The Advocate's campaign against 10-2 jury rule

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 April 12 (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_8d55d120-3ea3-11e8-a6c3-37d0eab4188c.html)

Boys and girls may learn from this incident that The Advocate personnel stand behind freedom of a press that freely lies. Neither they nor Gov. Edwards is wise enough to let a sleeping log die (it could be an alligator in these parts).

  

The Advocate personnel claim “Rep. Sherman Q. Mack, an Albany Republican . . . offered no explanation for his actions,” attaching audio of Mack explaining to the boy’s abusive mom, “I understand, but he’s a child.”

  

Speaking at the capitol is not a pleasant experience. The civic citizen is sovereign but not schooled in rules the chair is using. Also, the coming and going of committee members is intimidating---makes you fell insignificant. Even inside humor can feel demeaning, for example, when the chair assumes you can perceive that your witness will not help and asks, “Do you feel you must speak?” It takes thick skin to humbly respond, “I’d like to.”

Gov. John Bel Edwards could have taken a lesson from 10-year-old Sam Peters of Harahan and accepted Rep. Mack’s excellence in a challenge from Sam’s mom, who begrudgingly backed off her insistence.

I wish Gov. Edwards had the humility to resign, but I’m afraid we’re in for more hubris.

I wish The Advocate personnel would become responsible, but I’m afraid we’re in for more press-freedom.

Looking around for some promising alternatives, I have taken interest in WAFB news. I especially like their coverage of F. King Alexander’s arrogance regarding Monaco emails about variations on Don Lemon’s “slip-it-in,” whatever that means to Alexander. See walb.com/story/37954713/kiran-lsus-president-finally-address-questions. Alexander justifiably claims unawareness of these offenses. That leaves responsibility to the LSU board.

WAFB’s camera and audio do not lie for either Kiran Chawla or Alexander and other LSU personnel. On the other hand, The Advocate personnel don’t seem to realize the audio and video of Rep. Mack does not corroborate The Advocate personnel’s lies.

I hope Sam Peters is aware and concerned about lies coming from Gov. Edwards’ and The Advocate personnel’s domain of responsibility. Maybe his mom will coach him on that, but I doubt it.

I am grateful to Rep. Mack and to WAFB TV.

Our Views April 12 (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_34d0a13a-382f-11e8-b217-7b9d547227a3.html)

Thank you, Scuddy for expressing plain opposition to The Advocate personnel's words. I'd like to add to your objection to the lies.

“This is not a phony crisis.”

Really? Then why all the threatening The-Advocate-rhetoric and no data beyond empty warnings by three businesses? Why The Advocate’s personal threats---shut down public health care arm, without action on taxes, blunt language, loss of hundreds of jobs, care for thousands, tax deadlock, revenues lost, hostage-taking, governor is a target---but no data?

The people know the governor overspends and wants more to spend and fellow Democrats take hostages rather than cut spending.

I imagine “Dr. Switzer” counselling (for $5, cash) The Advocate personnel’s concern over harmful repetition of biased messages. Switzer advises, “Stop it . . . stop IT . . . s-t-o-p [two words]  i-t.”

After rebuke, Dr. Switzer says he’ll start a responsible hometown newspaper. (youtube.com/watch?v=Ow0lr63y4Mw).

I don’t understand a free press not addressing the cut-spending viabilities during a regular session. Would The Advocate personnel serve the people? Then, they may choose to report the-objective-truth rather than opinion The Advocate would like to be dominant:  liberal democracy, or chaos.

Our Views April 10 (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_6125ad7e-3c04-11e8-96d1-b39a53fe6e19.html)

To Elaine O. Coyle: I agree and want to add focus on statistics as a tool for discovery.

“[Recently, a writer] has gotten . . . attention because of . . . new biography.”

Don’t miss Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography (written, 1771-1791). Yet it may seem unattractive, because it is free, online at several sites, e.g. ushistory.org/franklin/autobiography/. Franklin’s writing predates political correctness and therefore does not bemuse the reader with modern, politically motivated sophistry.

For example, “evidence based” is a slick substitute for “statistics.” The ngram viewers (Google statistics on usage in books) for the two phrases are interesting. Multiplying the percentages by 1 million for convenience to the reader, “evidence based” emerged in 1850 and climbed steadily to 8 in 1975 through 1993, then skyrocketed to 19 in 2004 and still rocketing. “Statistics” emerged in 1820 and peaked at 2800 in 1975 then declined to 2400 in 2004. Since it is fundamental to discovery, statistics is still used at 126 times the rate of “evidence based,” popular as the social democrats have made it.

The social democrats have organized (using AMO, or Alinsky-Marxist organizations) to press their opinions during the past six to seven decades, and 1975 seems consistent with their influence.

Statistics is a tool of both accuracy and precision that, if skillfully used, empowers discovery. For example, digging on farmland to create foundations for a building may uncover massive bones representing a prehistoric animal. Carbon dating may approximate the age of the bones. The bones are a discovery. The carbon dating is a statistical approximation; the sample used for carbon dating must come from the actual discovery rather than an attachment or other extraneous substance. The physically discovered bones, arranged to complete a skeleton, plus the approximation of the age of the bones empowers placing the animal in the chart of evolution of the species. The researcher had no prior ideas about the bone’s importance in evolutionary evidence.

“Evidence” is an alternative to statistics that some writers use to disguise social studies crafted to justify policy or to represent opinion as discovery. It has become a popular practice in the movement for social democracy to undo the American republic. This movement is not only domestic:  Many advocates of “social sciences” are European professors who wish to “correct” rather than understand the American republic---the rule of statutory law rather than democratic chaos.

Readers who are not impressed with rudimentary understanding may find more meaningful alert to the fallacy of “evidence-based discovery” rather than “statistical process control” at qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/12/6/458. More importantly read Oren Cass, “Policy-Based Evidence Making,” 2017; nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/policy-based-evidence-making.

