January 13, 2018

Phil Beaver seeks to collaborate on the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. The comment box below invites readers to write.

"Civic" refers to citizens who collaborate for responsible freedom 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 to us by the USA. I am willing to collaborate with other citizens on this paraphrase, yet may settle on and would always preserve the original text.   

Our Views, moral doubt (theadvocate.com/new_orleans/opinion/our_views/article_9a914b1e-f7c0-11e7-842f-939b8f936c0a.html)

I agree with prior commenters excepting Kooi, who I doubt understands what makes America unique in the world: freedom-from oppression with liberty-to responsibly pursue personal dreams rather than the religion, politics, empathy, compassion or other doctrine someone prescribes for you. (Dissidents, perhaps Kooi, may accept the dream and live it rather than strive to impose personal opinion on civic citizens.)

Recalling the day after I learned of Trump’s recorded locker-room talk (according to him), I am today faced with a twice-voter’s dilemma---my personal values versus possibilities to preserve the American republic. Will my intent to vote for Donald Trump a third time and fourth time survive?

I rationalize as follows:

Trump is unabashed in his tweets, many of which rankle me; yet I want America to be great and think he can come to the realization that “again” is only a slogan. His tweets may lend him reliability in a world of lies. He remarkably hides his truths to avoid lying use of his revelations. In other words, he takes Matthew 7:6 with uncommon caution.

I do not trust America’s honest political enemies, perhaps The Advocate, for responsibility let alone integrity. Like the DNC, the press has been too free for too long to be anything but irresponsible.

Until proof, like a verifiable recording, is offered, I give President Trump the benefit of the doubt and defend his presidency. I accept his way of observing Matthew 7:6 as long as it works.

Without such proof he said those words, if Trump knows he said them, I hope his most trusted friend, apparently HWW (the best in me has been disclosed because of MWW and I), can convince him to reform. Reform is what the American republic needs for an achievable great-future.

  

If my rationalizations prove out, my intent for future votes survives. I think Donald Trump has unique potential to establish widespread adoption of the civic agreement that is stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA.

There’s nothing wrong with moral help from citizens who accept the personal authority and intend to establish responsible freedom in the USA, at last. I work to be a civic citizen, even though I know neither the-objective-truth nor the future.

To C. c. Dawson: Here's one publication that does not at all support The Advocate's assertion: huffingtonpost.com/entry/republicans-trump-shithole_us_5a5815b4e4b02cebbfda6179. I agree with you, and think The Advocate ought to come forth with the citation you request.

  

I think at best The Advocate honestly has never encountered integrity. Freedom without responsibility has gone on too long. A civic people need to amend the First Amendment to defend free and responsible expression by the people and the press.

  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Psalms 34:9 CJB), The Advocate, January 2, 2018, page 5B.

“Fear Adonai, you holy ones of his, for those who fear him lack nothing.”

Dean says, “God takes [care] of his own.”

This circular logic is expressed also in a song: “T'was Grace that taught my heart to fear
And Grace, my fears relieved.”
 

Belief is too akin to gullibility, pride, and hubris. Personal defense is offered by humility, which may lead to development of trust-in and commitment-to the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered, rather than imagined and constructed in a canon of books.

    

Letters

Private voting (Maturin) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_6b715104-f6fc-11e7-9b8a-07109fae4e97.html)

I think “democracy” as the right to vote if of age and non-criminal is unjust, and your letter supporting civil disruption provides evidence.

Perhaps justice calls for a civic people to license voting, much as licensing both vehicles and driving.

Some people don’t understand the reason to vote and how to choose a candidate.

Voters may comprehend personal basics: 1) what is the dream your life would achieve, 2) how does the USA offer the security by which you may pursue your dream, 3) how can you pursue your dream despite the uncertainties of the nation, the present, and the future, 4) what do you expect from fellow-citizens in order for you to have the liberty-to develop your dream, and, finally, 5) which candidate’s personal platform best supports your dream?

