July 4, 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_f216b6de-5b68-11e7-b5e6-cbfea38be616.html)

“The political divides now frustrating our national life” pale before the Civil War. Casualties proportional to today’s population might be 8 million people.

The Civil War might have been averted if a super-majority of the people had trusted-in and committed-to the purpose and goals stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA: comprehensive safety and security so that willing people may responsibly pursue private interests.

Coming to grips with wrongful practices such as slavery is never easy when some people benefit from the evil.

However, the neglectful super-majority knew from the physics of slavery---chains et.al---that it was wrong. Had they been true to the preamble, they might have said to their state representatives, “Not on my watch will you secede from the USA. You will arrange for orderly emancipation of the slaves.”

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Revelation 4:11, CJB). "You are worthy, ADONAI Eloheinu, to have glory, honor and power, because you created all things yes, because of your will they were created and came into being!"”

Dean says “We were created by God for God. This is the bottom line.”

The writer, John, expresses a judgement of God. That’s OK for John, but I would not go there. I do not know enough to attempt such evaluations. I don’t know the objective truth and accept that reality.

Louisiana wants a $5,000 fee from my USA for my voter info (Page 1A). 

theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/elections/article_453c7736-601e-11e7-b7ec-9391c8cf59cd.html

As some readers know, I work to understand the opportunity to personally trust and commit to the preamble to the constitution for the USA. I think civic justice emerges from the preamble, but erroneously slowly.

I pondered what might have happened if, in 1860, at least 2/3 of the citizens of South Carolina had not neglected the perpetual commitments stated in the preamble. What if they had contacted their state representatives and said, "Not on my watch will you secede from my country!"?

Because the subject of the preamble is "We the People of the United States," and whereas Louisiana is one of the states, and whereas under federalism the states are in charge of presidential elections, I commend Louisiana to furnish my voter information and all of the rest of the data pertinent to state obligations in national elections. I make this request as a sovereign citizen and a person.

To Dennis Dupuy: Philanthropists in the sanctuary movement advise illegal aliens to obtain fake documents for voter registration. How well does Louisiana vet voter registrations?

To Scuddy LeBlanc:  Voter facts for the 2016 race are interesting. Maybe Roy Fletcher or Jim Ingster will tell us what they mean.

Louisiana, with 4.671 million population has 2.977 million voter registrations or 64%. See sos.la.gov/ElectionsAndVoting/Pages/RegistrationStatisticsStatewide.aspx and download the latest file. With 72.7% age 18 and above, that’s 87.7% registration. See infoplease.com/us/comprehensive-census-data-state/demographic-statistics-144 .

Donald Trump won 58.1% of Louisiana votes cast, with 67.8% voter turnout, 2.029 million voters (voterportal.sos.la.gov/Graphical). So, Trump won 39.4% of registered voters.

Now, here’s the kicker: registered voters are 44.1% Democrat, 30.1% Republican, and 25.8% other. Thus, more than 24% of Trump’s vote was from non-Republican registrants.

Here’s the racial breakdown from the registration statistics cited above (white, black, and other, respectively):

                        W            B        O

Democrats:   41.4,       55.2,    3.4

Republicans  93.7,         2.5,    3.8

Other party    67.5,      23.4,    9.1.

 

Louisiana giveaways to BRAF with no input from the people (Page 1A). 

theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/business/article_fc7d93e2-5f44-11e7-9aa3-b72d78ac5138.html

Thank you, The Advocate for doing your job: Informing citizens so that we may object to boondoggles like this capital loss in a hurry in order to offer cancer treatment at $32,428 rather than $18,375! The people behind this are standing on a chair and putting a neck in a noose; however, the neck is that of the people of Louisiana---all for profits to BRAF and doctor groups. Of course I know nothing---am just connecting the dots.

Not only that, this highlights the reason so many doctors are writing letters to the editor in support of Medicaid and ACA. Federal funding for medical care makes no sense and is out of control, and the beneficiaries are the doctors.

And you, The Advocate, correctly alert us to the handwriting on the wall: The federal gravy train is about to end. The states will hold the bags they create.

This just shows how out of touch I am about Louisiana State giveaways to private enterprise such as BRAF and hospitals and doctor coalitions. I will send this to my representatives with a request for relief. If necessary, re-write the state constitution to stop the Legislature and Governor plundering the people.

I am outraged, and in the coming Legislative sessions I do not want to see debates about new taxes or departmental cut backs. I want focus on ending giveaways.

Get the state budget in order by cutting back failing giveaways. Allow new business to choose Louisiana because of Louisiana assets. Let other states have the new business on giveaways. And stop favoring BRAF’s capital accumulation and high salaries. Let the executives who are picking Louisiana people’s pockets go to other states and ply their trade.

To JT McQuitty: I read the quote once and it did not make sense, unless it means that a civic people do not need government.

If so, I agree, and Matt Ridley makes that point unforgettably in his book advertised at rationaloptimist.com . It’s one of my favorite reads of the past couple years.

Hobby Lobby dissonance (Page 5A) milled.com/hobby-lobby/our-message-god-bless-america-G4vrmEMubiaCv9rK

The mistakes of the past may instruct us for the future. There is an achievable, better future with trust-in and commitment-to the people: reserve their Gods for private pursuits rather than civic justice. Abraham Lincoln realized that need facing the Civil War: “Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?”

