July 7, 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 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 USA’s service to the people in their states.
On this statement, or their own paraphrase, citizens may perceive whether they are willing or dissident to the preamble.

  

Our Views (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_1dae8216-4572-11e7-987e-17aac9980507.html)

I can’t say I appreciate The Advocate’s reminder.

What I recall is a September, 2016 estimate of $8 billion loss, then woefully inadequate request, then delay in order to support a lawyer’s interests, then Gov. Edwards turning his back on the flood victims in favor of promoting the apparent Edwards-Vatican-partnership, then Edwards’ awful performance before Congress. I got the impression that it was alright with Edwards for other states in need to make their more knowledgeable and competitive statements. I thought Rep. Garrett Graves was incredulously dismayed yet reserved.

Philanthropy is a standard way to circumvent the will of the people. It persuades the people to say, “I like this,” even though they don’t understand they are picking their own pockets. Who would criticize Edwards for promoting his church partnership? Only a person who wants to collaborate for comprehensive safety and security for the people. Citizens experience such harm in the sanctuary movement. It empowers the elite to benefit from low wage workers, and the citizens pays on several levels, including public support---medical care, schools, driver's licenses, and voter registration---for the illegal aliens.

Many people think I am not sincere—some say an old man. However, everyone may read and understand the irony of Chapter XI Machiavellianism. See constitution.org/mac/prince11.htm. My paraphrase is: the religious people pay so the clergy-government-partnership can live high on the hog by picking the people’s pockets twice. Only a dreamer would imagine changing that way of living: It’s a tradition.

The people may have 2/3 of all citizens willingly collaborating for the comprehensive safety and security described in the preamble to the constitution for the USA. Once the willing know themselves, the dissidents in every civic association will be plainly discerned, and every responsible association may flourish in privacy. That includes the Vatican-Edwards-partnership when it does not interfere with Gov. Edwards’ duties to No. 1: The people of Louisiana. And that is true for every citizen: As long as personal associations do not diminish comprehensive safety and security the public is not concerned.

That being said, Louisiana may do all it came to help the flood victims from last year and prevent future expectable events.

  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Jonah 1:1,12, CJB). “The word of Adonai came to Yonah the son of Amitai: “Set out for the great city of Ninveh, and proclaim to it that their wickedness has come to my attention.” [Jonah tried to shirk the command and ended up in a boat in rough seas, lost the flip of a coin, then addressed the people on the ship.]  “Pick me up,” he told them, “and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you; because I know it’s my fault that this terrible storm has come over you.” 

Dean says “Jonah took responsibility for his sin. We should do the same.”

Guilt on the flip of a coin? Dean has to be kidding!

I discovered great chagrin when I tried to comply with the Great Commission. Anyone who strives for comprehensive safety and security obviously has personal motivation and inspiration I could not improve. For me to approach a neighbor to ask, “Are you saved?,” is anathema! I turned my back on such arrogance a couple decades ago. Dean can keep on, but against my best hopes for a better future.

Letters.

Vote against lawmakers (Schell). (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_c67427b4-61ad-11e7-97c4-63a740e26a4a.html)

Ray, I already posted that I am looking to replace my friend Sen. Claitor, because he does not admit to himself that his religion has no standing in public collaboration for comprehensive safety and security. It’s one thing to be a Christian yet another to try to impose Christian doctrine on public morality and statutory law. Note: it will take a better candidate to attract my vote, so there are no guarantees.

I have also posted that I apologize for my votes for Gov. Edwards and twice for Dardenne (without regret for helping defeat Vitter and the local GOP).

But your appeal “vote them out,” is too broad for me to take seriously.

Cause of Civil War (Chapman). ()

This is a response to a letter to the editor, "Williams contribution left out cause of war," Alex Chapman, The Advocate, July 7, 2017, page 6B.

The work of T. Harry Williams and Kenneth Stampp only serve as evidence that a person who wants to understand cannot rely on celebrity or scholarship to disclose evidences that should be considered. In other words, professors work hard to support their views. The Civil War informs us: When the-objective-truth is plain, the erroneous belief, "God is with us," begs woe.

