people. However, The Advocate claims “Republican leaders in the Legislature ought to” reform in the same ways.
 
The Advocate attempts to favor liberal-democracy rather than civic-morality. For public-integrity, Republican leaders indeed may reform too. Critical is collaboration for statutory law based on the-objective-truth rather than religion; legislation for extant life rather than hopes for possible afterdeath; wisdom from the indisputable-facts rather than black theology vs white theology; wholeness rather than factional-Christianity; inclusive legislation rather than black favor; security for children rather than adult satisfaction; reality for tomorrow rather than imagination for eternity.
 
The Advocate never experienced or observed a bid to establish public-integrity rather than dominant-opinion. The work is underway in Baton Rouge, LA and being shared world-wide. State-wide transformation may begin here, tomorrow at the 2017 legislative session.

  

James Gill column. Humor is insufficient to obfuscate Gill’s lie that New Orleans has a “quest to remove brazen relics of a racial past.” Some officials in New Orleans want to make themselves famous for perpetrating injustice regarding history and education.

  

And whoever attached the caption about “vanquishing the Confederacy” is either abjectly ignorant or cruelly arrogant. White-church in the North vanquished Confederate-church to settle erroneous Bible claims. The physics of slavery had been plain for millennia: chains, whips, brutality and rape to slave with both psychological and physical burdens to masters.

I suppose Gill wants to protect England from the “original sin” of the Atlantic trade for Africa’s commodity of the 15^th – 18^th century: black people. When colonists realized during 1720 to 1765 that England was enslaving them, about 40% rebelled, staking their families, fortunes, and very lives on independence. In 1774, they styled themselves states instead of colonies and some wrote state constitutions. The rest of free colonists were either pacifists or loyalists.

When the French, in their war with England, helped the states win independence, the king of England admitted in the 1783 Treaty of Paris that they were free and independent states, naming all thirteen.

During the next four years, the 13 states realized they would not survive on the Articles of Confederation. The consequence was the preamble to the draft constitution for the USA, ratified on June 21, 1788, with the promise that the first Congress would create a bill of rights. There was an 8:5 slave-states ratio. By the time the complete constitution was ratified on September 15, 1791 with then 14 states, they had committed to ending the slave trade in 1808, but could not design feasible emancipation of the slaves. They left it to future people; woe came.

The future arrived when slave-states ratio had reversed to 15:19. Emancipators held the military power to effect emancipation. It took over four years of war and perhaps 750,000 American lives, but the Confederacy was vanquished and surrendered on April 9, 1865. Good grief Gill, this is 2017!

Only a Tory at heart could trash the history of the USA as Gill, The Advocate, Barack Obama, Mitch Landrieu, John Bel Edwards, and legislative black caucuses do. The USA is trying to recover from Africa’s original sin of slavery exacerbated by the Atlantic Slave Trade with five European countries beginning in the 15^th century.
 
With the-objective-truth so plain, it is difficult to understand how anyone living here could claim that he or she is not an American who trusts and commits to the preamble to the constitution for the USA. Only ignorance, dissidence, criminality, evil, religion, and other civically-alien-endeavors can justify such negligence of the promise of civic-morality and civic-justice: voluntary public-integrity.

Mark Ballard column. This case helped me realize “Taxpayers pick up all those costs,” is false.

 

When the civil least of us is murdered, everyone pays the civic costs. What a civic people must do is both 1) minimize the incidence of murder and 2) lessen the cost of law enforcement.

Ballard points out that the debate is an excellent time to review statutory law respecting murder. So far, I have not read mention of two important opportunities for improvement. First, for three decades, law enforcement personnel have improved the use of DAN evidence. Second, chemical execution has failed, so far. Perhaps hanging or firing-squad should be used. Efficiencies like DA Hillar More III and AG Jeff Landry use or advocate may be considered.

By all means, religion has not standing in determining civic morality and public integrity. Religion promotes belief in hope for the afterdeath rather than justice during life.

  

Stephanie Grace column. “remove an important incentive.” The incentive may be more effective if dedicated to K-12 rather than 13—16. Google [Phil Beaver + child incentives] and choose the URL starting “cipbr” to learn the proposal.

