December 3, 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 (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_e3de7898-d540-11e7-a154-cfa8423d1c6f.html)

Much like indoctrinators, perpetrators and preachers of dialogues on racialism trying to invoke guilt where there is none, The Advocate labels themselves as liberal democrats when they assess Kennedy’s conduct to “advancing discussion [according to] party lines.”

Also, The Advocate’s continuing suggestion that he is running for governor seems a vailed attempt to make his senate seat subject to future elections with a less reliable civic citizen taking Kennedy’s GOP candidacy and Senate longevity.

John Kennedy is right where civic citizens of Louisiana need him.

To Scuddy LeBlanc: Two comments.

First, Arthur L. Rizer, III, in "Conservative Jail Reform," National Affairs, No. 33, Fall 2017, page 48, discusses data showing that not resolving the arrest of accused people---keeping them in jail before the decision to indict them---turns some innocent or wayward people into criminals. He suggests change, perhaps “low hanging fruit,” the Louisiana reform perhaps egregiously does not address.

Second, just as we have vehicular driver’s licensing, because liabilities to fellow-citizens harmed by driver error can be severe, we need procreation licensing, because harm to children by parental neglect and abuse can be severe. The necessary legislation, essential as it may be, would take time to initiate, negotiate, and enact.

In the meantime, Louisiana may start a program to coach children that each human being should be responsibly free (the human species is that powerful but is repressed by civilizations) but must, during a couple decades, acquire the basic knowledge, understanding, and intent to live-a-full-life.

   

Therefore, a future civic Louisiana coaches each child to embrace each: personal autonomy at age 10 or so, collaborative association at age 13 or so, and, along the way, personal responsibility to comprehend the basic knowledge. Thereby, each person may embark on a lifetime of fidelity to the-objective-truth or actual-reality or the-indisputable-facts which is available for discovery by every responsible human. In other words, each person, intended as a human being to be responsibly free, may achieve personal maturity.

The foal walks within minutes of birth, but the human perhaps in a year. The powerful human body does not complete construction of the wisdom parts of the brain before age 23-25. Human authenticity may not emerge before age 30 or so. Many people do not fathom the awesome transition from feral newborn person to young adult ready for a full life. For details, Google “Child incentives brief” and read the first URL.

Now that ideas about civic obligations to children are being articulated, the people who stonewall them may, in the future, be viewed as dissidents to human justice. I’ll never forget a former friend’s (terminating) ultimatum when I insisted Bill Clinton should be impeached for his habits with women. It seems Clinton never achieved authentic manhood.

  

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

  

Louisiana’s (James Gill) (theadvocate.com/new_orleans/opinion/james_gill/article_a81c0ba6-d60b-11e7-a06a-6faa96d2add6.html)

Could Gill favor liberal-democrat judicial groups? “Obama's judicial nominees had all been rated qualified by the American Bar Association, whereas Trump has already picked four who didn't meet the standard.” In my view, the ABA is anti-civic-citizen.

Gill might not know (liberal democrats often don’t): Trump gets his recommendations list “from two conservative groups, the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation.” www.nytimes.com/2017/02/06/us/politics/neil-gorsuch-trump-supreme-court-nominee.html

I think Gill is correct to pay attention to Senator Kennedy: Kennedy has a tough job and is performing very well. I’ll be especially impressed if he votes against Duncan, who failed the privilege to defend marriage for procreation---the child’s dignity and equality to be appreciated by the man and woman who conceived him or her. That discovered-objective-truth will yet overrule the Supreme Court’s opinion. 

The-objective-truth does not yield to dominant opinion or any other human construct.

  

Excess licensing (Dan Fagan) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_a30836e8-d5fd-11e7-87a8-07f4cf042308.html

Fagan begins with another false tradition: “[If] any relationship is to work, there must be a fundamental foundation of trust.” Like so many traditions, this is a case of cunning. The person who does not plan fidelity seeks to cajole the other. What civic people offer is fidelity. I can’t prove it today, but I’m guessing this falsehood originates with the clergy and is mimicked by politicians in clergy-politician partnerships, or Chapter XI Machiavellianism.

Take our president. It seems to me, and I hope, President Trump makes a statement: “What the world needs is public integrity, but it offers lies. I offer integrity, but cannot pretend integrity may be delivered when I am dealt lies.” His behavior reminds me of Matthew 7:6 NIV, “Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.” If I am close to the-objective-truth, people who honestly have no integrity would do well to contemplate the difference: it is important.

