February 8, 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_6eb64ee4-085b-11e8-90d1-6baa74360f89.html)

The Advocate is egregiously at fault for cooperating with the Louisiana Family Forum’s work to impose Christianity on captives.

  

Only The Advocate, in Louisiana has the research abilities, archives, and information about Christianity’s 1700 years of ruin to humankind in general, Europeans particularly, and this country as a victim of Africa’s commodity trade: African slaves.
  
I nominate February, 2019, as the year for Black History Month to explore the history of Africa’s bitter fruit and its progress toward civic morality. In 2018, there are some thirty million to forty million slaves worldwide, with leading trend in Africa. See washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/10/17/this-map-shows-where-the-worlds-30-million-slaves-live-there-are-60000-in-the-u-s/?utm_term=.cacbc8bb35f4 and cnn.com/2017/09/19/world/global-slavery-estimates-ilo/index.html.
 
Because of the Church’s injustice, the trend among black people in 2018 is that God’s chosen people are black, and there is no way they will collaborate with white people. See abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/campaign-poor-holds-1st-national-action-52827837, which was also published by The Advocate.

Regarding the above three paragraphs, it is egregious that writers for The Advocate do not recall what The Advocate published along with the facts that are available to them.

Consider the Church’s egregious influence on Robert E. Lee, who in 1856 wrote from Texas to his wife in Virginia that the abolitions were attempting to intervene in God’s plan to redeem black people even though God’s methods may take millennia. See leefamilyarchive.org/9-family-papers/339-robert-e-lee-to-mary-anna-randolph-custis-lee-1856-december-27.
 
With a slave-states ratio to free-states ration of 7:27, one is constrained to ask his or her person:  Against such odds, how could a people bring themselves to fire on Fort Sumter? The answer is “more erroneous” Christian belief.

This doom was assured for 1861 when, in April-May, 1789, the first Congress, with congressmen from ten states, reversed the separation of the USA from the Church which the signers of the draft constitution for the USA offered on September 17, 1787. Those congressmen established for themselves the appearance of divine commission they were accustomed to for Britain’s Parliament. The US Supreme court erroneously endorsed legislative divinity in Greece v Galloway, 2014. The 5:4 majority left for a moral court the opportunity to end 225 years of immoral charade. Shame on them.

But right here in Louisiana, the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary partnered with Burl Cain to abuse captives in Louisiana prisons. Have The Advocate writers no remorse for the damage done to citizens by ministers?

I commend Louisiana to protect convicts from ministers. A civic people coach convicts to acquire civic morality for living but have no business tampering with personal hopes for their afterdeaths. Neither Louisiana nor the Church knows anything about even one individual’s afterdeath. Everyone hopes for the best, but no one can promise anything.

   

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Mark 5:36 CJB), The Advocate, February 3, 2018, 5B.

"Ignoring what they had said, Yeshua told the synagogue official, "Don't be afraid, just keep trusting."

Dean, omitting all but V. 12, says, “You have a choice. Fear or faith in God. Which will it be?”

I don’t tolerate coercion, especially threats from G. E. Dean.

Letters

Helping males (Washington) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_83ee7fce-0c26-11e8-aad0-5fa52219cab7.html)

According to an erroneous Christian faction, the fix is expected in eternity. According to another religious faction, the only way a white person can save his or her soul is to help black Americans gain supremacy.

A civic culture separates the Church from state. The USA offers, in the preamble to the constitution for the USA, a civic agreement which Frederick Douglass affirmed. He said, “. . . the Constitution is a glorious liberty document. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gate way? or is it in the temple? it is neither.” See historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/douglassjuly4.html.  Douglass appreciated the 3/5 clause: “. . . instead of encouraging slavery, the Constitution encourages freedom by giving an increase of "two-fifths" of political power to free over slave States.” See blackpast.org/1860-frederick-douglass-constitution-united-states-it-pro-slavery-or-anti-slavery.

We encourage Baton Rouge citizens to contemplate the integrity for living that is expressed in the civic agreement that is offered by the preamble: Reject the dominant opinion that is promised by the Church, social democracy, AMO disruptions, OFA, or other divisive institutions.

  

Our preamble meetings at EBRP libraries have produced promising ideas. For example, each individual may develop, in personal living, the Hippocratic oath: in every thought, in every word, in every action each day, First do no harm. That's right: each willing citizen practices the medical doctor's oath.

Also, as things are, the individual has the inalienable authority over his or her person’s energy and may develop the wisdom to practice fidelity to the-objective-truth rather than compete for social democracy. Adults may coach children in this practice. By collaborating for civic morality, in other words human morality, more than for the city, a society, or a civilization, civic citizens can establish an achievable, better future. Baton Rouge can be the first city to enjoy private liberty with civic morality, in other words, statutory justice, instead of competing for dominant opinion.

Our next meeting is planned to celebrate our fifth annual Personal Independence Day, June 21. On June 21, 1788, the USA was established by the people’s representatives in the nine states who ratified the draft constitution for the USA and its preamble. It claims USA governance for the people in their states. We are the generation that may restore the USA to its original intentions: private liberty with civic morality, in other words, human justice.

  

JTM:

  

According to the cite below, "first do no harm" is not in the Hippocratic Oath. The cite also points out that the injunction "first do no harm," applied as an absolute, could cause considerable harm.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/.../first-do-no-harm...

To JT McQuitty This is a cute essay, but I have two problems with it. 

First, right at the end, it redeems the rule with "The fact is that when difficult, real-time decisions must be made, it’s hard to apply the “first, do no harm” dictum because estimates of risk and benefit are so uncertain and prone to error." Being difficult to apply does not negate intentions.