 

The proposal by state Rep. Gary Carter seems like a product of the legislative black caucus. Such special-interest-bills should fail to make the statement that justice cannot come from skin-color favor.

 

Anyone who perceives that writing for the media is a way to establish public integrity should try to find civic justice in the last paragraph:  “keep the best-performing students in state” regardless of better possibilities for the students, or help those with the greatest need” go where they can’t succeed, and “take tougher courses and do at least pretty well in them” even if other students’ performances embarrass them. I write like an old crank.

Jeff Sadow column. I see that COA is a national program with federal funding. I guess that inspires the sense of entitlement the Metro-Council must have had when they ignored COA mismanagement to authorize the property-tax vote.
 
I agree with you that the legislature should do more. I think the COA-rigged vote should be negated.
 
My first-hand experience was with people who robbed a dear friend, pretending to be his care-takers. As soon as I found out, I tried to convince him to go to St. James Place, but he had considered and decided not. His robbers were recommended by his prominent church of many decades. When I confronted the church, I immediately became persona non-grata to them. When I see one of them, I am still incredulous. I think it is a matter of wanting to feel loving, yet stay detached from the mis-care being given. I have useless photographs of preparations for theft and many records of the awful experience. After a couple years, my friend believed me but would not tell me to see a lawyer for help and felt helpless until the end, when he said to me, “I have no life to live. Look at this community of theft.” He died. His family finally came from out of state, thanked the robbers, buried my friend, and left.
 
I think there is lots of predatory-care happening in Baton Rouge. I hope the legislature does something effective to protect old people from institutional predators rather than warn them and leave them.

George Will column. I think I understand why Will chose “misinformation,” but he might have clarified it as “false with the intent to deceive” or simply “lies.” 

 

Liberal democracy requires a civic people to take the time to rebut falsehoods. But liberal democrats ridicule the rebuttal. They squander their seven years after high school graduation. They hold lies to be truth and express opinion they did not earn. Yet they assert that they are equals.

 

President Trump expresses himself by action far better than his assistants speak for him. So an assistant gave the media “alternative facts,” when Trump feeds the media alternative lies for their bemusement while he gets the jobs done he promised his voters he would perform.

 

The media may change their focus from denigrating Trump to ridiculing Trump voters anytime the media wakes from its stupor.

 

Will reminded me of the fascination he always held, by using the word “erudition.” Seeming scholarship had me fooled for a long time, but Will’s failure to understand and promote the USA as a republic is shining through. He’s convinced me he does not really understand baseball after all.

 

Nudity age (April 8, Page 6B). This is a good illustration of how inefficient yet civically moral legislation may develop: iterative collaboration based on the-objective-truth rather than dominant-opinion. Woe needs no invitation.

Start with the now two or three decades’ old awareness that the human body does not complete the wisdom-building parts of the brain until the mid-twenties, 25 male and 23 female.

 

Impose vague legislation inspired by 1) religious beliefs rather than physics and its derivatives like biology and 2) the statutory-convention that 21 is the legal age for alcohol drinking.

 

After strippers’ complain, a judge asserts that nudity is allowed for artistic expression; strip-club contributions to illegal activities may be constrained; and nudity must be defined. No one questions if 21 is sufficiently close to 23 for an adolescent to decide to expose her body to earn a living; perhaps 21 is far enough from 10 and sufficiently close to 23. 

 

Here’s the good yet inefficient part: Revised legislation is planned. A civic people hope the next version takes advantage of the-objective-truth rather than religious-hubris to establish civic law. After 228 years operation under theism, it seems clear that Abraham Lincoln was correct when he said justice comes from a civic people rather than religion.

Religion has no place in the process for establishing public-integrity. Religion has to do with hope for the afterdeath, that vast time after body, mind, and person have stopped functioning.

The US Congress could mimic State Sen. Ronnie Jones, R-Sulfur, who came back with S. B. 144. Congress may legislate marriage as the civil contract between the couple that conceived the child rather than either Judeo-Christian tradition or arbitrary human partnering. The-objective-truth rather than dominant opinion is the grounding for public-integrity.

Supreme-Court-opinion that is not grounded in the-objective-truth begs woe, and woe comes unannounced.

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.