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.
I like the
prior comments and want to add some points. This editorial seems like erroneous
bait and switch.
The subject
seems to be an old meeting with David Vitter:
nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2018/01/jpso_deputies_obtained_video_o.html . It seems
like typical shady politics in Louisiana---hard to decide that fellow civic
citizens in different politicial camps actually abused civil order.
However,
The Advocate introduces the subject as its erroneous perception “civil society
is under threat.” I wonder what “civil society” means to The Advocate; I
suspect “social democracy.” I think in social democracy, government guarantees
each citizen human rights according to his or her opinions and each citizen
votes for representatives. In other words, social democracy offers a nation, a
people, chaos rather than statutory justice.
With left leanings, The Advocate criticizes a citizen who
objects to the FBI’s failures respecting the investigation of Secretary Clinton
and the DNC, because that citizen also is president of the USA. Many media
writers don’t admit that some U. S. presidents use the constitution for the USA
to establish and maintain the American republic. They are elected to get the
job done according to their abilities. President Donald R. Trump has a unique
way of observing Matthew 7:6, which I paraphrase, from observing him the last
couple years: Withhold integrity until you perceive and confirm you are offered
integrity. Trump makes it clear that being president does not exclude him from
being a civic citizen. Past opinion need not constrain the president from
discovering civic morality.
Moreover, the 213
years since Thomas Jefferson objected to press abuse helps civic citizens
realize that a First Amendment that defends “free and responsible expression,”
both for the people and for the press is needed. In 1805, Jefferson said, “During this course of administration,
and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled
against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare.
These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and science, are deeply
to be regretted, inasmuch as they tend to lessen its usefulness, and to sap its
safety; they might, indeed, have been corrected by the wholesome punishments
reserved and provided by the laws of the several States against falsehood and
defamation; but public duties more urgent press on the time of public servants,
and the offenders have therefore been left to find their punishment in the
public indignation.”
Jefferson did not have the Louisiana Constitution’s protection of
free and responsible expression for both the people and the press, but The
Advocate has that guidance. Why does The Advocate fail to observe the Louisiana
Constitution? Are The Advocate writers aliens to the state? Doesn’t The
Advocate appreciate Albert Einstein’s 1941 assertion that liars cannot communicate---take
themselves out of civic collaboration?
The example of the teacher in Vermillion Parish illustrates
both points. The teacher had her say but then wanted to hold forth indefinitely,
disrupting the civil order. The Advocate takes the teacher’s side, against both
a civic people and civil statutory justice. It is past time for a free and
responsible press in these parts.
Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Psalms 34:10-12 CJB), The Advocate,
January 2, 2018, page 5B.
“Young
lions can be needy, they can go hungry, but those who seek Adonai lack
nothing good. Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear
of Adonai. Which of you takes pleasure in living? Who wants a long life to
see good things?”
Dean says, “All parents would do well to follow the teaching
above.”
Religious stories are inconsistent, so I adamantly disagree.
Parents are chronologically old enough to realize that the only species that
has the physical and psychological power to control his or her energy is the
human being. Therefore, each human has the authority to either collaborate for
responsible freedom or compete for egocentric liberties.
David erred to rely on Adonai for civic morality (David
practiced infidelity---egocentric liberty). Collective New Testament writers,
admitting David’s error to rely on God for civic morality, asserted that salvation
was for the hereafter, yet by grace, civic infidelity during the believers’
life is forgiven. That is, believers enjoy antinomianism. However, we
experience and observe that civic infidelity begs woe during life. The pope suffers
the woe of priestly abuses and his failure to take civic charge. These 1700
years of civic abuse do not prove that the Church will survive its evil without
reforming to observe the-objective-truth in life regardless of hopes for the
afterdeath.
We’ll learn about the afterdeath soon enough, unless death
of the mind, body, and person, is dust.
I find The Advocate’s publication of Dean’s advice a moral travesty:
like sex, religion is an adult practice. Children should be coached to beware
of sex and religion.
Letters
Social democracy (Duran) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_83820756-fadb-11e7-8e2c-5bed69791234.html)
I agree.
I think it is time to put some legislative force behind the
Louisiana Constitution’s protection of free and responsible expression for both
non-media citizens and the citizens or aliens who write for the press. For
example, fine a media writer a year’s salary for a column like Cohen’s. Don't
add to the 227 years opportunity for the few honest media to responsibly
research and report with integrity.
If an NFL player can be fined for taunting or for injuring
an opponent, a writer can be fined for statutory offenses. In other words,
write a list of offenses and assign penalties, even jail time and expulsion
from the profession.
To JT McQuitty: The rules aren't written yet, and
the way I presented the case, rules could come from the media rather than from
government.
But on your
defense of Cohen, I'd suggest a Louisiana statute would address the editor who
published Cohen's inflammatory column. To be explicit, the fine would be levied
on The Advocate.
Another rule
could be that a person who yells “Fire!” in an auditorium may face 5 years in
prison for each consequential death and two years for each hospitalization.
