December 11, 2017

Phil Beaver seeks to collaborate on the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. 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.
 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 June 21, 1788 preamble:  We the civic citizens 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. Composing their own paraphrase, citizens may consider the actual preamble and perceive whether they are willing or dissident toward its principles.   

Our Views (Dec 11)

I think the idea “mistakes made by . . . Edmonson” is wrongful. It’s Louisiana administrations, Legislators, Department of Corrections, and other officials in repeated offenses, habitual arrogance, and takings from the people of Louisiana.

The Advocate reported new offenses yesterday (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/article_6d2cb744-db73-11e7-9023-238c7f000dc0.html) but today returns to obfuscation. Why?

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Exodus 20:14 CJB)

“Do not commit adultery.”

Dean says, “Marriage calls for loyalty and fidelity. God knows what he is talking about.”

No question about it: Dean’s God condones monogamous same-sex sex. And why not?

The key phrase is “commit adultery.” MW online says “adultery” is “voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than that person's current spouse or partner.” Confronted with the idea that evolution may have discovered that the human species has the possibility-for and responsibility-for freedom, these considerations lead to many theological or scriptural questions.

However, a simpler construction of responsible civic freedom emerges from collaboration to discover and practice fidelity to the-objective-truth. Monogamous same-sex partners neither procreate nor parent (let’s collaborate on that point).

A civic people practice fidelity, which allows every responsible religion to flourish in privacy. Yet there will always be people who “game” fidelity, so statutory law must support civic justice rather than religious or social judgement.

People who follow Dean’s confusion have my sympathy.

    

Letters

Non-profit egocenticity (Whetten) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_3a755080-db06-11e7-95ff-f33ae6159525.html) 

Scuddy, I agree. And a civic people may focus on coaching childern for adulthood in pursuit of responsible freedom. Thereby, the future need actual safety nets will be lessened. It will take about thirty years to begin to see the nanny-state drastically reduced, but all boats will be lifting in the meantime---adolescents and adults will be motived by the change.

Congress, during a massive tax reform, is struggling to fund insurance for poor children and Whetten points to devastation if she does not get attention to five of her concerns: Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, multi-family housing bonds, New Markets Tax Credit, and Historic Tax Credits.

I hope Whetten feels the heat of her hubris. A defense against future encounters is humility.

The people and the regimes that have led them are indeed remise. Evolution informs us that one species, the human species, has the possibility-for and responsibility-for freedom. Philanthropist recruits like Whetten encourage individuals to perceive they are owed an existence rather than the opportunity to freedom. Some authority, like Whetten, will provide and thereby prevent the recipient from ever rising to the responsibility for personal freedom.
  

If you think I am making sense (coming from Rose Wilder Lane as I understand her so far), do what you can to coach children and adults that the human species can and should (may) collaborate for liberty.

Defending the Associated Press (Bradsher) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_7515bfd2-db05-11e7-a4ab-b385974ed3cb.html)

Nobody’s blaming AP for actual-reality: it’s AP-reality---opinion under the guise of reporting.

Bradsher honestly exposes privation of integrity by not admitting that AP pseudo news, captioning, and selection of features is laced with liberal-democrat opinion. Bradsher may be a retired writer-for-the-media who never realized that a journalist chronicles events rather than attempts to manage public opinion. Give him the benefit of doubt.

The AP publishes. The reader may develop skill at detecting AP-writer lies. It’s no more difficult than detecting FBI-official lies.

The Advocate could routinely publish disclaimers when AP writer-opinion is published. The AP might object initially, but then eventually accept that The Advocate is acting for the people of Louisiana and the AP might reform.

To Chrisine Kooi: More essential is a responsible press. 

Each person has human responsibility for freedom (a responsibility no other species has), but the press has freedom without responsibility.

Only a civic people hold the press to responsibility, where "civic" refers to people who collaborate for justice in personal connections more than conformity to the municipality, society or civilization.

