October 22, 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_10cd2a36-b42e-11e7-a8c5-bf92c9df5ef1.html)

I expressed in this forum my support for gas tax to generate $0.7 billion/yr or 5% of a backlog. I kept waiting for Gov. Edwards to follow my lead---to respond to a civic people of Louisiana. But I never heard a word from him.

I'm not everywhere all the time. Maybe The Advocate is aware that Gov. Edwards encouraged legislators to vote for the tax. If so, The Advocate should say so. If not, The Advocate should say so.

After all, The Advocate may be a free and responsible press and thereby inform the people rather than keep them out of the flow of essential information. I don't know the-objective-truth.

   

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

  

Cannizzaro (James Gill) (theadvocate.com/new_orleans/opinion/james_gill/article_bbc0334a-b4d6-11e7-b038-bf7ac7da0a92.html)

I wonder how the police---the first responders---feel about this DA’s operations and the judicial system involved.

  

Landrieu (Dan Fagan) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_494ae432-b534-11e7-8c75-3373da686a9e.html

I appreciate Fagan and The Advocate for publishing his column.

I once visited New Orleans often. During five decades I slowly reduced frequencies, both in time and in space to reduce risk. Now, I only go under social pressure, but never by choice. If there’s music I’d like to hear, as in the past, I play some youtube hits or surrogates. I prefer to escort visitors to Lafayette; New Orleans is different but not worth the risk.

If there are many Louisiana residents like me, it seems to me the governor would take interest in the comprehensive safety and security of Louisiana citizens, even if the mayor could not care less.

Senator Kennedy (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_97614c24-b5e3-11e7-b12c-03cc1747bab9.html)

The Advocate would pull my chain!

Forget about this rumor. No way do civic citizens (including some GOP members) want to lose Senator Kennedy’s Congressional vote. But The Advocate would like that, so they report, perhaps request, a pollster’s speculation.

Pollsters express the opinion that public policy is set by public polls. Pollsters, sometimes paid by the media, use social science, a misnomer, to design polls to create what Oren Cass calls “Policy-Based Evidence Making,” in National Affairs, No. 32, Summer 2017, page 52. See online at nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/policy-based-evidence-making.

Instead of freely and responsibly reporting, the political press exploits public innocence. Yesterday, Walter Williams called it “public ignorance,” but I am loath to accuse the public when the press so egregiously abuses the First Amendment. Of course, I write my opinion.

On the other hand, I do encourage the public to practice rather than merely refer to the preamble to the constitution for the USA. On that one sentence, we are divided: Civic citizens versus dissidents to mutual, comprehensive safety and security---in other words, justice. 

Threatening NYT slant (nytimes.com/aponline/2017/10/20/world/asia/ap-as-china-north-korea-the-influence-myth-.html)

The caption suggests a regional power contest, relieving my fear of nuclear attack.

And the view from China is portrayed as ad hominem attack on the head office.

But Foster Klug and the AP dump the responsibility not on the region, but on me: “As China rises as an economic, military and diplomatic heavyweight whose reach extends from the Americas to Asia, many here resent being dragged down by an impoverished, stubborn, Third World dictatorship that allows its people to go hungry while its leader lives in luxury and expands a nuclear arsenal that could lead to war with Washington.”

Klug mixes regional military threat with international politics as though Washington is the world-police headquarters.

Civic citizens should be able to sue Klug and the AP for placing me in harm’s way. Let’s change the First Amendment to protect free and responsible expression, then pass legislation that says that press writers who use ostensible news articles to express political opinion may be fined up to two years’ salary for minor offense with jail time when there is more potential harm, such as this case.

  

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.