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

Our Views (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_2cd73a20-1bf6-11e8-b4b7-d37b72061a8c.html)

The Advocate does not admit that its support of liberal democracy and social democracy opposes the American republic---representative rule of law.

In “We don't believe this predictable confusion meets a reasonableness test . . .” The Advocate is too little too late. Writers may author effective “Our Views” at the time the errant political activists express themselves with nonsense. With plain talk, popular error can be constrained. The court is no place to rehash normal debate when an approved public project is under way: The unsatisfied activists should not be able to rehash their wants.

Freedom from want is neither a right nor a privilege rather is an AMO demand (Obama the AMO heir apparent . . . or is that err apparent). It’s also a United Nation’s human tyranny! See the FDR originated “freedom from fear and want” doctrine at un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/. If I fear my shadow, who has the authority to make me stop the fear? Who will assign the enforcer to tend to my fear? Who will buy his or her lunch? No one in the USA, according to the preamble.

The judge makes no sense. Laying this pipeline alongside existing pipeline does not expand exposed basin acreage, and blocking the connection of the pipeline puts the entire project in jeopardy. Good grief!

A civic people of the United States need to reform the judiciary system: The system supports blatantly errant judges and lawyers. Too many citizens do not know they have the opportunity to join We the People of the United States, who ordained and work to maintain the USA for private liberty with civic morality.

The USA is out of control because citizens and aliens are too busy carping about their lunch being eaten by the government. Wake up, civic citizens: A better future is achievable, but it takes involvement as certainly as keeping lunch on the table without thanking redistribution has its responsibilities.

To William Bonin:

Don't overlook this Feb 10, 2017 report on Obama: nbcnews.com/storyline/democrats-vs-trump/obama-aligned-organizing-action-relaunches-trump-era-n719311.

Our Views (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_efc48f90-1d6f-11e8-afdc-f7c0645e3822.html)

Granted, The Advocate may be a Catholic entity and thus have the prerogative to express its person in Catholic terms.

However, I assert that using Catholic expression to appeal for justice among a diverse citizenry is not a civic practice. The Advocate has the freedom to be un-civic, and even if the First Amendment asserted a free and responsible press, it seems unlikely that all un-civic media could always be constrained. The Advocate has the same option as every person: collaborate for private liberty with civic morality or insist on being dissident.

It’s true that “Louisiana has a long way to go to fulfill its promise.” As a keeper of the facts and developer of public dialogue, a hometown newspaper has an obligation to maintain responsibility to the aims and purpose of the USA. The aims are stated, as an offered agreement, in the preamble to the constitution for the USA. It is a civic agreement, and trying to impose Catholic terms on civic integrity is immoral.

The Advocate has the opportunity to update its annual “Our Views” for the Easter season so as to admit to The Advocate that the growing faction of Americans are non-religious first (24%), non-Catholic second (21%), and mainline Protestant third (14%). Blacks number 12% nationwide and 32% in Louisiana. If only 36% of blacks think God is brown or black, that’s equal to the 8% mainline Protestants in Louisiana. With Christians as divided as they are, civic collaboration requires sincere appreciation of non-religious citizens.

The Advocate’s focus on Catholicism is obsolete: un-American, even in Louisiana. The Advocate has a long way to go to fulfill its promise.
 

To JT McQuitty: I agree, and its been that way and worse for 229 years. I am reading Eric Foner, "Tom Paine and Revolutionary America," 1976, and on page 118, about 1775 Philadelphia, Foner writes, ". . . the Taylor's Company, specifically provided in its by-laws that 'no dispute respecting Divinity shall be introduced into this society.'"

 

The signers of the 1787 Constitution had kept that commitment, but the First Congress, by May, 1789, had reinstituted "Divinity" for American legislation competitive with English "Divinity" in Parliament. Our generation has the opportunity to restore what was lost between June 21, 1788, when nine states erroneously ratified the 1787 Constitution with the commitment to add a bill of rights (following English thinking) and May, 1789.

 

Interestingly, today, many black Americans decry Christianity as the instrument by which the elites enslaved and now oppress blacks. Many such blacks consider Africa the mother continent, Jesus brown, and God black. Of course, I think defining God with human characteristics like skin is erroneous, but I do not know the-objective-truth.

 

Non-believers pay the cost of the Holy Bible's curse on humankind, and in the USA, about a third of the population is non-Christian.

 

Statutory law and statutory law enforcement based on the-objective-truth rather than Divinity would help establish justice. The 1787 Constitution and the preamble offer a civic agreement. We need a civic agreement rather than a statement of human rights.

       

Christopher Simon “Possessed by God,” issuu.com/richlandcentershoppingnews/docs/sh0215, page 6

Being possessed by God is always harmful when the person has chosen the wrong God. I pursued mom and dad’s God for five decades until I realized they may have had the wrong God and I preferred the one MWW (my wonderful wife) had chosen.

