July 17, 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/letters/article_7991894c-674c-11e7-9897-3f4db42c4905.html)

My heart is heavy this morning for the six officers who were ambushed, for their families, and for us. But the heartache does not end there.

The Advocate, regrettably, touches on most of the evil consequences of the story. In so doing, they highlight the systematic neglect of Blane Salamoni, Howie Lake II, their families, the first-responder community, and the willing people of the USA. The civic immorality is tragic! Police vigilantism is wrong, but everyone is innocent until proven guilty.

The Advocate starts with “a troubled Missouri gunman,” and concludes with “the fallen and the evil that took them away.” Thereby, they dehumanize the evil. This evil covers one gunman and six fallen. The gunman’s behavior is evil rather than “disturbed.” The Advocate seems complicit, especially in the neglect of the privilege granted a free and responsible press. Responsible liberty is not easy.

To establish public integrity, the press may opine about the facts rather than obfuscate them. As I opine, one strong felon with a gun, for unknown reasons, violently resisted the people’s first responders---policemen attending a 911 call.

Perhaps abetted by a misguided President of the United States and many “fiery speech” personalities visiting Baton Rouge before the summer of 2016, events unfolded that generated a lot of money for a lot of people, and the money keeps on rolling in. That’s right! I posit that AMO is run for money rather than for a noble cause. That’s why loss to AMO soldiers is OK for the organizers. That, by design is an indirect influence on these events, yet AMO presence is evident.

The way I see it, the consequence of a misguided president and all the like-minded people is directly born by nine Louisiana families and five Texas families, or fourteen families. Yes: the perpetrator’s family makes it fifteen.

If most people are willing to have a monopoly on public violence and to grant that monopoly to the police, where is the problem? I think there’s a failure to recognize a civic agreement---failure to recognize that the people live in binary division. Some people are willing to collaborate for comprehensive safety and security, some not. The people are divided: the willing versus dissidents. How can a willing people establish a practice that motivates and inspires dissenters to reform?

  

I think the elements of comprehensive safety and security are stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA, where “posterity” includes your children, your grandchildren and beyond---for the foreseeable future. I think we can iteratively collaborate using the-objective-truth rather than conflicting for dominant opinion to establish public morality. It’s not dark skin v light skin, male v female, young v old, native v immigrant, partners v couples, adults v children, DNC v GOP, federal v state, churched v non-churched, Christian v everyone, Africa vs everyone, etc. It’s willing vs dissident respecting comprehensive safety and security.

I can’t think of a more fitting tribute to the fifteen families whose lives have been shattered than for us to establish a new way of living in Baton Rouge now. A way that is promising, inspiring, and motivating for us and our children.

Willing citizens collaborate to discover "comprehensive safety and security" that both constrains tyranny/oppression and supports each person's opportunity to acquire the liberty to responsibly pursue private preferences rather than municipal goals or an ideology or a dominant opinion.

    

Americans who understand what “We the People of the United States” trust and commit to may learn from the past and collaborate for a possible, good future.

  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Nahum 1:2-3, CJB). A prophecy:

“Adonai is a jealous and vengeful God.
Adonai avenges; he knows how to be angry.
Adonai takes vengeance on his foes
and stores up wrath for his enemies.
³ Adonai is slow to anger, but great in power;
and he does not leave the guilty unpunished.
Adonai’s path is in the whirlwind and storm,
and the clouds are the dust of his feet.” 

Dean says “God is not weak but he is patient. For that, we should be so grateful.”

I don’t know what Dean represents, but I do not think it is the Bible.

Letters.

Remembering police officers  (Amundson). (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_7e766608-67ec-11e7-972a-37be45dd69b3.html)

In his inclusive words, “fallen and wounded officers and . . . comfort to their families," Amundson allowed us if not invited us to include the psychologically wounded Lake and Salamoni families.

In the caption, The Advocate exercised freedom of the press and dishonored Amundson’s expression, even for this day. Shame on freedom of the press. Shame on The Advocate.

Thank you, Bill Bankston for teaching me the shame of freedom of the press. I miss your voice and you.

Fake lies (Jones). (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_c7b2f23a-67e9-11e7-b96e-bf1f8ab32227.html)

I hope Jones regrets reading his letter. If so, he has a little humility.

To Matthew White: Matthew, I appreciate the help and will study the hyphen. proofreadanywhere.com/6-scenarios-where-using-hyphens-is-just-plain-wrong/.

However, without the study, there are certain phrases for which I do not see me changing. "The-objective-truth" may be expressed with hyphens to invite the reader not to neglect the phrase; people often reject invitations in order to defend conventions or express opposition to creativity, and that’s OK.

But too many people want to abbreviate, even avoid the-objective-truth. The worst is, "Phil, do you mean your truth?" I do not often know the-objective-truth; my name is Phil, and the earth is like a globe, but I don’t know if there is a God.

Second most important is the duo "freedom-from" and "liberty-to," which I use for distinction. It is very expressive in this world where so many people demand equality, without having done the work to imagine them providing equality to other people.

Human equality begins with the ovum. I doubt there exist two equal ova. What can God or government can do to provide an ovum equality? When an ovum is fertilized, the chaos from equality is astounding. I think the best hope is a civic culture with freedom-from oppression so that each person may acquire the liberty-to responsibly pursue personal perfection rather than conform to other people’s demands beyond comprehensive safety and security.

Mitch Landrieu’s folly again (Chrestia). (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_925ddfa0-67ee-11e7-8bbb-83b44e1f5a60.html)

To David Martin: I nominate Chrestia as quick wit of the year, so far.

  

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

  

Compassion (Michael Gerson). kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/syndicated-columnists/article160519184.html

Compassion and philanthropy fit. My compassion focused on the suffering I experience here. I just listened to a TED talk that claimed 40% of poor children suffer from family abuse compared to 29% of non-poor children---as though it is OK to abuse non-poor children.

I think both compassion and philanthropy are non-government functions that should not be imposed on the people. Especially institutional religion and the social non-profit are businesses that should not have tax advantages in competition with other commerce.

A citizen’s first passion should be to take care of self so that other people do not have to pick up the slack. This goes for rich and poor.

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.