I'll retire my “Eddie Rispone for governor” sign

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 individual happiness with civic integrity more than for the city, state, nation, or society.



Consider writing a personal paraphrase of the preamble, which offers fellow citizens mutual equality:  For discussion, I convert the preamble’s predicate phrases to nouns and paraphrase it for my proposal as follows: “Willing citizens collaborate, communicate, and connect to provide 5 public institutions—integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity—so as to encourage responsible human liberty to living people.” I want to collaborate with the other citizens on this paraphrase and theirs yet would preserve the original, 1787, text, unless it is amended by the people.

It seems no one has challenged whether or not the preamble is a legal statement. The fact that it changed this independent country from a confederation of states to a union of states deliberately managed by disciplined fellow citizens convinces me the preamble is legal. Equity in opportunity and outcome is shared by the people who collaborate for human justice.

Every citizen has equal opportunity to either trust-in and collaborate-on the goals stated in the preamble or be dissident to the agreement. I think 2/3 of citizens try somewhat to use the preamble but many do not articulate commitment to the goals. However, it seems less than 2/3 understand that “posterity” implies grandchildren. “Freedom of religion,” which fellow citizens have no means to discipline, oppresses freedom to develop integrity.



Selected theme from this week

I was disappointed that Louisiana voters chose John Bel Edwards as governor for another four years. Nevertheless, I wish Louisiana the best possible future four years.


And after all, I’m to blame, because I voted for Edwards’s in his first runoff. I hold the opinion that my losing choice, Jay Dardenne, had been poorly appreciated by the Louisiana GOP.


I’m still looking for a politician who runs on his or her civic-citizenship as a member of We the People of the United States rather than as a dissident fellow citizen.


The proposition in the U.S. Preamble requires individual interpretation. It proposes 5 public disciplines to encourage responsible human liberty, but does not specify the standards by which fellow citizens measure justice.


News

No DNC supporter for John Bel Edwards (Tyler Bridges) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/elections/article_adc41408-0742-11ea-80ad-5f487c8ee749.html)

The Advocate ineptly lessens John Bel Edwards’ chances by news captions that invoke “Trump-Rispone, [Biden]-Edwards make final election push” (punctuation changes by me).

Hillary Clinton’s in-electability should not have left the Democrats with no leadership.

And check out Bill Clinton’s latest folly: advising President Trump to continue to get the job done. I guess neither Bill nor Hillary read Trump’s inaugural address or heard his promise to drain the swamp, difficult and exhausting as it will be.

Shame on The Advocate for its support for the swamp, but thank goodness they don’t mind emphasizing the DNC void in fidelity to We the People of the United States.

If you like a culture of communication, collaboration, and connection to aid five public disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---in order to encourage responsible human liberty to the living citizens, vote Rispone.

So far, President Trump disappoints me in not promoting the civic, civil, and legal power of the U.S. Preamble's proposition. Nevertheless, I will vote for Trump/Pence my third and fourth times, if I may.

I will vote for Eddie Rispone because my wife said she would when I did not like the early-campaign allegiance to Trump instead of Rispone and because I learned of his interest in educating children:   Children are the essential part of the “our Posterity” in the U.S. Preamble.

To United Citizens for Good Morals (fake): That's right. Edwards is interested in the education system's voters and therefore intends to raise salaries without accounting for being last among 50 states in a country that rates 22 in education. That's a global rating of 1100th!


Since children can't vote, it's OK with Edwards to saddle them with $22 trillion federal debt. Since the debt is rising, each American newborn faces $5.6 million in shared debt.

Vote Rispone.

To United Citizens Against Theft: That's what's great about the American republic. Voters can decide which candidate supports responsible human liberty as the voter perceives it. Voters who are moved by someone else’s perception may discover injustice to believers.





Members of We the People of the United States trust each other because they may observe responsible human liberty in daily living. Dissidents divide themselves. For example, criminals believe crime pays and must accept their error before they can reform so as to join the civic fellow-citizens---We the People of the United States.

The guarantee of republican governance rather than democracy assures the voter that his or her view of responsible human liberty will survive if it reflects the-literal-truth, which is approached through continual pursuit of the-objective-truth more than through human reason.



It seems our family in Baton Rouge voted Rispone.

Saint demoralization (Rod Walker) (https://www.nola.com/sports/saints/article_3106d54a-04ae-11ea-b3b9-3320edaa4443.html)

I watch sports because teams individually mirror a people’s quest for civic integrity---the U.S. Constitution’s proposition. The Saints I saw Sunday suffered a failure of discipline both as wholeness and as reliability. I write that as opinion and by no means as the-literal-truth or even the-objective-truth.

