Twitter anarchist raided under 'riot' laws. He argues that authorities violated the U.S. Constitution. He was arrested in Pittsburgh, anti G20 march, on Sept 24 for listening to police scanner and relaying information on Twitter to help protesters avoid heavily-armed cops. A week later, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, armed with a search warrant and backed by a federal grand jury investigation, raided Madison's house. The squad seized his computers, camera memory cards, books, air-filtration masks, bumper stickers and political posters - all purportedly evidence that the 41-year old social worker had broken a federal anti-rioting law that carries up to five years in prison..
The federal anti-rioting statute is serious business, and is seemingly easy to violate. For instance, it is a felony to "organize, promote, encourage, participate in, or carry on a riot; or [...] to aid or abet any person in inciting or participating in [...] a riot." By that token, simply telling a person fleeing cops with batons which
