December 4, 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_fa094ea4-d487-11e7-b2e0-6770ba928269.html)

I appreciate The Advocate’s closing thought: “. . . incentives aren't as important as politicos seeking credit for these plants would have people believe. Market conditions and prices are in the driver's seat.”

Market conditions involve details such as transportation both from raw materials sources and to the buyer. Also critical is inhabitants who are qualified for employment. Personal autonomy, collaborative association, comprehension of basic human knowledge, and intent to be a civic citizen---in other words, human authenticity---often count more than specialized education. Yet these human qualities---the yearning to be responsibly free---empower a person to learn the basic for living, learn a marketable profession or craft, and embark on a lifetime of responsible learning. When the very marketable Louisiana location has employable inhabitants, there is a good match and political incentives don’t matter.

In other words, the people of Louisiana, both young and old may take charge of their futures by taking charge of their personal understanding and intent to live a full life. Neither God nor government can exercise a person’s human powers, yet a personal God helps believers and government’s job is to help everyone, not just the politicians.

These experiences and observations can be expressed better by journalists than by a chemical engineer. However, a journalists’ role is to keep civic morality or civic justice in the people’s attention in every circumstance. (Of course, I am expressing opinion more than the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered.)

  

To JT McQuitty: Unfortunately, I don’t read all your posts and am not accustomed to sarcasm from you. But I think you express contempt for government imposition of economic assumptions.

It seems “planned economy” may be a politically corrected synonym for socialism, communism, and other tyrannies over responsibly free human beings. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_economy .

  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Matthew 22:36-40 CJB)

“’Rabbi, which of the mitzvot in the Torah is the most important?’ He told him, ‘You are to love Adonai your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.’ This is the greatest and most important mitzvah. And a second is similar to it, ‘You are to love your neighbor as yourself.’ All of the Torah and the Prophets are dependent on these two mitzvot.”

Dean says, “God wants our love more than anything else.”

Dean honestly has not the integrity to address Matthew’s opinion. Perhaps Matthew is too subtle. It seems to me Matthew is instructing first not to let your personal wisdom select a personal God from all the options and second to practice fidelity to fellow-persons. It seems to me comprehensive fidelity to the-objective-truth, to self, and to other people is the best a person can do with his or her brief lifetime.

Just as a human being is not aware of the personal God of his or her conception, he or she cannot select his or her destiny.

    

Letters

Tyranny over the minds of children (Ferris) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_91fc27aa-d55e-11e7-a3ac-3b3213391f3d.html)

Ferris’s point is too important to consider lightly.

Often the testing police are into social “science”, social studies, diversity, rights, racialism, and harmful topics foisted on the nation by the consequence of hubris caused by a misnamed justice: The Civil Rights Act of 1964. I’m thinking a better title and act might be to establish responsible, individual human freedom; Maybe call the revision “The Human Justice Act.” With this change, perhaps in 2017, Asian students would not be suing Harvard for entrance discrimination.

Ferris writes poetry in prose in “If you believe that the purpose of education is about human development, about igniting imagination and creativity, about the beauty and joy of learning, then do not ever give up.”

In fact, let’s get started. Make the next infants to be born in Baton Rouge destined to, over their first two to three decades, acquire the basic understanding and the intention to live a full life in freedom to pursue his or her happiness rather than the ideology an adult world would impose on him or her.

Merely on reading Ferris plea, civic citizens of Baton Rouge ought to initiate the needed reform now. The people who know how to accomplish this reform would come out of the closet the moment they realize that’s the justice most people want: Children who are coached to be responsibly free for a lifetime of learning.

Thank you Mr. Ferris and thank you, The Advocate, for publishing his letter.

Another liberal democrat (Aswell) (Dec 4)

Every person is free to pursue the happiness he or she perceives. I know I cannot afford medical services, so I watch what I eat and drink, exercise, and spend more than I want to for medical insurance. I have been working for these freedoms all of my life and always vote to preserve freedom rather than provide a nanny state.

Letting the agreement stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA be the razor’s edge on which a citizen may consider himself either civic or dissident, it seems to me Aswell would have to claim dissidence.

 

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

  

Again (Cal Thomas) (foxnews.com/opinion/2017/11/30/cal-thomas-return-virtue.html)

Like President Trump’s “great again” Thomas’s “virtue again,” recalls the narrow window from June 21, 1788 when 2/3 of the people in 2/3 of the states established the USA. They hoped the people in the four dissident states would join. One did before the USA started operating on March 4, 1789. However, the First Congress, with only ten states, by May had reinstituted legislative Protestantism by hiring ministers to make the legislators seem authorized by their deity.

Only by instituting civic justice---mutual, comprehensive safety and security for all willing people including elected and appointed officials---may the USA be good and enjoy civic peace.

Scripture has had 1700 years during which to establish justice. It has proven that only civic citizens may voluntarily establish justice using statutory law that constrains dissidents. Justice cannot come from religion, government or partnership of the two (Chapter XI Machiavelliansim as well as Abraham Lincoln’s 1861 observation).

  

1/3 noble (E. J. Dionne) desertsun.com/story/opinion/2017/12/03/e-j-dionne-jr-who-challenge-trumps-enablers/915194001/

I voted for Trump twice and am thus more than an enabler; more an empowerer.

But Dionne, in “truth, decency and democratic values,” is 2/3 wrong. “Truth” is insufficient to the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered, and this country is founded on republican values. That is the rule of statutory law that is continually improved.

Liberal democrats like Dionne are in no position to envision “a truce.”

  

“Rights” land (David Ignatius) washingtonpost.com/opinions/china-has-a-plan-to-rule-the-world/2017/11/28/214299aa-d472-11e7-a986-d0a9770d9a3e_story.html?utm_term=.0e41cad3e7fc

Having a plan does not determine success, as past communisms have shown.

However, Ignatius’s essay is worthy of reaction by a civic people. The first point that comes to mind is that since 1965’s “Great Society” we have been mired in African-American press for supremacy while the rest of the nations have continued the customary struggles for either freedom or dominance.

Our universities need to take heed and stop the social “sciences” and social studies aimed at satisfying the Congressional Black Caucus and other black power groups. LSU ought to reform practically overnight. Most Louisianans are civic citizens. (It takes one to know one.)

  

Radical racialism by AMO people (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/alton_sterling/article_fac199e6-d91e-11e7-a27b-a36b820f51cd.html)

I hope the judge considers this complaint frivolous.

Everyone can read the preamble to the constitution for the USA and observe that it calls for civic morality and responsible expression. Civic justice knows no race, and a lawsuit with no merit but race has no standing in this country.

However, verbal violence must be constrained. Consider for example a three-hour public debate from the past with this statement to the Metro-Council members: “Y'all could leave here right now and somebody angry cause of all of this could kill you." theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/alton_sterling/article_beb7fd0e-5f13-11e6-805a-dbdcf8fc02b2.html, August 10, 2016.

I wrote to the council and suggested they control that kind of threat. I feel they have done so since that meeting.

   

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.