November 12, 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_229dac4e-a791-11e7-986f-934700887a51.html?mode=comments)

To Scuddy LeBlanc: Gov. Edwards could take more responsibility to protect the people of Louisiana from the current budget crisis and The Advocate could side with the people rather than targeting taxpayers. See thenewsstar.com/story/news/2017/10/12/sen-kennedy-gov-edwards-escalate-political-feud/758104001/ .

Disclaimers respecting “news” articles---apologies in the absence of a responsible press

theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_f62e65ac-c6f5-11e7-a5ad-b7a2517a1780.html by ELIZABETH CRISP AND ROSS DELLENGER

A free and responsible press might have captioned this story, “GOP tax plans protect the nation’s children from debt to benefit LSU ticket holders.”

Once the reader gets past the initial scare tactics the writers employed, there is some sensible reporting. For example, the person credited with the national debt-building favor-to-insiders honestly likens the tax deduction to “the three-martini lunch.”

I appreciate Steve Scalise’s integrity: "A growing economy is what most directly results in folks’ ability to purchase tickets, and that’s exactly what will happen with this plan."

“John Colombo, a University of Illinois emeritus law professor who specializes in tax law: ‘Why should the federal government make it cheaper for these folks to buy tickets to what are essentially semi-professional football games? It doesn't make any sense.’"

The free and responsible press the people need works to help the people assure free-market enterprise rather than tolerate strategies that pick the nation’s children’s pockets in order to favor special interest groups: in this case, some 16,000 TAF contributors out of 4 million state inhabitants.

To JT McQuitty: I feel gullible again. Only recently have I realized that philanthropists circumvent the rule of law. For example, the Church fosters sanctuary service that uses coyotes to usher refugees from all over the world into Central America, across South Mexico borders, through Mexico and to the USA. See cbc.ca/news/world/human-smugglers-cash-in-on-central-american-migration-to-u-s-1.2712878 and http://religionandpolitics.org/2017/02/21/the-sanctuary-movement-then-and-now/.

I once contributed to the LSU foundation thinking I was supporting education. No more.

   

Letters

Status of the USA (Shamburger, Nov. 10) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_a3b681d0-c581-11e7-a374-6f79e235c98c.html)

Matthew White

Here's a well-reasoned takedown of just how terrible a justice Antonin Scalia was, and that his theories of Originalism are a dime-store joke. I'd love to see Phil respond to this.
https://www.newyorker.com/.../scalias-contradictory...

To Matthew White: Perhaps you will demonstrate that you know enough to converse with not only Purdy, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedediah_Purdy, but with Purdy and me.

Readers may discover my work to encourage law professors like Purdy to establish the-objective-truth rather than dominant opinion for discovery of civic justice. See libertylawsite.org/?s=Phil+Beaver. As far as I know, the 1791 constitution for the USA needs only a couple amendments to restore its preamble's power.

I witness that law professors cooperatively, erroneously perceive that the sovereign citizen has not the propriety to propose use of the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered.

  

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

  

Government folly (James Gill) (theadvocate.com/new_orleans/opinion/james_gill/article_f19e1698-c49f-11e7-9f1b-fb8b65d9a57d.html)

Not providing to capture alluvial deposits as well as use levies to control flooding, after 100 years, looks like folly. That’s what government by dominant opinion does. A civic people may supervise an achievable, better future by collaborating to use the-objective-truth to establish mutual, comprehensive safety and security, otherwise called civic peace.

Gill’s focus on Landry and Trump is just more liberal-democrat folly. The people who want civic peace have begun to roar, and particular persons are not the power of a civic people.

  

Materialism (Dan Fagan) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_8be28fb6-c5a6-11e7-8e26-7fa9e13ab0ab.html 

Fagan writes of adolescent materialism bought on the futures of the nation’s children. The USA has about 4 million infants a year, and each of them faces about $5 million in expanding debt that last year’s newborns may increase.

  

Fagan wants adolescent adults to keep nourishing their appetites and feeding the satisfactions.

I want civic reform and media writers to help catch the falling knife and turn it around. Fat chance.