Quoting Psalms, from the third section of the Hebrew Bible, represents dissonance against the preamble to the constitution for the USA, an agreement by willing people to collaborate for comprehensive safety and security rather than contend over religion. Regarding religion, the preamble is neutral rather than secular. The preamble leaves religion to privacy---personal beliefs neither imposed nor disparaged in public discourse.

In 1788, June 21, when nine states had ratified the constitution for the USA, the free citizens in the thirteen states were 99% secular Protestant and 5% could vote. In 2017, only 14.7% practice the 1787 secular Protestant traditions and 100% of non-criminals may vote. The largest religious faction, the more than 23% non-religious citizens, are now the majority in America, the next largest group is the Catholics, at 20.8% (pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/).

Not only for the USA, but for humankind, one of the worst events in history was the canonization of the Christian Bible. (It contends with the Hebrew Bible.) The Catholic Church’s work happened in the era 300 AD to 400 AD. The offenses against the-objective-truth are abundant in both Bibles, but among the worst is passages that condone slavery. The-objective-truth about slavery is plain: chains, whips, brutality, and rape to slaves with physical burdens to masters and psychological burdens to owners. The point is, both Bibles conflict with the-discovered-objective-truth (maybe there’s more to come).

Many slavery passages are overt, but some are subtle. For example, pretend that you are master and I am your slave whom you sent to English class and now you are teaching me “in the faith” and reading 1 Timothy 6:1-16, CJB. See if you experience the horror I perceive. Read aloud to me, your slave, in Sunday school with you my master. It’s a long passage that ends, “Amen.”

Those who are under the yoke of slavery should regard their masters as worthy of full respect, so that the name of God and the teaching will not be brought into disrepute. And those who have believing masters are not to show them less respect on the ground that they are brothers; on the contrary, they should serve all the more diligently, since those benefiting from their service are believers whom they love. Teach and exhort people about these things.

If anyone teaches differently and does not agree to the sound precepts of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah and to the doctrine that is in keeping with godliness, he is swollen with conceit and understands nothing. Instead, he has a morbid desire for controversies and word-battles, out of which come jealousy, dissension, insults, evil suspicions, and constant wrangling among people whose minds no longer function properly and who have been deprived of the truth, so that they imagine that religion is a road to riches.

Now true religion does bring great riches, but only to those who are content with what they have. For we have brought nothing into the world; and we can take nothing out of it; so if we have food and clothing, we will be satisfied with these.

Furthermore, those whose goal is to be rich fall into temptation; they get trapped in many foolish and hurtful ambitions which plunge them into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all the evils; because of this craving, some people have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves to the heart with many pains.

But you, as a man of God, flee from these things; and pursue righteousness, godliness, faithfulness, love, steadfastness, gentleness. Fight the good fight of the faith, take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you testified so well to your faith before many witnesses.

I charge you before God, who gives life to all things, and before the Messiah Yeshua, who in his witness to Pontius Pilate gave the same good testimony, to obey your commission spotlessly and irreproachably until our Lord Yeshua the Messiah appears.

His appearing will be brought about in its own time by the blessed and sole Sovereign, who is King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone is immortal, who dwells in unapproachable light that no human being has ever seen or can see - to him be honor and eternal power. Amen.

I do not need to be poor for the above passage to convict the taking of my labor by force. Either discovered civic justice is correct or the Bible is correct. If it be the Bible, then the struggle as to who is to be master and who slave may not be over.

We’re informed from mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosomes that everyone alive today is a descendant of people in Africa some 80 thousand to 140 thousand years ago. Some people regard Africa as the Mother Continent and the source of God. Since God is made in man’s image, God is black. Thus, it’s only a matter of time until black Americans will reign supreme. The only way a white person may redeem their soul is to help the events emerge. The prayer, “God Bless America,” is a prayer for black supremacy.

I express these ideas only to say that there are many differing hopes based on Bible interpretation. The interpretations from the era dating from 1765 during which colonists changed their style to statesmen and declared independence from England in 1776, ratified in 1784 the Treaty of Paris naming 13 states as free and independent, held a convention that produced the preamble and draft constitution for a nation to be governed of by and for the people in their states, then nine of thirteen states ratified the constitution, establishing the USA on June 21, 1788 do not hold in light of the Civil War.

The Civil War settled once and for all that Bible passages that condone slavery are wrong. Such passages should not have been included in the canonization of the Bible. Thus, the men who canonized the Bible were wrong to include those passages. Of course, I am only writing about history as I know it and know nothing about the future.

In a civic culture, for example, the culture based on trust-in and commitment-to the purpose and aims stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA, there is no need to correct scripture. However there is every need to keep private those passages that conflict with civic morality. By private I mean in the heart, in the closet, in the home, and in religious association. Virginia aristocrats like Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington just did not take wrong passages seriously.

When the preamble was written, in the days leading to September 17, 1787, there was dissonance, and one point of contention was “We the People of the United States,” rather than the subject “We the United States,” for the preamble. Only 2/3 of delegates signed the final draft, leaving 1/3 dissidents.

  

There have always been dissidents, and it is important for each citizen to know where they stand regarding trust-in and commitment-to the preamble: willing or dissident.

France buys from Iran (Page 6A) abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/iran-signs-5b-gas-deal-frances-total-chinese-48412622

Reaping the harm of President Obama’s deal with Iran.

  

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.