February 3, 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_866146e0-0863-11e8-a218-8734519a9046.html)

“. . . said Tulane President Michael Fitts. ‘The best of all worlds is simply to change the culture.’”

Citizens, from pre-school through adulthood, may be coached (cannot be taught) to collaborate and establish a civic culture that transcends all responsible associations and opposes injustice. For example: civic citizens develop their interpretation yet the original intent of the agreement that is offered by the preamble to the constitution for the USA; in both private and public connections, first do no harm; humility toward the-objective-truth (the discovered, the un-disproven, and the unimagined actual realities) empowers comprehensive fidelity; appreciation facilitates respect and love; and human justice is an individual, personal commitment that offers dissidents, first, constraint when harm is discovered, then reform.  

Our Views (Feb 3)

“New Orleans . . . Carnival promotes itself.”

Then why does The Advocate disparage Mobile?

Thank goodness fans can choose Baton Rouge, Denham Springs, Addis, Lavonia, New Roads, Lafayette, Shreveport, and many other towns that are not so depraved, egocentric and threatening.

It would not bother me if, by reformed intent, New Orleans became the safest town in Louisiana.

  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Proverbs 10:11-14 CJB), The Advocate, February 3, 2018, 5B.

"The speech of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the speech of the wicked is a cover for violence. Hate stirs up disputes, but love covers all kinds of transgressions. On the lips of the intelligent is found wisdom, but a stick is in store for the back of a fool. Wise people hide their knowledge, but when a fool speaks, ruin is imminent.”

Dean, omitting all but V. 12, says, “Let love win the day.”

Solomon seems to advise people who develop awareness and understanding to speak up for human appreciation so as to expose the folly of hate. However, Solomon does not support the humility required to share knowledge, perhaps expressing erroneous teaching. Dean escapes the difficult issues in Proverbs 10 by dumping the responsibility on “love.”

The Bible addresses one human issue by which people who seek awareness and understanding may establish self-reliance instead of chalking human justice up to “love.” The issue is slavery. Everyone knows that slavery is OK unless it is applied to them.

Everyone can appreciate the injustice a slave endures and do all they can to stop it. Above love, appreciation and humility are far more effective tools for human justice.
 

After all these years publishing Dean’s erroneous teaching, The Advocate ought to offer readers civic advice on how to defeat hate. For example, in daily living, with each thought, work, and act, first do no harm.

Letters

Discovering the future (Cobb) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_f53af668-0784-11e8-b566-0ff5d9754c62.html)

The Paris Climate Agreement was good for some countries at the USA's expense---much bigger than a Louisiana issue.

Population growth has affected the earth and its atmosphere. Some peoples and groups propose to limit population growth.

Humankind is aware of overpopulation, and is working to discover viable options. I don’t think a civic people will go along with Cobb.

The pipeline is a Louisiana crude-oil transport project. Dangerous and exhaust-gas generating truck traffic will be replaced by the pipeline. Thank goodness the project is underway.

  

Selective facts (Spillman) (theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/18/trump-in-moscow-what-happened-at-miss-universe-in-2013)

Fact: Trump was in Moscow in November 2013 for a pageant; theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/18/trump-in-moscow-what-happened-at-miss-universe-in-2013. Trump had conversations with Russians. The Democrats used the facts to fabricate a story. Liberal democrats still in official roles imagine they are creative enough to keep the story alive. They may be begging woe. We’ll see.

  

Columns

Clerics (Cal Thomas) (tribdem.com/news/editorials/cal-thomas-trump-makes-statement-at-state-of-the-union/article_36c621d4-0848-11e8-9865-b73c3167c444.html)

I want President Trump to pledge support for Americans “who want to take their country back from clerics.”

Respecting constitutional law, I am an establishment originalist. By that I mean I want restoration of the civic agreement that was offered on June 21, 1788, when nine states ratified the draft constitution for the USA, signed on September 17, 1787. That draft separated church from state. However, the first Congress, during April-May, 1789, established legislative divinity by hiring clerics to serve Congress.

I want to restore America's promise of private liberty with civic morality rather than clerical imposition of eternal religious error.

(My comment was accepted on the above web site.)

Repeal Edwards’ executive orders for additional woe (Chris Jacobs) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_bc38f012-06cc-11e8-8dff-e782bdb111d4.html)

Edwards’ victims are typically, “The most vulnerable of our citizens — the children, our senior citizens, our veterans, individuals with disabilities.” That includes patients who could be cared for at home instead of in nursing homes.

“Medicaid expansion . . . prioritizes the needs of able-bodied adults.”

“Instead of digging deeper with more taxes and spending, lawmakers should . . . freeze enrollment in Medicaid expansion.”

I tried to find the full report, but could not, even at pelicaninstitute.org. (That’s a complaint.)

News

John Kennedy (Bryn Stole) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_57a0dbb2-0846-11e8-8638-0389b443549b.html)

  

Seems like John Kennedy is a civic citizen more than US Senator. Party man seems the last of his concerns. I like what perceive.

 

Civic citizens operate every day in every way with intent and fidelity: first, do no harm. When they humanly err, they admit it and make certain not to repeat it, empowered by humility.

US Attorney (Joe Gyan) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/courts/article_771f2094-079b-11e8-9158-7f4696aac26e.html)

  

“Violent crime accounted for 37 percent of the office's prosecutions, followed by immigration crimes at 26 percent, white collar crime at 14 percent and drug crimes at 10 percent, according to a 2017 annual report released this week by acting U.S. Attorney Corey Amundson.”

Other forums

Review & Outlook, “A Reckoning for the FBI,” Wall Street Journal, February 3-4, 2018, page A12.

Even the Wall Street Journal arrogantly defies the US Constitution’s promise of a republican form of government: “[The FBI conduct] is unacceptable in a democracy and ought to alarm anyone who wants the FBI to be a nonpartisan enforcer of the law.”

Popularly exercising irresponsible freedom of the press, the WSJ begs woe by pandering to the world’s liberal democracies. Democracy not only promises but delivers chaos. American republicanism---the quest for statutory human justice---promises and delivers civic order.

A civic people will do all they can to preserve the American republic---the rule of statutory justice---despite the WSJ and other irresponsible media.

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.