October 2, 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:  We the willing people of nine of the thirteen United States commit to and trust in the purpose and goals stated herein --- integrity, justice, collaboration, defense, prosperity, liberty, and perpetuity --- and to cultivate limited services by the USA, beginning on June 21, 1788.

Composing their own paraphrase, citizens may consider the actual preamble and perceive whether they are willing or dissident toward its agreement.   

Our Views (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_5353234c-9ce6-11e7-9c85-3bd16d7975cb.html)

Second trigger warning.

When the caption offers promise for today's people, but the essay advertises commercial interest and a political bias, the reader may assume the press has the hubris to extend its agenda because it can --- despite obligations to be responsible.

At the very least, the caption could have had the humility to choose “may” rather than “can.” Hubris won that decision, assuming there was consideration.

The choice of “can” influences me to think this was a commercial for Ron Chernow’s book and somebody’s play, which interprets the book to tout liberal democracy.

In a more representative historical account, Hamilton was a champion for an American monarchy and British common law and thereby was a bitter enemy of Thomas Jefferson, a fiscal conservative and personal liberal who championed self-governance by the people, or civic morality, or the intent of the 1787 draft constitution for the USA, with its politically pivotal preamble for the people.

Thank goodness, Jefferson prevailed and won the presidency, upsetting John Adams, Hamilton’s partner in monarchy, in 1800. In other words, American republicanism, the rule of statutory law, defeated liberal democracy in 1800.

The Advocate seems to have taken sides it thinks will further its business plan rather than choosing free and responsible journaling. Of course, I don’t know --- can only claim my opinions.

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Psalms 7:14,-16, CJB)

“God is a righteous judge, a God whose anger is present every day. Look how the wicked is pregnant with evil; he conceives trouble, gives birth to lies. He makes a pit, digs it deep, and falls into the hole he made. His mischief will return onto his own head, his violence will recoil onto his own skull.”

Dean says “Don’t try to hurt others. You will only hurt yourself.”

David’s emotions and Dean’s blasphemy dole out mystery about the human reality: personal intentions pay back in kind, or what goes down comes around, or a person reaps what he or she sows, or live and let live; the list of aphorisms goes on. Dean does make that point, but out of context.

I trust and am committed to the reality that is plain to all humans rather than mysteries dreamed up by David and promoted by Dean. As some people know, I think fidelity to the-objective-truth offers success, whereas fidelity to what someone imagined threatens failure --- begs woe.

I am not alone in this way of thinking.

  

Letters

Willing people are good (Bienvenu) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_5e7ef3f6-9fe6-11e7-ad47-575eef8d833d.html)

I met Bo in the late 1970s when a circle of friends interested us in Cajun-French music and dancing. Bo was president of the CFMA, which we belonged to in the decades before literal dancing lost viability.

I admire Bo and his legacy of civic morality expressed through letters to the editor. I nominate this letter as the all-time best Bo Bienvenu expression and look forward to more.

I always thought Bo was more positive than me. For example I think only 2/3 of people are willing to forego some personal advantages for the overall good. That’s 67% compared to Bo’s 90%.

Examples abound. Whereas the nation is divided on abortion issues, 2/3 oppose abortion for fun (MWW’s phrase). President Trump received majority vote in 84% of US counties but in only 1.7 thirds of the Electoral College. A Reuter’s pole shows 1.74 thirds of Americans think NFL players should be required to stand for the National Anthem, without official enforcement, such as firing. See usnews.com/news/ken-walshs-washington/articles/2017-09-27/poll-majority-doesnt-think-nfl-players-should-be-punished-for-anthem-protests .

The case for 90% of the people collaborating for the overall good is not evident. I think that is because American political regimes have failed to promote a view of the overall good that can sustain a nation unto survival: there’s too much emphasis on theism. To establish and maintain a view of the common good that a 2/3 majority can behold as convincing requires a free and responsible press, which this country has never had.

With a responsible press, most Americans would know about the four pillars necessary for a nation that might survive, spoken and written by George Washington on June 8, 1783, three months before the treaty recognizing thirteen free and independent states would be negotiated in Paris.

With a responsible press, most Americans would know that on June 21, 1788, the USA was established by nine of the thirteen states, leaving four free and independent states who had registered their dissidence to the people’s trust and commitment stated in the preamble.

