June 30, 2017

Phil Beaver works to establish opinion when the-objective-truth has not been discovered. He seeks to refine his opinion by listening when people share 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 1:  I often dash words in phrases in order to express and preserve an idea. For example, frank-objectivity represents the idea of candidly expressing the-objective-truth despite possible error. In other words, a person expresses his “belief,” knowing he or she could be in error. People may collaboratively approach the-objective-truth.
 Note 2: It is important to note "civic" refers to citizens who collaborate for the people more than for the city.

  

Our Views (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_f3c5e51a-5c10-11e7-bd38-8b33d3ec6fe0.html)

  

The Advocate bills another experiment with children as "a big advance" for adults in charge.

  

My teachers and education beginning in the early 50s was great also because I wanted to learn. Yet I regret that my nation did not realize that every child has the potential to be elite and therefore assure each one an elite education.

John White might say I’m just jealous of the STEM friends in my class who attended Georgia Tech or the affluent friends who attended Webb School instead of Staub School. Or the elite neighbor who went to Groton then Yale. In my eighth decade, I do not feel envy: I feel sorrow over the barbaric abuse of children in America. We’re perhaps 22^th in the world, and at perhaps 46^th among states, Louisiana holds perhaps 1010^th world ranking.

Education needs to be turned upside down so that the nation’s objective is to empower every willing child to perceive he or she may perfect their unique person if they take charge of learning, comprehending, understanding, and intent to live a full life of some ninety years.

  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Revelations 3:19-20, CJB). “I rebuke and discipline everyone I love; so exert yourselves, and turn from your sins!  Here, I’m standing at the door, knocking. If someone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he will eat with me.”

Dean says “Count it a privilege if God is speaking to you. Open your heart to Him now.”

I see an example of coercion. If you perceive guilt, which is practically a condition of being human, it is because God loves you and wants you to not to repeat the error that invoked the guilt. Good logic for promoting good behavior.

But what about the case wherein the guilt is inculcated by an intellectual construct that humans created because they know the power of this psychology. Take for example, the formula of original sin and potential damnation.

Or take the case of “white privilege.” I grew up overcoming my low status and am the only one of three siblings that obtained a degree from college. I was too busy coming up to take charge of anyone else. I never regarded black neighbors as less than me and celebrated the civil rights acts of 1964-5 as freedom at last. I have studied the question and see African slavery as the product of Bible interpretation that begins with canonization by the Church in 300 AD to 400 AD. No one can impose guilt for slavery on me, and I have no desire to reform the Bible.

Letters.

Canadian health disrupted by organizations (Conlin). (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_27bb40d4-5ce5-11e7-bf8b-e75fe52a2703.html)

Thanks for a first-hand view: Health care in Canada ruins the cost of living there, with, for example, $6/gal gas. (Let’s pass a $0.2/gal tax and restore I-10/I-12 parking lots to roads.)

Right to sue (Tyler). (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_eab59204-5ce7-11e7-a7aa-a7ddf2f0883a.html)

Thank you for an interesting point. No one is privileged to resist the police, let alone a felon. To appreciate your point, the court may reject the case or require the Sterling family to pay the court costs.

ACA is very popular (Sickels). (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_a3a92c06-5853-11e7-ab9d-cf7caeb6654f.html)

According to polls, including the popular vote, Hillary Clinton shud be president. Other polls show that resentment for the USA's republic instead of democracy is strong. We need to get back to common sense: Polls, much like "social science", are propaganda tools.

ACA is good to physicians but very bad for patients.

The media think public opinion controls public policy and the media control public opinion and thus both the GOP and the DNC. They care nothing for the rule of law.

Research shows Trump tweets are very popular among the people.

  

Columns. (The fiction/non-fiction comments gallery for readers)

  

Hypocrisy (Froma Harrop). creators.com/read/froma-harrop/06/17/morality-tale-at-uber-reputation-still-counts

I’m just glad I was not in Harrop’s shoes as she wrote, “Big business may be one of the few gatekeepers for public decency left.”

See for example, “Standard Oil et al. did not really favor "free enterprise." They favored their continuation as competition-killing monopolies.” See laconiadailysun.com/special-sections/columns/13258-froma-harrop--little-guy . Some writers write freely.

Labeling Robert E Lee et. al. as Jim Crow personalities (Stephanie Grace). theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/stephanie_grace/article_962b00f4-5c9a-11e7-a7a6-976fcff1b619.html

   

To label commemorations of Beauregard, Davis and Lee as “Jim Crow-era monuments,” is a low act, whether Grace, The Advocate or someone else is in charge of it. 