Fellow citizens:  Beware advocates of evidence-based discovery rather than discovery. There is always a sly reason for substituting common tools such as “statistics” with a political substitute. Often, the objective, indicated by 1975 usage rates, is to replace the rule of statutory law with social democracy.

Our Views April 9 (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_2812ae3a-3838-11e8-8267-f7f2cb7f189c.html)

To Tom Robinson: When pay is sufficient for daily living plus saving for retirement, human appreciation is the key reward in every career.

My work was appreciated by one company and its stakeholders for thirty-five years, and my person smiles every time the people come to mind or I see or visit with an individual or group I worked with.

Our Views, April 7 (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_843c5a28-3921-11e8-a411-b3f684a0778c.html)

In the five decades I've subscribed to The Advocate I cannot recall a more egregious refusal to accept individual authority to collaborate for civic justice rather than emotional opinion. The authors and editors may someday admit to the shame they beg.

I guess: The Advocate writers did not share with readers that the house bill is HB 365 to avoid helping readers write to their state representative to urge killing HB 365; see legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1071407.

The Advocate’s very special clichés’ the right thing, shameful practice, should be, rampant racism, the status quo, sinister change, cherished legal principle may be intended to invoke passion that is strong enough to defeat common sense. True, it is an opinion piece, but what shame The Advocate begs!

The Advocate claims, “reasonable doubt cannot be eliminated unless all . . . members of a jury agree.” Yet everyone knows the US Supreme court issues decisions after 5:4 votes with very serious objections stated. For example, Greece v. Galloway (2014). It claims my objections are niggling, when in fact they are essential to my person's human authority. I develop fidelity to the-objective-truth.

The Advocate has employed its racism to obfuscate that the civically moral issue is qualification to serve in a judicial capacity. In a felony case, the evil, the criminal, the ignorant, the foreign sympathizer, the religious fundamentalist, and a long list of citizens should not be allowed. Only the civic citizen should pass the first qualification to serve on a jury.

A responsible newspaper would review the issues. A responsible writer for the press would research the issues; would discover epistocracy, which according to Google, “allots greater value to the votes of those who could prove their knowledge of the political system.” The writer might mention that the most neglected feature of the constitution for the USA, the preamble, has the potential of resolve objections to epistocracy. “Public reason liberals hold that distribution of coercive political power is legitimate and authoritative only if all reasonable people subject to that power have strong enough grounds to endorse a justification for that power (Vallier and D’Agostino 2013),” plato.stanford.edu/entries/voting/#6. The preamble establishes the authority on which American power is developed in the march toward justice.

 
The Advocate has enough history to recall, as I do, that Louisiana law emerged from Napoleonic law. Louisiana is distinct among all fifty states, often admirably so. I have not had time to study it since April 1, but I already know that the French are vitally concerned about juries; see scholarship.law.ufl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1232&context=facultypub. I noticed proposals to blend a jury with a law-authority, not necessarily lawyer. If journalists existed, an assigned journalist might suffice. Alas, press-writers enjoy too much freedom to develop into journalists.

 
Most citizens know they do not want to subjugate themselves to a bureaucrat for daily needs, so each works for a living. The American genes and memes do not want to say “Thank you” for what the individual knows he or she could provide. However, too many citizens think the American god will take care of justice. Neighbors: It isn’t so. If individuals do not collaborate for civic justice, it will be taken away at a faster pace than we are now suffering.

The most egregious emotional mendacity by The Advocate comes with “That common cause, as old as this republic, is the protection of fairness and equality before the law, a clarion call Louisiana can no longer ignore.” That opinion seems to represent John Rawls if not simple social democracy. The American civic contract is written plainly in the preamble to the constitution for the USA, and citizens either voluntarily collaborate to achieve its goals or conflict for dissidence they may or may not understand. The Advocate is an individual that represses the preamble. I speculate that eventually, the US Supreme Court will opine that the preamble offers a civil contract to each citizen.

Contact your state representative and ask him or her to kill HB 365. Only a civic peole may preserve the repressed hope for human justice that is described in the preamble to the constitution for the USA.

  

Letters

Chest pain (Brignac) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_dec1d17c-3ce0-11e8-a44a-ebf90146737c.html)

I agree with Ms. Brignac. It is a mistake not to react to your body’s warning signals. Also, it is good to listen to a concerned friend.

I am grateful to cardiologists Bibb Saye, John McClellan, and Dave Prout and a host of primary care, pulmonary, analytical and other doctors for keeping me alive for the past quarter century. My plan is to continue enjoying you wonderful people (Baton Rougeans) another 46 years.

Moreover, I am grateful to MWW, who, while walking me for exercise, stopped and said, “You have slowed down three times. Why?” I answered, “Because my chest hurts.” She said, “Let’s go knock on this door and ask the resident to call an ambulance.”

Now, I perhaps know angina and both gauge my pace to avoid pain and also can ascertain that my tolerance for exercise is so repressed I need to call for a cardiology appointment. So far, I have neither asked for nor needed 911 service but am alert to the possibility. Doom hangs around, but gloom, not so much.

Please observe our experiences and be alert to symptoms we describe.

Individual authority (Snyder) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_4078bdec-3cdf-11e8-a407-d7496137973c.html)

  

I always wanted to talk with Paul Murrill and felt warm when we bid each other good day.

 

About guidelines, I’d like to collaborate to improve on Autry’s six. First of all, to express them as choices that every human being may make. Every individual has the authority to offer goodwill and also earn appreciation.
 
Unfortunately, too many “leaders” pursue adult satisfactions rather than service (excepting Paul).
 
See Autry’s message at http://rurallibrarydirectors.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/79083986/Servant%20Leader%20-%206%20Uncomplicated%20Guidelines%20%28Autry%29%202008.pdf.
 

My one comment today about the list of six is that honesty is insufficient. What people need and leaders may offer is integrity. A corollary is that leaders must know how to respond to honest lies.
 

