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 library
meetings to promote the actual use of the preamble to the constitution for the
USA rather than to lamely claim “we, the people” seems to separate my opinion
more and more from the opinions The Advocate promotes. The USA is unique in the
world.
In the first
place, on July 4, 1776, thirteen English colonizes formally changed their style
to states, and declared that the existing war with England was for
independence. Only 40% of the people wanted independence, 40% satisfied to
remain in the commonwealth, and 20% being loyal with the potential to return to
England.
The
longstanding competition for eastern seaboard civic morality between indigenous
peoples, France, England, and the colonists reached a climax at Yorktown in
1781. France’s strategy and military dominance joined with the former colonists
(proclaimed statesmen) to defeat England. The statesmen ratified the 1783 Treaty
of Paris that recognized thirteen free and independent states, naming each of
them. They remained free and independent for four years.
However, on
June 21, 1788, nine of the states ratified the constitution for the USA, hoping
the four remaining free and independent states would join. Potential for authority
had passed from England to the states to a civic people. People of only one state joined the USA. The
first Congress, seated on March 4, 1789, represented only ten states. People of
the other three states were, for their reasons, dissidents. Dissidence, in
about 1/3 proportion, seems to be a feature of the USA if not humankind.
I assert that
the above brief history represents both a civic people of the United States (meaning
those who either explicitly or tacitly collaborate to achieve the goals stated in
the preamble to the constitution for the USA) as well as dissidents (those who
for reasons they may or may not understand oppose the civic agreement stated by
the preamble). According to the preamble, “civic” refers to people
collaborating for justice whether the municipality or dominant culture is just
or not.
This is not a
British Commonwealth country. The USA is free from the traditional mixed
constitution (classism), the Church of England’s role in Parliament, English
common law, and fox hunting. The colonists knew nothing of hunting, because the
English commoners were not allowed to hunt on English lords’ estates. However,
the indigenous peoples in this land taught the colonists how to hunt and fish
for sustenance rather than to kill game merely to prepare for a night of reverie.
Today, Americans, under District of Columbia v. Heller, 2008, may own
guns for personal use such as hunting. Hunting for food is an American practice
that English Boxing Day cannot imagine.
Attempting to dominate American life with Christianity
is so common few people know how to object or would go to the trouble.
Especially, when the President of the USA attempts to impose his religious
views on the people, as President Trump seems to have done this year. Without
objecting to Trump’s decisions, I point out that fellow-citizen and General
George Washington’s farewell dated June 8, 1783 expressed civic commitment without
interjecting personal theism. However, promoting Boxing Day seems anti-American.
In my view, with such a frivolous Christian and business promotion, The
Advocate expresses dissidence against the American republic.
I commend/request
The Advocate to forget Boxing Day and promote June 21 as the date the USA was
established, perhaps calling it “Personal Independence Day.” Celebrate each
citizen’s opportunity to establish personal authority---the personal authority
to collaborate on the responsibility for human freedom. In other words, promote
the use of the agreement that is offered to every citizen by the preamble to
the constitution for the USA.
The Advocate
has the advantage that these civic ideas came from four years of public
meetings in EBRP libraries and can be traced to the participants. The candid
civic collaboration originates in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and has the potential
to establish an achievable, better future in the USA.
Letters
Actual reality vs emotions (Edmonston,
Dec 23) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_a2e2f16c-e66f-11e7-a9c8-ab0e63bdd067.html)
To Al
Fletch:
Nothing you
write discourages Rep. Graves’ awareness of the data: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_gallon_equivalent.
Pertinent entries from the table are listed with percent effectiveness as
follows:
Gasoline, 44.79
HP-hr/gal, 100%
Methanol, 22.28
HP-hr/gal, 50%
Ethanol100, 29.85
HP-hr/gal, 67%
E85, 32.23 HP-hr/gal,
72%.
The table shows
that the USA, pushed by “greenies” and the ethanol industry, forced a civic
people into a losing proposition: a technological
quest to turn 29.85 into 44.79, but realizing the expected failure at 32.23.
After billions in research, innovators have improved the 67% performance to 72%.
Also, it’s no surprise that E85 at 32.23 has fewer pit stops than methanol at
22.28, or 69% as effective.
In collaboration
for civic morality, you seem a dissident, of the genre “radical skeptic.” Nothing
a civic citizen could write would discourage your relentless refusal to collaborate
on the facts. This is civilly OK, but civically dissident. As long as that is
plain to Rep. Graves (and I’m voting it is) you remain civilly harmless and a
candidate to join a civic people in the quest for human responsibility for
freedom.
Rep. Graves may
be grateful for your work here, as it presents for the people an overview to
consider the data and think for their own pocket books rather than for the
industries and their individuals who benefit from dissidence to the people’s
economic viability.
Columns. (The
fiction/non-fiction comments gallery for readers)
Trying to pick President
Trump’s bouquet
(Rich Lowry) (sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2017/12/20/rich-lowry-give-trump-credit-where-it-is-due/)
In a world so
hungry for integrity I can’t think of a writer more honestly willing to express
privation than Rich Lowery. He creates a meaningful list of President Trump’s accomplishments,
many made possible by President Obama’s tyranny. He points out that a
traditional GOP politician could not have accomplished any of the list. Then,
he claims the credit for the GOP.
I don’t think
it will be possible in Lowry’s lifetime to admit the privation, reform, and
write with integrity. It seems sad. Maybe my view will serve as a sort of Sunday
school class.
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.
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