Child safety seat philanthropy (Williams) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_29c719ec-db08-11e7-a8fd-7b7181ca6faa.html)

The executive director, Louisiana Highway Safety Commission, is one of the people I think could help promote the idea of procreation licensing. It could be a much needed part of marriage licensing (for which some couples and partners do not apply).

I developed a list of concerns and one was qualification for parenting. Considerations could be much like tests in driver’s licensing. Another is financial stability with enough margin for the parents to express appreciation for the new family member. No human should grow up unwanted except for some form of subjugation. Many people would ignore licensing for their reasons, but child neglect and abuse would lessen by the awareness.

The present system, wherein some newborns are at select mercy of philanthropists, seems barbaric more than archaic, especially in the land of the responsibly free.

Director Williams has the opportunity to influence needed change in the welfare of Louisiana children. Success here would spread.

 

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

  

Harrop evil (Froma Harrop) (theadvocate.com/new_orleans/opinion/james_gill/article_c953f4b4-a857-11e7-bb88-ffb09968d7f0.html)

I like “The bigger question here is not Moore himself but the civic culture that finds him OK.”

However, Harrop probably has in mind a civilization based on emotionalism, sympathy, unearned respect, and willful “rights”---in other words, liberal democracy that in her dreams defeats the American republic. Harrop’s writing is so arrogant it become visceral with “Moore is an intestinal disease.” She should be fired.

I do not like anyone’s support of the gestapo that tries to impose factional Christianity on American civic morality or the American civic culture. Unlike Harrop’s civic culture, the American civic culture is collaboration for civic morality based on the-objective-truth. Read the agreement that is offered in the preamble to the constitution for the USA. It provides the framework for each person, during their lifetime, to enjoy responsible freedom, leaving hopes for afterdeath to the hereafter (Scalia). I never liked Roy Moore’s gestapo behavior.

Just consider factional Christianity’s abject failure to defend marriage for procreation. Congress’s 1996 Defense of Marriage Act could not have survived a K-12 civics class, because it was based on Judeo-Christian tradition.

However, Harrop may learn that one of Alabama’s refrains is “Don’t tread on me.” So the referendum on Moore rests on whether or not the DNC’s evil, a very great evil indeed However, Harrop may learn that one of Alabama’s refrains is “Don’t tread on me.” So the referendum on Moore rests on whether or not the DNC’s evil, a very great evil indeed---liberal democracy---will prevail in Alabama's senatorial election.

  

Advocacy writer (Michael Barone) creators.com/read/michael-barone/12/17/hurtling-republican-tax-bill-actually-serious

Barone labels the writing of the New York Times “advocacy journalism.” It seems to me an attempted PC substitute for yellow journalism.

I googled the Ngram Viewer on modifiers yellow, objective, advocacy, opinion and subjective and found relative usages in 2000: 701, 183, 132, 17, and 10. They came on the scene in 1880, 1930, 1970, 1800, and 1950, respectively.

Also, at theconversation.com/could-donald-trump-change-journalism-for-the-better-57856, I found this deliciously outrageous writer’s pride: “As Cohen-Almagor says, journalists ‘live within the democratic realm and owe democracy their allegiance. Free speech and free journalism exist because democracy makes them possible.’ This is not so unusual an idea, and ought not be controversial.” The writer, Ryan J. Thomas, Professor, has my sympathy and opposition. It’s like writers like Thomas and Cohen-Almagor are not even aware of the American republic. Stonewalling just will not get them anywhere.

  

Other forums 

quora.com/What-are-the-ten-cardinal-rules-of-life/answer/Phil-Beaver-1  

Let’s call the action the subjugated person receives “abuse.”

The evolution of the species informs us that each human being—-each person—- has the possibility-to and the responsibility-to be free. However, responsible freedom is a collaborative practice. So far, it seems there will always be dissidents, who would take advantage of responsible citizens. Defining “civic” as human connections with mutual justice, the people are divided: civic citizens vs dissidents. Both civic citizens and dissidents need statutory law.