A couple years ago, I witnessed as a citizen in a Louisiana Senate hearing on the proposal for a commission on monuments. I suggested that such committee maintain a timeline of reliable history. Such a timeline must be revised as new discoveries emerge. I was developing a timeline of slavery to support my posts in defense of preserving the New Orleans monuments as a reminder of humankind’s accomplishments.

From that work, I found evidence that the South is the victim of Bible canonization by the Church during the Roman era of 300 AD to 400 AD. The evil of African slavery was plain then, 1600 years ago, yet the Church found excuses for including books that condone African slavery in the Christian Bible.

  

This evil was exacerbated in 1454-1494 when the Church created the doctrine of discovery and authorized monopolies in African slave trade to first Portugal then Spain. The Protestant reformation failed to correct the evil of the Bible condoning African slavery. As a consequence three Protestant European nations helped populate the American colonies with African slaves.

Loyal English colonists on the Eastern seaboard of N. America realized that England was enslaving them for taxation and to oversee the African slaves for homeland benefits. From 1720 to 1774, colonists collaborated with loyal subjects in England for relief. In 1774, they changed their style from colonists to statesmen and started writing state constitutions. In April, 1775, a protested, standing British army and some continental militiamen fired guns at each other, and the American Revolution was, perhaps unintentionally, underway. The Continental Congress took charge of the war in May, 1775. In major disputes, such as declaring war, nine states had to agree. The Treaty of Paris, ratified in 1784, agrees that thirteen named states are free and independent.

Some loyalists moved to England, a few taking African slaves with them. The statesmen had the slaves and neither the means to return them to Africa nor to suddenly free them. Of course, economic viability after such a devastating war was binding to the statesmen.

After 4 years as independent states, eight with African slavery and five without, the states realized they could not survive as a confederation. The aristocrats of Virginia arrived at Philadelphia with a 17-point plan to form a nation. Rhode Island had suspected as much so did not send delegates. Emancipation was debated, but the best they could negotiate was the end of the slave trade after 20 years, partial representation of slave numbers in Congress, and to depend on future, better circumstances to motivate emancipation.

Failure of the constitution to include religion and the desire to preserve the confederation of states seemed to be points of dissension more than slavery was. Only 2/3 of delegates signed the draft constitution for the USA, leaving 1/3 dissidents. When the required nine states ratified the constitution with agreement to add a bill of rights, the USA suddenly existed, and four states had to consider joining. Their opportunity to influence ratification, other than to join and negotiate the Bill of Rights, had vanished. Two states joined in time to seat congressmen on March 4, 1789, and two delayed.

  

By 1861, the slave-states ratio had declined from 8:5 to 15:19; that is, from 1.60 to 0.8. Emancipation was inevitable, because the people are too psychologically powerful to inevitably tolerate injustice. However, clergy in the South, resisting the momentum for emancipation preached Bible interpretation that African slavery was a divine institution; with divinity on their side, how could the slave-states lose?

The declaration of secession states several issues that could be settled diplomatically but arbitrarily, religiously concludes 

“. . . the non-slaveholding States . .  have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery. Sectional interest and animosity will deepen the irritation, and all hope of remedy is rendered vain, by the fact that public opinion at the North has invested a great political error with the sanction of more erroneous religious belief.”

These unfortunate victims of 1500 years consequences of Church canonization fired on the USA, begging woe. At today’s population the proportional casualties would be 8 million Americans.

I want nothing beyond public integrity from the Church, but I hope Abraham Lincoln’s 1861 hope comes true: “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?”

I hope Chapman and others will comment on the evidence: The Church arrogance during canonization of the Bible led to the South’s fatal religious belief: If God is on our side . . . .

Some physicians promote medical care when personal care is more effective (O’Bryon). (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_b987da96-61b2-11e7-a966-e7737322bf2d.html)

Excellent lesson in economics.

Add the fact that, for well-being, personal care is more than four times more effective than medical care, and we have sound thoughts on which to establish a better future for the USA.  

Grateful for good teams (Bardwell). (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_f8b374ca-61b0-11e7-b0fa-4fd9cb0b277d.html)

Thank you, Bardwell for a great letter. The tigers had my family of four yelling for peanuts and cracker jacks, so it was indeed memorable and fun . . . despite. We are grateful to the whole team for a great experience.