Some civic principles were expressed by the Greeks more than 2,400 years ago. First, the individual may aid equity under statutory justice. In other words, he or she may behave so as to help fellow citizens correct unjust laws and acts. Second, the individual neither initiates nor tolerates harm to or from anyone.

For We the People of the United States, the civically dividing proposition seems stated in the U.S. Preamble: communicate, collaborate, and connect to promote five public disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---in order to encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens. U.S. citizens who oppose this civic proposition may, at any moment, choose to reform.

Athletes, coaches, and administrators who do not understand the U.S. Preamble’s proposition may consider it and interpret it so as to order their team play. Responsible human liberty may be the U.S. dream if not the American dream, and no one knows its limits.

I strive to be of We the People of the United States and thought Teddy Bridgewater should have been included in Sunday’s game---should have played in the first half when the unbelievable became first expectable then demoralizing.

I would feel guilty, neglecting that second Greek rule and the first and moreover the U.S. Preamble, if I hid my opinion.

Columns

Columnist in denial (Michael Gerson) (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-ethical-anarchy-makes-us-forget-what-honor-looks-like/2019/11/07/3db2fbd8-0199-11ea-8bab-0fc209e065a8_story.html)

Gerson’s “Joe Biden” seems exempt from judgement on Joe Biden’s corrupt deeds and words.

Biden recounted in 2015 saying to the president of Ukraine, “I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.” Biden, discussing his 2018 article “How to Stand Up to the Kremlin,” brags “Well, son of a bitch. He got fired.” (See https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/miriamelder/joe-biden-ukraine-hunter.)

Gerson perhaps says to his mirror, “Don’t pay any attention to Joe Biden’s egocentricity and profanity.”

My mirror says the entity We the People of the United States is ordered by the U.S. Preamble’s proposition rather than writers for either the press or a for political party.

The persistent people’s proposition is: aid integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity in order to encourage responsible human liberty to the living citizens. The U.S. Preamble’s civic, civil, and legal power is emerging.

My comment published at the above URL.

The U.S. Preamble has not the hubris to specify Gerson-standards, whatever they are (Michael Gerson) (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-serious-danger-of-politics-as-tribal-conflict/2019/10/10/600d3094-eb92-11e9-9306-47cb0324fd44_story.html)

Like so many columnists, Gerson expresses a concern but offers no remedy. Moreover, he does not seem to appreciate the U.S. Preamble’s proposition. It suggests 5 disciplines to encourage responsible human liberty without specifying the standards by which performance may be judged. What is Gerson’s interpretation of the U.S. Preamble?

Mine is:  We the People of the United States communicate, collaborate, and connect to aid 5 public disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---in order to encourage responsible human liberty to the living citizens. Fellow citizens may develop the standards by which they measure responsible human liberty. That is, as injustice is discovered, the people may amend the law so as to ultimately approach statutory justice.

Gerson erroneously imposes Christianity and democracy on the U.S. representative republic under the-literal-truth.

Donald Trump’s “chaotic influence at the center of U.S. politics is now forcing the other players in the system to determine what limits — if any — they will place on their own support.”

The human being who changes character to react to another human being has no integrity. Trump/Pence promised to drain the swamp, which implies a clean sweep of fellow citizens who are dissident to the civic proposition that is offered in the U.S. Preamble.

The republic and capitalism emerged from responsible human liberty (Walter Williams) (https://triblive.com/opinion/walter-williams-disproportionalities-whose-fault/)

Williams’ column invokes a lot of questions about human equity, statutory justice, and “rights”.

Should the human to be born have “the right” to design his or her or its genes and memes?

Is it feasible to develop such designs for living people’s selections?

What is Williams’ view of economic anthropology?





The republic and capitalism emerged from responsible human liberty (The Advocate) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_a923de94-001a-11ea-bfb3-63b2501a3972.html)

The Advocate may consider acceptance of constraints that define responsible human freedom.

Many Democrats have intended, based on opinion held since 2016, to impeach the elected President of the United States (perhaps with his running mate, making it a coup). Most Democrats seem to have accepted this intention.

Has America, in 230 years’ operation established “a representative republic and capitalism”---idea and product marketplaces? If so, how so? Is there freedom of choice? Can fellow citizens expect each other to observe the rule of law rather than pursue personal choice or social directive? How does a person choose to be a civic American citizen---accept membership in the entity We the People of the United States?

Humans may choose to accept that each person has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop either integrity or injustice. He or she may accept HIPEA to develop human equity under statutory justice; to nourish individual happiness with civic responsibility; to secure liberty for children, grandchildren, and beyond.

Humans may choose to accept that statutory justice is founded on the-literal-truth, which does not respond to opinion. The-literal-truth may be approached by accepting the-objective-truth, the ineluctable evidence on which human justice may be continually pursued. The individual who rejects individual responsibility accepts personal peril.

