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Shaun Kenney

Shaun Kenney is the Chairman of the Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors, former Communications Director for the Republican Party of Virginia, and an active blogger since 2002. Shaun lives in Thomas Jefferson's backyard with his wife, six children, and a modest attempt at a farm in Kents Store, Virginia.

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4 Responses to "Want To Watch #occupycville Get The Boot?"

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   Mike Scarry December 1, 2011 00:19 am

   It’s nice to see conservatives gloating over the erosion of the first amendment right to freedom of assembly. Just curious, where in the constitution is the freedom to assemble curtailed? I figure you would know, seeing as how conservatives are the defenders of the constitution and liberty. Ha ha.

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   Rocky December 1, 2011 01:07 am

   Mike,

   Like all liberals, you seem to think that the Bill of Rights civil liberties are absolute–except of course for the ones that you find inconvenient, like the Second Amendment and the Tenth Amendment in particular. Does the First Amendment give you the right to scream “fire!” in a crowded theater? Does the First Amendment give a newspaper the right to run a false front page story claiming that another newspaper with an opposing editorial bias is secretly owned by the Chinese government? Does the First Amendment give your camping club the right to set a camp fire in a protected wilderness area that starts a wildfire? Does the First Amendment give you the right to hunt and kill an endangered species because it is your family/tribal tradition to do so? Does the First Amendment give you the right to camp out in and trash public parks to the exclusion of other park users?

   Ha ha, yourself.

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   John Jackson December 1, 2011 01:25 am

   Mike,
   There is nothing wrong with the freedom to assemble, it’s squatting that is the problem. Is practicing 1960s tactics truly the way for revolution? Or would you rather restore the Constitution with reform? Which one? These lengthy squatting protests are for one purpose – immediate change through revolution.

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   Shaun Kenney December 1, 2011 01:57 am

   Just to let folks know, Lee Park was liberated from the occupation at 1:05am Thursday. Police were called pigs and compared to the Nazis at Nuremburg, and though some of the fair weather occupiers (who did not get arrested) were crude, the vast majority of the protest was peaceful and civil…

   …in most instances.