Coach, even though coach, is part of the team. I do not envy his responsibility for a game plan. Time and again Coach Mainieri produces the best outcome for all, especially the players, and we appreciate it.

Speaking of team, it seemed the key to the Florida losses was bunting: They could and we wouldn’t.

  

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

  

Obsolete tools (Cal Thomas). calthomas.com/columns/positive-advice-for-the-president

Thomas confuses gamesmanship with wrath, words, and anger. (That’s what Bible mystery can do to a writer.) I’d be the last person to try to tell President Trump what to do with his spare time.

Success on values (George Will). washingtonpost.com/opinions/listen-up-millenials-theres-sequence-to-success/2017/07/05/5a4a8350-6011-11e7-a4f7-af34fc1d9d39_story.html?utm_term=.77b04a2831e0

This column reestablishes my regard for Will’s writing as well as my inability to read hid writing.

Regardless of all the considerations Will threw at me, I am enthusiastic to influence people to consider the formula: education, job, spouse, then children.

I am disappointed that Will did not interject improvements. Turn public education upside down so that it focuses on coaching the children to take charge or their acquisition of knowledge, comprehension, understanding, and intent to use the formula. Coach them through the awesome transition from informed to personal autonomy; to collaborative autonomy; to young adult who appreciates human psychological power; to monogamy with spouse, children, grandchildren and beyond; to fidelity to the achievable perfection of his or her unique person: personal happiness.

Suit against Gov. Edwards for conflict of interest? (Blaney). theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_013a4e8c-61a9-11e7-ad18-9b2ab59b595c.html

“Follow the money trail. Gov. John Bel Edwards has received $700,000 from the nursing home industry.”

“What an indictment: The governor, his LDH and the Legislature are inflicting confinement and neglect on thousands, out of what I can only interpret as greed and personal ambition. “

  

Mr. Blaney writes like a propagandists for Louisiana’s No. 1---the people.

Appreciation (Ignatius). washingtonpost.com/opinions/meet-these-brave-americans-in-syria/2017/07/03/00d74ffc-600b-11e7-a4f7-af34fc1d9d39_story.html?utm_term=.6015310eed3f

What an awesome column! So well written I could feel the well-being soldiers feel when they know they are winning, even though I do not know what it is like.

Thank you, David Ignatius.

Julie Stokes (Page 1A).  We are grateful for her service and wish her the best possible cancer care.

Gov. Edwards loser (Page 3A). theadvocate.com/article_471aac34-6295-11e7-9158-83eefa3e1633.html

The Advocate can be trusted to exercise freedom of the press in captioning this report that Landry’s lawsuit forced Edwards to pay the funds due and the suit need not go forwards.

I apologize again for my vote for Edwards. It won’t happen again. He taught me the virtue of “none of the above.” At least you don’t feel you contributed to the problem. I guess voting against Bobby Jindal twice and getting away with it lulled me to complacency.

Other forums 

libertylawsite.org/2017/04/07/god-talk-and-americans-belief-in-inalienable-rights/

The Declaration of Independence served its purpose: Thirteen states won individual independence, as stated in the Treaty of Paris, 1783. They tried to exist under their confederacy for four years, but realized they could not survive. Led by the Virginia aristocrats, they designed the world’s first governance of, by, and for the people (Abraham Lincoln, 1863). Led by George Washington, they codified his June 8, 1783 image of what it takes to be the country in the preamble written for signature on September 17, 1787.

Bluntly, the will to suggest that the Constitution is obsolete seems beyond strange. The Constitution is amendable as injustice is discovered and more promising statutory law is written. According to the civic agreement stated in the preamble, We the People of the United States, a willing people, is on an ineluctable march toward civic justice.

I doubt Einstein would agree with the assertion “Einstein dabbled in metaphysics,” and “believed in . . . God.” Einstein suggested that people who try to lie may beware: it does not take long for the-objective-truth to make itself known to the liar and anyone else present.

James Madison enjoyed his time, but would have been better informed if it had come after Einstein’s time.

Einstein’s general theory of relativity, 1905, was confirmed in 2016: nytimes.com/2016/02/12/science/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html, while Madison’s national construct seems arguably dysfunctional after 228 years’ operation. Of course, Madison cannot be blamed for the nation’s competition for dominant opinion when willing people could use the preamble and collaborate to discover the-objective-truth.

