July 11, 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 write.

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.
A personal paraphrase of the preamble by & for Phil Beaver:  Willing people in our state routinely, voluntarily collaborate for comprehensive safety and security: continuity (for self, children, grandchildren & beyond), integrity (both fidelity and wholeness),  justice (freedom-from oppression), defense (prevent or constrain harm), prosperity (acquire the liberty-to pursue choices), privacy (responsibly discover & pursue personal goals), lawfulness (obey the law and reform injustices); and to preserve and cultivate the rule of law for the USA’s service to the people in their states.
Composing their own paraphrase, citizens may consider the actual preamble and perceive whether they are willing or dissident toward the preamble.  

Our Views (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_4095688e-5d15-11e7-b856-ebb06fcb1efe.html)

Did The Advocate interview Mitch Landrieu for comments?

“Booker’s name has been floated as a potential front-runner to lead the Democratic Party’s presidential bid in 2020.” foxbusiness.com/politics/2017/01/11/senate-showdown-real-reason-cory-booker-testified-against-jeff-sessions.html and nytimes.com/2017/04/30/us/politics/democrats-2020.html

How about John Bel Edwards: What does he say to Booker's attack on Louisiana?

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Revelation 5:10, 12, CJB). “You made them into a kingdom for God to rule, [priests] cohanim to serve him; and they will rule over the earth. Worthy is the slaughtered Lamb to receive power, riches, wisdom, strength, honor, glory and praise!”

  

Dean says “Jesus died for our sins, Praise Him!”

I neither expect nor pretend to rule over the earth, but would like to collaborate for comprehensive safety and security for living.

Letters.

Philanthropy picks the people’s pockets (Singleton, July 10). (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_a33c1036-61cb-11e7-b104-ef6367069eab.html)

To GM King: I sincerely think America can be great if a super-majority of citizens collaborate for life using the preamble to the constitution for the USA, leaving hopes for afterdeath a personal pursuit.

The preamble proposed to replace union of the states with public integrity by willing people in their states. The 13-member confederation of states formed the Continental Congress in 1774. In 1787, only 2/3 of delegates of the states signed the draft constitution. Then 2/3 of the states ratified the draft with intentions to add a bill of rights, establishing the USA on June 21, 1788. The USA began operation on March 4, 1789, and by the time the Bill of Rights was ratified, December 15, 1791, the people were represented by 14 states.

Thus, while July 4, 1776 is an appropriate date for celebrating the 13-states’ declaration of independence from England and is adequate commemoration of national independence, it is inadequate for commemorating perhaps the world’s greatest political sentence. The preamble is the only sentence in the constitution for the USA that is not amendable without revolution to something other than Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 vision, governance of by and for the people.

Yet the people have so neglected the preamble that the split seems 45% for and against a willing people and 10% none of the above. We work to persuade people to consider returning to a super-majority of willing people according to the preamble. By considering the agreement that is offered by the preamble a citizen may categorize themselves as either willing or dissident.

Our EBRP library discussions over the last three years produced the thought that the preamble’s statement of purpose and goals may be summarized as: comprehensive safety and security. The super-majority collaborates for statutory justice so as to assure freedom-from oppression so that willing people may acquire the liberty-to pursue personal interests rather than conform to an ideology, a society, or tyranny.

In other words, the preamble represents establishment of the USA on June 21, 1788, and we feel that commemorating that day as Personal Independence Day would help effect the restoration to 2/3 willing people in the USA, with better motivations against dissidence. We seek assistance rather than resistance.

We double checked, and our quotation of Singleton was verbatim: “I’d like to see reduced federal funding of charities reflected in income tax cuts for mainstream American taxpayers. “

To GM King again: I don't think you can "define who and what we are."

  

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

  

Civility (Cal Thomas). foxnews.com/opinion/2017/07/08/cal-thomas-place-where-civility-once-ruled.html

Writers and speaker witness to obfuscation, honesty, or integrity, by choice. I to not find the referenced speech inspiring at all. See presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=24186 .

“The accomplishments of the colored people in the United States, in the brief historic period since they were brought here from the restrictions of their native continent, can not but make us realize that there is something essential in our civilization which gives it a special power. I think we shall be able to agree that this particular element is the Christian religion, whose influence always and everywhere has been a force for the illumination and advancement of the peoples who have come under its sway.”

And worse: “But for the strange and long inscrutable purpose which in the ordering of human affairs subjected a part of the black race to the ordeal of slavery, that race might have been assigned to the tragic fate which has befallen many aboriginal peoples when brought into conflict with more advanced communities.”

  

“Civility” is not a noble goal when the civilization is immoral. The civilization with racism is immoral.

Strange claims (Eugene Robinson). sltrib.com/opinion/5481968-155/eugene-robinson-in-his-puzzling-speech

Robinson’s “I guess some precious bodily fluids as well,” is disgusting expression of sweat, if that.

Robinson seems another “victim” who neglects the preamble to the constitution for the USA, which offers a civic agreement by willing people to collaborate for civic morality, when he fails to understand “value individual freedom and sovereignty.”

Robinson’s claim about China and India being economic powers is illustrated in theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/06/the-economic-history-of-the-last-2-000-years-in-1-little-graph/258676/ . What Robinson does not share is GDP/capita: theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/06/the-economic-history-of-the-last-2000-years-part-ii/258762/ .  The USA is the hockey stick in that graph.

Robinson’s claim that Muslims want peace is not supported by 8% saying suicide bombing sometimes justified: cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/pew-144000-us-muslims-say-suicide-bombings-civilian-targets-often-or .

Robinson is a writer. Honest? I don’t think so. Integrity? Not even close. Just my opinion: I don’t know anything.

 

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.