I don’t think a liar should control dialogue, but somehow the leader’s integrity must be protected. That is, a leader cannot respond to an attacker’s lie by expressing the leader’s integrity, because the attacker will use the disclosure to defeat the leader.

To Harold Lassere: I think the financial issue emerged from privation of civic morality. Notice the recent major resignation, and the absence of responsible LSU leadership. Good grief. The LSU board could speak up!

Columns

Black power a failure (Walter Williams) (creators.com/read/walter-williams/04/18/black-political-power-means-zilch)

Walter Williams adequately points to the problem but does not offer a remedy. I suggest that blacks accept the human authority to collaborate for private liberty with civic morality. That combination--- human justice---is offered in the civic agreement that is proposed in the preamble to the constitution for the USA. The agreement is neutral to race and religion and thus is for all citizens. On that agreement or not, citizens are divided: civic citizens versus dissidents to collaboration for justice.

Posted at the above online site.

Williams referenced Jason Riley, Manhattan Institute at youtube.com/watch?v=0wfN_DtNtyo.

Riley, for reasons he may understand, did not address AMO; Alinsky-Marxist organizing, which dominates black influence since 1965 until now. Former President Obama is continuing AMO as OFA, organizing for action.

I would add to Riley’s human values (marriage, stable families, education and hard work) civic collaboration. In other words, black authority may be relinquished to collaborate for human power; perhaps think of civic collaboration as free-trade for living.

Blacks in Baton Rouge have human, individual authority to trust-in and commit-to the civic agreement that is offered in the preamble to the constitution for the USA rather than conflict for dominant opinion about the American god (which god to trust).

A black has no monopoly on the opportunity to accept individual authority to collaborate for justice.

Posted on FB.

Black nonsense (Edward Pratt) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/ed_pratt/article_ceb220c4-3ddb-11e8-9119-afc959c06f17.html)

Pratt would serve The Advocate personnel and readers better if he would tutor us in African-American Christianity.

I think the implication is that black skin marks a god’s chosen people and the only way a non-black soul can be saved is if the non-black representative-person helps black Americans reign supreme in the world. It’s kinda like applying physical rules to spiritual judgement. I doubt there’s a god that thinks like that, and I hope Christian faction does not become another “more erroneous religious belief” that inspires another Civil War. (See the CSA’s declaration of secession.)

My meaning here is not that another Civil War is likely, but that, for example, R. E. Lee expressed a more erroneous religious view five years before he woefully helped continue the attack against the USA; leefamilyarchive.org/9-family-papers/339-robert-e-lee-to-mary-anna-randolph-custis-lee-1856-december-27. Frederick Douglass praised the preamble to the constitution for the USA in 1852, and Pratt could do the same in 2018.

My meaning here is not that another Civil War is likely, but that, for example, R. E. Lee expressed a more erroneous religious view five years before he woefully helped attack the USA; leefamilyarchive.org/9-family-papers/339-robert-e-lee-to-mary-anna-randolph-custis-lee-1856-december-27. Frederick Douglass praised the preamble to the constitution for the USA in 1852, and Pratt could do the same in 2018.

“African-American Christianity” was expressed by Carnel West and Robert P. George in “Dr. King’s Radical Biblical Vision,” Wall Street Journal, April 6, 2018, page A13; wsj.com/articles/dr-kings-radical-biblical-vision-1522970778. “King was taught by the tradition of African-American Christianity.”

King died in 1968. Google’s Ngram viewer shows “African-American Christianity” at 0 in 1980, climbing slowly until 1988 and then exponentially to peak at 700 billionths of a percent in 1998, declining to 500 billionths in 2005 and leveling there.

“Black liberation theology” appears in 1970, climbs slowly until 1983, the exponentially to 1117 billionths in 1990, declining exponentially in 1995 to level at 600 to 800 billionths. James H. Cone's book, “Black Theology and Black Power,” was first published in 1969.

Come on, Mr. Pratt. Grow up. The First Amendment press is intended to be more responsible than free.

News

Family disturbance (Jim Mustian) (theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/article_21624c0c-3dcf-11e8-bbcb-d307bb5b0a07.html)

What concerns me most is her priestly opposition to brothels in Washington D.C. (that is, silence). I'm as sincere about that as I am about the pope's defense of priestly sex.

 

A civic people may end Chapter XI Machiavellianism in America any time most citizens perceive the need to separate church and state. Salvation is for the mystery of soul; statutory justice is for civic living.

Reply: But wait! I see in the news today the pope claims he was mistaken on priestly sex in Chile. What kind of pope is fallible while on the job? Guess I’m obsolete.

To David Livingstone: The writer expressed hypocrisy when he whined, "Last year, Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court, would only say that it was 'a correct application of the law of precedent.'”

Vitter expressed emotions and Gorsuch represented the law. (Schwartz rails against Trump.)

Adolescent adult abusing her child (Will Sentell) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/legislature/article_411983f2-3e5c-11e8-99ac-6f7dffb09205.html)

   

Thank you, Rep. Sherman Q. Mack, R-Albany. After the mom tried to insist, you directly addressed the boy, “We’re not gonna do that, young man. OK?” Your civic morality is exemplary.

Every individual has the authority to collaborate for civic morality. The human being is so physically and psychologically powerful that it takes about three decades to develop human authenticity from feral infancy. Many adults are so adolescent they cannot imagine the meaning of my statements. I hope they will do the work to comprehend and collaborate for civic morality.

A 10 year old in Louisiana may register to vote at age 16. However, he or she cannot vote until an election on or after he or she has reached the age 18. This “age of competence” was assumed decades ago, before humankind had discovered that a male body does not complete the wisdom parts of his brain until age 25. Given another five years for experience and observations to develop, perhaps a man ought not vote until age 30 or so and only if he understands the civic agreement that is offered by the preamble and either commits or effectively states his objections and his best idea for remedy. Women mature a little faster, perhaps by a couple years.

Governance by emotionalism is a social-democrat tactic. The goal is chaos rather than the rule of statutory law. Statutory law in the USA is developed through American republicanism rather than democracy.

