February 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.   

  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Leviticus 19:1-2 CJB), The Advocate, February 13, 2018, 5B.

" ADONAI said to Moshe, "Speak to the entire community of Isra'el; tell them, 'You people are to be holy because I, ADONAI your God, am holy.”

Dean, omitting all but V. 1, says, “God’s people should be like him.”

To many indigenous people of this land, God has red skin.

Letters

Stay with Trump-Pence for now (Amador, Feb 9) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_8a54b7ea-0d00-11e8-b511-f7a9f0e4b00d.html)

To John Smith: I appreciate your frustrations with my expressions and moreover the chance to clarify my ideas.

First, I connect paragraphs as follows:  “. . . the agreement that is offered in the preamble divides citizens into two groups: those who read and accept the agreement and the dissidents. Many . . . are also dissident against human morality. [The preamble] is designed for an aware, informed people who work not only for a way of living but for civic morality during their lives.” Notice this was my second post.

Please refer to my earlier post, “Let citizens collaborate for statutory justice---written law and written law enforcement that continually advances . . . the-objective-truth rather than dominant opinion. Let the common good be mutual, comprehensive safety and security so that people may pursue the happiness they perceive rather than someone else's dictates for them. Also, so that dissidents may know why their harm invited constraint . . . not a matter of dominant opinion, such as American Christianity.”

 
Together these ideas characterize me as a champion for private liberty with civic morality, where “civic” refers to people collaborating for each other’s comprehensive safety and security according to reality more than ideality. I think your generous post questions how people may collaborate for private liberty with civic morality.

First, you refer to “your ‘contract for a civil society’.” I oppose “civil society” and do not intend to socialize or civilize myself again in this lifetime. I am a champion for every person who trusts-in and commits-to the preamble’s goals, civic morality with personal liberty. “Human rights” such as those by the United Nations are constructs from social democracy and deviate from the-objective-truth. Every human has the right to know math is falsehood: Every human has the right to learn math.

I am neither right-wing nor libertarian nor democrat. I lead two meetings, now in our fifth year. First, Personal Independence Day each June 21, celebrating the establishment of the USA on June 21, 1788 by the people’s representatives in nine state ratification conventions. Second, Constitution Day, each September 17, commemorating the signing of the draft constitution for the USA, and establishing the signers, 2/3 of the delegates representing 12 states, as The Founders. Any reference to “originalist thought” is valid if referenced to the 1787 document.

Most citizens are led by political regimes that gain power on the people’s satisfaction with ignorance. The many citizens today who can be influenced to think the USA’s birthday is July 4, 1776 are erroneously influenced by revisionists who do not like the facts:  July 4, 1776 was a declaration of colonists turned statesmen in independence from England, its church, and Blackstone common law; at the time, among the 80% free citizens, only 40% were statesmen, 40% were passives, and 20% were loyalists; their loss to the empire seemed inevitable until they partnered with France, for whom the battle at Yorktown was merely a strategic extension of their ongoing war with England; the victorious Americans, in the Treaty of Paris, 1783, accepted the global status thirteen free and independent states; the next four years convinced a few states that they must form a nation, so twelve of the thirteen met in Philadelphia. The facts show us that the nation’s birthday is June 21, 1788. “Divine” political regimes assert July 4, 1776.

 
Unfortunately, in April-May, 1789, the First Congress obfuscated the signer’s intentions by hiring ministers to establish that while Parliament has English divine authority, Congress has American divine authority. It’s been that way ever since. A civic people may reverse that folly anytime they perceive the need. Yet it is no folly to the people who subjugate others under American divinity, commonly referred to as Judeo-Christianity:  They are serious about maintaining their divine rights.

  

The perpetrators assert that wealth is a divine right: without the Grace of God, they’d be poor. I work for change, not by Marxist disruption, but by persuading most citizens to commit to the agreement offered in the preamble. It calls for integrity.

In my play, “Sincere Liberty,” I paraphrase George Washington’s 1783 fourth pillar of a nation that might survive: “Prevalent goodwill, among the people of the United States, so as to overlook local prejudices and policies, to make mutual concessions for general prosperity, and to sacrifice individual advantages in order to establish a culture of integrity.” loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/amrev/peace/circular.html
 
I urge people to consider the attainable, future civic morality with private liberty.

Other forums

Book review (Paul Kennedy) (Plotting a New Course for the West, WSJ, February 10-11, 2018, page C5); wsj.com/articles/review-when-the-marshall-plan-helped-plot-a-new-course-for-the-west-1518212300.

Kennedy quotes George C. Marshall’ speech at Harvard on June 5, 19747, “Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos.” Then, he covers the history of the Marshall plan:

·         Offering to help European countries recover from WWII to avoid a Communist takeover.

·         A deviation from Roosevelts policy of neutrality to European matters

·         Truman’s support by and equally committed Congress

·         Stalin opposed the Marshall plan, and Germany was the target resistance

·         There was a Keynesian benefit on both sides of the Atlantic

·         Dawn of the Cold War

·         Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989

·         50^th anniversary speech by Sec of State Madeleine Albright, Harvard, June, 1997.

·         Author Steil not polemical [aggressive attack on opinions of another person]

·         Mr. Steil concludes, “[grand strategic vision is] grounded in realism no less than idealism.”

I need to take advantage of these lessons: Phil, be assertive but not aggressive.

Message on FB:

If you are the gentleman I heard on the radio today, I would like to talk to you about an idea that empowers me and I think would appeal to you.

The idea (working for five years now in EBRP library meetings) produced the recent statement: every human has the opportunity to develop his or her inalienable authority to: in every thought, word, and action, first do no harm.

I've been working on it for about four weeks, and over the last couple days I reviewed it with my daughter and wife plus my best friend outside the family, considering whether or not the statement should be changed from "first do not harm" to "first intend no harm," admitting that we are human and do not know the-objective-truth. We agreed that despite possible failure, intention is inadequate:  It must be "first do no harm."

If this is interesting to you, please respond, friend me, or call me at 225-766-7365. If I heard your relative and you'd prefer him to respond, please forward my request.

I am 74, 51 year Baton Rougean, in our 48th year of honeymoon, parent of three, and a person who admits to himself he does not know what he does not know.

  

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.