England’s standing army in the colonies was indeed an act of war, but the Declaration was the states’ proclamation to the world that they were either going to win independence from England or lose everything. They tacitly expressed, “Congress is equal to Parliament, and our God will beat the King’s God.” The states won the war, so justification became moot and remains so today.

Abraham Lincoln was not the first to interpret the declaration’s claims to authority, but his revisionism in order to overcome the constitution’s preservation of slavery without sponsoring an amendment is still influential. See Pauline Maier’s book, “Ratification,” 2010.

My friend Hugh and I surveyed synonyms for “comprehensive” and do not perceive a better choice. The phrase “comprehensive safety and security” refers to the purpose and aims stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA. Together the purpose and aims offer willing people the opportunity for freedom-from oppression so that each person may acquire the liberty-to pursue unique personal perfection (Emerson and his source), in a word, happiness.

We think writers in the past might not have left so much to the reader’s imagination had they used our semantic tricks or better: freedom-from (oppression) and liberty-to (choose). Freedom-from seems collaborative. For example, in “life, liberty and happiness,” is the meaning of “liberty” freedom-from oppression or liberty-to choose? If the latter, what is “happiness” to that author?

quora.com/Did-America-live-up-to-its-promise-of-liberty-and-equality-in-the-New-Republic-Why-or-why-not?

Given “promise of liberty and equality in the New Republic” and “why or why not” in a dialog with two parties, we have eight variables in a matrix of three options or 24 balls to juggle. I write to reduce the variables and hope you will respond in collaboration: That is, you speak and I clarify and offer my best response, then you speak and I listen.

In context, I don’t think of liberty, because it seems too vague. I think about “liberty-to,” which expresses opportunity for action or not—-passivity. In politics, I seek freedom-from oppression or tyranny. I do not seek freedom-from the-objective-truth, like hurricanes, yet try to acquire the liberty-to protect myself, family and property. I do not seek freedom-from collaboration for justice and work for the liberty-to discover and express viable options to reform injustice. I would not claim to know what the committee of five who penned the Declaration of Independence mean by “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness,” yet books have been written to “inform” me. I wonder what your “liberty” means.

I don’t think about equality, because I cannot imagine two equal ova: every ovum is unique, I think. I don’t care to consider uniqueness of spermatozoa. However, because every ovum is unique, every conception is unique. And, every natural conception faces the tests of physics viability. That is, the fundamental viability to survive the biological process of gestation and birth. I don’t know how many conceptions survive the eight day path to implantation. However, only about 1/3 make it to delivery. But some infants die within the first 30 days. Of the newborns that survive unto childhood, none are equal. However, every person in America has the opportunity to acquire the liberty-to breathe, to survive, and to grow their unique person.

I hope I have made my point: You may be specific about the “equality” you feel politics can offer or accept my thought that it is a personal responsibility and therefore not anything politics can offer beyond the opportunity afforded by freedom-from oppression.

“New Republic” is not a term I use at all. I googled the term and studied Urban dictionary’s “republic” but found no help. It makes no sense for me to guess what you mean by the New Republic.

In America, “promise” is offered to willing people in the civic agreement that is stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA. My paraphrase this morning is: Willing people in our state want the comprehensive safety and security described herein and therefore cultivate the constitution for the USA so as to serve willing people in all states. That agreement divides citizens into two groups: the willing and the dissidents.

Historical evidence points to 2/3 willing as the humanly achievable balance at this point in humanity’s progress. For example, during the period September 17, 1787 (12 states) through December 15, 1791 (14 states), 2/3 of states representatives authored, ratified, started operating, and completed the intention to add a bill of rights for the constitution for the USA. In a modern example, 2/3 of citizens oppose government-funded abortion for fun: nanny-state adults “slip-it-in” then kill the embryo. We work to motivate citizens to use the preamble to assure themselves comprehensive safety and security rather than whatever political power would impose on them.

I hope I have addressed your question and the why or why not. You may have some questions or oppositions. As you may observe, I want to collaborate and hope you like my response enough to do so.

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.