I commend The Advocate to fire Grace for disdain for civic readers and commend her to seek a new career where dehumanization is acceptable. Maybe AMO agent would do.

  

Propositions for Asian peace (David Ignatius). journalnow.com/opinion/columnists/david-ignatius-is-war-between-a-rising-china-and-a/article_79cc139e-5cea-11e7-bb98-47857a09f969.html

I nominate this as the most appreciated column of 2017, so far, and want to share some of its thoughts:

Testable propositions, from perspectives outside the USA: “(1) Economic and cultural power is no substitute for military power. (2) Weakness breeds contempt. (3) The West preached openness as the way for China and other Asian nations to absorb advanced technology and Western know-how. But the West exploited that openness to create dependence. (4) Networks of aid and assistance are good covers for expanding influence and military power. (5) The United States argues that transparency and an international rules-based order are the best guarantee of security for all sides. But what this really means, through modern history, is that the United States makes the rules and others obey the orders.”

Perhaps Ignatius has expressed why wise foreign leaders embrace President Trump’s policy of comprehensive safety and security for the American people and expresses the expectation that they will act in the interests of their people.

I do not know if this is counter to Graham Alison’s book, “Destined for War,” or not.

 

Illegal immigrant law (Page 1A). bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2017/06/29/house-votes-end-some-federal-funds-for-sanctuary-cities/WbfTE7qRNwK9oJNDqAYjBL/story.html

Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif, raised the liberal-democrat, weak argument that the USA attempts to tell states the USA knows better, as though that was not by design.

Lofgren was sent to W.DC without the qualifications to uphold the articles and amendments that follow the preamble to the constitution for the USA.

The preamble is a civic agreement by willing people to iteratively collaborate to discover and apply the justice that empowers comprehensive safety and security. The civic agreement divides the people into the willing and dissidents. One third of delegates to Philadelphia did not sign on September 17, 1787 and thus declared they were dissidents. Don M. opined that in 2017 the people are divided 1/3 dissidents, 1/3 passives, and 1/3 civic, where “civic” means citizens who collaborate for civic justice.

By reading, understanding, paraphrasing for 2017 living, then restating the original preamble, each person may decide if they are a dissident or not. Many people miss the word “posterity,” which for the willing means “my children, my grandchildren and beyond,” as well as the nation’s future people. “Unity” might be thought of as “integrity.” In other words, the preamble is a personal and private trust with commitment to fidelity.

Lofgren perhaps does not understand James Madison’s Federalist 10, one of the most quoted of the Federalist papers. In the federalist system, elected officials who serve/disserve the people in their states may develop the wisdom to serve the nation, which is a republic, not a democracy.

The Congress has two legislative bodies, designed to disrupt majority rule or democracy. The House has 435 seats, assigned according to number of citizens. With 320 million citizens, there’s one representative per 735,000 people. With a population of 39 million, California to has 53 representatives. Wyoming, with about 0.6 million citizens, has only one representative. However, every state has two Senators. Bills have to pass both the House and the Senate to be sent to the President for veto consideration. These are just a few of the preventions of majority rule or pure democracy in the USA. (State elections are by pure democracy, but states vary on elected vs appointed officials. State constitutions differ but do not conflict the preamble and its articles and amendments in the constitution for the USA.)

Willing people in their state elect US representatives and senators who are qualified to serve the nation. Because they neglect the preamble, many people fail this duty to themselves, and intentionally or not are dissidents to their own civic governance.

It seems to me Lofgren is a dissident against the preamble.

 

Proton therapy capital overload (Page 1A). theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/business/article_4ec2f944-5d06-11e7-8c47-a756c96d2765.html

Naturally, Baton Rouge influencers such as BRAF and its capital business want to compete with New Orleans for Louisiana revenues. New Orleans plans to begin construction of a $100,000 facility this year.

However, BR General’s withdrawal from plans for a proton therapy facility for the SE medical corridor ought not be taken lightly by the Louisiana Legislature and Administration. Ochsner’s views should be considered in the Legislative debate.

Comprehensive safety and security for citizens is at risk when state funds are dedicated to boondoggles, especially in the expensive medical industry.

To Baton Rouge From My View: I do not suspect you of being off topic, but wish I understood your point.

 

Too many inmate incidents (Page 1A). theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/article_b178621e-5cec-11e7-ad86-cbab929755f7.html

How many incidents in 2013 to 2015 drew the 2016 ding (tiresome reiteration---thank you Terry Jones and The Advocate)?

It seems Gov. Edwards has the propriety to support another cottage industry---at the expense of the people’s bodily safety and security as well as subsidy to “free” enterprise.

