May 7, 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 unfairly confused). This is not the first time there’s been evidence The-Advocate-editorial-staff does not know what The-Advocate-editorial-staff is publishing.

This catalog of “unfair” reaction to shoddy work by a legislative task force refutes each Mark Ballard’s balanced column on the opposite page, John Legend’s caution about violent crime and Jeff Sadow's great column today.

It also reports evidence that my state senator, Dan Claitor, in political grandstanding---surprised the people by proposing the end of death penalty when he could have brought it before the task force months or weeks earlier. I always vote for Claitor but will be looking for a better option in the future. Sadow’s column today supports my opinion.

The victim of The Advocate’s discombobulation is the people: both a civic people and the dissidents. In other words, "we, the people" is comprised of dissidents vs a civic people.

It seems comprehensively immoral for the newspaper to cite a tragic personal experience then impose speculative, afterdeath-opinion on the victims (a civic people). In other words, speaking for the dead is not a moral practice on any grounds.

I nominate this “Our Views,” as the worst in my five-decades of subscription to The Advocate, my hometown newspaper.

     

Today’s thought. The colonists that came to this land after 1606 experienced something that evolutionary cultures had never experienced in the world: freedom-from the arbitrary oppressions that they had suffered in their homeland, be it Portugal, Spain, France, Holland, England or other Western European country. Empowered with freedom-from, during 160 years, they exercised the liberty-to earn the happiness they perceived rather than the ideologies that were imposed in their homelands. They did not separate church from state.

  

When England started taxing the colonies to take the proceeds for home-land use, the colonists perceived they were being enslaved and would not brook slavery. Therefore, they changed their style from colonists to statesmen. They asked the home-landers to grant them political autonomy. The home-landers did not understand freedom-from and liberty-to and therefore ignored the request.

  

The statesmen, representing 40% of the free population, contending with 40% pacifists, and 20% loyalists, staked everything on winning independence from England. They declared war in 1776 citing nature and nature’s God as well as human equality. At Yorktown, in 1781, with leadership by France, the Americans won independence. The 1783 treaty recognizes thirteen states as free and independent, naming each one. Many loyalists returned to England, some taking slaves with them. But the slaves of statesmen and pacifists had neither means nor imagination to return to Africa, the origin of their plight.

  

During the next four years, the thirteen independent states came to realize they needed to form a nation, even though eight were slave-states and five had emancipation. It was difficult, but they got the job done by 2/3 votes by representatives at each step. To this day, the 1787 dissidence existing in the 1/3 persists among some people: the purpose and aims should be for the states rather than the people; Protestantism should dominate freedom of religion; freedom of religion applies to theists only; theism applies to factional-Christians and factional-Jews only; Blackstone common law prevails unless US statutory law says otherwise; the constitution for the USA prevails unless the responsible branch disagrees; separation of church & state is the law unless practices require the partnership; etc.

The 1788 ratified constitution for the USA, wherein only 5% of free inhabitants could vote, had a purpose and aims for which those of the people who were willing could collaborate. Included was separation of church and state. However, the popular “we, the people” obfuscates the agreement to work for justice. Therefore, it is common for willing people to leave justice to mysterious entities other than themselves.

The articles that followed accomplished four preparations for emancipation:  1) government that addressed only civic issues rather than religious doctrine, 2) ending the slave trade in twenty years, 3) representing the slaves as 0.6 persons per slave, and 4) trusting and committing emancipation to future viability.

Viability was disputed until 1964-5, when the Civil Rights acts completed the quest for 100% voter rights without racial discrimination. Emancipation was accomplished at last.

How may the freedom-from arbitrary oppression and the liberty-to earn private happiness become motivating to most citizens? What are black Americans saying?

Slaves did not experience the colonial discovery of freedom-from oppression and liberty-to earn. They did not come here as indentured servants, adventurers, or commanders. They came chained to a ships-floor in unimaginable filth, illness, and death all around them. Most were never aware that some 1787 statesman were dedicated to emancipation, for example, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, and many others.

With perhaps 339 years of oppression under factional-white-Christianity, extended even after WWII, descendants of slaves began to assert human-grounded citizenship. Enmity toward the white-Christian evil they experienced came out as individually expressed anger, black power, the Nation of Islam, Alinsky-Marxist-organizations (AMO), liberation theology, black church, black God, olive Jesus: every white-Christian is a devil. Faced with the stubbornness of white-Christianity, the black option is equal but separate. But everyone fears a house divided.

Throughout history, progress happens when injustice is identified, admitted, and corrected. It seems to me the evidence is clear: We the People of the United States as stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA cannot exist until the nation effects separation of church and state; separation of private hopes and public justice; separation of private-opinion and public-integrity; separation from force or war and republicanism or the rule of statutory justice. The first amendment may be revised so as to protect thought, a human responsibility, rather than religion, a personal preference.

To the two profound human establishments discovered for humankind by the colonists, we may add a discovery by the descendants of slaves: voluntary public-integrity is possible only through separation of church from state and separation of state from church. No human will collaborate about the awesome power of their personal God or other personal inspiration and motivation.

How may 2/3 of participants in every real-no-harm public or private association become Americans who practice, promote, and publicly celebrate the purpose and aims stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA?

Letters

  

ACLU out of step (Esman, May 5). To Whyee Zehla: what is your claim to "African people"?

Where were you born and where is your citizenship? Do you pay taxes? Where to you pay taxes?

Obviously you do not consider yourself someone who trusts and commits to the preamble to the constitution for the USA: What do you trust? What do you commit to?

