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A THEORY OF JUSTICE: Police in Palmer, Alaska, "chased off" Brian Tanner, 21, who was sitting in his car outside the public library, after it was closed.

Tanner's crime? He was playing games on his laptop computer, using the library's free wireless Internet access.

The next evening, police spotted him there again.

"It was kind of like, 'Well gee whiz, come on'," said police Lt. Tom Remaley. Police confiscated Tanner's computer and threatened him with criminal charges, but were thwarted: "I think I finally understand from the library that they don't charge for it," Remaley said.

"They don't have a time limit.

That means there's no theft." But, Remaley said, Tanner may still face charges such as trespassing or criminal mischief, since a police officer had told him "You can't do that. Go away."

(Anchorage Daily News)...Something that's not a crime becomes one when an ignorant cop says it is? I think they call places like that a "Police State".

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