July 28, 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_8043e0dc-6cd8-11e7-85bd-132d22c53dd7.html)

   

This report is sad, but we don’t have to accept sorrow. We can change.

The Advocate suggests “we older folks should lead by example,” with no specifics. Who are the “we” and how do “we lead.”

The preamble to the constitution for the USA proposes a personal agreement by which to iteratively collaborate for civic justice as defined therein. The agreement divides the people into those willing vs dissidents. “Civic” refers to citizens who collaborate for comprehensive safety and security during every decade of mutual living more than for a municipality, tradition, or ideology. Willing persons both offer and appreciate peace.

Leadership is accomplished by a hierarchy of fidelities, practiced both respectively and collectively: fidelity to the-objective-truth, to self, to immediate family, to extended families, to friends, to neighbors, to the people, to the state, to the nation, to the world, and to the universe. If a person pursues religion, that fidelity is private rather than public. Thus, even within a family, each person’s fidelity to the-objective-truth and self is an individual responsibility.

The-objective-truth is the reality that can be discovered by evidence. Other entities that can be constructed on imagination. In other words the-objective-truth is what is rather than would could be. When the-objective-truth is undiscovered, fidelity begs a human response like, “We don’t know,” or “We think so and don’t have to know.”

Education respecting a hierarchy of fidelities (the above one or better) begins at birth and continues through early adulthood---perhaps three decades of transition from feral infant to young adult with the necessary understanding and personal intent to live a full life of perhaps ninety years. The goals of education are human authenticity by about age ten; collaborative association at about thirteen; by about seventeen, appreciation for both freedom from oppression and opportunity to earn the liberty to pursue personal preferences rather than someone else’s image for your person; by about thirty, commitments, perhaps to family and career, according to personal preferences; and by about forty, acceptance of the idea that each human being has the potential to perfect their unique person.

The ideas expressed herein may seem unusual, but that is because since the preamble was written political regimes have done everything they could to keep the public from adopting the preamble’s agreement. Regimes foster a public that depends on a mysterious entity---theism with government---to take care of life. However, there have been many thinkers who have expressed parts of the above described civic way of living.

Among them are George Washington, who presided over the creation and signing of the preamble; James Madison, who refuted the above concept by claiming that a civic human must be a theist; Ralph Waldo Emerson who observed that the human being has the psychological power to perfect his or her person; Abraham Lincoln, who stated that civic justice comes from willing people; and Albert Einstein, who said that willing people do not lie about the-objective-truth and thereby separate from dissidents.

The cumulative ideas point to the-objective-truth as the basis for fidelity and will be reviewed at the Fourth Annual Constitution Day Celebration at Goodwood Library, Wednesday, September 20, 2017, 7:00 PM, perhaps until 9:30 PM. Please join us to collaborate on the thinker’s words.

The accomplishments on September 20 will improve our next scheduled meeting, June 21, 2018, the Fifth Annual Personal Independence Day. June 21 commemorates the establishment of the USA, a government of, by, and for willing people more than for the state or nation they are in.

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Zachariah 4:6, CJB)

“Then [the apparition] answered me, “This is the word of Adonai to Z’rubavel: ‘Not by force, and not by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Adonai-Tzva’ot.”

Dean says “Money and might will not produce Godly results. Only God can do this.”

So why do religious institution beg donations and press the people for political favor? I regard Dean as just another pick-pocket; I could be wrong, but my pocket is closed to him.

Letters

Litter (Johnson) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_44ff33a4-7152-11e7-82c5-47ae878db54b.html)

Johnson’s letter prompts attention to an upcoming 2-day conference in Baton Rouge. See keeplouisianabeautiful.org/programs-events/2017-state-conference/ .

People who want to lessen litter are invited to attend.

I will keep in mind that DOTD spends $8 million per year lessening litter.

