October 23, 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_80a352b6-b4e4-11e7-88cb-b71775aa1eef.html)

The Advocate seems to promote special-interest disinformation. How can readers be civic citizens when the hometown newspaper promotes myths? The civic people (not solely taxpayers) may overcome abuse by Gov. Edwards, the legislature, university administrators, and the newspaper to stop the myths.

The USA has existed 229 years, but TOPS is only 28 years old. The Advocate should recall the recent past. TOPS started with limits. taylorplan.com/resources/louisiana-tops/

I recall during the Jindal years, university budgets were cut to restore responsibility to K-12, especially high school, rather than fund expensive, remedial classes in college.

University costs are soaring to administrators rather than professors. Everyone but administrators is being abused. See forbes.com/sites/tomlindsay/2015/05/11/the-future-of-an-illusion-the-higher-ed-funding-cuts-myth/2/#43ea3f37d7dd for a good overview and reference to washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septoct-2011/administrators-ate-my-tuition/.

The Forbes article ends with my complaint: “One can only hope that the evidence . . . will drive a stake through the heart of the “funding-cuts-made-us-raise-tuitions” myth. As long as it continues to be an unquestioned staple of the media narrative, there will be a future for this illusion.”

 

We're anticipating the fifth year of library meetings to urge citizens to be aware that the preamble to the constitution for the USA is a civic agreement that divides the people: the civic versus dissidents. Dissidence ranges from ignorant, to uninformed, to uncivil, to criminal. 

I now realize that without a responsible press, the civic citizens are at a severe disadvantage. I know firsthand that with a free and irresponsible press the task of staying informed while pursuing comprehensive safety and security is nearly if not totally impossible. The faction of civic citizens, for example, the ones in this forum, helps. 

We observe need for a responsible press every day, in the deep concern on our faces.

To JT McQuitty: “. . . there is an inherent conflict between college for the poor and holding the above average in state.”

Right. So, the state should influence LSU to serve all the brightest students---without detracting from empowering the brightest students from the poor. However, I adamantly oppose your contrivance or mimic of “college for the poor.” Every individual should be appreciated, and civic citizens appreciate the brightest of the poor. Maybe your words don’t express your thoughts.

Intentionally or not, your comment erroneously detracts from my comment and supports the myths the LSU administrator and The Advocate promote. Moreover, there will never be a majority civic citizens as long as there is free and irresponsible press. With the present First Amendment, only the press can lessen press irresponsibility.

To focus on keeping Louisiana’s brightest students, as well as promote scholarship among the poor, increasing grade-point requirements and ACT test scores preserves TOPS sustainability for best advantages. To improve student benefits, LSU should be increasing professorial quality instead of attracting administrators. Also, expenditures for social movements such as dialogues on racism and BLM do not prepare students for jobs the people need.

To JT McQuitty: I agree. However, the legislature should increase grade point requirements to 3.0 per Franklin Foil’s original plan, over a four-year span as soon as it can be done. No more dither.

To JT McQuitty: It's hard for me to grasp how flippant you seem about this. Phil Beaver does not matter, but please ask yourself why you seem to express yourself as uniformed.

See theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/legislature/article_4c73698a-3fdd-11e7-b2db-d33b096774af.html about Foil's retreat from 3.0 to 2.75 and the current 2.5.

We live under the greatest hope that exists in the world: the possibility to enter a civic agreement. The agreement is stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA. It had the window of possibility from June 21, 1788 until late April, 1789---let's say eleven months.

The USA started with the people in nine states, but by April, 1789 there were ten. The Congress, representing only ten states, re-established legislative theism American British colonist were accustomed to, in fact legislative Christianity, in fact legislative factional-Protestantism. Justice of civic people, by civic people, for civic people had been denied and obfuscated by the First Congress. Since then, most of the people have waited for their personal God to kick in and deliver justice. Most vainly claim to be "we, the people," without comprehending the shabby surrogacy they sponsor: Either God or government will eventually deliver justice.

What has happened in these 229 years since the preamble was ratified and the USA established? Downward spiral into chaos. Today, many are willing to forego statutory law in favor of liberal democratic protest for conflict’s sake.

Past generations have left it to our generation to discover the power of conforming to the-objective-truth: comprehensive fidelity. Each individual may encounter the challenge: Will I collaborate for civic justice or will I demand someone’s opinion that often conflicts with the-objective-truth. Since the-objective-truth offers comprehensive safety and security, I think most individuals will decide to help discover the-objective-truth rather than conflict for dominant opinion.

If so, an entire nation will collaborate to approach a way of living that stays on the leading edge of civic morality rather than conducts conflicts and wars to preserve obsolete thinking.

In this case, raising the grade point average to 3.0 helps your so called “poor college,” the elite students, LSU professors, and a civic people of Louisiana.

  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Matthew 12:36 CJB)

“Moreover, I tell you this: on the Day of Judgment people will have to give account for every careless word they have spoken.”

Dean says “We probably sin much more with our words than we do with our actions. No wonder we need the grace and forgiveness of the Lord.”

I don’t think I have ever encountered the dilemma more plainly. In Dean’s “sin” mysticism, neither what you think nor what you do matters. However, in our experiences and observations of our fellow humans, we know that error begs woe. And when woe comes, we have no power to stop it.

I conclude: Forget about sin, which cannot possibly hurt you, and avoid error every moment and every way. When you behave as a human---discover error---don’t repeat it, and by all means don’t make erroneous behavior a habit.