  

I commit to the people who volunteer for public-integrity. I did not come to that thinking overnight and am in my eighth decade. I plan another five decades, so consider myself young.

By "the people" I mean the people who collaborate for voluntary public-integrity. Such people neither express hate nor impose dialogue on racism.

I share with you someone’s prophesy: “The white man's rule will be ended forever in ten or fifteen years (and it must be conceded that all present signs would seem to bear witness to the accuracy of the prophet’s statement).” James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time, 1962, page 49. The prophecy has been surpassed in time by 40 to 45 years now. The prophesy has joined Marx’s prophecies, in the trash bin of history.

I don’t know what influence you are following, but the preamble to the constitution for the USA assures you freedom-from arbitrary oppression and thus your opportunity to earn the liberty-to pursue private happiness. Organizations steal the lives of recruits for the organization’s purpose. Those two personal opportunities are not offered by Africa or Alinsky or Marx. I encourage you to become an American by trusting and committing to the preamble and thus to the people who want fidelity and voluntary public-integrity.

   

Mark Ballard colmn (prison numbers). I appreciate a view from The Advocate that reflects public-integrity.

John Legend expressed concern about easing up on violent crime.

It’s business men and clergy promoters versus the public protectors.

Texas had rehabilitation institutions in place before prisoners were released from institutional constraint.

Half the time, release means another crime within five years.

Anger control is among the top subjects. Wow! Consider how intensely AMO, protest, and the protest-lawyer-cottage-industry, promote hate and anger. AMO activities in summer of 2016 may have instigated eleven police shootings in two cities.

I think constraint of the AMO method should be brought into the judicial system.

   

Jeff Sadow colmn (Death penalty). Great essay, thank you.

Sadow covers the issue, perhaps excepting one point: Protecting society is the people’s responsibility. Some might put it in terms that God made it that way.

The key point is: “. . . executing the wrongly convicted . . . possibility can diminish to zero if prosecutors, judges, and juries take responsibility.”

DNA evidence should be used to expedite the judicial process, and thereby lessen misery and loss.

Even Sadow’s spiritual analysis is documented and then speculates about the person who opts to accept the death penalty for just cause.

If I have already nominated a Sadow column for nomination of the year, this one takes the number one spot.

  

Pratt column, “Sterling, May 6”. To JT McQuitty: Your typically pertinent article; thank you.

Readers, don’t miss the point the article cites as correction of eyewitness testimony: DNA evidence. DNA evidence should take a stronger position in the judiciary process. When all else agrees with the DNA evidence and say three weeks have passed without refute, sentencing should be fast and without appeal.

In one ChE training about observing facts, such as whether or not the failure of a pipe indicated erosion, corrosion, abrasion, explosion, fatigue and possibilities that slip my mind, one instructor talked about ten witnesses to a car accident, with ten accounts.  

George Will column. I agree that President Trump is awkward with un-coached comments. 

However, what I like is that he does not fear his errors and weaknesses, and he takes to role of administrator who trusts and is committed to the cabinet he has assembled and will fire when he sees the need. 

I doubt Will could even be and adviser to a team that requires public-integrity. Will suffers too much scholarly guilibility. Why, Will even says “It is up to the public to quarantine this presidency.” Check the preamble, Will. It does not say, “We the Public of the United States . . .”

Your scholarly folly never ceases to amaze me, and once again, I think your view of the country has become democracy rather than republic.

Texas school vouchers (Page 23A). The point about hurting rural schools could be handled by restriction of vouchers to large cities unless a small city wanted them.

Monuments task force (Page 21A). I appreciate the veterans’ viewpoint and the report that the committee had no citizenship standing.

I thought associations were persons. Like a corporation is a person and a church is a person. Shows how naive I am.

I called AG Landry and asked him to do what he thinks best. This ad makes me feel that one more monument could be sacrificed to allow Landrieu the opportunity to reform. On the other hand, the liberty obelisk was his opportunity to make his mark you save face.

I’d like Landry to act on Monday and the Legislature act in the people’s favor before the end of this session.

After attending a lecture this week end, I get the message that white Christians are devils to some black people. Of all the errors involved, the evil perpetrated on the slaves and descendants who suffered Jim Crow laws must be addressed by the USA. Other offenders are exonerated.

Some want black cities in various parts of the USA that operate independently but are nationally financed with state aid.

I don’t know about teen killing (Page 1B) Perhaps what went wrong is that a child-care person, perhaps parent, allowed barely pubescent boys access to a gun.

Men’s bodies don’t complete the wisdom-building portions of their brains until age 25 (23 for women). Perhaps it takes another five years of obviously-erroneous-acts for him or her to begin to build fidelity to the-objective-truth. See ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/10/teenage-brains/dobbs-text . Adults and teens may share this NG information to try to save lives.

  

Details sharpen (Page 1A) After all the press during the summer of 2016, then the eleven police shootings, The Advocate may---has the option to--be prudent and follow an old saw: don’t instigate trouble. 

Leave it to Landry, who is in charge.

Dems can’t trust the Associated Press (Page 13A) Bill Barrow and Steve Peoples write that the Democrats are off the health care responsibility. On the contrary, it is on them to create good legislation. Democrats are candidates for my vote, but not if they do not act for the people.

Small groups marching (Page 15A) I appreciate the information on the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) and “Black Power,” as racist and anti-Semitic.

Why did they not display weapons this year when they did last year? Did the military-style police coverage appreciate the weapons last year? Did it instigate marchers’ reform? Are the NBPP persons from this areas? Do communications records indicate that NBPP coordinates with Together Baton Rouge or other local group?

I had never heard of anti-government Oath Keepers, but am glad to beware.

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.