A civic citizen collaborates for responsible freedom. Armed with statutory civic justice, in other words, written laws and law enforcement that are civically just, he or she does not brook abuse: reports it immediately to the abuser and if necessary to others.

When unjust law is discovered, he or she lobbies for reform, yet observes the law until it is reformed. The civic culture collaborates for best available reform of the unjust law. This means collaboration for the-objective-truth rather than reason-based or arbitrary opinion. Thus, in a civic culture, the individual is in charge of his or her responsible freedom and freely reports discovered neglect or abuse by someone.

Responsible freedom is not obvious to the newborn. It must be developed. Therefore, past abuse should be reported the moment the abused is mature enough to accept responsible freedom.

The fact that no civic culture exists on earth only indicates that most people have not accepted that being a human, a person, each has the possibility to, from infancy, develop responsible freedom during the course of his or her lifetime. Furthermore, most parents are not aware of responsible freedom and therefore do not coach their children to develop authentic personhood—-responsible freedom. When the awareness of personal responsibility for freedom becomes dominant, there will emerge a collection of responsibly free persons and thus a civic culture. Each day that I write these ideas I expect my post to go viral, because I think most people want the civic peace that responsible freedom offers.

The possibility for responsible freedom is uniquely prevalent in the USA, with its civic agreement offered by the preamble to the constitution for the USA. However, its past window of potential lasted only seven months—-from the USA’s establishment by nine states, on June 21, 1788 until operations began with ten states on March 4, 1789. By May, the priestly-political-partnership described by Machiavelli in “The Prince”, Chapter XI, was established, restoring the English tradition of legislative divinity: the government is ordained by God; the Christian God; in 1789 America, the factional-Protestant God. American theism has dominated ever since. I think it may end during President Trump’s administration: Humankind has discovered so much in these 229 years.

American theism is on the run, because of its failures to uphold the foundations of human existence. About half of Americans have been dissuaded by liberal-democratic factions to respond to human sentiment more than human fidelity. To establish the chaos of liberal democracy instead of the order of American republicanism.  

For example, “We’re in love and want to make our mutual obligations civil” has temporarily dominated, by the woe of the self-appointed lord-justice of dignity and equality, Justice Anthony Kennedy, over “We are bonded for life, intend to mate, and want to record mutual obligations with the progeny we will appreciate.”

These two issues—-same sex monogamy vs monogamy for procreation—illustrate the hierarchy of fidelity that is at stake in responsible freedom. The human who would be free develops fidelity, both respectively and collectively, to the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered; to self; to immediate family; to extended family and friends; to the people (the nation); to the world; and to the universe. The person who is humble about personal fidelity explores the edges of the-discovered-objective-truth. A life of fidelity may seem daunting to some, but not to those who practice. I think there are many who quietly live that way.

The evidence so far informs us that the newborn is a person and a civic culture assures his or her dignity and equality—-to be reared by the mom and dad who conceived him or her. Adult contracts that separate the person from his or her heritage—-both genes and memes—-seem outside the practice of responsible freedom. However, I do not know the-objective-truth.

Only the mature person can address the same-sex partners who used him or her to explore the frontiers of civic morality—-can, in mature adulthood, say how they feel about it. In the early half of my eighth decade, I can say that I am very grateful to have had a mom and dad who were monogamous and whose traits I learned over my first two decades. I now understand the good and the bad and may choose the good. If I had been in a same-sex family, I would hope that the partners would have paid a surrogate to show me the opposite of their sex. This is speculation, when you have only experienced a family headed by a monogamous mom and dad. However, “It’s better than no parents,” does not seem like dignity and equality.

I feel I have addressed two extremes of your question 1) abuse in a public setting and 2) subjugation in a private setting. In both cases, the party who was subjugated has the responsibility and freedom to address any harm done them. In other words, a person who abuses someone, at the very least, should face the complaints and harm done the abused person. By confronting the abuser, the abused is practicing responsible freedom.

 Phil Beaver does not “know” the-indisputable-facts, or actual-reality. 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.