January 18, 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 (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_c4eb1a52-f658-11e7-885a-ebed65d415e6.html)

One of the problems for me is that the data on charter schools and government oversight have been controversial. Recognition of the Blanco’s contributions denotes that the endeavor is only a decade old, whereas public schools date from 1821---had 200 years of development.

The recent letter to the editor about a particular charter organization was encouraging: theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_49ea472a-f701-11e7-9e52-eb056380b053.html and their website makes me wish I could go back to before, good as Staub School was to me.

I encourage other charters organizations to communicate through letters to the editor.

I am reminded of this fiscal conservative’s 2003 decision to vote for Mrs. Blanco for governor. Thank you, and best wishes, Mr. and Mrs. Blanco.

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Psalms 34:17-18 CJB)

“[The righteous] cried out, and ADONAI heard, and he saved them from all their troubles. ADONAI is near those with broken hearts; he saves those whose spirit is crushed.”

Dean says, “God can heal our broken hearts and our sinful behavior. Pray. He will listen.”

Prayer, meditation, exercise, and observing nature are all therapeutic, no matter what the reality of God may be. But fidelity to the-objective-truth is essential in preparing for both the expected and the unexpected in life. Time spent comprehending, understanding, and conforming to the-objective-truth is essential to human beings, and each one has the private authority as well as the personal judgement to choose that endeavor or not.

I think Dean emphasizes mystery at the expense of the-objective-truth, and The Advocate errs to publish the imbalance.

Letters

Social democracy (Duran, Jan 15) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_83820756-fadb-11e7-8e2c-5bed69791234.html)

Mr. Thibeaux, reflecting on your objections to my post, I thought about Charlottesville.

In my career, I learned that 85% of unwanted events are caused by management error. The managers---city fathers---at Charlottesville granted a protest permit to a group that attracted people with the will to harm others. The decision may have been made without awareness of possible association by willingly harmful people---bad actors.

However, the police, the first-responders, on observing the bad actors, did not like the dilemma the city fathers had placed on them and their families---perhaps did not feel prepared and equipped to protect the public. Their perceptions are part of the complex system, which a civic people endorse, for mutual, comprehensive safety and security. A civic people, not the dissidents, are responsible for public safety.

Over the past couple years, people have observed the harm that AMO disruption of the civic order incites. Moreover, there’s AMO complicity in spontaneous violence. It’s a question of egocentric demand for controversial “human rights”; see youtube.com/watch?v=OsfxnaFaHWI, especially the last two minutes. AMO recruits find themselves civil victims for other people’s causes.

The system of protest-permitting is itself a constraint on freedom of irresponsible speech. In Baton Rouge, groups wanted to exceed their permit and disrupt any street, road, or interstate they chose. However, a well prepared police force constrained them. In this AMO excited atmosphere Baton Rouge and Louisiana management upheld a civic people’s commission to assure public safety.

The school teacher in Vermillion Parish civically had her say, witnessed the vote, then acted uncivilly:  She made a bid to commandeer the meeting. Consequently, she was constrained by civil authorities, both the school board and their sergeant at arms. Perhaps she is an AMO victim; the comments of the crowd suggest she was taking the civil risk for their sakes.

We observe the same behaviors in Baton Rouge Metro-Council meetings. Self-declared AMO leaders speak. When they threaten the civil order or Metro-Council members, they are removed, and upon resistance may be handcuffed.

A civic culture will pass some legislation that clarifies the importance of “free and responsible expression,” so as to protect innocent people. The civic culture cannot yield to AMO or any other egocentric actions.

The equalizer in civic collaboration is the-objective-truth, which has been hidden in Western thinking by hallowed theism like, “Nature and Nature’s God.”

Thank you, Mr. Thibeux, for collaborating, and I look forward to your proposals for establishing a civic culture regarding expressions: AMO-chaos is not a viable option, and maintenance of the present risks to innocent citizens does not seem moral.

Civic dissident (Mouledous) (theadvertiser.com/story/opinion/2018/01/17/voices-what-can-learned-vermilion-parish/1039613001/)

Mouledous expresses support for chaos rather than order and doesn’t imagine negative response from a civic people.

“Civic” denotes people who both collaborate for justice and support mutual, comprehensive safety and security. For people in their states, the civic agreement is stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA. The Louisiana Constitution has a better defense of free and responsible expression.

It is a travesty against children that Louisiana classrooms have teachers who do not trust and commit to the preamble. A civic people could help reduce the tendency for chaos by celebrating and promoting the preamble as affirmation of personal authority for responsible freedom.

Our next scheduled EBRP library meeting, will mark the fifth annual Personal Independence Day celebration, commemorating June 21, 1788, when the people in nine states ratified the preamble and the articles of the constitution for the USA. They hoped the people in the other four free and independent states would join, and eventually, they did.

This year marks the 230^th year since nine states established the USA, according to the agreement reached by the thirteen free and independent states. Significantly, the preamble stipulates that the people in their states authorize and limit the USA. Because political regimes obfuscate the civic agreement offered in the preamble, that civic ratio, 9/13 has not increased, so far. AMO, social democracy, and other distractions from the American republic exacerbate the division. Other nations and many U.S. citizens do not understand the American dream: private liberty with civic morality.

It is altogether fitting for a civic people to annually celebrate each citizen’s human authority to behave for civic justice and to collaborate for continual improvement of statutory law as humankind discovers and applies the-objective-truth rather than competes for dominant opinion. Hence, the style, Personal Independence Day, each June 21.

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I studied proposals to bring back earmarking re-marketed as “congressionally-directed spending.” See theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/republicans-trump-earmarks-congress/550313/. I wrote to my three congressmen to resist.

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.