What’s a good babysitter cost these days? Ten bucks an hour?
The price for babysitting Occupy Wall Street protestors is running at about $1,000 a day here and Raleigh. The Charlotte Observer puts the city’s costs so far at $105,000. The answer? An ordinance that would ban protestors from living in public parks and blocking roadways and sidewalks. The Charlotte City Council apparently won’t take that up until after the election.
Could that be because some council members really don’t want to broom the protestors, but don’t want you to figure that out quite yet?
City Councilman Michael Barnes said he believes in both their right to protest and the city’s right to have restrictions.
“I don’t know that we would prohibit overnight stays. Maybe it is that you can only stay a certain amount of time,” Barnes said.
I guarantee if this were the Tea Party, the ink on the ordinance would already be dry. Anything less than an overnight ban on sleeping in public parks and a total ban on sidewalk and traffic blocking is an invitation for disaster when the Democrat National Convention rolls into town in 2012.
As I explained before, there are signs that one of the purposes of doing this Occupy stuff now, in New York, here and elsewhere, is as a dry run, and a run-up, for their ultimate stand, which, like the 1968 riots in Chicago, will be in Charlotte at the DNC.
