January 16, 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.   

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Proverbs 9:10 CJB), The Advocate, January 2, 2018, page 5B.

“The fear of Adonai is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of holy ones is understanding.”

Dean says, “Do you want to be wise? Follow the instructions above.”

First, a person may choose the definition of “Adonai” (Solomon) or “the Lord” (Dean). I think it is physics as energy, mass, and space-time, from which the-objective-truth may be discovered. For example, the earth is like a globe rather than flat; if a person lies, assume he or she is not a holy one; if a person bleeds, assume he or she is not immune to death.

    

Letters

Government of, by, and for the unaware (Kearny) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_e13bbf22-fa18-11e7-8dc0-4778cc8a4627.html)

“. . . civic dialogue . . . most of the public is completely unaware of the redistricting process and cannot, therefore, form an opinion on it to inform its choices in the ballot box.”

“. . . the public will want a system that conforms to basic concepts of fairness . . .”

“. . . the public will certainly entertain the notion that there could be a better way. Let’s work together to find it.”

Kearny exposes his unawareness/obfuscation of the civic issue: Democrats seek to control of districts so as to isolate unaware (dissident) voters.

The preamble to the constitution for the USA offers a civic agreement whereby citizens may choose to act in their personal, best interest. By accepting the agreement, the civic citizen accepts their human authority to collaborate for responsible freedom. People who, for their reasons, reject the agreement are dissidents.

  

Among the dissidents are citizens who do not wish to stay informed; work for the freedom-from oppression; exercise the liberty-to responsibly pursue personal dreams; and vote for their personal interests. In other words, citizens who are willing for someone else to decide their vote; that is, people who are willing to cooperate with block voting; like in, people who think the Democrats will take care of them.

What’s unfair is that unaware people may vote. The people need a license to vote that assures 1) citizenship, 2) psychological maturity more than chronological maturity, 3) fundamental understanding of the American republic, and 4) awareness of a few of the top ten issues in the voting district, at least.

It is immoral for a people to encourage some citizens to live on the backs of others. A civic people take care of those who cannot take care of themselves, but not those who can but won’t.

Edwards picked the people’s pockets (Hewitt) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_c5b54482-fa16-11e7-a1d3-db359a893599.html

We learned to grab our wallet anytime John Bel Edwards said, “It’s the right thing to do.”

Now we see some facts: $500/month/signee, 83% of signees not seeking medical care, 33% of signees not working!

At some $12 billion spent (nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/12/louisianas_medicaid_spending_o.html) , we’re talking $10 billion wasted---no service requested. Shame on Gov. Edwards.

  

Work requirements and co-pays are mere patches to this apparent robbery by Mr. Edwards. He could have worked with Senator Cassidy. Perhaps he was betting on Secretary Clinton. However, it is time for him to wake up and reverse this travesty against the people of Louisiana.

Senator Hewitt, it seems to me you are working on bills that would address 33% of the $2 billion in actual services. Thus, your $8 co-pays and work requirements don’t seem to promise much savings. Maybe consider reduction of the income allowances.

  

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

  

A dissident (E. J. Dionne) (desertsun.com/story/opinion/contributors/2018/01/15/e-j-dionne-jr-trump-exhaust-our-democratic-capacities/1030615001/)

It is good of Dionne to label himself social democrat. That makes it clear that he opposes the American republic.

In other words, he seems a dissident in this country, at best. He wants conflicting egocentric chaos rather than developing statutory justice.

  

Spending (Cal Thomas) journalnow.com/opinion/columnists/cal-thomas-let-s-cut-spending/article_6590f53b-39e3-5c8e-9ace-54846c32728b.html

Thomas is at his worst when his religious zeal (hubris, pride, self-wisdom) overrules humility; he writes self-contradiction regarding self-reliance. 

Many people in 2018 think of the Salem Witch Executions (26 killed) when the word “Puritan” is used for civic arguments. Puritanism is another of those religions that would persuade an individual to try to evade the inalienable human authority to establish responsible freedom. (Belief in crime is another.) Attributing evil decisions to religious belief or doctrine is abdication of the human responsibility for self-reliance.

When a religious institution establishes a record of brutality, like severing heads, cannibalism, hanging "witches"and crushing warlocks, a civic culture shuns those institutions and may annihilate them if they persist. Where Puritans Christians? Is attention to them warranted?

What is Thomas thinking? He seemingly has no grasp of what the 1787 signers of the constitution had discovered: freedom-from oppression and liberty-to responsibly pursue private happiness rather than the dictates of someone else.

In 2018, some ideas from the founding of the USA still hold true: smart work, comprehending early education and fidelity to the-discovered-objective-truth throughout lifetime, savings as a living-expense, and private liberty with civic morality; in other words, civic justice.

Anyone who suggests that President Trump opposes the constitution ignores the court appointments he effected, and may be called out for the fallacy. I appreciate Thomas’s prompt. The media more than the Democrats publish mendacity. Trump applies his Matthew 7:6 attitude toward mendacity and gets the job done. 

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.