 

Trump tweets (Page 3A). latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-mika-tweets-20170629-story.html

Writer Brian Bennett seems to perceive a career from opinions about Donald Trump’s personal life. By day, Trump is the President of the United States. On his free time, he tweets aggressive people. Trump has proven success in his choice of targets, and some targets want revenge. 

However, possible aggressors (they know themselves) may respond by reforming their behavior.

If the media agreed that George Washington is the father of the USA, as I think, they might review his June 8, 1783 message to citizens:

There are four things, which I humbly conceive, are essential to the well being, I may even venture to say, to the existence of the United States as an Independent Power:  An indissoluble Union of the States under one Federal Head; A Sacred regard to Public Justice; The adoption of a proper Peace Establishment; and The prevalence of that pacific and friendly Disposition, among the People of the United States, which will induce them to forget their local prejudices and policies, to make those mutual concessions which are requisite to the general prosperity, and in some instances, to sacrifice their individual advantages to the interest of the Community.

Washington’s words came after the war was won, and soon the King of England would agree that the thirteen states were free and independent, naming each of them in the Treaty of Paris, 1783.

On September 17, 1787, Washington had presided and was among the 2/3 of states representatives who signed the preamble to the constitution for the USA and its draft articles. That left 1/3 dissidents. On June 21, 1788, nine of thirteen states established the USA, and we dub that anniversary Personal Independence Day to commemorate and celebrate the preamble, perhaps the world's greatest civic sentence. Soon, the USA will celebrate 230 years of dominance by the dissidents yet a persistent march by the people toward ultimate justice (borrowing words by Abraham Lincoln, 1863).

Among the failures of the constitution is a means of limiting freedom of the press. There have been commissions that would self-direct the press, but self-regulation did not work. The press today is out of control and dangerous. That is being made evident by a man with the propriety to call for integrity. When people approach him with integrity, they receive integrity. When they choose aggression, they receive aggression. Neither the press, nor the Democrats, nor the Republicans possess the propriety that is required to serve the people.

Public integrity is a voluntary trust and commitment. It is offered to willing people by the preamble. Its content continuously delivers George Washington’s message of June 8, 1783. President Donald Trump, intentionally or not, calls attention to the fact that the USA’s purpose and goals are to serve a willing people as specified in the civic agreement that is the preamble to the constitution for the USA. Trump may also take the preamble for granted, but I’d need to learn that from him.

If so, attention to the preamble’s goals is the intent of those of us who voted for Donald Trump in our state primary and in the presidential election. In our intent, the press, the Democrats, and the Republicans may reform or not, but justice will ultimately prevail by the actions of the people.

 

Italy’s plight (Page 12A). abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/eu-backs-support-italy-struggling-migrants-48346020

When the chips are down, liberal democrats, socialists, and communists---perhaps EU members who are also laggards in NATO---turn their backs on the nations that are vulnerable to economic refugees: Greece and Italy.

That’s how Alinsky-Marxist organizations (AMO) work, too. When the protestors get caught in emotions and passions that emote violence and consequential misery and loss, the AMO bosses are in their offices. Governments that respond to AMO bosses exacerbate the problem.

In Baton Rouge, the principal AMO or IAF affiliate is Together Baton Rouge. Minister’s coalitions intend to circumvent the rule of law. Sanctuary movements aim to defeat the civic order. A willing people may constrain philanthropic businesses, such as the Church.

President Trump, in his immigration actions, is acting for comprehensive safety and security for willing citizens of the USA. Dissenters beg woe, which does not yield to emotions, even those of the party left holding the fruits of injustice.

  

Other forums 

quora.com/What-is-coercion-How-is-it-implemented/

Coercion is force applied by persuading the subject that action is needed to avoid misery, loss, or doom.

For example, waterboarding creates the impression of drowning and is thus existing misery and threat of death if the subject does not answer questions.

Kidnapping for ransom is coercion.

In Christianity, the subject receives the formula, simplified: original sin, eternal doom, personal conviction, acceptance of Christ as personal savior, and salvation of the soul. Believers pay to maintain their own coercion. Only a dreamer may imagine reducing the power of such coercion. See Machiavelli: The Prince: Chapter XI .

Alinsky-Marxist organizations (AMO) persuade people that they are oppressed and convince them to obstruct daily lives of the accused oppressors in order to get relief from the oppression. Often, emotions and passions lead to violence. When the accused ask for relief, AMO steps forward to announce that they can end the disruptions provided the accused cooperates with AMO.

Phil Beaver does not “know” the-indisputable-facts. He trusts and is committed to the-objective-truth of which most is undiscovered and some is understood. He is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.