'Value Added' As a Consideration in a Rental/Leasing Contract=> Gmail to Nima Kulkarni, KY State Rep., and Social Justice Advocate

THIS IS A COPY OF GMAIL SENT TO NIMA KULKARNI, SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCATE AND IMMIGRATION LAWYER AND KENTUCKY STATE REPRESENTATIVE, OF LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY DISTRICT=>

Vernonlynn Stephens vernonlynnstephens@gmail.com

to Nima, me

<My writs will try to find a way of elevating the leasee's value addition and factors of 'decency' toward 'promoting the general welfare' (as do terms when one is evicted in eminent domain-- as when highways-building mean foreclosure to a resident owner. George Eclund says that something like this applies in Louisville's dealings with over-abundant 'rough sleeping camps' all around town.><I want to do so by crafting a workaround concept of ownership, owning real or even any property, which by Blackstone's adaptation of 'natural law' would imply that the 'natural rights given by the Creator' would dovetail with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (persuasive authority but not direct authority in USA-- not ratified by (Republicans in) the Senate).>
<I shall re-read an important religious/theological and philosophical treatise by a 'William of Ockham' of the 14th century, who was fierce and excommunicated by the Avignon Pope for asserting that PROPERTY IS A FICTION, EVIL WHEN PRESSED WITH COERCIVE FORCE. This term he uses is 'usufruct,' which seems to mean a kind of 'squatters' rights as the first reality of human community; the property rights Mr. Bryant last Lord of my Land assumed derive from surveys that go back to the Revolutionary Period, and by force too of many shenanigans that got say Daniel Boone and my surname-Patriarch Benjamin Stephens sent to Missouri for some trumped up lunacy that these pioneers did nothing during the Revolution.> <Power and  the use of force are the only justification for American claims to land, in the silly and European mode of 'victors' justice' (Blackstone=> winner-or-trial-by-wager-of-battle (as even now lawsuits obtain to be).>
<Am writing. The open system at the Free Public Library and Interlibrary Loan will have befriended me in this endeavor.><But my BODY may give out: I get hopelessly out of breath walking all the time, the advent of symptoms my cardio doctor did warn me of for openheart surgery hypothetically this year; also blind in right eye, cataract not brain damage; great pain when I walk due to calcified knees.><If I stay at St. Vincent de Paul, I can really pile money-- despite needful correction for stolen at Brook Hospital check, which if I get Shelter + Care from Seven Counties would perchance I hope get me quickly into a Section 8 in your venue.>
<Over and out=> thanks for being nice.><yet too these matters about which I write on moral/legal philosophy may abet your/our work for social justice.>

POSTED 7.18.2021PM3SUNDAY

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