As I mention elsewhere today, procreation should be licensed. In a civic culture, conceiving children who will not be appreciated is discouraged. In a liberal democracy like ours, over 30% of inhabitants experience abuse either as perpetrator or victim or both. It’s barbaric.

I was glad for the opinion that the Institute for Justice is a libertarian, nonprofit, think tank. I take “libertarian” to mean in pursuit of the responsible liberation of the human person; in other words, providing a culture that encourages each newborn to emerge as a responsibly fearless young adult and therefore seeking no arbitrary authority over how he or she seeks happiness during life. In such a culture, no one would need a license to cut flowers, arrange them, and sell to someone who will pay a negotiated price. (Cutting out the bureaucracy reduces the necessary price.)

  

Kennedy information (Jeff Sadow) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/jeff_sadow/article_219cea2a-d55a-11e7-a26f-8bae46e6af27.html

I agree: John Kennedy wants to eject John Bel Edwards for seeming incompetence. But I think Kennedy knows Senator is a powerful, dynamic, essential role; which is more effective with years of service.

“Kennedy . . . called for seriously considering suspension of [inmate release] reforms until Edwards rectified the [Department of Public Safety's] problems.” Good idea.

The problem with Kyle Duncan may be substance, which is more difficult to discern. I would not be surprised if Kennedy votes “No.”

I consider Sadow my direct opposite when he attributes Kennedy’s performance to pretense respecting the people’s will. I doubt Sadow’s sincerity rather than Kennedy’s.

For example, maybe Sadow wishes there was a Democrat or Libertarian or Independent in Kennedy’s Senate seat. Don’t get me wrong: I do not condone much of the GOP. However, they are beginning to realize that my two votes for Donald Trump were intentional and gave them an opportunity. I like that. President Trump is not yet what I hoped for, but evidence is he may get there.

  

Defensive view (Stephanie Grace) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/stephanie_grace/article_7268db06-d6bf-11e7-8970-8346eed3023a.html 

Grace paints a picture of Edmonson in control rather than governors in control. Maybe so, but I think she is just trying to shield Gov. Edwards.

Her Edwards-defensive strategy comes in “Edmonson . . .  managed to make the people around him believe [Edmonson was untouchable].”

  

No holds barred (Mark Ballard) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/mark_ballard/article_aed87b50-d6ba-11e7-98b5-2f92fc00a93c.html

How can The Advocate publish the caption “The secret to sexual harassment in state government . . .”? It’s a comical embarrassment, no matter how it ends.

Seriously, is Louisiana compliant with “a 40-year-old federal law” Ballard referred to but did not cite? I found a federal regulation from 53 years ago:  eeoc.gov/eeoc/publications/fs-sex.cfm.

Before I retired, Albemarle Corporation and Ethyl Corporation had informed me that if someone expressed a personal complaint about behavior I should take heed. I surmised it would be useful to confidentially report any statement to me as a preparation for possible future self-defense; record abuse of abuse-accusation.

  

“American” democracy (George Will) texarkanagazette.com/news/opinion/columns/story/2017/nov/30/sports-gambling-court-should-bet-federalism/702062/

I object to Will writing about “American democracy.” America is a republic.

Will quotes a brief, “Depriving the body that enacted a law of the ability to repeal or amend that law defeats the purpose of representative democracy.” I could not find the original.

  

However, “representative democracy” is an opinion that is not confirmed by the constitution for the USA, which promises a republican form of government. Representatives are elected by a process that is purposefully not democracy. For example, the Congress is a very complicated mix of state representation, complicated by representatives per state and term limits. Also, the Electoral College ruins popular election of a president and vice-president pair. It is the way it is because democracy promises woe.

Will’s will to call our form of government democracy with any modifier makes him my political enemy.

Louisiana crisis (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/article_f92c5bde-d77f-11e7-80b7-9ff8633b57f0.html)

The public confidence problem is not confined to the State Police and The Advocate.

The failures of the Louisiana Department of Corrections, the “bipartisan” Legislative actions on the judicial system, sexual harassment within the administration and the legislature, with Gov. John Bel Edwards’ leadership failures is an overall crisis.

I am grateful that The Advocate assigns Mustian to request public information but opine that my subscription helps pay the cost. I think I am owed reporting that does not protect Gov. Edwards and guilty members of his administration.

The only free press is a responsible press.

Other forums

amazon.com/Discovery-Freedom-Struggle-Against-Authority/dp/1503117553 and also free at mises.org/library/discovery-freedom

I’m only 1/3 through Rose Wilder Lane’s 1943 book, “The Discovery of Freedom,” and the reading is changing my expressions.

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.