With a responsible press, most Americans would know that on March 4, 1789, the first Congress was seated by ten states, with three still dissident, and that sixteen months would pass before all thirteen had ratified the draft constitution that was ratified on June 21, 1788.

The press is making a big deal out of the coverage of lies that represents Vietnam. I might create a review of America’s lying press. Yet I think promoting the 2/3 of the people who want comprehensive safety and security, perhaps following George Washington’s 1783 pillars is a higher priority.

  

The criminal’s shoes (Larson)

(theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_6ffcc210-9fe7-11e7-bb92-dfc92811569f.html)

Racialism is a crime against civic morality. Some dissidents think crime pays. Larson’s edict, “There’s no room for discrimination,” makes no sense. I discriminate against civic immoralities, such as crime and racialism.

The idea of “walking another human’s path,” relates to civic understanding and civic justice. Most people want comprehensive safety and security or civic morality. The idea is for each human to responsibly pursue the happiness he or she wants rather than the social order someone would impose on them.

To achieve a civic culture requires the rule of statutory law that steadily reforms so as to conform to justice. With justice, the people divide themselves into two groups: humans willing to collaborate for civic justice versus dissidents. American republicanism offers, in the civic contract that is the preamble to the constitution for the USA, a path to comprehensive safety and security. That’s the path that may guide most of us so as to assure victory over dissidence toward civic morality.

Statues (Oelkers) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_50fdb486-9fe8-11e7-8416-d36a10df987e.html)

Perhaps a standard world view is that slavery has economic origins and bases. Slaves were Africa’s bitter fruit. However, in this land, the task remains to reform more erroneous Christian beliefs.

The economic justification could have been rejected by the Catholic Church when Constantine ordered its scholars to canonize a Bible with which he could control the pagans in the Roman Empire. In 325 AD, the physics of African slavery was plain to the Church:  Chains, whips, brutality and rape to slaves, physical and psychological burdens to masters, and guilt to owners.

  

Yet papal bulls in the fifteenth century granted first to Portugal then to Spain, monopolies on African slave trade. Slavery would assist colonizing the Americas for God. Subsequently, Protestant kings mimicked “discovery” and African slave placement in competition with the Church.

As a consequence, the clergy in 1850s America in the South, touted African slavery as an institution of God. Politicians in some southern states, led by South Carolina, wrote a declaration of secession asserting that the economic issues could not be settled diplomatically, because politics in the North was influenced by a “more erroneous religious belief.”

The Civil War was started by more erroneous white Christianity, as evidenced by their declaration of secession and by the military outcome. A 27-state majority overpowered an erroneous 7-state minority, who expected their Christian god to defeat the enemy’s Christian god. Abraham Lincoln stated all the issues, perhaps excluding the military odds.

Putting them in proper perspective, Civil War monuments should be preserved and affixed with suitable plaques as journals to the-objective-truth. Only then may a civic people address the real issues, resolve to reform, and start the path toward civic morality.

 

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

  

Restore one vote per human citizen (George Will) (washingtonpost.com/opinions/will-the-supreme-court-plunge-into-a-political-thicket/2017/09/29/337dedae-a475-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14_story.html?utm_term=.0d7986f20e2a)

The theism-politics regimes have done everything they can to defeat the civic agreement offered by the preamble to the constitution for the USA: We willing people in our states trust and commit to the goals stated herein and establish a limited central government to serve each of our states.

Let’s hope that tomorrow the court will take a step toward restoring/establishing one vote per willing citizen.

It is fitting that Will mentions "1788, the year the Constitution was ratified." However, he could point out that June 21, 1788 was the day nine states established the USA, leaving four still free and independent dissidents to the challenge of joining the USA or not. Further, when Congress began on March 4, 1789, three states maintained their dissidence.
 
Writers like Will fail their aspiration to be journalists by not reminding the people of the facts. For example, July 4, 1776, is the date that thirteen states declared independence from England. However, a revolutionary war, negotiation of a treaty, three years as free and independent states happened before the USA's birth-date, June 21, 1788. Writers like Will may claim ignorance, but that would add to the shame.

Shame on the freely irresponsible press and its willful writers.

Other forums

This weekend at the Karns, TN, memorial for my sister, Dona Bean, I witnessed what happens when a person pursues trust and commitment to the-objective-truth, or fidelity, accepting human inspiration and hopes wherein the-objective-truth is undiscovered.

It was wonderful to behold such a life, commemorated by her family and friends.

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.