I think as a minimum qualification for license, a voter should tender their paraphrase of the preamble to the constitution for the USA, adapted to the trust and commitment on which they intend to vote, yet with affirmation that the original preamble has the essence for all voters.

To John Smith: From your summary, I see the possibility that this squabble has a history, and the conduct by the board was born of past, parochial exchange rather than civil order.

To Paul Spillman: It seems he did not know Robert's Rules of Order. Voters must decide whether or not a candidate intends to and can serve the office for which they are running. If the voter guesses, "No," then look for a better candidate.

Why Trump won (Bienvenu) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_eeaa7dcc-f6ff-11e7-82c0-cf303b1304e2.html)

Good letter, and it expresses three reasons. I think optimism like yours (and mine) is the third and prime reason we elected Trump.

Red lights (Nelson) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_4a2279de-f6fb-11e7-82ad-0ba228d0fcb5.html)

It’s not speed of life but egocentricity that causes the blatant disregard for civic morality we are experiencing. It is born of five decades of AMO---civic disruption to express the opinion, “I am a victim living among the oppressors, and therefore am licensed to do as I please.” As we saw last week, it even influences the teachers. And the Church exacerbates the problems.

AMO was born of the essential, just 1964-5 legislation against discrimination based on skin color. However, AMO intentions, which are parallel to those of the Congressional Black Caucus and other obsolete organizations, are to ride skin-color discrimination as long as possible. That is, resist freedom in order to benefit from skin color. (See Shelby Steele, “Black Protest Has Lost Its Power,” Wall Street Journal, January 13, 2018, Page A11.)

AMO makes a victim of the 1964-5 accomplishments by trying to collect groups who can be convinced they are victims and establish numbers by coalition. Everyone who is dedicated to justice may beware AMO and its affiliates: OFA, IAF with Together Baton Rouge, and others.

Civic citizens are in the process of recovering from AMO. It isn’t easy, but it need not take many years or decades.

Trump voters (McQuaig) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_6ab821aa-f6f9-11e7-b11e-236017e08de7.html)

The Advocate exercised sinister freedom of the press by captioning McQuaig’s letter “. . . the one who . . .,” perhaps to taunt McQuaig. I join McQuaig in the hope to vote again for Trump.

With all President Trump is accomplishing, we may see the end of each: AMO influence in this country; the campaign for liberal democracy instead of the American republic; the DNC, the GOP, and Libertarianism---a divided people. This generation may establish a culture of civic morality, which is offered by the preamble to the constitution for the USA.

I even hope for the end of the priest-politician-partnership that began in April, 1789, when the First Congress erroneously restored the legislative-deity-image the English parliament carried. These 229 years later, we know that each civic person has the authority for responsible freedom. The erroneous Supreme Court opinion, Greece vs Galloway (2014) can be reversed in order to establish civic morality in the USA, at last.

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

  

The un-christian Christianity took a blow (Rich Lowry) (nypost.com/2018/01/04/bannon-will-learn-that-he-cant-beat-his-own-prez/)

The elephant in the American republic is the end of the USA’s Chapter XI Machiavellianism. The un-civic alliance between factional Christianity and unconstitutional legislation is meeting its civil termination.

No longer can Congress, the administration, or the judicial branch pretend deity. And the media beyond the National Enquirer types may reform to try to forestall amendment of the First Amendment to protect a free and responsible press.

  

Media leaks (Byron York) washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-with-dc-distracted-immigration-debate-reaches-critical-point/article/2645246

York’s column created the notion that the media used Senator Dick Durbin to leak media plans to report a “shit-hole” comment about immigration for the swamp to gnaw on for a few days.

Beware (Clarence Page) chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/page/ct-perspec-page-oprah-president-trump-postman-0110-20180109-story.html

I think Page envisions his hopes

Phil Beaver does not “know” the actual-reality. He trusts and is committed to the-objective-truth which can only be discovered. He is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.