Reforming Alinsky-Marxist organizations

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 want to collaborate with other citizens on this paraphrase, yet would always preserve the original, 1787, text.   

Our Views (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_fb707ab8-2308-11e8-9efd-57917adc02a2.html)

The past five decades have informed the USA that Alinsky-Marxist organization (AMO) fakes non-violence yet fosters the passions that inspire destruction. If AMO is a destroyer---a force for chaos, how did it emerge and what sustains it?

AMO is a direct result of Africa’s bitter commodity: the slave. Papal bulls in the fifteenth century “authorized” each Portugal and Spain to colonize the Americas and supplement agricultural enterprise with African slaves. England, France, and Holland competed, and indentured slaves as well as free Europeans settled the Eastern seaboard. The settlers realized they were being enslaved by England, so declared then won independence.

Thirteen free and independent states realized they needed to form a nation and twelve wrote a constitution that provided for the end of slavery and thus liberty for all. The preamble and the articles of the 1787 Constitution are intended for every individual who accepts the preamble’s civic agreement. Nine states ratified them, establishing the USA on June 21, 1788.

From 1607 to 1787 (180 years), America suffered the imposition of slavery. From 1788, when the USA was established, until 2018 (230 years), the independent struggle to overcome the world’s imposition of slavery has continued in the USA. The USA’s civil rights acts of 1964-5 were intended to end the consequences of global imposition of slavery. What happened during the last 53 years?

The confluence of black liberation theology, black power, and Saul Alinsky’s organizational schemes created a minority belief that God is black and his chosen people are black skinned; AMO, Alinsky-Marxist organization emerged. In the late sixties, black power tried to effect Baldwin’s intentional  “fire next time.” But a civic people realize that their own community suffers and reform the spontaneity in (Spike) Lee’s “do the right thing.” Safety and security prevailed in Baton Rouge in the summer of 2016, perhaps because people recognize the Ferguson effect, but I think it’s because of something else. I think Baton Rouge people are a civic people, who perceive collaboration as the way to an achievable better future. We the People of the United States knows no racial division. The governor, the legislature, and black caucuses need to learn from the civic people.

During the special session, The Advocate personnel often pointed out that Democrats in the Louisiana legislature could not muster the votes to support a path to some income taxation ($80 million) and some sales taxation ($240 million) because of the Legislative Black Caucus. Why does The Advocate editorial today hide the black influence on government officials failing the people of Louisiana---a failure that hurts the officials themselves, their family, relatives and friends?

Members of the Legislative Black Caucus seem to overlook that they are citizens, too. Civic citizens, those who agree to discover statutory justice, don’t compromise, cooperate, or subjugate: they collaborate to discover the-objective-truth and effect statutory justice.
 
The Advocate personnel are citizens too. Why do they publish such biased opinion, even denigrating U.S. Senator John Kennedy? Why do those Advocate people favor social democracy instead of pursuing American republicanism?

The Advocate personnel could come to appreciate the agreement that is offered in the preamble to the constitution for the USA, urge citizens to consider it, and influence those who trust and commit to the civic agreement to contact their state representatives and ask them to reform so as to collaborate on the-objective-truth instead of conflicting for dominant opinion.
 

I'm writing to my state representatives.

Chronological list of Advocate articles reporting on Legislative Black Caucus

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Beyond The Advocate here’s a few reporting black caucus influence on the disaster:

kalb.com/content/news/Gov-Edwards-Next-24-hours-critical-in-special-session-475443263.html

kalb.com/content/news/Gov-Edwards-and-legislators-reflect-on-special-session-collapse--475939133.html

ourmidland.com/news/article/Blame-game-begins-as-Louisiana-session-appears-to-12728275.php

usnews.com/news/best-states/louisiana/articles/2018-03-05/blame-game-begins-as-louisiana-session-appears-to-crater

None of my black neighbors want such arrogance from the black caucus, as far as I can tell from conversation, connections, and transactions.

Updated 4/3/2020 to clarify "do the right thing."

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Mark 14:38 CJB), The Advocate, March 7, 2018, 7B.

“Stay awake, and pray that you will not be put to the test -- the spirit indeed is eager, but human nature is weak."

Dean says, “Prayer will save us a lot of trouble.”

Dean enjoys a trouble-free life and offers to share freedom from want. It’s a mystery The Advocate personnel habitually publish.       