In 2018, American adulthood has regressed to the point that many legislators publicly witness that they are nanny-state adolescents who have no clue as to civic morality. It seems would-be FBI destroyer James Comey offered examples of nanny-state adolescence in the highest ranks of American institutions.

Readers who like Gov. John Bel Edwards’ civic adolescence might enjoy reading William Faulkner's short-story, "Barn Burning." It’s eleven pages long and free at http://jerrywbrown.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Barn-Burning-by-William-Faulkner-1.pdf . The grocery-store-situated judge asked the plaintiff, I recall, "Sir, you mean you want me to question that boy about what his father may have done?" The plaintiff sheepishly responded, "I guess not, your honor." Gov. Edwards would step forward and say, "I will."

Gov. Edwards seems to have no shame---only hubris. I admit my doubt could be wrong.

Second post: I hope there's a flood of people under 18 showing up at the polls and demanding to vote. No registration, no registration application, no authority to vote: merely a passionate demand.

I make this comment to so as to emphasize that children do not belong on the speaker's list at the capital.

Many adults go to the capital to speak but are not heard for legislators' reasons. Some citizens have driven hours to get there. A child should not consume the time, especially children who are mere pawns of their parents. Again, readers are invited to read William Faulkner's "Barn Burning," to observe an example of a 10 year old who meets justice for the first time (outside his family) and makes the desision to leave the family to make it on his own. Abusive parents, beware of your children's justice now and in the future.

Gov. John Bel Edwards is an un-civic grandstander.

Gubernatorial conviction with no indictment (Grace Toohey) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/alton_sterling/article_66dacbce-36c7-11e8-911a-9ffa4e092242.html)

I hope Salamoni points out that Gov. John Bel Edwards publically convicted him without indictment in a news conference the day after the incident. A civic high school student knows a person is innocent until proven guilty, but not Gov. Edwards. He acts on his own “right thing to do.”

I wish Edwards would resign so as to stop the misery and loss he imposes on the people of Louisiana.

To Stacy Lynn: I agree with you fully respecting civil morality. However, there is a place for the application of human empathy.

Humans have the distinction among all other species that each individual has the authority and power to offer good will in all private and public connections. In other words, he or she collaborates for civic justice. Conversely, he or she has the power to devise ways to take advantage of people of good will. In other words, they pursue dissidence toward civic justice.

People who choose to be good may develop fidelity to the-objective-truth. They emerge civic people, with variations derived from personal understanding and self-discipline. Civic people neither initiate nor tolerate activities that harm people. In other words, they collaborate to constrain harmful people, hoping that the civic culture will motivate the dissident to reform.

A civic human does not risk personal harm and if, in the unfortunate attention of law enforcement, totally obeys and order. Collaboration means responding "Yes, Sir," or "Yes, Madam," and enacting the stated order; no questions asked until the incident is over.

 

I am sorry Sterling did not behave civically and for the consequences to his family. I am sorry officials like Gov. John Bel Edwards did not behave civilly the next day. I am sorry some members of the community acted with vigilantism in the following days and now years. I am sorry the people of Louisiana have suffered so much. I am sorry the Lake and Salamoni families have suffered so much and that officials like then President Obama showed no concern for them.

 

Most of all, I regret that We the People of the United States never have realized that the first civil consideration in collaborating for justice is offered in the preamble to the constitution for the USA. I hold guilty the regimes that have fostered Chapter XI Machiavellianism in the USA. Political regimes have propagandized the American god since May, 1789. Today, we have organizations that claim that African-American Christianity is a less erroneous belief!

Blane Salamoni has made the case that he acted to assure public safety in a circumstance he never would have imagined. I passionately want to offer him mercy and his family appreciation and an end to their suffering.

I hope the incident helps fellow citizens focus on three possibilities for an achievable better future: the individual human has inalienable authority to offer goodwill in both private and public connections and transactions; civic citizens willingly share the purpose and goals stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA; and successful living attains with fidelity to the-objective-truth, however an individual responsibly pursues the-objective-truth.

 

Civically moral peers (Elizabeth Crisp) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/alton_sterling/article_01f8142c-3ea2-11e8-8f11-3fea8899353c.html)

Marcelle may choose to individually reform in order to help establish the USA’s promises after 229 years of bemusement over mysteries. If so, lots of civic discovery may take place, and I would like to learn by collaboration---with her and others.

It’s not widely promoted (so that political regimes may further socially-advantageous, late-coming myths such as irresponsible freedom of the press and more erroneous African-American Christianity), but USA statutory law with the institutions that enforce it was established on June 21, 1788. On that day, people’s representatives in the required state conventions had ratified the 1787 constitution for the USA. Nine states had ratified, leaving four with the opportunity to join the USA. One, Virginia, joined before operations began on March 4, 1789, with ten states. That’s right! Political regimes started diminishing the USA with only ten states represented, three remaining dissidents for 9 to 16 months.

Only a civic people, about 2/3 of the free population, authorized the establishment, as reflected by delegates’ votes in each the 1787 convention of 12 states in Philadelphia, each of the nine ratifying-states conventions, and the collective nine states delegates as of June 21, 1789.

Our EBRP library meetings call that day “Personal Independence Day” and would like to experience a national celebration and perhaps commemorative holiday. The preamble offers personal independence respecting the purpose and goals of both statutory law and law enforcement in the USA. It tacitly offers private liberty with civic morality.

My paraphrase of the preamble, today, is: Willing people in our states, want public integrity, justice, collaboration, defense, prosperity, liberty, and perpetuity and therefore establish and ordain these civically amendable laws and institutions for a nation that will serve the people in their states using only the powers we grant.

Every human individual has the authority to collaborate for good will and to behave accordingly. Every American citizen has the opportunity to trust-in and commit-to the civic morality offered in the preamble’s offered agreement or not: The preamble’s agreement divides citizens as civic citizens or dissidents. Dissidence comes from any of innocence, ignorance, arrogance, criminality, evil, and worse.

