Staunton prosecutor Ray Robertson (D) has charged adult video store owner Rick Krial with 16 counts of selling obscene videos. Virginia State Police and Waynesboro and Staunton undercover officers helped with the investigation.
This follows the recent opening of the store that has been protested by nearby residents because of its content which resulted in the formation of a Citizens Task Force against Pornography. Members of the community in both Staunton and Augusta County approached their governing bodies to put strict zoning ordinances in place before future adult businesses move to the area.
In Timberville, north of Harrisonburg, citizens are also working with their governing body to put ordinances in place for adult-related businesses.
Krial owns 12 adult businesses in Virginia and Maryland. When asked why he chose a community like Staunton to set up shop, he said he owned land there.
The Citizens Task Force plans to be at the November 8, 2007, meeting of Staunton City Council when the proposed ordinances are supposed to be presented by the Planning Commission. They are encouraging all in the community who would like to see ordinances in place to prevent adult businesses from settling near schools, libraries, neighborhoods, churches, and other family-friendly places to attend the meeting.
The meeting will be held in Staunton's City Hall at 7:30 on Thursday, November 8, 2007.
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So this is what "conservatism" is about around here? We have city councils eager to spend money on infrastructure, theaters, baseball fields and anything else they can dream up while the local conservatives are asleep at the switch worrying about whether the local delegate candidates are anti- illegal immigration enough or not (not that the state assembly can do much on the issue) and urging the local prosecutor on in an old fashioned witch hunt in order to pacify his bible-thumping supporters by shutting down video stores. Somehow, they have hardcore adult stores within 100 feet of elementary schools in Florida, California and other states but yet society continues to function.
Meanwhile at the federal level, we have a local congressman who can't wait to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on farm subsidies at a time in which commodity prices are setting new historical highs every day!
I really wonder if Conservatism as it applies in the Valley even considers spreading the message of low taxes and smaller government. It seems like it's more preoccupied with spreading the word of God.
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