July 2, 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_f8fb5098-5b83-11e7-8b78-830e10ac79b9.html)

To Barry Gautreaux: The Advocate has a talent for turning the-objective-truth into poetic mush with no direction. “Green grass, blue skies and the chance to play,” might be alright after expected hammers have fallen.

Here’s the view from one citizen. Gov. Edwards may reform anytime to make the people of Louisiana No. 1 for his administration. And the rest of the administration may help Edwards.

The Advocate may plug “stop the Louisiana giveaways” into its lobby for budget reform.

The universities, both Southern and LSU, may admit to the harm of hosting black separatist movements, and express that they are separatists plainly, when they visit Baton Rouge. Free speech works both ways, but freedom of the press is selective for reasons the press knows.

Recognizing the gross injustice of vigilante communities, inviting tragedy only to serve a law-suit cottage industry, may be reformed both by the people and by the court system.

Baton Rouge is home of A Civic People of the United States, and in three short years, about fifty people meeting at EBRP libraries and in private have developed the idea for a super-majority of citizens, perhaps 2/3, to collaborate for comprehensive safety and security using the-objective-truth and the purpose and goals expressed by a willing people. The agreement is in the preamble to the constitution for the USA.

We hope 2/3 of Baton Rouge citizens will participate by Constitution Day, September 17, 2017. If nothing else, read, comprehend, paraphrase, adapt for 2017 living, and restore your preamble to the original statement. Then practice, celebrate, and promote the preamble’s civic agreement, while continuing to pursue responsible personal preferences, such as worshiping your God or none.

However, you will not see more than these suggestions, because civic justice comes from the people who want comprehensive safety and security, which can be coerced by neither government nor God: Civic justice may come from the people.

Letter, June 29.

  

Against the people (Sickels). (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_a2a3edc2-5ce6-11e7-81c5-4332399ebbe1.html)

Joe Diogenes I work for comprehensive safety and security as specified by the preamble to the constitution for the USA.

Most intellectuals are too intellectual to understand the preamble.

Witness: June 21, 1788 was not, before 2017, the fourth promotion at Main Library, Baton Rouge, celebrated as Personal Independence Day. It commemorates the establishment of the preamble and the amendable constitution for the USA by the people's representatives in nine states. They ratified the world's first and only government of, by, and for willing people (a civic people, according to the preamble). People in the nine states left people in the remaining four states the opportunity to either join or remain free and independent.

Based on the preamble, the people are divided between the willing and the dissidents, some of whom must be constrained by statutory law. The opportunity to join a civic people is available for every citizen at every moment and place.

It is fitting that National Independence Day, July 4, follows Personal Independence Day, June 21. A nation that oppresses some of the people is a tyranny. Only when there is freedom-from oppression may each citizen acquire the responsible liberty-to pursue private preferences rather than the dictates of a civilization.

The people may use the preamble, and if a super-majority will, American may be great.

Joe Diogenes again: OK, good.

Share with your intellectual friends that the preamble is a civic agreement that has nothing to do with secularism vs religion. Each citizens may know whether they trust and commit to the preamble or are dissident to it, by reading and comprehending it.

  

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

  

Barbarism (Rich Lowry). nationalreview.com/article/448994/medicaid-expansion-ahca-democrats-rhetoric-remains-hyperbolic

Research shows that personal care is four times more effecting than medical care for personal well-being.

How come Obamacare supports the doctors and insurance companies instead of the people?

President Trump is for the people. However, both the Republicans and Democrats seem to be for themselves.

Each of them is on the chopping block, and they are on their own. President Trump is for the people and will continue to press in their best interests.

Meanwhile, the media is lost and I have no idea how they can be redeemed. Nothing they write or say adds up. 

Some states misrepresent their citizens (Page 2A). startribune.com/trump-voting-commission-will-get-limited-state-voter-data/431925093/

Citizens want comprehensive safety and security in voting, too. People in states that do not cooperate with voting panel lose their opportunity to collaborate with citizens in other states for improvements. Citizens in non-collaborative states (Ca, KY, MA, MI, MS, NM, NY, SD, TN, VA and D.C) may contact representatives and governors for reform.

 

The preamble specifies a voluntary democratic republic (Page 13A). washingtonpost.com/national/as-july-fourth-approaches-americans-debate-democracys-fate/2017/07/01/98260d86-5e66-11e7-aa69-3964a7d55207_story.html?utm_term=.bf748d9ddea0

It is interesting that Hillel Italie does not even mention the preamble to the constitution for the USA. The preamble is a civic agreement to be entered by willing people who would collaborate for justice for the people. The essence may be paraphrased as follows: Because we want comprehensive safety and security, willing people in our states arrange and authorize a representative republic to serve the people in their states. The preamble defines a democracy of the willing, a civic people, vs the unwilling, the dissidents, who make up the rest of the people. It’s “We the People of the Unites States” managing a representative republic to serve the people.

I wonder if Italie could perceive this concept, and if so, could he promote it.

The preamble is the greatest civic sentence ever composed, and for 230 years it has been neglected by not only by the people but by the civic people.

Italie’s article seems more anti-Trump than pro-people, and perhaps that is why he overlooks President Trump’s promise in his first inaugural address, “January 20th 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again.” Of course, I think the people have always neglected the preamble and therefore never have been the rulers of the nation, in comprehensive safety and security, as intended. Thus, I voted twice for Donald Trump thinking he has the best chance of making America great more than great again.

Italie chooses scholars who don’t convince me they know anything. For example, Gordon Wood: “The founders believed in equality but they essentially meant equality of opportunity. Sons of weavers and cobblers could go to college and become gentlemen, but weavers and cobblers themselves were not to become politicians and campaign for office." Abraham Lincoln, a log splitter and surveyor became president.

Italie uses the ideas of Joseph Ellis to argue that 1) the Declaration of Independence established claims against the King, which seems true, whereas 2) the constitution would use federalism to hone democracy. Maybe it Italie that does not recognize that the constitution for the USA promises a representative republic.

Itallie especially overlooks that the USA does not report to the Economist Intelligence Unit, and European intellectuals misunderstand the preamble to the constitution for the USA because political regimes here influence the people to neglect the preamble.

I appreciated reading the opinions that Thomas Paine advocated for democracy, Jefferson near anti-federalist, and Hamilton and Jefferson for a strong administrative branch. I wonder if the Broadway play of the same name depicts Hamilton as perceiving “America’s ‘disease’ was ‘democracy.’” I doubt it is that detailed.

It seems Italie is a liberal-democrat, one of those erroneous people who wish the USA was a democracy. According to the majority vote, Hillary Clinton would be president. However, the USA is a republic under the rule of law, and candidates must campaign to win the Electoral College. 

  

Likewise, civic justice must pass the House, with a representatives closely apportioned by population, and the Senate, with 2 per state. It then must pass possible veto by the President. One of these branches may bring the Supreme Court in if there is constitutional doubt. Once again, democracy is foiled by the republic. Thank goodness.

 

Spanish support (Page 13A). abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trumps-white-house-ignoring-spanish-speakers-48389934

Spanish speakers who do not learn English are at a disadvantage in the USA, and it is good that the White House nudges them to learn.

When I was an expatriate in Greece, 1792, I was learning Greek at a rapid pace and love the phrases I can still recite. The Greeks never tired of teaching me.

 

Papal business as usual (Page 13A). philly.com/philly/news/religion/20170701_ap_f95dacc56ed44740afe8464db684b9f8.html

It seems appropriate for the pope to be businesslike and fire another wayward cardinal.

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.