Opinion

Pesthole park

One downside to global warming: It brings the pests out early.

You know — mosquitoes, deer ticks.

Occupiers . . .

The latter were out in ragged force over the weekend, a few hundred of them descending on Zuccotti Park, their habitat for several weeks last fall.

All the raping and robbing and drug-dealing, to say nothing of the terminally annoying drumming, litter and other filth spread by the protesters, finally caused City Hall to say “enough.”

And so the cops quickly turned them out.

Now OWS wants to re-establish a presence at the park; happily, the NYPD had a better idea Saturday — arresting dozens on a variety of charges, some violence-related.

It’s early, but the weekend crowd seemed harder-edged than the naïf-heavy pack that sought to steal the park last fall.

Meanwhile, the fellow-travelers never went away: Zuccotti Park’s representative in Congress, Jerrold Nadler, renewed his demand for a Justice Department probe of the NYPD. (Good old reliable Jerry, hallucinating visions of police brutality again.)

As for the Occupiers, they called Saturday’s act-out “an opportunity to remind Wall Street that we aren’t going anywhere.”

Whatever.

It’s telling that the protesters can’t find anything to promote except themselves: Saturday’s march marked the six-month anniversary of their first occupation; just as they celebrated their three-month anniversary in December by breaking into a church yard on Canal Street.

No doubt New York, and America, will be treated to daily doses of their specialness ’til the snowflakes fly.

Here’s hoping for an early winter.