July 3, 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_13a3b640-5cdf-11e7-b1cf-73c380f9d16c.html)

I also agree with PAR and Gov. Edwards that limiting the power of legislators to add road projects is good for the people.

However, The Advocate’s tacit attempt to bemuse readers regarding DOTD budget is typically bad leadership. Gov. Edwards may take the necessary steps to 1) make the DOTD budget accessible to the people and 2) oversee DOTD operations so that maintenance fiascoes like reducing traffic on the LA 1 bridge at Port Allen in early spring 2017. See businessreport.com/article/la-1-bridge-closure-port-allen-causing-major-problems-west-side-business-industry. The governor’s action should be swift and thorough so that Louisiana’s No. 1, the people may trust the future respecting the DOTD budget.

With that prerequisite, Louisiana Legislators may motivate a bill dedicating funds to defined road improvements and increase the gas tax 20c/gal to pay for the defined improvements. The people need relief from the bad roads that imprison them. If feasible, a special session should be called.

Last but not least, I commend The Advocate to stop lobbying for increased taxes. Add to your standard editorial glossary the phrase “tax giveaways” or an equivalent you prefer, and every time you report on Louisiana budget problems, appeal to the Legislature and the Governor for relief from tax giveaways.

I’m no George Washington, but I quote his words if not thoughts in my appeal to The Advocate 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.”

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Revelation 4:2, CJB). “Instantly I was in the Spirit, and there before me in heaven stood a throne, and on the throne Someone was sitting.”

Dean says “God is still on the throne. Worship Him and Him alone.”

How is worship more essential than justice? I don’t trust worship.

We know from the evidence that God, whatever that is, left civic justice to willing people: Comprehensive safety and security is promoted neither by the clergy nor by politicians nor especially clergy-politician-partnerships.

Letters.

Well being  (Gaudet). (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_4eaf79c6-5cf4-11e7-b31c-dfba868e07c5.html)

To Scuddy LeBlanc: Med student Gaudet has commercial reasons to promote health care for customers. However, for his own life and loved ones, he may admit that for well-being, personal care is four times more effective than medical care.

The political divide is not between Republicans and Democrats. It’s between people who recognize the cost of living: personal care for well-being cannot be left to the public. The free-loading scheme won’t play so well once it is moved to the states and local governments, where the money does not come from “the cloud” of federal deficit spending.

Louisiana is wakening to this reality as I write, and as Louisiana citizens know, they cannot look to Louisiana government nor its God for civic justice. Citizens may take charge of their cost of living, including personal health, and I urge them to do so. At a 4:1 ratio, the cost of medical care is prohibitive when personal care pays the cost of living.

The Cost of opinion (Cole). (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_ac1bfe12-5cf0-11e7-8c22-57fabbf66257.html)

To Doug Johnson: I agree with Cole and Doug and moreover object to the cost and delay of this lawsuit.

Freedom of opinion and expression is indeed fundamental to being human.

However, both of these freedoms should be expressed in possession of integrity. Our court system needs to be reformed so that opposing parties are collaborating to discover the-objective-truth rather than establish dominant opinion.

My statement may seem strange to society, but society is an erroneous conflict for dominant opinion. This country is founded on a civic sentence that aims to discover the-objective-truth for civic justice, leaving personal opinion a private matter. That sentence is the preamble to the constitution for the USA, and it has been falsely labeled “secular,” whereas it leaves religion to individual privacy. I refer to privacy of the heart, closet, home, and church.

  

It is positive, revolutionary thought, but our judicial system should be reformed so that anyone who creates a lawsuit 1) is not heard if their complaint is based on erroneous opinion and 2) if the case goes to court, the plaintiff pays all costs if lack of integrity in their complaint is proven. Actually, it is not so revolutionary to think that a human should establish public integrity before they approach a judge. What’s revolutionary is a judicial system that claims the-objective-truth rather than opinion.

I’m sincere and work for comprehensive safety and security, as described by the preamble, every minute I can spare from personal, family, and neighbor time.

  

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

  

Flag wars (Froma Harrop). creators.com/read/froma-harrop/06/17/you-should-know-the-flag-is-not-a-rag

The entire column seems Harrop’s castigation of people who complain about other people’s use of the flag.

Flag controversy is a case of mistaken sovereignty. “We the People of the United States,” current citizens who trust and commit to the preamble to the constitution for the USA and collaborate to establish civic justice are in charge. According to the constitution, we are sovereign and dissenters are dissenters.

Covert dissenters are not disturbed, but overt dissenters may subject themselves to statutory law. For example, a priest who abuses a parishioner under the protection of canon law may suffer statutory law. A writer can write anything with impunity. However, publishing the writing makes the writer’s thoughts overt.

Harrop’s concluding thoughts, “the flag is not a rag,” and “I like a middle course,” suggests she is a liberal democrat. Robert Frost said you can detect them when they disclose that they can’t choose between their opinions.

I’ve been flying my flag for as long as I have been a homeowner, and no one has ever objected to my practices.

A dominant greed argument (Bernard Goldberg). newsok.com/article/5554319

I admire Thomas Sowell. However, the greed story may be viewed from history. In my opinion, the dominant side of the greed argument does not conform to the-objective-truth: The propriety of America’s aristocracy maintains the monopoly on greed (if my opinion is correct).

Led by America’s aristocracy, protection of the elite class was built into the constitution for the USA with politically correct wording. (That’s right: I contend that political correctness is not a new phenomenon.)

   

Greed arrogates Amendment V of the constitution for the USA:  “No person shall  . . . . be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Also, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life,_Liberty_and_the_pursuit_of_Happiness . Also, see the discussion at libertylawsite.org/2017/04/07/god-talk-and-americans-belief-in-inalienable-rights/ .