Fellow citizens cannot easily accept and nourish injustice rather than integrity. The liberal left, misled by social democracy, have brought the USA to an abyss. Have they acted alone? No. Fellow citizens who struggle to preserve colonial-English tradition have contributed to the irresponsibility, preventing the establishment of the USA as specified on June 21, 1788. The only worthy conservation is responsible human liberty. Few fellow citizens offer military service to aid crime and other infidelities.

It is time to accept the entity We the People of the United States, the civic fellow citizens for whom some military volunteers sacrifice everything. Each fellow citizen may consider, comprehend, and accept their personal interpretation of this country’s purpose, stated in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution (the U.S. Preamble).

Today, my interpretation for my civic order is:  We the People of the United States communicate, collaborate, and connect to practice five public disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---in order to empower responsible human liberty to living citizens.

The U.S. Preamble’s proposition leaves to the-literal-truth the standards on which responsible human liberty is judged, and that may be the American dream that sustains veterans.



I write to express my gratitude to veterans and to learn how to improve my practice of the responsible people's proposition, the U.S. preamble.





I hope Eddie Rispone will improve Louisiana roads (The Advocate) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_faa1dc78-eab0-11e9-abb2-cf1e12504cd2.html)

“A Democratic New Orleans group ran an ad linking Rispone to David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader and state representative, based solely on their mutual support of Trump.

Attacks like these are designed to demean and delegitimize their targets, but all they really do is tell us something about the person doing the attacking. And what they tell us is downright embarrassing.”

Why doesn’t The Advocate name that New Orleans group: BOLD (https://www.joplinglobe.com/region/rispone-slams-ad-linking-him-to-david-duke-in-louisiana/article_2ad9410a-6008-552e-ba9b-3b3b3a14c768.html). Why doesn’t The Advocate associate Louisiana Representative Cedric Richmond with BOLD (http://uptownmessenger.com/2016/12/danae-columbus-which-new-orleans-political-groups-will-carry-the-most-weight-in-2017-elections/) and with Nancy-Pelosi-civic-integrity?

In my opinion, The Advocate “is downright embarrassing” in its opposition to the people of Louisiana, especially our black fellow citizens.

I think the Advocate’s most egregious tyranny against black citizens is helping to undo a Louisiana treasure in use since 1880: majority-jury verdicts in criminal trials. Unanimous jury verdicts are about 900% disproportionately unjust to black victims of black criminals. The Advocate ought to reform from its tyranny against black fellow citizens. The Advocate’s racism is correctable under U.S. Amendments VI (impartial juries) and XIV.1 (protection of U.S. citizens from their state’s tyranny).

Vote Rispone for yourself and fellow Louisiana citizens more than for President Trump and We the People of the United States, a voluntary entity that continually develops integrity.



Letters

Capital punishment (Ron Sammonds) https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_be5f6688-0638-11ea-a234-cbe2bdc5fca3.html

I agree with Sammonds and consider Prejean a dissident to the U.S. Preamble’s proposition.

Each citizen may choose to maintain human equity by behaving to develop statutory justice. U.S. citizens are offered, in the U.S. Preamble, the proposition to publically aid integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity in order to encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens. Religion, not included in the U.S. Preamble’s goals, is relegated to individual privacy rather than civic, civil, or legal standing.

Citizens who accept the U.S. Preamble’s proposition also accept the responsibility to constrain dissidents. Some fellow citizens live here but want no civic responsibility. The U.S. citizen who grants life to a fellow citizen who committed aggravated murder breaches the civic, civil, and legal proposition in the culture he or she enjoys.

That’s my opinion. I write hoping to learn and perhaps approach the-literal-truth.

To Michael Norris:

Your opinion seems religious to me.

The clergy inculcate limited concepts that may influence people to eternally work to prove the religious doctrine. For example, “human life begins at conception” bemuses the woman’s obligations to her viable ova and the man’s obligations to his spermatozoa. However, the human resources to save threatened children, threatened conceptions, or threatened ova exponentially increase, respectively.

Ultimatums without the necessary resources seems like tyranny to me. 

To JR. Madden:

JR, you cite anecdotal triumph in continual improvement of law enforcement. We the People of the United States pay the bills for continual improvement.

There remains a need for statutory justice that encourages responsible human liberty, and the death sentence is essential to that civic duty.

Quora

https://www.quora.com/Why-does-kinship-provide-the-main-structure-of-social-action-in-many-noncommercial-societies?

While I don’t think of the genealogical family as a “noncommercial society,” I answer to appreciate the civic family.

The members of the living family may communicate, collaborate, and connect to establish and maintain integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity so as to encourage responsible human liberty to themselves and to the possible parent’s grandchildren (future married-children’s children).