We are experiencing the civic immorality of “black power” in legislatures as an excuse for human authority. The Congressional Black Caucus and its affiliates, during the last five decades, have opposed the idea that human character is not affected by skin color. In other words, an individual is not lessened by his or her skin color. The consequence for all but the elites, where legislators try to go, has been disaster: chaos.

Most black individuals in Baton Rouge are civic citizens. That’s why so few people help Marcelle at the AG’s offices. Most black citizens in Baton Rouge believe the AG met his responsibilities. That’s also why the black-national hope for violent insurrection in the Baton Rouge summer of 2016 did not succeed. Baton Rouge is a civic example in the USA! We are glad.

That does not imply that the civic people need not address the barbaric treatment of poor children by their parents, their local community, the city, the state, and the nation. The tolerance of harm to children is shocking! A civic people, in every thought, word, and action, neither initiate nor tolerate harm.

In the spiritual realm or idealized human psychology, there is no skin color or other physical characteristics. That is, human understanding of the mystery that controls the-objective-truth holds differing skin color as the consequence of genealogical evolution driven by 1) exposure to the sun and 2) diet, rather than supernatural civic justice. Appreciating the-objective-truth, there is no “chosen people” or superior race. In other words, there is no god that punishes people; justice comes from a civic people.

Rep. C. Denise Marcelle, Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus member, who was supported by an NAACP representative plus Bradley Brown, might pay attention to Brown’s request for review of law enforcement against black criminals “go in front of a group of people that may be a jury of my peers.” Brown’s peers, whether tacitly or explicitly, would trust-in and commit-to the civic agreement that is offered by the preamble to the constitution for the USA. The preamble’s agreement is blind to both skin-color and religious beliefs, and only a civic people authorize the law and law enforcement.

Baton Rougeans may lead the USA in the reform to June 21, 1789’s USA promise of civic morality with private liberty: individuals responsibly pursuing the happiness they perceive rather than someone else’s idea for them: human justice. Baton Rouge has an awesome opportunity. I invite Marcelle and others to collaborate to help establish and achievable better future rather than the chaos that legislators are nourishing.

  

Other forums

quora.com/Why-is-the-concept-of-modesty-important-or-unimportant-in-todays-society/answer/Phil-Beaver-1

The question: Why is modesty important or unimportant in today's society?

It’s important.

To clarify usage, I think “modesty” refers to the physical subset of privacy. I take privacy as the individual, authoritarian subset of humility. Humility is human appreciation for the-objective-truth, which exists and can only be discovered. For example, the earth is like a globe rather than flat, and civic people do not lie in order to lessen misery and loss. Some people regard personal opinion above the-objective-truth. For example, some people believe their god is the God.

Each human being has the authority to express good will. Good will towards other people may be learned through experience and observations but cannot be taught. As an individual transitions from feral infant to young adult, he or she may be encouraged and coached to collaborate for civic morality. Yet he or she is in control of his or her energy, and may dedicate it to infidelity.

Each human being has the power to develop fidelity to the-objective-truth. It is a comprehensive power that extends to self, to immediate family, to extended family and friends, to the people (nation), to all inhabitants (the world), and to the universe. The universe may be controlled by God, but I do not think so, even though I do not know. (Fidelity to the-objective-truth requires the individual to admit to his or her person, “I do not know,” when it is so.)

It is well known that human sexuality is driven by both physical and psychological chemistry and impulses that may be difficult to control. When a person is attracted to another, he or she becomes alert to signals that there is mutual attraction. If so, the first person may be inclined to pursue intimacy at some level as a test of mutuality. Perhaps its only a serious glance into the eyes, which the other person may reject.

On the the other hand, if the first person is in a commitment with someone else, he or she does not allow attraction to progress to imagined intimacy.

Only the individual who is committed to his or her person has the power to commit to another. Many individuals do not recognize that fidelity to another begins with fidelity to the-objective-truth (e.g., attraction to some human individuals is unavoidable but none can become a bid for intimacy) and self.

People develop personal authority according to individual preferences. Some try to relegate it to a higher power—-a god or a government, for examples. Some people generally appreciate other humans, and some don’t like anyone. Some individuals don’t like their person.

When a person discovers sexuality from pure innocence, it’s like an individual discovering the human reproductive system 3 million years ago. Fortunately, that is hardly possible in this communicating world. However, this world is culturally alienated against the-objective-truth. Therefore, the route to satisfying sexuality may be as unlikely as it may have been long ago. The many cultures on earth have failed to discover, understand, and promote authentic manhood and authentic womanhood.

I do not know the objective truth, but here are my opinions. The authentic woman knows her body may produce 300 to 400 ova during her viably fertile years, perhaps from age 23 to 46. A girl in puberty may conceive but may have difficulty gestating and delivering, and viability peaks maybe in the thirties. She embraces her potential and collaborates to maintain both physical and psychological wellness. Also, she understand attraction and seeks an authentic man with whom to bond for life; she hopes for grandchildren and beyond. She avoids psychologically adolescent men. Recognizing the motives, she does not compete with women who use physical attraction to compete. However, for the one she considers authentic, she is always an authentic woman.

The authentic man understands the above considerations. Additionally, he understands that when he has found MWW (the woman he will regard as “My Wonderful Wife”) he must woo her without threatening her or her viable ova. The responsibility of wooing a woman is perhaps the most awesome challenge an authentic man faces. Heterosexual monogamy for life is an awesome commitment. It is so challenging about 50% of heterosexual marriages end in divorce and only 13% avoid promiscuity—-the breaking of vows to self.

Because most cultures do not explicitly depict the authentic man and the authentic woman (not my descriptions above, but much more qualified and continually updated depictions), most people live in confusion. Many people are predators to their own well being. Just as sometimes counselling is needed to preserve heterosexual marriage, counselling is needed to understand human sexuality, but cultures fail.

For these reasons, physical modesty protects the individual’s psychological future.