Another rule
could be that any group that routinely incites violence that causes injury or
death to the police in order to protect the group's freedom of expression
cannot hold an assembly in this state. For example, media workers have
purposely defamed Allah and that is simply too inflammatory for a civic culture
to assign police protection.
In case your conscience
isn't burning , for you, JFM, to defame my ideas by citing “Hitler, Stalin, or
George III” is a civic offense much like an attempt to limit free, civic
expression. I write for private liberty with civic morality, which does not
call for a fellow citizen's verbal violence like citing those infamous
characters. However, carry on as you prefer.
To JT McQuitty: Beware politicians peddling
"evidence-based truth," a product of "social science," a
statistics generating and manipulating tool of social democracy. Social
democracy is a favorite in Europe, where citizens neither understand nor want
the American republic---the deliberate development of statutory justice. By
"beware" I mean be reluctant to endorse their influence.
See Oren Cass,
"Policy-Based Evidence Making," National Affairs, No. 32, Summer
2017, page 52,
nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/policy-based-evidence-making to grasp
the civic harm of social science.
Dreams of a social democrat (Schell) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_f79b35f0-fadf-11e7-9fed-cb1d39291833.html)
Ray, some of your wants exceed a
civic people’s viability. If the dissidents gained control, economic ruin would
soon follow.
You seem to ignore viable actions
the people are taking. For example, moving an entire village to higher ground.
See nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2017/05/climate_change_already_forcing_17_us_communities_to_move_new_analysis_says.html.
Of course the caption draws attention away from the combination of subsidence
and a century of jettisoning silt into the Gulf of Mexico instead of letting it
rebuild the delta.
Republicans have been known for
the fiscal responsibility that preserves individual liberty in order to pursue
personal dreams rather than to serve the emotional passions of social democrats,
criminals, evils, and aliens. A Machiavellian Chapter XI Christianity-government-partnership
is imposed on them by political regimes supported by declining factions,
formerly a majority but now on the run. Consider, for example, their ruinous
squabble in the Alabama Senatorial race featuring Roy Moore. I dub them the
Christian gestapo.
The largest
religious faction in the USA, after 230 years of progress, is the non-churched
majority, presently about 25% of inhabitants. The closest churched faction is
the Catholics at about 20%. Next is Baptists at under 9%. That’s right: Civic
citizens who most Christians erroneously label “atheists” are now the majority
in the USA. The continuously oppressed faction of US inhabitants is now the
majority!
I
adamantly oppose your dream that liberal democracy could ruin the American
republic: You, my friend Ray, write in
support of civil chaos rather than civic justice. Vote against Democrats, the
social-democracy gestapo.
Edwards picked the people’s pockets (Hewitt)
theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_c5b54482-fa16-11e7-a1d3-db359a893599.html
To Philip Frady: I did not vote Jindal and would
never vote for Jindal, unless 1) he reformed from his actions for Chapter XI Machiavellianism
and 2) for some reason the other candidate in the race was civically worse, for
example, part of a skin-color group such as the Congressional Black Caucus.
John Bel Edwards is a Chapter XI practitioner (consider the apparent Vatican-Edwards partnership), but a believer acts like a believer when he or she is one of the believers. In other words, they are un-civic in a population that is mostly un-civic.
The signers of
the constitution for the USA (1787) read Machiavelli (1513) and offered the
opportunity to terminate the Chapter XI squabbles between 1787 Christian factions.
However, with free inhabitants who were 99% factional Protestant yet freed from
the Church of England, the First Congress (1789) unconstitutionally restored
the European practice of touting legislators as divine---in other words, emissaries
of God.
The U.S.
Supreme Court’s recent opportunity to correct this 229 year old legislative
error or tyranny was a failure, with a 5:4 majority opinion (Greece v Galloway,
2014). Citizens who object, as I do, are niggling, according to the court. But
consider Christianity’s responsibility for the Civil War: no one with a 7:27
military disadvantage would fire the first shot were it not for religious
conviction. And the Declaration of Secession affirms my claim. The USA may
reform from governance by majority opinion to majority collaboration in order
to discover and benefit from the-objective-truth.
In a civic
culture, justice that conforms to the-objective-truth is for the here and
religion that serves the believer is for the hereafter (Scalia).
Columns. (The
fiction/non-fiction comments gallery for readers)
Edwards picks his
grandchildren’s pockets
(Lanny Keller) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/lanny_keller/article_257c0e7a-fa3d-11e7-9091-776b62e686e2.html)
It’s no wonder,
that about GARVEE bonds, Mr. K indolently wrote, “don’t ask.”
Here’s one URL:
transportation-finance.org/pdf/funding_financing/financing/mechanisms/bonding_debt_instruments/GARVEEs_What_Every_Manager_Should_Know.pdf
. “If your grandkids will use it, let them help pay for it!”
That’s about as un-American as it
gets. I hope the Louisiana Legislature stops Edwards (with The Advocate
support) picking the people’s grandchildren’s pockets.