That God is circular to the believing individual, no matter how many people erroneously say they agree, is so obvious it is amazing that advertisers would sponsor such bad advice. What’s worse is that a writer would present such bad advice. I’m certain life is at stake. Despite my doubt, possession might affect an individual’s afterdeath.

Letters

Social democracy religion (Caccioppi) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_c7934980-1ce3-11e8-94d9-0739bc5937d5.html)

I support Gegenheimer’s proposal: theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_eb1f51bc-11c8-11e8-811f-dbef08c3b618.html.

I urge that the plaques point out that the Declaration of Session concludes its complaints citing “a more erroneous religious belief” held by the North. The Civil War was fought to settle an interpretation of the erroneous Holy Bible regarding the slave-master relationship and vice versa. The South attacked on its erroneous beliefs and the North confirmed Frederick Douglass’s observation that slavery is alright for everyone but me. A civic people ended slavery in the USA.

As for Thomas Jefferson, a human, male enigma, yet an admirable person, perhaps hypocrite even in his era, I consider Mills’s claims raw meanness and ignorance against 2018 civic citizens.

  

A lawyer may know better and do better. But then each person has the human authority to behave either for justice or for dissidence.

Columns

Social democracy should be held liable (Walter Williams) (creators.com/read/walter-williams/02/18/another-liberal-created-failure)

I work hard to interest citizens in collaborating for private liberty with civic morality. Therefore, I consider myself a conservative liberal: an advocate for civic morality with private liberty. Civic morality is based on the-objective-truth.

I wrote to Williams to try to learn what he means by the word “liberal” in the phrase “liberal failure.” Did advocates for psychotropic drugs influence the closure of mental hospitals? And who opposes them? I found madinamerica.com/2012/11/five-types-of-mental-health-advocates/ for one.

I like Williams’s writing but want more clarity about the statement, “. . . the liberals who engineered the shutting down of mental institutions have never been held accountable for their folly.” Who should be held accountable?

News

St. George effort renewed (Andrea Gallo and Charles Lussier) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_0962de76-1e37-11e8-ac50-f7fe0687c3ec.html)

  

When the Metro-Council approves a vote for the CAO knowing the management is not good, and when miss-management surfaces in time to reverse the action and the Metro-Council gives them the money, it’s time for change, and it’s obvious only civic individuals can effect the change.

When the mayor announces a platform of church and dialogues on racialism, it’s clear that the erroneous Alinsky-Marx organization (AMO) has hit home. Neither black theology, black power, black caucus, or black God will usurp individual human authority to establish We the People of the United States, but black civic individuals can and may collaborate for civic justice.

The question is: Will the people of Baton Rouge collaborate to establish the agreement that has been offered We the People of the United States since 1787 or be dissidents to justice, as usual since May, 1789? That date, 1789, was the beginning of the regression the USA has suffered under erroneous “originalism” since it was established on June 21, 1788.

Originalism was offered on September 17, 1789 by 2/3 of the delegates to the Philadelphia convention. Regression to English common law was divinely legislated by the First Congress by May, 1789. The regression has dominated for the 229 years during which generations neglected the preamble’s agreement. Our generation has the privilege to effect the civic agreement.

I attend various groups’ announced library meetings hoping to help establish the agreement that is offered in the preamble to the constitution for the USA. I have yet to participate in Black History Month because I have never seen a program that explores the history of black people enslaving black people and selling them as a ship-laden commodity. Perhaps 30 million people are involved in this evil today.

We the People of the United States faced the consequence of subjugation to colonialism followed by the war for independence during the civil war and the next century.

To Nzingha Shabaka:
 
Every society falsely influences its children, but the human individual has the physical and psychological power to develop authority to control his or her behavior. Some individuals choose fidelity to the-objective-truth and to self. Such people acquire knowledge and develop understanding on their own. Their collaboration may create a civic culture, wherein every no-harm religion may flourish.

Just now, I recall a high-school teacher touching me inappropriately on several occasions. I acted unaware. In 1959, I perceived expressing sexual autonomy. Just now, I view it as a focus on science and my attainment of the knowledge. I became the only member of my family of five to obtain a college degree. It was in chemical engineering with AIChE ethics that served me and my company for a thirty-five year career with attainment of R&D Advisor.
 

The situation is worse today, and I think Alinsky-Marxist organization (AMO), which has disrupted the civic order for the past five decades is largely responsible; today’s champion is Barack Obama with OFA. I AMO disruption can be overcome, a civic people can then undertake the reform needed due to the 1789 imposition of Blackstone common law with factional-American Protestantism to supplant the Church of England.

  

I hope black Americans will not be championing liberation theology or some other competition against civic justice. I don’t blame Dr. Drake for not responding to AMO activists and other disrupters, not that I know anything about you.