Letters

Collaboration for the future ovum (Mitchell) (theadvocate.com07dffc68904d.html)

Mitchell raises a helpful issue. It may be resolved by my younger daughter’s civic watchword: collaboration.

Here’s one dictionary on “compromise”: settle a dispute by mutual concession. Synonyms: meet each other halfway, come to an understanding, make a deal, make concessions, find a happy medium, strike a balance; give and take. Each party starts with wants and compromises for less, counting on each other to stay with the plan. On the other hand, no one would compromise their beliefs, for example, their God.

Collaborate to discover the-objective-truth constrains opinionated wants excluding Divinity. The civic commitment is to keep religion private and develop comprehensive fidelity to the-objective-truth, and thereby, statutory justice rather than conflict for dominant opinion.

For example, everyone knows that monogamous marriage is challenging. The heterosexual commitment may be for children, grandchildren and beyond. Only 13% of heterosexual couples stay together for life, whether progeny come or not. Progeny observe heterosexual monogamy rather than read about it.

Some people elect homosexual monogamy. No problem. However, if the partners decide they want to procreate or at least parent, the-objective-truth about monogamy and fidelity to family comes forth from its existence. The partners may procreate with adult contracts, breaking the monogamy. Any children live in compromised status. First, they cannot directly experience a family with heterosexual monogamy and they must look to the same sex for opposite-sex living examples or read about it. Second, they are candidates to fall in love with one of the parenting partners (who would fault the breakup of a partnership for love?). One option is for homosexual monogamists to not parent, so that future ova do not face the consequences of adult contracts. As always, statutory justice does not stop immorality, but the-objective-truth clarifies the moral issues.

In a culture of compromise on opinion, the child has no say in the adult contracts. The child’s opinion has no standing. However, in a culture of collaboration to discover the-objective-truth, the child is represented before he or she is even an ovum.

Transgenderism seems an invention rather than a discovery. In a not so controversial, fictional metaphor, a person perceives he is really from Mars and has a strong desire to go home. Therefore, he volunteers for the first flight to Mars. The entrepreneur who is sponsoring the trip requires that all personnel onboard be capable of performing any of the required functions for the transportation, and that disqualifies the person who feels Martian. He applies to the court to force the entrepreneur to take him home, claiming the human right to go home. The opinion-based discussion can go on forever while the-objective-truth denies the claim. The perceived Martian may adapt to humanity.

Each individual has the authority to be a human leader (Manes) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_c32de65e-22f9-11e8-9394-8751779496c6.html)

  

An individual who was my peer for five decades told me that until I get an LSU law degree he does not want to speak to me. I told him I accept psychological ultimatums but will respond if he calls.

The problem is that professors teach what they study, which is rarely the-objective-truth. Presently, some professors are debating whether or not James Madison (d. 1836) revised his notes from the 1787 constitutional convention throughout his long political career. Good grief!  Despite Poly Sci 101, compromise is artful competition for dominant opinion when what individuals need is collaboration for civic justice.

Politicians have no authority but may be servants. Each individual has the authority to decide how he or she will behave in their pursuits of personal happiness. Some think crime pays and others, some from the very beginning of awareness, develop fidelity to actual reality; in other words, the-objective-truth.

An individual who develops that practice soon perceives that it is a comprehensive fidelity that extends to self, immediate family, extended family and friends, the people (nation), humankind, and the universe, both respectively and collectively.

If that individual offers to serve as an elected or appointed official, he or she collaborates to discover and benefit from the-objective-truth. Such official is not influenced by dominant, popular, or personal opinion. Presently, in the USA competitive impositions are Judeo-Christianity and social democracy, both of which bemuse the American dream.

The American dream is civic morality with private liberty; or mutual, comprehensive safety and security; or statutory justice. Statutory justice employs actual reality rather than dominant opinion to establish both the law and law enforcement so that individuals may collaborate for each other’s freedom-from oppression and liberty-to pursue personal happiness rather than somebody else’s idea for their lives.

This way of living is promised by the civic agreement that is offered in the preamble to the constitution for the USA. When most citizens trust-in and commit-to the civic agreement, politicians will begin to collaborate for statutory justice. Otherwise, those who think crime pays will keep on keeping on.