Un-civic Christianity (Kathryn Jean Lopez)
uexpress.com/kathryn-jean-lopez/2018/1/12/dont-rage-against-or-with-a
Of all people, believers who profess
Christianity may extend mercy and the benefit of the doubt. It’s a matter of
honest integrity. For example, consider the pope’s reception in Chile. Cold
because of priestly abuses of believer and their children. What has President
Trump or his administration done to Lopez? Is she writing about hearsay?
Passing on other people’s lies?
And all those helping hands are
done for Jesus, according to the scripture. The subjects of the good are mere
pawns in the reward system. Indeed, the Knights of Columbus are not held in
high esteem by indigenous Americans. The pope is not held in high esteem by
priests’ victims.
If I wanted an example of morality,
I could choose Lopez as an example of un-civic behavior. If President Trump met
with her for civic collaboration, he might exercise Matthew 7:6 his usual way,
which I do not know. It seems to me, he gives the other party time to establish
integrity. If they do not do so, he returns the behavior they expressed to him.
If the other party expresses hate,
he finds a way to bounce the sentiment back to them. In other words, he acts
like a mirror physically or like a Sunday school class intellectually or like a
human psychologically. If my impression is close to what-is, I would like to
always be around him and be able to observe his actions for a long time.
Enemy of a civic people (Richard Cohen)
washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-most-consequential-accomplishment-so-far-isnt-the-tax-bill/2018/01/15/2472ca58-fa21-11e7-a46b-a3614530bd87_story.html?utm_term=.2d3a859d5d50
Cohen considered, “What makes more sense: I or I’d?” Cohen, controlled
by lying to Cohen, observed that I makes more sense. However, the reader knows
he or she would not believe I, so the reader concludes that President Trump
said “I’d” and once again acts on behalf of a civic people, whether Americans
or American allies. Dissidents have their reasons for being dissident.
Cohen and his media buddies and fans remain aliens to civic justice.
“Victim” collectivism (Dan Fagan)
theadvocate.com/new_orleans/opinion/dan_fagan/article_5affcb1c-fad9-11e7-ac0f-5715ca9cc060.html
AMO (Alinsky-Marxist organizers) look
for likeminded groups to collect as a majority in voting. In other words, in a
pure democracy, a majority may be established by collectivism. That’s how
factional Christianity dominated in the USA from April-May, 1789 until the
transition the USA is in. We are in the midst of the end of Cristian domination
in America’s civic life, because the largest faction of the population is
non-religious yet civically moral. We may see the establishment of the American
republic at last.
The USA is at a fork in the quest for civic morality
after five decades’ dominance by AMO, with its techniques of 1) disruption of
the civic order and 2) incidental violence against the civil order. This half
century followed a century of failure to benefit from the Civil War. Without
Christian dominance, the Civil War could have settled 1500 years’ “more
erroneous religious belief” (quoting the Declaration of Secession, 1860).
Locally, the Civil War was to settle the injustice of slavery, for which the
USA accepted responsibility on June 21, 1788, when the people in nine states
ratified the constitution for the USA hoping the other four free and
independent states would join the USA. One did before operations began on March
4, 1789.
After 229 years operation, the civic agreement that is
offered in the preamble to the constitution for the USA is not a priority to
many Americans. In fact, few know it offers a civic agreement that leaves them
dissidents to civic integrity, for one reason or another. Too many people do
not understand that the 1787 American dream is individual freedom-from
oppression so that civic citizens may responsibly practice the liberty-to
pursue personal preferences rather than someone else’s plan for the person’s
life. Ministers of Christianity are among the most egregious offenders against
personal, human authority.
The human being is so powerful that it takes three
decades for him or her to acquire the knowledge, understanding and intent to
live a full, human life---to embark on young adulthood to earn a living,
including accumulating wealth, so that he or she has the means to discover his
or her mature person. A mature person is the consequence of his or her
personally favorable choices made during some five to six decades of adulthood.
Infidelity is cruel, promising early death or late woe.
Humans are influenced by community to think that a
higher authority is needed for life success. Fortunate is the person who
realizes early in life that he or she has the only authority over his or her
energy. He or she has the power, both physical and psychological, to establish
responsible freedom. Only he or she can develop the judgement to guide his or
her path to self-discovery, in other words, psychological maturity. In psychological
maturity, a person is free from both external and internal constraints. He or
she has discovered and practices fidelity to the-objective-truth. People who
choose a higher power often do so by default and discover ruinous tyranny over
their lifetime.
These ideas seem easy enough to understand. Attainment
also seems possible, because some people achieve psychological maturity. What
is difficult to accept is that a future with more people working for and
achieving fidelity is possible, merely because the idea is being expressed. Believers
who are absorbed in the belief system find it difficult to imagine the
possible.
It seems to me Israel is a
good example of nation’s---a people's---approach
to psychological maturity. The people of Israel seem to behave as though
fidelity to survival is more important than fidelity to a chosen people: justice
is for the here, and salvation is for the hereafter. I am grateful for my
Jewish neighbors, both near and far.
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.
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