Force Democrats to collaborate (Halperin) ()

The Democrats created the Obamacare mess without collaborating. Now Halperin wants their collaboration to fix it. Fat chance

  

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

  

Swamp work (Froma Harrop) creators.com/read/froma-harrop/07/17/trumps-new-york-rat-pack-continues-to-grow

I can’t imagine what President Trump is doing. Perhaps he has discovered he needs to shake DC before he can drain the swamp. If so, I’d be the last person to say he can’t get the job done.

John McCain (Richard Cohen) washingtonpost.com/opinions/john-mccain-is-a-man-of-supreme-resolve-and-honor/2017/07/24/e53f292a-7097-11e7-9eac-d56bd5568db8_story.html?utm_term=.7f51ee7bc5d5

There’s nothing much sadder or more dreadful than cruelly bad health. We wish John McCain the best.

Negative again (David Ignatius) washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-cia-is-entering-a-danger-zone-heres-the-map/2017/07/25/e845890a-717a-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html?utm_term=.67a389f3c3fe  

Just when I thought Ignatius might stop trying to constrain President Trump, he’s back at it.

There may be propriety among writers and in the past there might have been propriety among journalists (I can’t name one today).

However, there is no such thing as propriety among presidents of the USA. Each one has to face the problems he or she admits to and deal with them to the best of their ability.

President Trump seems to have the ability to handle the reality he faces, and writers like Ignatius seem to be rushing in when they ought to let the chips fall.

I’d like the CIA helping President Trump.

 

Mayor Broome denials (Page 1A) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/baton_rouge_officer_shooting/article_56de145e-72fc-11e7-93c1-0b7a8fe96afa.html)

Perhaps the most interesting point in Reed’s recent statement: “Reed said he does not believe that a 9-1-1 call was ever made the night Sterling was killed, despite both EMS and the Department of Justice saying there were two calls.” See theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_c74b9674-726d-11e7-855b-1f6a8f56c1c6.html .

There’s an old saw: The perpetrator returns to the scene of the crime.

  

To Tom Robinson: It seems we can count on The Advocate to bury/neglect the interesting issues, but readers who pay attention (to what Andrea Gallo and Bryan Stole kindly reported for The Advocate) can keep track. Perhaps the most interesting point in Reed’s recent statement: “Reed said he does not believe that a 9-1-1 call was ever made the night Sterling was killed, despite both EMS and the Department of Justice saying there were two calls.” See theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_c74b9674-726d-11e7-855b-1f6a8f56c1c6.html .

There’s an old saw: The perpetrator returns to the scene of the crime.

Two questions: What motivates Reed’s interest in the 9-1-1 call(s), and why does he think he knows enough to question officials who cite the calls?

What does Mayor Broome know about Reed’s knowledge about the 9-1-1 calls? Is it all an AMO development arising from black church’s insistence on dialogues on racism? 

Is Together Baton Rouge, member of Alinsky’s Industrial Area Foundation (see industrialareasfoundation.org/affiliate-members#LA) the driver of hometown division? See industrialareasfoundation.org/content/history: “William F Buckley, Jr, a leading voice of thoughtful conservatism at the time, elevated Alinsky and the IAF to further prominence as he described IAF practice as “organizational near genius.” Mayor Broome stonewalls me, and TBR could not care less about my concerns---don’t respond to my messages.

I write about Alinsky-Marxist organization (AMO) frequently. If you are curious about it, I recommend D.L. Adams, “Saul Alinsky and the Rise of Amorality in American Politics,” 2010, online at newenglishreview.org/DL_Adams/Saul_Alinsky_and_the_Rise_of_Amorality_in_American_Politics/ . It seems to explain what America has experienced over the last five decades with roots from before. “While [Saul Alinsky’s son] relished the fact that Mr. Obama had learned his father’s "radical lessons," we should not be so sanguine. The anti-morality of Alinsky has brought our national political discourse to a breaking point. This is good for the true believers of Alinsky but bad for those who love liberty, democracy, and the future growth and stability of the United States and the prosperity and security of ourselves and our friends.”

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.