January 21, 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_14ac7660-faf7-11e7-8545-43c2c24c50b3.html)

To Percy Barleau: Mr. Barleau, I agree. And:

In the distant past, I might have given a benefit of the doubt. I might have strained to perceive justice in the state turning less than $1 billion underfunding into a $2.8 billion cliff.

However, the statement, “The governor makes only the first move in the annual budget process,” comes from a free and irresponsible newspaper. It exacerbates my perception that Gov. Edwards operates as a free and irresponsible official. He knows the budget he will present on Monday can serve whatever whims he has. At least The Advocate made me aware of the Edwards charade.

Incredulously, at his first opportunity, Edwards imagined no more LSU football in Tiger Stadium. Last year, he ruined attention to a legislative task force’s ideas by proposing a well-known super sales tax; theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_9fccc746-0b69-11e7-afc4-a76f47935a95.html.

The Advocate has the obligation to the people to remind Edwards of his six failed bloviatings about more money for him to spend.

The federal tax reductions will mean more revenues for Louisiana, and Edwards will try to take from the people while The Advocate beats its drum. I hope the legislature finds ways to reduce state taxation of individuals, despite The Advocate and the Governor.

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

  

An AMO priest? (Tabitha Mustafa, Jan 20) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_f3063914-fbf1-11e7-bc4a-fbf7d2aff812.html

This is to enumerate Mustafa comments that I think reflect AMO training, either locally, perhaps with Together Louisiana or Together Baton Rouge, or in Chicago, perhaps at Industrial Areas Foundation or at Organizing for Action, also in Washington DC.

Reference to Jim Crow South keeps alive the Marxist idea that dead victims need retribution from live “oppressors.” It exculpates Africans commodifying Africans, perhaps a future feature of Black History Month. Nobody laments slave-trade’s evil within Africa. Extension of “racism” to the Arab v Israeli political conflict is AMO gold for political coalition.

Injustice anywhere . . . everywhere,” vainly claims the right to define justice and to direct its attainment.

“None free until all free,” likewise would define freedom and the authority to impose it.

  

“Broad coalition [for] human rights” erroneously asserts that a selected many can impose “human rights” on the individual.

“Respect for ‘inclusion and diversity’,” arrogantly asserts that existing rather than giving demands respect. Respect for one person may follow appreciation by the other person.

“boycott, divestment, and sanctions” represent organized disruption of the civic order as a tool of power by which to impose a minority opinion. That is the primary tactic of Alinsky-Marxist organizers (AMO), and AMO managers know full well that the impassioned recruit for the AMO cause may suffer violence either to or by their person.

“We are your neighbors,” carries the promise, “We will appreciate you if you accept our demands.”

A civic citizen is constrained to ask, if BDS truly uses AMO tactics, why would the New Orleans City Council pave its way? It seems that five decades of AMO successes has led AMO groups to contrive to establish a coalition of minorities that can control the vote. However, their aim is the chaos of social democracy without economic resources.

The rude awakening that the USA is a representative republic that discovers economic viability despite all opposition rather than a social democracy that cannot pay its bills came in November, 2016. Individuals who want private liberty with civic morality will wake up to the evil of AMO and make certain the current resistance does not overthrow the American republic.

No one can predict the future. No people (nation) in the world understands the American republic. And many Americans unfortunately neglect the voluntary civic agreement that is offered in the preamble to the constitution for the USA. Nevertheless, We the People of the USA tacitly and actively expresses that it values private liberty with civic morality. The USA has Christian origins and human humility, yet its claim to separate church from state has never wavered, because the people value civic morality. I hope and trust that that unique humility and commitment will never end.

As soon as people accept the evil of AMO and social democracy, local reform, such as restoration of American republicanism in New Orleans, will be possible.

The USA is a republic designed to prevent democracy (Walter Williams, Jan 20) http://dailysignal.com/2018/01/17/republic-not-democracy/

Every citizen may consider Williams’ views, setting Hillary Clinton’s naive arrogance aside.

Consider the Marshall quote, “Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.” In other words, social democracy promises chaos rather than the American republic’s order.

Williams claims “The word democracy does not appear in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, or any other of our founding documents.” “Any other” seems absolute.

Williams taught me something about Federalist 10, which uses “democracy” five times, modified the first time: “From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction.” So Madison, was not talking about the majority vote, as Clinton might wish. He talked of “a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person,” like Greek (Athens) governance 2500 years ago. I appreciate Williams challenging me to reduce my ignorance. Yet my earlier understanding persisted.

Williams then quotes some founders claims against democracy, including Federalist 10, ending with the Marshall quote, above.

Then, Williams claims, “The founders expressed contempt for the tyranny of majority rule.” Tyranny of the majority, a minority, and a coalition of minorities are each addressed in Federalist 10. AMO works for a coalition of minorities in order to control the majority vote.

What today’s AMO recruits may miss is that the group that has impassioned them to be active for a cause is headed by a committee. And that committee may be forming a coalition with another committee the recruit would not support. The AMO committee cares not what the recruits think, want, need or expect, and it operates as a pure democracy or to the appeal of a tyrant, such as, it seems, Saul Alinsky.

