Despite having no alcohol or drugs in his body, police arrested Phil Chinn for DUI in the early afternoon on May 6, 2007, as he was driving to attend an antiwar protest in Aberdeen, WA. Turns out that Mr. Chinn, a student at Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, had been identified as an anarchist to state law enforcement officials by John Towery, an undercover agent with the Army Force Protection Intelligence Unit, who had penetrated local antiwar protest groups, a flagrant violation of the Posse Comitatus Act.

Read this hot-off-the-press story by Rick Anderson, published yesterday by the Seattle Weekly, about Mr. Chinn’s arrest, the trumped up case against him, and the circumstances that led to his subsequent civil lawsuit against the police for violation of his civil rights, a case that recently settled for $500,000.