I hope this helps. I write to learn so hope you will comment on my essay.

(On a private note, my mom was a Grace B, and I thought of her and Dad as I wrote and still am. Thank you.)

quora.com/Does-society-have-a-shared-collective-temperament/answer/Phil-Beaver-1

The question: Does society have a shared collective temperament?

Merriam-Webster-online defines society as “companionship or association with one's fellows,” fellows as “a member of a group having common characteristics,” and temperament as “characteristic or habitual inclination or mode of emotional response.”

It seems “fellows” and “temperament” may both be associative or within a society; in other words, the two words apply to a society of like-minded humans. I do not like such vague language, and struggle with your question.

If we approach this question from the human views of both the ovum and the spermatozoon, we start with non-association. If they unite, the resulting embryo is unique (I’m guessing). During gestation, genes develop particular physical and psychological characteristics related to two lines of heritage, each with its predecessors. There is some evidence that memes also develop during gestation.

Parenting is a practice of transferring cultural influences and personal opinion. Hopefully, the opinions of mom and dad are not so different that the child cannot discover his or her preferences before young adulthood. Also, community impacts the child. For example, the ten-year old boy in Faulkner’s “Barn Burning,” discovered justice in a store-room court and decided to leave his birth family to face the world alone.

I think humans have a shared temperament. Each individual is drawn to justice yet admits that he or she must survive. He or she will uphold justice unless fear overwhelms him or her. Few people properly balance civic justice and personal survival. The ones who do develop fidelity to the-objective-truth rather than dominant opinion.

A civic people collaborate to establish mutual, comprehensive safety and security so that each individual may pursue the happiness he or she perceives rather than an imposition by society, coercion, force, or doctrine someone else envisions for the person.

The consequence would be a civic culture that develops statutory justice to constrain actual harm caused by dissidents. Such a culture does not exist, yet I think most people would like private liberty with civic morality, which I have tried to describe.

I think most human infants have the temperament for a civic culture, but the conflicts that exist in their community conditions them for a conflicted world, wherein the above ideas are not articulated or encouraged.

That could change, but I think the maximum super-majority in a civic culture would be about 2/3: There will always be people who think crime or worse pays.

In conclusion, I think there is a shared hope for a culture of private liberty with civic morality, protected by statutory justice.

quora.com/Do-you-really-think-that-there-should-be-equality-in-our-society/answer/Phil-Beaver-1

Taking “our society” to mean the totality of human beings at any moment in time, I think of one equality: every person has equal authority to offer good will to other persons.

However, immediately on writing that statement I realize that biology or psychology burdens some individuals with inability to accept human authority. So I must make an exception.

Within the people who do accept individual authority, some think crime helps them gain advantage, creating their own inequality.

As I continue to think, I retreat to the ovum.

I cannot imagine two equal ova and thus cannot imagine to equal persons.

It seems erroneous to imagine forcing equality on unique beings.

quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-life-and-society/answer/Phil-Beaver-1

In the context of “society” life may refer to human kind, representing, so far, perhaps eight trillion years of past life. I answer respecting the life of an individual human being in 2018. Each individual may develop fidelity.

Before the individual’s mother was conceived, there was nothing. The mother, during her fertile years produced viable ova. One was fertilized, producing a single-cell zygote. The cell repeatedly divided over eight or so days, becoming a multi-celled blastocyst, which fortunately attached to the mother’s womb. If not, the potential person would pass, pin-head-sized, out of the mom’s body probably unnoticed.

During gestation, many biological events may be interrupted, causing spontaneous termination of the pregnancy—-natural abortion. If delivery occurs, there is a chance the baby will die within the first month. Otherwise, what the mother delivers is a feral, human infant—-a mind, body, and person with the potential to develop into a human being.

Unlike a fold, which struggles and walks right after delivery, a human infant first crawls and, after about a year, walks. The human being is so powerful that it typically takes two to three decades for initial development. Building wisdom may start above age thirty if at all. Psychological maturity may be attained beyond age sixty, but normally does not happen. In other words, most persons do not develop their individual psychological authority. With these considerations widely articulated, the future may be better. 

He or she does not know it, but each human individual has the authority to develop his or her person during every moment of personal life, hopefully more than eighty years. He or she may advance the leading edge of civic morality that has been discovered during the past eight trillion years of human life.

Each human being has the opportunity to develop fidelity to the-objective-truth rather than conformity to social opinion. Private fidelity is essential to the individual but barely impacts society, yet it does. A society is moral to the extent of its members’ moralities. The smallest infidelity begs woe, and with crime or evil woe comes brutally. Immoral societies beg woe. However, if most individuals accept personal authority to develop fidelity, a transcending, civic culture may develop, and infidelity could lessen.

Fidelity to the-objective-truth is comprehensive. That is, it extends to self, immediate family, extended family and friends, the people (nation), the world’s inhabitants, and the universe, both respectively and collectively. Thus, it is a civic practice, where “civic” implies two individuals collaborating to empower each other’s lives more than cooperating-with, subjugating-to, or suffering civilization/socialization (coercion), tradition (stagnation), or legalization (force). A civic culture offers mutual, comprehensive safety and security; private liberty with civic morality; human justice.

Civic members of the culture, in developing fidelity, begin to develop reliability. That is, in every thought, every word, and every action, the civically mature individual neither initiates nor tolerates harm. Not every individual attains such psychological maturity, because some individuals do not appreciate the civic morality of collaborating with other humans. In other words, dissidents to civic morality do not appreciate the civic person.

In a civic culture, dissidents are inspired to reform, because they observe and experience a better way of living. Just as the civic citizen has authority over his or her person and develops fidelity, the criminal has individual authority but believes crime or worse pays. The civic culture develops statutory justice by discovering the-objective-truth rather than tolerating dominant opinion. Statutory justice is more motivating than arbitrary law to the criminal who suffers law enforcement. That is, the criminal suspects opinion-based law and is more accepting toward statutory justice. 

