March 15, 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 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_f821234c-27b0-11e8-8bbd-2b55e7f8e3a2.html)

Baton Rouge and Louisiana are shamed by this awful incident. Zachary police says the judicial system is irresponsible. Why did The Advocate, in “Our Views,” protect Judge White and the system that keeps her on the bench?

Our Views (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_ac7d23b8-27b1-11e8-a3c9-538ee247d344.html)

I think its cool that Gov. Edwards released $60 million. There’s nothing like honest sunshine on privation of integrity.

Thank you for announcing parlouisiana.org/sunshine-headquarters.

  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Psalms 51:10 CJB), The Advocate, March 7, 2018, 7B.

“Create in me a clean heart, God; renew in me a resolute spirit.”

Dean says, “God will answer this kind of praying.”

I’m not so certain there’s a God that would tolerate an individual’s claim that they did not have a clean heart and sufficient spirit. It’s OK for Dean to have such arrogance, but other people may not mimic him.

What if The Advocate personnel who publish Dean invite woe?

Letters

Embryo cartoon (Cavanaugh) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_9aafbc84-27a9-11e8-a63b-bb226653ab92.html)

Civic appreciation of lawyers is scarce for a reason. In this instance, my friend Michael draws undue attention to the Second Amendment’s militia language. More pertinent is a 2008 Supreme Court opinion.

“District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), is a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held, in a 5–4 decision, that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to possess a fire arm unconnected with service in a militia for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home, and that Washington, D.C.'s handgun ban and requirement that lawfully-owned rifles and shotguns be kept "unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigger lock" violated this guarantee.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller

If one retired chemical engineer can cite the facts, a retired lawyer ought to know them, and a retired attorney ought not slight them.

I’m sometime asked questions about chemical engineering, and I am careful not to exceed my time of service, ended in 2001.

  

Harrah’s bill (Jaeger) (theadvocate.com/new_orleans/opinion/letters/article_6a7df182-27a6-11e8-99aa-e7f72e312be3.html)

  

I appreciate the information and the prompt to write to my state representatives.

For easy communications with representatives, oppose both HB 553 (legis.la.gov/legis/BillDocs.aspx?i=233968&t=text) and HB 583 (legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1072836).

Columns

Press writers’ hypocrisy (Michael Gerson) (washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-evangelicals-have-sold-their-souls/2018/03/12/ba7fe0f8-262c-11e8-874b-d517e912f125_story.html?utm_term=.a81d05c3138e)

Mom worked in the home, being a good Southern Baptist and Eastern Star. Dad worked, read, thought and acted. I fell in love with MWW and have honeymooned and parented for five decades.

I am no evangelical. After serving chemical engineering for thirty-five years, I was retired and later discovered the phrase “the-objective-truth,” which can only be discovered.

  

In this last year, the-objective-truth informed me that there are no journalists---only writers for press anonymity. The First Amendment civilizes the press to freedom. However, the-objective-truth holds the press to either responsibility or woe. I have yet to discover much press-responsibility. Maybe Byron York and an economist or two.

Neglecting responsibility, many writers for the press ignore journalism to favor hubris. Michael Gerson is one of the proudest press-writers I have encountered.

The GOP fielded a group that could not imagine Donald Trump more promising than them, and in the process, he chose Mike Pence as running mate. I voted for them and hope to do so again. It depends upon how the-objective-truth seems to me at the time.

The DNC tried to offer me Hillary Clinton with somebody. It was obvious at the time that Alinsky-Marxist organizations (AMO) were operating to elect her, no matter what. After the election, Obama emerge as the AMO prince with OFA; nbcnews.com/storyline/democrats-vs-trump/obama-aligned-organizing-action-relaunches-trump-era-n719311.

Hillary Clinton is part of the hypocrisy that convinced “our democracy” that some men are so valuable they can take advantage of women. It was an outrageous time when the law let Bill Clinton of the hook with a debate about what “is” is. The hypocrisy of America is its judicial system based on dominant opinion rather than the-objective-truth.

If journalism existed in America, a writer for the press would have written the above paragraph instead of a citizen who served thirty-five years and remains a chemical engineer.

A press that honestly had integrity would have retired Gerson long ago.

As for Trump-Pence, we’ll see how my two votes turn out. Will I vote for them a third time?

Will’s folly (George Will) (washingtonpost.com/opinions/whats-the-real-down-syndrome-problem-the-genocide/2018/03/14/3c4f8ab8-26ee-11e8-b79d-f3d931db7f68_story.html?utm_term=.1411953e150c)

The-objective-truth informs humankind they don’t know enough to criticize mothers who decide to not remain pregnant for their reasons. George Will jumps in and says, “I know enough.”

  

I hope Will reflects on his arrogance enough to retire.

If technology follows George-Will-divinity back to conception, humankind will develop the technologies to prevent spontaneous abortions and still births and to assure that every blastocyst attaches to the mom’s womb. If so, the birthrate in America will jump from 4 million/year to way beyond the 9.1 million known conceptions/year.

The adult misery imposed by such arrogance may be astounding.

I hope Iceland sues Will for his hubris in sheer folly.

Other forums

Comments after reading the book “Tom Paine and Revolutionary America,” Eric Foner, 1976.

The human individual has the authority to behave according to personal preferences during every moment of life. Unfortunately, many individuals neglect rather than responsibly develop their inalienable power to behave. Some choose un-civic behavior. Some dissidents think crime or worse pays. Civic immorality collects as misery and loss; actual reality. The-objective-truth could have influenced the good.
 

Civic morality---collaboration for mutually comprehensive safety and security for living---is a practical choice that is made by many individuals. Religious morality---eternal perfection after death---is a mystery many individuals accept. Civic morality is public practice: religious morality is private hope.

Civic morality with private liberty is proposed in the agreement that is offered in the preamble to the constitution for the USA. The preamble’s goals for living people address the-objective-truth at the leading edge of discovery rather than of the past. Civic morality with private liberty is an achievable dream that American political regimes have, so far, suppressed.

American settlers discovered freedom-from the oppressions of their homelands, and many individuals exercised the liberty-to responsibly pursue the happiness they perceived rather than accept someone else’s plan for them. Freedom-from oppression and liberty-to responsibly pursue personal happiness persists today, but the preamble’s collective power has been neglected. Americans have, under political regimes since the USA was established on June 21, 1788, collectively adopted the oppressions the preamble and the rest of the 1787 Constitution disestablished. Generations since 1788 have neglected the American dream: private liberty with civic morality.

Humankind has developed morality during some 3 million years. Individuals among the 7.6 billion people in existence may live 72 years, never considering civic morality. Morality during the last 50 years seems divergent from past human progress. The preamble’s promise could help all mankind if most Americans accept individual authority to trust-in and commit-to the preamble’s goals.

American citizens may terminate the preamble’s neglect when most individuals collaborate for private liberty with civic morality using the-objective-truth.

I read and write both to learn and to collaborate, so please comment.

 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.