  

Letters

Children’s Code (Lagarde) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_fea060a4-8e61-11e7-8f17-33e2a9b961b2.html)

  

 “The Children’s Code was passed by the Legislature in 1990.” See law.lsu.edu/news/2011/07/28/lsu-law-to-host-celebration-of-the-louisiana-childrens-code-august-5/ and legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=72534.

  

Contrary to civil law, the-objective-truth, which makes itself plain in the lives of at least 30% of USA inhabitants, begs instruction as soon as the person can comprehend clear information. Children are first of all persons, and they need two educations in a progressive way from infancy unto young adulthood, perhaps age 30. The two educations are human reproductive systems including hormone excitation and forming beneficial human bonds.

The code Lagarde quoted is woefully absent key definitions: family, society, parent, well-being, values, traditions, moral, care, necessity, and rights. It does not appreciate ova and spermatozoon, which should be in good health for a possible person. It is so foreign to the-objective-truth that it can only be considered obsolete.

The fact that a judge wrote this obsolescence witnesses more to errant social justice than our potential for civic justice.

  

Freedom (Cutrone)

(theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_affc34cc-b513-11e7-9fa1-1b14c4e33cf2.html)

Kaepernick and the other players illustrate two principles that are obvious to civic citizens but yet to be learned by dissidents to justice.

First, freedom comes with responsibility to comprehend, trust and commit to the civic contract. Second, the person who trusts an Alinsky-Marxist organization (AMO), that is, disrupts the civic contract in order to make someone else’s political point, is personally taking the risks the organizers will not take.

Kaepernick is out of work and NFL income is lessening as I write.

Vitter resume insufficient (Garner) (theadvocate.com/new_orleans/opinion/james_gill/article_9c3842d4-a9ea-11e7-890e-5fb4478b7042.html)

Gill detailed that Wendy Vitter’s resume seems insufficient. Garner offers only opinion.

Wisdom (Lanasa) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_ffd7d62e-b511-11e7-af41-a33e9cc6c7ed.html)

Good point. The administrators make a ton of money and ought to be held accountable.

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

  

Making a mess of opinion writing (Froma Harrop) (creators.com/read/froma-harrop/10/17/trump-makes-mess-of-trade-us-economy-beware)

“If the president . . . is just playing jester to his base.” 

I voted for the Trump-Pence ticket twice. I did not respect Harrop then and don’t now. She's just another deplorable.

  

Did Barone squeal as he wrote? (Michael Barone) washingtonexaminer.com/michael-barone-democrats-yelp-as-trump-upholds-constitution/article/2637973

Barone’s list could have extended to twenty or so constitutional infractions by Obama and others. G. W. Bush, B. Obama, J. McCain, and many others may discover that America is a republic under the rule of statutory law rather than a liberal democracy under chaos.

  

Clever (Dana Milbank) washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-cabinet-is-the-absolute-best-of-all-time-ever/2017/10/16/51933f5a-b2bd-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html?utm_term=.0a92109b4150

Milbank writes with two distinctions: clever and vacuous.

 

Erroneous administrations (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/education/article_804e754a-b80c-11e7-9006-bb770134ac4a.html)

Tolerance is the erroneous watchword in all aspects of American social morality of 2017. Highly paid public servants nourish adult appetites in order to support markets that destroy the possibility for civic morality. American capitalism cannot survive that way: There must be fidelity to the-objective-truth.

It is time for a civic people to come out of the closets and collaborate for comprehensive safety and security. No longer can the people claim that elites and the rich can avoid the ruin of infidelity to the-objective-truth. No longer is it sufficient to think “my God is better than your God.” Or my government is better than your government. Or my party is better than your party. Or my fidelity is better than your fidelity. Only propriety for the-objective-truth can help individuals establish the public integrity that is needed to end American barbarity.

It is shocking how unpopular a sermon about fidelity to the-objective-truth may seem to the present American, Louisiana, and Baton Rouge cultures. But the-objective-truth invokes personal fear: no longer may a civic people tolerate a statement known to be doubtable.
 

Only a willing people can establish civic morality. Abraham Lincoln made a similar comment in 1861.

Other forums 

quora.com/What-should-be-the-main-thing-about-society/

Humankind has an overarching society that is on an ineluctable march toward comprehensive safety and security. Humankind is divided between people who are willing to collaborate on this march versus dissidents to the march.

The human being is so psychologically powerful that each person may perceive the march and do their personal part to collaborate. Even though a person may join an association or many associations of people, some with harmless dissidents, he or she may personally maintain fidelity to the march.

However, in most lands there is a national society which strains against humankind’s march. For example, England operates with a mixed constitution that divides the people into classes based on wealth, with a religion-politics partnership for legislation.

The USA’s “freedom of religion” mimics England’s model by supporting legislative theism. But Americans have the potential for reform to fidelity to the-objective-truth. The people may effect reform, merely by applying the civic agreement stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA, to influence, by personal vote, politicians to observe statutory law and amend it for justice.

This seems too good to be true, but brief comprehension that the preamble offers a citizens’ agreement and consideration of the goals stated therein can motivate understanding. With understanding, the preamble may be perceived as offering mutual, comprehensive safety and security to civic citizens; encouragement by example for dissidents under misinformation or ignorance; and constraint to errant dissidents, for example, red-light runners and people who think crime pays.

It is important for individuals to recognize that civic morality is not the same as social morality. Civilizations that think crime pays may be avoided, constrained, or annihilated. After some 2.8 million years of human development, many such civilizations are long forgotten, but their lessons are recorded in the genes and memes of humankind.

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.