I contend that in civic justice, jobs that the people need or want must be paid wages that allow human living, which includes saving and investing for retirement. People who, for reasons such as not wanting to engage the risks of entrepreneurship, are satisfied to own those jobs, need not suffer poverty. This the labor vs management debate that Karl Marx discussed without resolution that prove out.

What may yet make America great is the possible end of many citizens’ neglect of the civic agreement stated in the preamble. A civic sentence, neutral to religion, was erroneously labeled “secular.” In 1863, a group proposed amendment of the preamble to acknowledge the Bible, and the amendment was rejected by a Congressional committee; see americanvision.org/3026/the-national-reform-association/ . A google ngram view shows periods of writing about the key issues, godless constitution, legislative prayer, and secular constitution. See books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=godless+constitution%2Clegislative+prayer%2Csecular+constitution&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cgodless%20constitution%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Clegislative%20prayer%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Csecular%20constitution%3B%2Cc0 . However, the purpose and aims of the preamble may be summarized as comprehensive safety and security, a goal that yet seems attainable if ever adopted.

Origins in sectarian Protestantism has empower the American elite to impose dominant opinion into American capitalism. However, the human being is too psychologically powerful to settle for anything but the American dream: public freedom-from oppression so that each individual may earn the liberty-to responsibly pursue the happiness he or she perceives during every moment of their life rather than the dictates of an ideology, civilization, or socio-economic class.

For the American dream to emerge, American capitalism needs tweaking so as to purge the gullibility on which elites defend greed.

I commend the leading economists to propose tweaking American capitalism so as to offer every newborn who is amenable to personal autonomy and collaborative association the civic justice on which to base a lifetime. As it is, the USA is satisfying socialist adults on the backs of newborns, as Goldberg suggests.

  

Salvation not a civic topic (Page 1A). theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_b9c466c6-5845-11e7-84f3-877b236efa19.html

The mayor and Metro-Council members who are dabbling with the “faith that unites them” are inviting constitutional challenge and perhaps moral woe on par with woe from the past.

Mayor Broome claims a unity that excludes me. My trust and commitment is in the-objective-truth. That means my “faith” is in whatever controls the unfolding of the universe rather than someone’s dictation, ancient, old, or new. I did not arrive here without challenges and will not again turn my back on the-objective-truth.

I invite Mayor Broome to meet me at an EBRP library, and extended my invitation to talk last fall. I am, after all a citizen with continually published ideas for an achievable, better future. Thanks to Steve Crump’s suggestion, I meet at libraries---a civic setting.

We know the Bible is erroneous, because it condones slavery. The-objective-truth informs humans that slavery is dehumanizing. If God is represented by the Bible, how is the question of slavery resolved? One theory is that God originated in Africa and favors black-skinned people. There are churches in Baton Rouge that preach this theory. Some say white-church is Satan; the only way a white person may save his or her soul is to help black Americans reign supreme. It’s a Marxist slant on soul salvation. Christianity forgives itself for erroneous interpretations from the past in order to provide believers hope for a favorable afterdeath perhaps more than a livable life.

Salvation of souls is not a civic topic, and people who attempt to mix salvation of soul with civic morality beg woe. As a Baptist, I worshipped in the Catholic Church with my family for fifteen years and never “went to mass,” because I did not want to commit blasphemy in MWW’s Church. I think blasphemy against other people’s personal hopes begs woe. However, blasphemy is a human construct and it is doubtful that any human construct conforms to the-objective-truth. I venture to say it is a certainty: No human construct for salvation of souls conforms to the-objective-truth---they are all hopes. If appreciated as personal hopes, they offer no harm to others. It does me no harm if my neighbor thinks God is red and is the spirit in the sky.

Moreover, there is a danger that the religion-politics-partnership such as the Jetson-Broome-partnership takes Greece v Galloway (2014) too far. The Supreme Court erroneously claims that citizens, like me, who object to legislative prayer on principles stated in the preamble, are niggling. That niggling dagger works both ways: people who take Greece as more than defense of a ceremonial tradition have no defense for their offense against the people. Supreme Court error is plain to everyone who reads it and may be corrected in the future.

The human being is too psychologically powerful to either impose or brook coercion, and the USA is at a nadir of dehumanization due to Christian imposition into civic justice. Sometimes, words are sufficient to inspire reform.

I look forward to another The Advocate feature on Mayor Broome's second major topic: dialogues on racism.

  

Global freezing (Page 8A). abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/harsh-winter-heavy-toll-wildlife-western-us-48403234

Humankind cannot control the earth’s atmosphere. However, there may be measures we can devise to protect wildlife---train them to seek shelter or something out of my expertise.

 

The preamble specifies a voluntary representative republic (Online). theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/elections/article_453c7736-601e-11e7-b7ec-9391c8cf59cd.html

The preamble to the constitution for the USA offers the agreement, "We the people of the United States," because we want comprehensive safety and security hereby establish and ordain a central government to serve the states.

The government so established is a republic, with several features to disrupt national democracy. The presidential election is based on majority vote in the states, but with accounting for the vote that is complicated; much as congressional acts are complicated by the House (representation by demography in the state and the nation) and the Senate (2 votes per state) and the presidential veto power. For the Electoral College, there's also 3 votes for Washington D.C.

The commission asking for this data is examining the presidential vote, not state votes, and I hope Louisiana will cooperate with a reasonable request or offer a better alternative that might be accepted by all states. Voter information is already public information.

The preamble divides the citizens of the USA into two camps: people willing to collaborate for the purpose and goals stated in the preamble vs dissidents. At this point, my state represents me as a dissident---against my trust and commitment to the preamble. I hope for relief from civic injustice.

Other forums 

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Stephen, to whom are you appealing and what action should they take?  

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.