Marathon Pundit: Occupy Chicago curfew case: Judge rules camping is speech

October Occupy Chicago protest

Cook County Associate Judge Thomas More Donnelly threw out curfew charges from last fall against 92 Occupy Chicago protesters, claiming that the Chicago Park District's 11:00pm curfew is vague. He specifically mentioned that the Kool-Aid drinking party (not that the judge called it that) for Barack Obama on election night four years ago also violated that curfew yet no one was arrested.

I was in Grant Park the night most of the occupiers were arrested. Some of them had tents and they made it clear that they planned to stay in the park indefinitely in order to set up another wretched Occupy drugs-murder-rape encampment.

I had I departed for home by the time the Chicago Police told the occupiers to leave. But according to multiple media accounts, the cops told the leftists that they if they left--they would not be arrested. In short, the occupiers volunteered themselves to be arrested that night.

As for the Obama bash four years ago--while a few people may have brought tents with them to Grant Park that awful (for me) night--it was clear that they would not spend the entire night there.

The parks are for everyone. Which means everyone can't live in them.

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