  

Columns

Teenage brains (Mark C. Benfield) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_a7a85d5c-231b-11e8-af72-a36862ca2931.html)

I’m glad to know of gunviolencearchive.org/past-tolls. It shows increases by incident categories as follows: total, 4.4 %/year; children through age 11, 4.7 %/year; teens 12-17, 8.5 %/year. Teen guns preferentially injure and kill.

There’s a factual correlation:  The human body does not complete construction of the wisdom-building parts of the brain until age 23 (female) or 25 (male).

Number of deaths grew by 5.5 %/year, with 42.7/day in 2017.

Traditional, elusive language (Walter Williams) (creators.com/read/walter-williams/03/18/hidden-agenda-or-ignorance)

To address individuals using guns for violence, Williams makes several valid statements:

“. . . focus on individuals.”

“Today, there is far less availability of shotguns, rifles and pistols than any time in our history. Have rifles and pistols changed their behavior from yesteryear and they are now out committing mayhem and evil?”

“. . . laws and regulations alone cannot produce a civilized society.”

From here, a perhaps new use of old words is needed:

“Morality is society's first line of defense against [un-civic] behavior.” 

“. . . [anti-civic] behavior will continue until we [establish] moral footing.”

The transition from “civil” to “civic” is made important when we consider that civic citizens collaborate so that each individual may enjoy private liberty with civic morality, and the anti-civic people are attracted to a better way of living. The place to start is for most citizens to trust-in and commit to the agreement that is offered in the preamble to the constitution for the USA.

Every human individual has the authority to behave as he or she wants to: civic or anti-civic.

   

Other forums

quora.com/unanswered/What-can-be-the-reality-of-mass-media-and-society

If either the media or society influences an individual, the individual is likely to compromise or subjugate his or her human authority to responsibly pursue the happiness he or she perceives rather than the happiness the media or society wants for them.

quora.com/Have-there-been-any-studies-on-the-damage-that-American-exceptionalism-and-their-victim-culture-does-to-society

  

The question, “Have there been any studies on the damage that American exceptionalism and their victim culture does to society?” seems like a lecture title. I will answer without hearing the lecture.

American colonists, during 1607-1720 experienced freedom-from the oppression they were accustomed to in Europe. From 1720-1763, they communicated with their fellow Europeans the need for the liberty-to discover their civic order, including the abolition of slavery. Slaves were the bitter global commodity of African kings. In 1774, 40% of free citizens on the Eastern seaboard styled themselves statesmen instead of colonists, and took steps to declare independence from England. Another 40% were pacifists and 20% were loyal to the English king.

In 1781, France finalized a strategy to entrap the English at Yorktown, Virginia, despite George Washington’s preference to isolate them on Manhattan. England surrendered to both France and the thirteen free and independent states in America. The 1783 Treaty of Paris followed negotiations between England and France, and the thirteen free and independent states ratified their treaty in 1784. For the next three years the states discovered they needed a union that was stronger than the existing federation of states. Twelve states sent delegates to Philadelphia and on September 17, 1787, only 39 of 55 delegates signed the draft constitution. The USA always had dissent.

On June 21, 1788, the ninth required state convention had ratified the constitution, establishing the USA. The nine hoped the other four would join the USA, and one did in time for the seating of the first Congress, in March 1789. Until then, the world’s first government designed to discover and use statutory justice, in Abraham Lincoln’s 1861 dream---of by and for the people, was under way. However, the First Congress bemused the process by restoring Blackstone but with factional-American Protestantism rather than the Church of England.

The 1787 statesman, without explicit articulation, had created a government that would advance each individual’s freedom-from oppression and liberty-to pursue happiness according to personal preference. I call it private liberty with civic morality, where “civic” refers to individuals collaborating for each other’s mutual, comprehensive safety and security. It’s my view of the American dream, and I work to restore it by encouraging citizens to use rather than merely refer to the preamble to the constitution for the USA, established 1788. Also, I never want to slight freedom-from oppression and liberty-to responsibly pursue personal happiness rather than someone else’s plan for you.

People who do not consider the preamble seem dissidents to justice and may be victimizing themselves. Consider, for example, the UN statement of human rights, which touts “freedom from want,” a de-humanizing idea. In a civic culture, every actual no-harm society flourishes. A civic culture is exceptionally possible in the USA, the republic that offers citizens a civic agreement that empowers collaboration to discover the-objective-truth as the basis of statutory justice.

I hope the civic culture that is offered in the USA addresses your three concerns: exceptionalism, victim culture and society.

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.