August 18, 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_bea1a69c-81ce-11e7-88dc-af3edf3fb81a.html)

Shame on The Advocate for blaming Jindal for Edwards’ failures. Edwards’ ill-advised Medicaid expansion could have taken a back seat to lessen the abuse of children.

I don’t see how Edwards accepts “DCFS is implementing a four-part improvement plan for the foster care program, which includes workforce stabilization, upgrading parent resources, caring for youths who age out of the program and a technology upgrade meant to streamline efforts.” Sounds lame to me.

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Malachi 2:17, CJB)

“For I hate divorce," says ADONAI the God of Isra'el, "and him who covers his clothing with violence," says ADONAI-Tzva'ot. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and don't break faith. 

You have wearied ADONAI with your words. Yet you ask, "How have we wearied him?" By saying that anyone who does wrong is good from ADONAI's perspective, and that he is delighted with them; or by asking, "Where is the God of justice?"

Dean says “Unfortunately we live in such a day today. Lord, help us.”

In 1861, Abraham Lincoln said ultimate justice comes from the people rather than theism or government. I think he was correct, and Dean errs.

Letters

Ultimatum (Knowles) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_06dafe28-8368-11e7-b19c-5f1ba26353fa.html)

  

To Ned Fred: What a silly ultimatum Knowles wrote: “the white-Power/Nazi hate groups, the people who stand up against them, or the good Germans who keep their heads down. Choose.”

I say, constrain hate groups by giving them a permit. Opposing citizens stay home while the haters identify themselves and express their hopes, evil as they may be.

Concomitantly, if my group applies for a permit to promote trust-in and commitment-to the preamble to the constitution for the USA, grant us the same protections granted collectivist-democrats or Alinsky-Marxist organizers (AMO) or rainbow groups or the infamous Together Baton Rouge, whose "philanthropy" I'm still suffering.

  

Chairman of the board (O’Quin)

(theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_ac31fad6-8366-11e7-b08d-8f4b9d804a30.html)

My view is that Baton Rouge deserves better friends.

I knew that my children went to the Baton Rouge Zoo on school field trips and never heard complaints. But never was there an event that attracted me. Yet my wife and I, during our past decades, attended the Swamp Fest for music, dancing, and Louisiana arts at the Audubon Zoo --- both days many years. Some of our purchases hang in our AB Crochet corner.

I’m glad I am not the author of implied intention for slow demise. I had no idea my five decades of supporting BREC taxes was a mere supplement to “our philanthropic community.”

I see philanthropists as opportunists. They devise ways to get a big share of the huge expenditures public services such as parks and recreation generate. In this case, land and other capital interests are at stake. Within their society, taking advantage of our tax bills is “the socially right thing to do.” I’d rather have a piece of the social pie coming from my civic expenses.
 

Without more information that reflects public integrity rather than coercion by “philanthropists,” I oppose moving the zoo.

  

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Immoral writing (Stephanie Grace) 

(theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/stephanie_grace/article_27a94828-836b-11e7-8ed0-cf658f2631d3.html)

I normally skip Grace, but “Kip Holden” out of place and time caught my eye. He’s that community-building mayor that served Baton Rouge so well for 12 years and who in one morning got pushed aside by the grandstanding Governor John Bell Edwards. Edwards convicted two of Holden’s police officer’s on sight --- no review; no indictment; just the governor’s conviction on TV. Even worse events followed:  unbelievable misery and loss.

Now Grace trashes Holden’s graceful admission he’d been usurped by higher power in order to life up the disgraceful Mitch Landrieu of the infamous “I don’t know where [Civil War disputes] will end, but I know where it will start.”

When it comes to civic morality, most media writers in America today are simply immoral. It has been happening over the past five decades.

Indignity (Froma Harrop) dentonrc.com/opinion/columns/2017/08/16/froma-harropwomen-refuse-dishes-cads-buffet

Collective democracy has taken many people so far from fidelity to their person that indignity is hardly a consideration. The losses and misery just keep mounting as dehumanization progresses.

And Harrop tries to make a buck by promoting elect-female opportunists in competition with a male entrepreneur. The three entities make for an amusing gaggle of egocentricity.