Second, the diagnosis argument is false. Dr. Gahan prescribed a z-pac saying I had bronchitis, but he also sent me for a lung x-ray. The next day, the nurse called and said he wanted to see me at 9:00 AM. He told me I had a spot on my lung and he was sending me for a CAT scan. The next day, the nurse called me in. Dr. Gahan said it seemed I may have lung cancer and he was sending me for a PET scan. I asked, "Do you mean that in a few days we might be talking about how long I have to live?" He responded, "That's possible, but we are going to do everything possible to prevent that."

That's the kind of First, do no harm I am writing about. 

Thank you, Dr. Patrick Gahan, Dr. Mark Hodges, Dr. Gerald Miletello, Dr. John McClellan (retired), Dr. Walter Bringaze, and all their staffs, for whom I am grateful to be lung-cancer free.

Thanks for enriching my background on the oath.

  

Columns

Common good (Adam Knapp) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_1b9a4ce6-0aaa-11e8-ad98-974fbe7d284f.html)

Knapp commendably covers many issues but what can be done when the writer enjoys the swamp.

Public policies help develop “prosperity for individuals and communities.”  Inventive programs should be avoided unless necessary to “influence behavior.” Tax bad behavior but not good behavior. Homestead exemption is good (why?) but expensive (how much?). I get 20% exemption while a manufacturing company can get up to 100% abetment.

Gov. Edwards, by executive order, required local (Parish? City?) approval and an 8 year limit on abetment. But he gave no guidelines for the approval process. Consequently, 64 parishes are confusing industries. Gov. Edwards ought to resign.

BRAC guidelines include: net gain in state revenues, favor to small business expansion, capital expenditures, updating capital, and creating jobs. BRAC or Knapp seems kinda mushy.

Business doubts have increased.

EBRP plans to collaborate some how, and Knapp likes that for mushy reasons. He expects to overcome “rhetoric” and cooperate for the common good.

Professors in this country have 300 years of literature aimed at the common good, and look where we are: Conflicting for social democracy when the constitution for the USA promises a republican form of government: statutory human justice. We are in regression.

Dialogues on race and God (Cedric Richmond) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_9f881b46-0c2b-11e8-9141-83da6b81ff64.html)

Some people know and like the idea that A Civic People of the United States arranges public discussions at EBRP libraries to promote use of the civic agreement that is offered in the preamble to the constitution for the USA rather than lamely referring to “we, the people.” Politicians whom I have contacted know I contacted them.

When Mayor Broome was elected, I contacted her proposing to discuss our work. She suggested after the inauguration we’d have a conversation. I do not like to go alone, and discussed with a colleague plans for a meeting. He said he would help prepare but would not attend, because he has nothing in common with Ms. Broome. Then, I learned her platform is dialogues on racism and church.

I cannot explain President Trump’s success, but do not quarrel with his method of handling the opposition; perhaps Trump has a special tactic guided by Matthew 7:6. I have nothing in common with Cedric Richmond, yet offer my sympathy.
 
Most politicians I read about are aliens against the American republic, and Richmond is among them. The current quarterly, National Affairs, has the article, “Strangled by Identity” by Rishabh Bhandari and Thomas Hopson; nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/strangled-by-identity. They describe three American political factions: the black vs white combatants; the non-citizens vs citizen-liberals; and the cosmopolitans---a faction who think they are above the fray. There is some overlap by Samuel Gregg in “. . . far from being dominated by economic concerns, American politics has steadily drifted in the direction of a mixture of phenomena such as identity-politics, debates between nationalists and globalists, and persistent arguments about social issues, ranging from abortion to gender ideology.” See libertylawsite.org/2018/02/08/unreality-and-incoherence-reign-at-the-vatican .
  
I think the American dream is private liberty with civic morality, in other words, human statutory justice. The American dream is possible under a republican form of government, but cannot be attained by democracy, social democracy, liberal democracy, socialism, communism, racism, originalism, liberation or any other alien idea.
  
I feel alien, preparing for our fifth annual meeting to celebrate June 21, Personal Independence Day. On June 21, 1788, the people’s representatives for nine states established the USA. I hope Baton Rougeans will attend and share what the preamble means to them and how it might be promoted.

Meanwhile, I will continue to express my support for separation of state from both church and racism.

Other forums

An American analog (Karen Elliot House) (wsj.com/articles/saudi-reforms-get-a-boost-from-google-1517777813)

Mimicking a quote from this article, “Almost since the founding of [the Congressional USA in May, 1789], its stability has rested on three pillars: unity among the [elites], their symbiotic cooperation with the [Judeo-Christian] religious establishment, and [the continent’s] wealth.” See the actual thoughts in Karen Elliott House’s article, “Saudi Reforms Get a Boost from Google,” The Wall Street Journal, February 5, 2018, page A17.

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Thank you, sir.

Each individual has the authority to discipline his or her every thought, every word, every action so as to establish civic peace. Neither God nor government usurps an individual's opportunity to develop personal judgement so as to maintain fidelity to the-objective-truth. Yet, so far, humankind has only glimpsed some of the-objective-truth. For example, the earth is like a globe rather than flat. And lying never pays. However, humankind has not disproved extraterrestrial life or a Creator. Therefore, if an individual uses spiritualism or religion for motivation, inspiration, hope, comfort, or any other reason that does not prevent his or her civic morality, no human should object or interfere. Only the dissident against statutory justice is subject to constraint, and then, only when actual harm he or she caused is discovered. Statutory justice is written law and written law enforcement that conform to the-discovered-objective-truth rather than dominant opinion (democracy, according to some opinions). The principle goal of statutory justice is civic-establishment rather the retribution.

If and however the above paragraph appeals to you, please collaborate for wide understanding and practice. If so, we may have an achievable, better world starting with your first collaboration.

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.