Society does not foster the above ideas. Unfortunately, society fosters the idea that the human individual has not the authority to behave so as to benefit from the-objective-truth. Society bemuses the individual to seek power from religion and from government or the partnership of the two. Particular religions and particular governments are morally weak and their partnerships are tyrants. The person who does not accept the authority to live his or her life according to personal, beneficial preferences, loses private life to unjust society.

Each individual may pursue personal happiness rather than the dictates of society and help reverse the human misery and loss humankind takes for granted. Each person may accept individual authority to develop appreciation, personal fidelity, and civic reliability. 

Thank you for the question, and I hope this helps. (Revised April 9, 2018)

libertylawsite.org/2018/04/03/to-secure-the-blessings-of-liberty-sharing-stories-of-american-civic-purposes-virtuous-citizenship-symposium/

Nothing confuses American-independence readers more than Abraham Lincoln’s revisionist history. Some people think the preamble to the 1787 Constitution for the USA, is the first sentence of the 1776 eastern seaboard British colonies declaring to the king of England that they were free and independent states.

But Professor Smith cites Abraham Lincoln’s opinions to assert, “Long-lasting societies . . . display multiple stories that express the distinct experiences and aspirations of different community members — but . . . persuade people to work through their differences to achieve the goals and values they have in common.”

I suggest two requirements for “working through differences.” First, We the People of the United States, as defined in the preamble to the constitution for the USA, offers the willing individual the opportunity to collaborate during his or her lifetime for private liberty with civic morality rather than conflict with fellow citizens for dominant opinion. Second, what willing individuals have in common is the opportunity to develop fidelity to the-objective-truth, which every responsible preferential association may support. For example, believers may work for a favorable afterdeath yet collaborate for comprehensive safety and security during life. Infidelity to the-objective-truth is dissidence, perhaps dissidence to justice.

In the opinion “augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere,” Lincoln could have referred to the civic agreement that is offered in the preamble to the constitution for the USA, completed according to intentions in 1791, instead of the 1776 British colonists’ declaration that they had become statesmen and were independent of England. The preamble is offered to all inhabitants who are citizens or would become citizens, whereas the declaration is by the inhabitants in 1776 who declared and won their independence. On January 14, 1784, they ratified that they were thirteen free and independent states.

Ironically, Professor Smith quotes a Lincoln document that proposes eternal separation of the races rather than liberty-to bond according to personal preferences. The preamble is neutral to both race and religion, but Lincoln did not reveal awareness.

Professor Smith understands why he does not appreciate fact that the 1776 declaration followed the 1774 peoples’ rebellion against the Massachusetts royal government. See http://historyofmassachusetts.org/massachusetts-american-revolution/. “On September 1, 1774, after [General] Gage removed the colonist’s . . . supply from a powder house in Somerville, thousands of men from outside of Boston . . . marched into Cambridge [and] forced all the members of the royal appointees in Cambridge, two members of the mandamus counsel, the sheriff and the court clerks to either resign or apologize. They then moved on to the mansion of lieutenant governor where they forced him to resign as well.” There were many actions like this by crowds numbering in the thousands of inhabitants.

It is fitting that from a 1774 rebellion by the people for freedom-from oppression in this country, to the 1787 civic agreement offered to the people, in 2018 We the people of the United States may establish civic morality with private liberty. Individuals collaborating with the preamble may develop fidelity to the-objective-truth so as to create an achievable, better future that motivates dissidents to reform rather than alienates them for indefinite division.

libertylawsite.org/2018/04/03/self-government-cannot-live-while-congress-is-moribund-american-character-project-villanova-symposium/

“It is out of necessity that we seek a government that really feels like “ours” — because there is no mutually agreeable outsider who can stand in for us.”

There is the-objective-truth. Every human individual has the authority to address the-objective-truth, and those who do may discover the means of benefitting. For example, it is advantageous to know that the earth rotates so as to reveal the sun each morning and hide it each evening rather than the sun rises and sets. It is advantageous not to ever lie; thereby people do not respond to a lie.

“Citizens pushing the representatives whose jobs depend on their support to forge constructive compromises can, potentially, find the experience energizing.”

Citizens wonderfully collaborate for justice, which cannot be compromised. Elected representatives may accept the responsibility to conform to discovered-objective-truth while collaborating to discover the unknowns so as to understand how to benefit.

“. . . our Madisonian separation of powers embeds the right ideals into our political life, but . . . our current politics are doing a poor job realizing them in practice. That is less rhetorically compelling than saying that the Constitution can directly empower “We the People.”

We the People of the United States ordained and established the USA. However, political regimes since April, 1789, have established and maintained the clergy-politician partnership that sustains Chapter XI Machiavellianism in the USA. The mysterious American god keeps the people bemused with freedom of religion rather than freedom of fidelity to the-objective-truth. By discovering the-objective-truth, unknown by unknown, the people may discover God.

Individuals may accept the preamble’s civic agreement and collaborate for justice, knowing that dissidents may be motivated and inspired to reform. A super-majority of civic individuals may collaborate to develop statutory justice on the-objective-truth rather than dominant opinion.

The three branches of the federal government may then focus on codifying the-discovered-objective-truths and the theory that connects them as well as operating the USA under a civic people rather than the American mystery.

I think there is something new about this approach to self-government: the civic individual accepts the human authority to develop fidelity to the-objective-truth rather than competes for dominant opinion regarding a mystery, recognizing that there will always be dissidents, some of whom have a different approach to life.

Dissidents who cause no discovered harm live freely, but those who caused discovered-harm risk statutory justice. Because statutory justice is based on the-objective-truth rather than opinion, the corrected dissident may reform.

I think it is time for the civic agreement that is offered in the preamble to the constitution for the USA to be considered, adopted, and promoted so as to establish a civic culture; private liberty with civic morality; human justice.