In a civic culture, the parent’s grandchildren possibly have kinship through eight grandparents---may be kin to eight living families.

https://www.quora.com/In-which-way-will-political-correctness-do-harm-to-the-US-society?

“Political correctness” does harm by bemusing the people with new expression of an ancient debate: civic integrity as prevention of church-state partnership.

Consider religion, the practice: assuming that a heartfelt concern derives from the-literal-truth, developing a doctrine to support the assumption, and practicing the doctrine regardless of the-objective-truth---the ineluctable evidence that (with gradually better instruments of perception) asymptotically approaches the-literal-truth. Religion is like chasing an oasis and refusing to accept the evidence that it is merely a mirage.

Consider theism, the branch of religion that develops belief in the mystery of whatever-God-is. So far, discovery of the laws that control existence has not disproven a designing intelligence often referred to as “God.” The branches of theism are so numerous none is expected to dominate the world, yet having the correct beliefs is essential in some locations.

When I was a child, my community judged behavior on “the Christian thing to do” rather than human integrity. The Google Ngram shows that use of that political phrase has not peaked as of 2007. Its frequency is dwarfed by “chosen people,” which is doubled with “infidel.” Frequencies for “fidelity” and “integrity” are 3 times and 10 times higher, respectively.

For responsible human liberty, individuals acknowledge integrity and need integrity but many are bemused by voluntary fidelity to a doctrine. In a culture that fosters integrity, religion is reserved to private hope so as to encourage civic integrity.

It seems no known culture encourages the individual citizen to develop integrity. In fact, few people realize that integrity is a practice: pursuing the-literal-truth. Political justice is founded on the-literal-truth.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-justice-and-retribution?

It’s practical to start with selections from a dictionary, and I prefer Merriam-Webster online. Justice means “the maintenance or administration of what is just especially by the impartial adjustment of conflicting claims or the assignment of merited rewards or punishments.” Retribution referred readers to recompense “to give something to by way of compensation (as for a service rendered or damage incurred).” It seems retribution is the consequence of either a agreement or an injustice.

My opinions on this question can best be developed on the question of religion’s harm---initiation, toleration, and possible responsible human liberty.

It seems religion was common in recorded history, as evidenced by ancient cave-art and recorded in the Code of Hammurabi. The Greeks practiced religion but expressed two pivotal ideas I interpret as follows. First, humans may develop equity under statutory justice, a perfection that can be approached by discovering and correcting injustices in statutory law. Second, the just citizen neither initiates nor tolerates harm to or from any person or society. The jury wrongfully convicted Socrates of religious harm, and Socrates accepted punishment so as to uphold statutory law and perhaps to establish the case for correction of the injustice---in other words, make the case for statutory justice.

The English colonies in America rejected the Canterbury-Parliament partnership that is constitutional in England. However, American church-state partnership has been preserved by tradition, perhaps to pose Congress in “divinity” on par with Parliament.

Fortuitously, the U.S. Constitution has a political-power purpose that is stated in the U.S. Preamble: majority public discipline. Each citizen may consider the U.S. Preamble and reject its proposition, but does so at individual risk. And rightly so, because it is a proposition for individual civic discipline: responsible human liberty.

My interpretation of the U.S. Preamble for today is:  We the People of the United States communicate, collaborate, and connect to maintain 5 public disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---in order to practice and encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens. The U.S. Preamble does not specify the standard by which compliance is measured. Therefore, discipline under the-literal-truth may be approached under the U.S. Preamble.

The-literal-truth exists, and humans have the awareness and grammar with which to discover actual reality. Human power to discover researches the-objective-truth. It improves with new methods of perception, such as increasingly powerful telescopes and microscopes. Psychological power increases with more definitive language and elimination of false assumptions/perceptions. For example, the sun does not come up in the morning. The U.S. is not “our democracy,” but a representative republic under the rule of law that increasingly satisfies the U.S. Preamble’s proposition.

The 5-person Committee of Style created the U.S. Preamble’s proposition early in the month of September, 1787. Representatives of 9 of 13 states ratified it on June 21, 1788, when the USA was established as a global nation of civic people (We the People of the United States). Two more states joined before operations began on March 4, 1789. The first Congress, 1789-1793, established the American church-state partnership that evolved from Protestantism in 1791 to Judeo-Christianity in 2019. Perhaps We the People of the United States is in the process of accepting religion as a private hope rather than a public imposition.

When most of We the People of the United States accept that the US Preamble’s proposition for equity under statutory justice assigns religion to privacy rather than as a public discipline, none of the living people will want retribution for past injustices imposed by religion: the continuum of living citizens will celebrate responsible human liberty.

Phil Beaver does not “know.” He trusts in and is committed to the-objective-truth which can only be discovered. Conventional wisdom has truth founded on reason, but it obviously does not work.

Phil is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com, and consider essays from the latest and going back as far as you like.