Other forums

Open letter to residents and visitors to Baton Rouge

            The Advocate, Saturday, March 3, 2018 marks a wonderful day and opportunity for Baton Rouge to increase its historical performance as a moral leader in a state that traditionally lags in prosperity performance. Baton Rouge has an unheralded effort, in public-library meetings, to develop an achievable, better future, with public integrity according to the preamble to the 1787 constitution for the USA --- civic citizens collaborating for comprehensive safety and security, in other words, private liberty with civic morality, otherwise, civic justice. Herein, “civic” refers to citizens collaborating to accommodate and empower personal pursuits of happiness rather than imposing a doctrine of happiness. The preamble is a civic agreement that would reform dissidents to justice by example rather than force.

            The local events reported in Saturday start with the announcement of the St. George City proposal being resurrected. But there’s much more: civic funding for BR anti-gang program, an unrepresentative caucus over House Bill 8, an activist judge inflicting preventable harm, a teacher being disciplined for her response to disruption to classroom preceding, nationally prominent Bible teacher at an evangelical church March 16-18, Catholic Charismatic conference March 16-18, a pastor in a neighboring state packing a gun, Christopher Simon’s advertisement “Possessed by God,” and divisive editorials by The Advocate, to be brief yet illustrative.

            Since the days of Councilman Gus Kinchen I have developed personal civic interest in Baton Rouge, never seeking notoriety, yet expressing my opinion. During my parenting days, the mid 1970s and beyond, I pondered two questions: 1) what does it mean to be a human being and 2) what does it mean to be a United States citizen? My current thoughts are:  1) being human means you have the authority to develop civic behavior and 2) being American means you are offered collaborative freedom-from oppression so that you may develop the liberty-to pursue personal happiness rather than someone’s doctrine for happiness. These are my thoughts at the leading edge of my pursuit of happiness. I did not establish those thoughts alone.

            When I learned of the first petition to incorporate St. George City, I was disturbed and pondered an opportunity to apply my decade of writing about the opportunity that is offered each U.S. citizen. He or she may trust-in and commit-to the civic agreement that is stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA. Rather than the customary reference, “we, the people,” the subject of the sentence is “We the People of the United States” who agree to form a limited nation. In other words, collaborating, civic people in their states. Citizens who are unwilling to collaborate are dissident to the agreement. I contacted many civic leaders to propose history’s first municipal application of the preamble.

            Without hope for help, I decided to privately promote the preamble. I created a blog and posted an essay. Then, it occurred to me that I am not smart enough to develop the idea that would appeal to most citizens. Therefore a friend, plus my daughter and I arranged a meeting at EBRP’s main library. Since June 21, 2014, our first Personal Independence Day celebration, our group has conducted at least two meetings per year, the other one to celebrate Constitution Day, September 17. (June 21 celebrates the 1788 establishment of the USA by the people’s representatives for nine states: that’s right, July 4 does not celebrate the establishment of the USA.) We have accumulated over 100 essays at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com, which represents an intentionally unfunded Louisiana educational non-profit. Never does the latest essay represent the leading edge of the development, because discoveries happen too fast. More than sixty people have participated in the meetings and discussions, and they are responsible for the opportunity I will now describe.

            It seems the human being is influenced by three powers: 1) whatever is in control of actual reality, 2) humankind’s cultural order, and 3) individual authority to responsibly develop private happiness. Most cultures do not articulate the last, most critical of these powers, but Baton Rouge citizens can and may thereby lead.

            Most humans perceive that developing human happiness requires responsibility and discipline, in other words fidelity. It is a comprehensive fidelity that begins with the-objective-truth, and includes, both respectively and collectively, self, immediate family, extended family and friends, the people (nation), the world, and the universe. Comprehensive fidelity cannot be taught, but must be observed and experienced by the developing individual. However, fidelity can be coached and encouraged by a civic culture. Since the-objective-truth exists and can only be discovered, and since there are many unknowns, no one may justly diminish any individual’s pursuit of comfort and hope; knowledge and understanding; motivation and inspiration; responsibility and discipline. By example, rather than by coercion or force, the dissident may be attracted to the civic culture. Hopefully, the civic citizens will eventually approach the totality: We the People of the United States.

            The person who has matured in comprehensive fidelity may live with the refrain: In every thought, in every word, in every action, I will first do no harm. This is a commitment more than an intention. My wonderful wife (MWW) asserted that intention to do no harm is insufficient, even though failures are expected. However, reaction to the failure is swifter when the commitment is a habit. We published this articulation in an essay, “First do no harm,” on the blog, on February 2, 2018; at age 74 I have much to learn and practice.

            I have yet to present these ideas to someone who was not excited. I trust you will positively react and hope you will help develop a civic culture among the wonderful people of Baton Rouge.

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.