Amazon review of The history of God by Karen Armstrong

The most satisfying aspect of this book is that it is an easy read about the three major factional gods of Abraham's descendants. Perhaps one day Armstrong will review the world's 21,000 Christian factions; theway21stcentury.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/how-many-christian-denominations-worldwide/. Perhaps 40 Islamic factions; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_schools_and_branches. And perhaps ten Jewish factions.

When I bought the book, I hoped for ideas traced back to maybe 80,000 years ago. However, right away Armstrong told me she was stopping at 4,000 years ago. I had been duped by the book's title. I read the book anyway, but unlike a myriad of other books, I have no notes. The means that at the time I read it, (Amazon could tell us if that is less than two decades ago) none of the sentences or phrases seemed to derive from anything but religious dogma.

247wallst.com/special-report/2018/04/10/counties-where-the-american-dream-is-dead-2/?utm_source=247WallStDailyNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=APRIL142018A&utm_campaign=DailyNewsletter

“The American dream means economic opportunity and mobility, especially to new generations of Americans.”

44. East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
> Avg. income loss per year of childhood residence: -$203
> Population: 446,268
> Household income per capita: $35,064
> Poverty rate: 19.5%
> Jan. 2018 unemployment rate: 3.8%

1. Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota
> Avg. income loss per year of childhood residence: -$484
> Population: 14,354
> Household income per capita: $13,647
> Poverty rate: 53.9%
> Jan. 2018 unemployment rate: N/A

biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+31&version=CJB;NIV

Some Christians who have grace and some humble non-Christians seem to be civic peers.

In NIV, V.21, we read “the wonders of his love,” and in CJB (V. 22=NIV V.21), “his amazing grace.”

The standard reference to “grace” may be at biblestudytools.com/parallel-bible/passage/?q=ephesians+2:8-9&t=cjb&t2=niv. I think the CJB version affords explicit defense of the-objective-truth: “For you have been delivered by grace through trusting, and even this is not your accomplishment but God's gift. You were not delivered by your own actions; therefore no one should boast.” The-objective-truth may include a physical God which is superior to the personal gods and institutional gods.

An individual, I collaborate to discover and understand the-objective-truth and how to discipline for benefits to myself; in other words, to behave in fidelity to the-objective-truth. The fidelity is comprehensive and therefore impacts my private and public connections with people. Also, I claim not to know the-objective-truth, especially about humble doubt that there is a God. I am fortunate to have developed humility. From the above literature study, grace may mean humility.

I think there are many people who arrive at humility/grace through belief in their personal god, whether their god originates from one of the myriad of Abrahamic gods (main factions being Christian, Islamic and Jewish) or other god. However, the-objective-truth exists and cannot be avoided. For example, it is not beneficial to challenge another person by expressing a lie. Also, the sun will not come up tomorrow; rather the earth’s rotation will again un-hide the sun. Finally, it is not beneficial to question a civic citizen’s personal god or motivation/inspiration that does not use spirituality.

Both Christians with grace and non-Christians with humility know about lies, the earth’s rotation, and other manifestations of the-objective-truth, which may or may not involve God.

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., “’Trust by Verify’ Applies to the FBI”, Wall Street Journal, April 14-15, 2018, page A13, wsj.com/articles/trust-but-verify-applies-to-the-fbi-1523658315

Only an irresponsible free press allows Jenkins such hubris. In other words, real journalists actually avoid such egoism as “Mr. Trump [was elected] with too much baggage . . . Mr. Trump’s voters . . . should have thought . . . before . . . [electing him].”

I knew he was a playboy celebrity but nothing about his personal life as I struggled to vote for him the first time. However, neither the FBI nor the press could influence my hope that his first term would help him adopt “Make America Great,” for his second presidential campaign.

  

Only dissident citizens---those who oppose the purpose and goals when the 1788 people’s conventions in nine states ordained and established the USA. The preamble to the constitution for the USA guided 2016 civic Americans to vote for Donald Trump twice: once to defeat the GOP candidates who were to weak to restore America to its June 21, 1788 path and the second time to end the five decades’ inroads into social democracy, in other words civic chaos, intended to defeat the American republic.

The American journey toward statutory justice has been restored, and a civic people will ensure its restoration and resumed progress after five decades of Alinsky-Marxist organizing (AMO). Jenkins knows if he supports AMO, but I think he does not support his president of the USA. I support Trump and would defeat Jenkins’s sly bait-and-switch press-authority with my writing.

Drew Hinshaw, Joe Parkinson and Gbenga Akingbule, “The American Ordeal of the Boko Haram Girls”, Wall Street Journal, April 14-15, 2018, page A1, wsj.com/articles/the-american-ordeal-of-the-boko-haram-schoolgirls-1523661238

This is a sad witness to civil morality rather than civic morality. That is, the civil coercion by local civilization, the force of law, and the will to express personal passion in opposition to the civic agreement.

The civic agreement is offered by the purpose and goals stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA. Dissidents to the agreement may collaborate for reform that would resolve the personal objection. However, some dissidents choose to stonewall the civic agreement and take matters into their own hands.

Some dissidents advertise themselves as noble, but some are blatantly immoral. This is the story of a perhaps blatantly immoral man who victimized victims and solicited Christian money for his use.

It seems to me the pope solicits Christian money in order to impose philanthropy on the USA. His priestly-lay-persons partnership funnels people to Mexico’s southern border, across Mexico to the northern border, and into the USA. Sanctuary collaborators are dissidents to civic morality.

An achievable, better future is possible when civic citizens start considering; trusting-in and committing-to; promoting; and celebrating the civic culture that is offered by the agreement that is stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA. The civic culture offers private liberty with civic morality.

Our EBRP library meetings celebrate Personal Independence Day each June 21, to commemorate the day in 1788. Then, the people’s conventions in nine states had ratified the 1787 Constitution, establishing the USA. Before operations began on March 4, 1789, a tenth state had ratified, so there were congressmen from ten states, leaving 3 remaining dissident states free and independent as of January 14, 1784 when thirteen states ratified the 1783 Treaty of Paris.

 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.