  

Clinton (Stephanie Grace) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/stephanie_grace/article_e3f6511e-c63d-11e7-89a2-33a56e2eb4f4.html

I’m looking for Grace’s column, “What’s Donna Brazile up to, anyway?”

  

Churches with gun protection (Jeff Sadow) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/jeff_sadow/article_4eae780e-c59b-11e7-8824-4b6297195aa5.html

I agree with the online caption but not the printed one. I agree that churches should help themselves.

Reform is possible by encouraging believers to collaborate for civic morality. Hopes for the afterdeath is a private pursuit for psychologically adult believers.

  

Elite protectionism (George Will) washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-republicans-take-aim-at-academic-excellence/2017/11/08/eb8e9056-c4af-11e7-84bc-5e285c7f4512_story.html?utm_term=.f4a2b039ccd2

If there’s anything that needs reform in the USA it is the system of philanthropy surrounding elitism. The hotbed of social morality is the group of colleges Will defends. The liberal-democrat dominance in those colleges is the driving force in the widening wealth disparity the people suffer.

“. . .  the public sector’s sprawl threatens to enfeeble the private institutions of civil society that mediate between the individual and the state and that leaven society with energy and creativity that government cannot supply.”

If this was 1776, Will would seem to be a loyalist urging preservation of Magna Carta, now eight centuries old. Regardless, he is, in this column, arguing for a British-style mixed constitution with elites protected by their propriety to gain civil favor rather than civic morality.

American elites recognized that the civic agreement that is stated by the preamble to the constitution for the USA was an agreement like none other in the history of the world. The people of nine states ratified it on June 21, 1788. If the people caught on to government supervision of by and for the people, the elitism the American aristocracy had grown accustomed to would be reformed by the people.

Consequently, the First Congress, by May, 1789, representing ten states, restored American theism, serving the 99% Protestant free inhabitants. They quickly restored English common law with a bill of rights. The judicial system refers to Blackstone as the foundation of American law to this day.

I support American republicanism, in other words, the rule of statutory law. In no way do I want America socialized or civilized to liberal democracy. However, consider Harvard’s intentions:

	Intended field of concentration
		%
	Humanities	15.5
	Social Sciences	26.5
	Biological Sciences	19.2
	Physical Sciences	6.9
	Engineering	12.0
	Computer Science	7.3
	Math	7.3
	Undecided	5.4

“Social sciences,” the very fungible field for what Oren Cass calls “Policy-Based Evidence Making,” is Harvard’s heart’s desire.

Civic citizens are agitated against American elitism. Through the welfare system it promotes blind consumerism that empowers elite capitalism. And American theism keeps the middle class at work, ever expecting God to provide civic justice.

Respecting civic morality, America has been split 1/3 active, 1/3 passive, and 1/3 dissident. The people who voted for Donald Trump twice want reform to at least 2/3 who are collaborating for civic justice, keeping hopes for the hereafter or other for private pursuits.

Will's chance to wake up in time to help is lessening.

  

The Church (abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pope-reaffirms-conscience-heresy-debate-divides-church-51083586, Nicole Winfield, AP)

As a Baptist who also worshipped with my Catholic wife and children for fifteen years, I approached a monsignor whose homilies I liked and asked him to allow me to participate in the Eucharist as Remembrance rather than Transubstantiation (even though I could not before the dialogue have spoken of the effects of the prayers of the Mass).

When he taught me and said he could not compromise his love for the Church, I responded that my participation would interject him and the parishioners into my direct communion with God. I declined to yield, and he asserted we had no more to discuss. I have no regrets.

  

At stake in this debate is the word “conscience,” defined by Francis as God’s revelation rather than the person’s ego. I did not find that definition in secular dictionaries, but did in the last sentence of a Catholic source: catholicculture.org/culture/library/dictionary/index.cfm?id=32755. I quote, “But always, too, the decision is a mental conclusion derived from objective norms that conscience does not determine on its own, receiving it as given by the Author of nature and divine grace.” That seems consistent with Francis’s message.

However, note that the complex sentence above claims “objective norms,” leaving objectivity as a normative process. I do not hold that opinion. I assert that the-objective-truth can only be discovered and is not subject to normative processes, including papal opinion.

  

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.