July 9, 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_ce953e08-5c06-11e7-867f-67fb75c5c999.html)

To Scuddy Leblac:

Also, The Advocate seems like the home-town enemy.

I’m reminded of the Clinton-Lynch-Comey lesson about public integrity. Comey: I will be forced to talk about the Clinton investigation. Lynch: True, but just don’t call it “investigation.” Honestly nanny-state Comey: I was surprised by Lynch’s instruction but didn’t know what to do.

Threatening the end of Saturday night in Tiger stadium, Edwards instigates and the legislature approves the nation’s highest sales tax with a 2018 termination. The Advocate: True, but just don’t call it “one-time money to pay for recurring expenses.”

And what are the recurring expenses? Expendable expenses are the unrewardng giveaways to special interests. The Advocate: Let’s just stonewall giveaway terminations; harp on service reductions to promote tax increases.

The Advocate may defend the governor in his failures to make Louisiana’s people No. 1.

(Why didn’t the governor appeal to the public for a gas-tax increase and DOTD budget reform, as I did.)

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Proverbs 29:25, CJB). “Fearing human beings is a snare; but he who trusts in ADONAI will be raised high [above danger].” 

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

  

States rights? (James Gill). theadvocate.com/new_orleans/opinion/james_gill/article_22dc1a0c-6262-11e7-a595-5b35635cc2b9.html  

The USA promises the people in their states a representative republic. While the states have separate constitutions, the USA has several features to defend the republic against democracy—whether mob rule or collective mobs, like conflict for chaos as Alinsky-Marxist organizers (AMO) try to nourish.

President Obama’s administration created the alarm that Russia influenced the presidential election to favor Donald Trump. In other words, the Electoral College, hacking removed, elected Hillary Clinton president! Thus, the DNC opines that the nation’s voting system is suspect.

The Democratic Party is substantially supported by liberal democrats, and Robert Frost said you can detect them as people who can’t choose the personal opinion they will support. In another word, they want to play and you to pay their bill. But producing evidence rather than opinion is an outrageous idea to people who are dissident to the preamble.

The preamble offers willing people the opportunity for civic morality; comprehensive safety and security; public integrity: In other words, happiness. Because the preamble states the purpose and aims of the USA, every word that follows and every legislative act, every court decision, every administrative action and every media report should strive to conform to the preamble. 

History shows that there will always be dissidents, and the preamble distinguishes the willing. I view Gill as a dissident.

As of today, Louisiana seems a federal dissident. And they are denying my opportunity to trust-in and commit-to the civic people, as defined by the preamble. SOS Schedler is protecting the dissidents, and I object.

Harmful to Louisiana (Sadow). theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/jeff_sadow/article_45d57ad8-61b5-11e7-b3e3-fff20b337ea5.html

Gov. Edwards may grasp that he perhaps guessed wrong to assume that the federal money tree on the backs of America’s children would continue indefinitely. Edwards erred to expand Louisiana Medicaid.

Now, he is personally responsible for a horrendous mistake. But he may admit it to himself and take action reverse the harm he has done.

The image of the lady tied to the railroad track with a freight-train bearing down on her comes to mind. Edwards may remain the villain.

Upstaging the preamble (Michael Gerson). newsok.com/article/5555076

A civic people may consider yet resist erroneous influence such as Gerson’s column on “founding ideals,” based on the Declaration of Independence. America is psychologically stronger than the Declaration.

America may emerge great if most citizens willingly trust and commit to the preamble to the constitution for the USA rather than religions such as passion for “equality.” Equality assumes universal termination of dissent against the-objective-truth as civic justice. Collaboration for comprehensive safety and security for willing people was not possible before the USA emerged on June 21, 1788, 12 years after the Declaration. The civic agreement stated in the preamble remains neglected after 229 years’ opportunity. Reverence for the Declaration exacerbates the neglect.

People in the USA have perhaps unique opportunity to be great, but not because of the confederation of states. Those thirteen eastern seaboard states during 1720 – 1765 debated England enslaving them for both taxation and to be overseers for African slaves placed here by colonizers. Colonists debated how to win their independence while emancipating the slaves, without resolution. They could not imagine either sudden emancipation or returning the slaves to Africa.

Nevertheless, twelve colonies met in 1774 and wrote an official request for relief from colonial rule. With so many decades’ discussion already fruitless, colonies also began to write state constitutions. They changed their style from loyal colonists to independent statesmen. Soon, gunshots rang in a dispute with the unwanted standing British army. The war was officially underway in April 1775.

  

In 1776, statesmen wrote a declaration of independence tacitly claiming that Congress, for the states, was equal to Parliament and the king, for England. Also, they tacitly asserted that their god, “Nature and Nature’s God,” would defeat the king’s god. People often promote religious error with the actual statements in the Declaration. Nevertheless, in 1784, the states ratified the Treaty of Paris, which asserts that thirteen named colonies are free and independent states.

Four years later, delegates from twelve states proposed to establish a nation, the USA, predicated not on the states but on the people. On June 21, 1788, nine states (2/3 of the 13) ratified the preamble and the draft constitution for the USA. The only sentence therein that is not amendable is the preamble, a civic agreement by willing citizens.

After that day, ratifying constitutions in the laggard states---Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island---were relatively moot to specifying anything but the Bill of Rights. Yet, the four later joined the USA without objection. Vermont also joined in time to count in ratification of the Bill of Rights, completing the negotiated specification of the USA on December 15, 1791.

The 1787 preamble divided delegates, for example who wanted the union of states rather than the people in their states, and thereafter divides citizens into two groups: The willing vs dissidents. Dissidents, for their reasons resist the-objective-truth; often they are misled by dissident religious institutions. Revisionists such as Abraham Lincoln and Michael Gerson, don’t trust that willing people are on an ineluctable march toward civic justice. In civic justice, there is no place for more erroneous religious beliefs.

Ironically, some of my thoughts are based on views of statements by Abraham Lincoln. My only explanation for the anomaly, beyond my ignorance, is the possibility that Lincoln was politically ambitious yet dissident to the preamble. (Somebody who thinks I’m wrong please inform me about a view closer to the-objective-truth.)

President “Trump is flat-out wrong” (Robertses). cjonline.com/opinion/columns/2017-06-28/steve-and-cokie-roberts-true-american-spirit

There have been classic dissidents against the USA as specified by the preamble to the constitution. The USA was established on June 21, 1788, when nine states decided to put into operation the world’s first nation to be managed of, by, and for the people rather than the states.

Patrick Henry, famous for “Give me liberty or give me death,” March 23, 1775, declined to serve Virginia as a delegate to the 1787 constitutional convention. Then, he helped make Virginia a laggard in it’s state ratification, holding out for “We the States,“ rather than “We the People of the United States,” as the party willing to trust-in and commit-to the preamble’s civic morality ragardess of 1/3 dissidence. Henry wanted to hang-on to the Confederation of States.

Henry was a 1788 dissident, who had a hand in Virginia ironically joining the USA rather than helping establish it.

The Robertses, with their “flat-out wrong” are 2017 dissidents. What harm are they begging? Is it trivial, like having to join, or not so trivial?

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.