An LSU student who tried to recruit me never understood why I refused to read the Saul Alinsky books he recommended. He could not conceive that five decades ruin due partially to Alinsky was enough information for me. I also do not consider communist literature among my possible reading list. He never answered my question, “Are you an Alinsky trainee?” He seemed to think I wanted the civic morality he wanted. A self-styled Marxist, perhaps he could not conceive private liberty with civic morality. I expect change.

Williams offers citizens a wonderful chance to learn by trying to refute his claims.

In the comments; to Mr. Sposato: I do not doubt your honesty but think you are not admitting to yourself: social democracy or liberal democracy is a world problem that is resisted by most Americans. They want private liberty with civic morality. Other nations cannot imagine let alone mimic the American dream: human justice.

Americans can learn to articulate this dream by considering, paraphrasing, adopting, promoting, and celebrating the preamble to the constitution for the USA. It seems the world's greatest offer for a civic agreement.

Higher authority (Dan Fagan) theadvocate.com/new_orleans/opinion/dan_fagan/article_f960717e-fbd5-11e7-ba6a-77bfaf6b24ca.html

Fagan, this is a chance to consider 1) your words and 2) perhaps reform. Influenced by and erroneous culture, you wrote, “the sweetest of God’s creation.” I think the boys who are cruel to dogs are sweeter than dogs but misguided by a society or a civilization of adults.

  

The problem is that a culture convinced the boy he could use his human energy for evil. If he was taught about God at all, it was that God would save him from evil if he would submit his will to God.

Belief in God is an adult choice. Children should be taught reality: Of all the living species, only the human being has the power to control his or her energy as well as his or her judgement. Infidelity to that fact begs ruin of one human life: his or hers. Energy and judgement are for living: God is for possible salvation during the afterdeath.

Even though this may be a first encounter with one perception of the value of a human life, the challenging thoughts may be taken sincerely.

Higher authority (George Will) washingtonpost.com/opinions/theres-nothing-more-depressing-than-a-cheerful-liberal/2018/01/17/aa2eacc4-faea-11e7-ad8c-ecbb62019393_story.html?utm_term=.739def593246

Will has always been fascinated by his writing. So fascinated that he fails to communicate.

If, in this column, his caption promises to say why liberals overlook the loss of trust in government, the message I got is that the free-spending Democrats felt they could control government by buying votes. However, Democrats overlooked the reality that Jews understand “the bigger government becomes, the more it is manipulated by those who are sufficiently confident, articulate and sophisticated to understand government’s complexities, and wealthy enough to hire skillful agents to navigate those complexities on their behalf.”

“This is why big government is invariably regressive, transferring wealth upward.”

Does this explain Will’s leadership in the resistance to Trump? I doubt it. It seems past time for Will to accept that he is a writer---and retire.

Other Forums

facebook.com/groups/classicalsociologicaltheory/permalink/1874242216235996/ and follow thread and subthread under S M Ashek Hossain Aug 28, 2017

What most people want is to live at the leading edge of human morality. Such living requires work all during life.

 

But there are two lifetimes involved: humankind's perhaps 2.8 million years and the individual's some 90 years. Humankind seems on a deliberate march to understand morality, but currently seems regressive, with peoples (nations) moving further apart. Cultures have evolved or not, and people tend to migrate toward economic viability. When there are resource advantages, people want to horde and isolate.

In the worst cases, erroneous people think it is necessary and moral to acquire nuclear armament. Some nations count on others to moderate this threat. Several nations state plainly they'd like to annihilate Israel: the people. With 6.5 million Jews in the world, democracy might be an expedient route to resolution. Some of the 300 million Arabs in the world might look at each other and say, "I voted for you just how I'd want you to vote for me."

 

Uitterhoeve views Norway's democracy as exemplary, but it's a narrow view within humankind's geopolitical reality. In Norway, 85% of inhabitants are registered Christian with 10% unaffiliated, leaving only 5% other religions (FN 1). However, only 62% of inhabitants claim to believe in God (FN 2). Thus, while Norwegians claim Christianity, they tend toward atheism, which may indicate they use the Bible more to justify compassion for "victims" than for salvation. They were early supporters of LGBT lifestyles (FN 3). I think impassioned politics begs woe.

 

Norwegians benefit from practical management of the country's natural resources: petroleum, shipping, and fishing (FN 4). A referendum to keep foreigners out would probably have democratic success; not to suggest that Norwegian resources are not available worldwide.

 

I think the neglected American dream, for the individual, is private liberty with civic morality. Is there, and if so, what is the neglected, individual Norwegian dream?

 

FN 1: globalreligiousfutures.org/countries/norway#/?affiliations_religion_id=0&affiliations_year=2010&region_name=All%20Countries&restrictions_year=2015.

FN 2: independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/norwegians-believe-in-god-majority-do-not-for-first-time-ever-a6943706.html

FN 3: latimes.com/local/la-on-norwaymarriage18-2008jun18-story.html

FN 4: weforum.org/agenda/2017/04/lessons-from-norway-the-world-s-most-inclusive-economy/

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.