Bemusement (E. J. Dionne) sj-r.com/opinion/20170815/ej-dionne-after-charlottesville-end-denial-about-trump

Dionne and other career writers have always been free to elaborate on the evil of American theism, but they have used their careers for other purposes.

It was addressed from 1720 through 1776 by many American writers, perhaps the most famous being Thomas Paine, in “African Slavery in America,” 1775, online at constitution.org/tp/afri.htm.

About the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, Frederick Douglass said in 1852, “the power to hold, hunt, and sell men, women, and children as slaves remains no longer a mere state institution, but is now an institution of the whole United States. The power is co-extensive with the Star-Spangled Banner and American Christianity.”

When Emperor Constantine ordered the Church to canonize a Bible with which he could control pagans, the Church egregiously included books that condone slavery, even though the physical and psychological evil of slavery was well known. Many people today believe the Bible is the Word, and the only mystery is: “What race is to be slaves?”

Dionne and others, who bid for the responsibility to maintain an informed public, instead do everything they can to suppress the Church’s prime responsibility for the consequences of the African slave trade. There need be no retribution beyond admission and contrition. Regardless, the people need to be informed about the facts, despite media-writers like Dionne.

I hope President Trump will bring the historical facts to the world’s attention.

Cute (Dana Milbank) sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/13/dana-milbank-democrats-must-beware-of-berning-out/

When you hope for civic morality, it is difficult to appreciate a writer abusing someone’s name to be cute.

The Democrats have counted on identity politics for many decades, and it has drawn them so far from republicanism they may not be able to find their way back.

But they have made one thing clear: collective democracy is about as evil as politics can get.

President Trump, in digging American republicanism out of the swamp cannot depend on the GOP, the DNC, or the Libertarians. Elected officials must be forced to collaborate for comprehensive safety and security by people who are willing to trust and commit to the purpose and goals stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA rather than combat each other for dominant opinion. With that way of living, dissidents who cause real harm are easily identified and constrained.

Other forums 

libertylawsite.org/2017/08/18/the-truth-seeking-american/

I appreciate Dr. Moffit’s post. Yesterday, “objective truth” drew my attention (libertylawsite.org/2017/08/17/public-meaning-trumpism/), and today, it’s “truth-seeking.”

The definition, “Truth is the conformity of the mind with reality,” may imply that truth requires thought. I trust and am committed to the-objective-truth, of which most is undiscovered and some is understood. In other words, the-objective-truth exists whether humankind exists or not. The-objective-truth exists where intellect does not exist.

Moffit’s comments on The American Republic are of most interest to me. Words and phrases like political authority, civil society, free and equal sovereigns, secession, states . . . sovereign, and sovereign citizens reflect a lack of appreciation for the preamble to the constitution for the USA.

I paraphrase the preamble: willing people in our states, because we want the goals and purpose stated herein, establish and cultivate the amendable laws and institutions of the USA.

With this understanding, individuals who do not want the civic agreement --- dissenters --- may leave the nation but cannot divide it. Facing the threat, Abraham Lincoln said that ultimate justice comes from the people (rather than theism or civil order).

The preamble has been erroneously labeled “secular,” but it is neutral to the individual’s source of inspiration and motivation. It offers the opportunity to acquire the liberty to pursue personal preferences rather than what someone else may have in mind for the person’s life.

The preamble is a civic agreement for comprehensive safety and security, a culture within which every actual no harm society and individual may flourish. Even the recluse may flourish in peace. Each social order conforms to the-objective-truth, and thereby, a civic order is possible.

Moffit made a strong case for the justice of inequality among individuals:  “there is inequality, therefore injustice,” does not seem consistent with either Moffit's statement or the-objective-truth.

We perceive that Americans suffer today from five decades’ dominance by collective democracy, a cooperation by factional minorities that James Madison was concerned about in Federalist 10. By neglecting fidelity to the-objective-truth, people dehumanize their own lives. No person governs another person, but dissidents who do actual harm suffer the law.

Both federalism and republicanism, or the rule of just laws, seem essential to the subject of the constitution: We the People of the United States who trust and commit to the preamble.

  

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