In cities all across America, thousands of anarchists, Stalinists, Trotskyites, Chomskyites, Bukharinites, and other -ites you’ve never heard of are taking a break from the annual anti-war protest circuit to steal green space from the public. They have seized public parks and used them to sleep and poop in for over a month now, depriving the public of their use.

In Washington, D.C., across the street from The Examiner‘s offices, the “Occupiers” at least appear to have kept the pooping to a minimum. But with their encampment on National Park Service lands — a violation of federal law — they are doing their level best to turn the recently re-sodded and renovated McPherson Square ($400,000 in stimulus funds) into a mud bowl by this spring.