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DN! Twitter Crackdown (1): NYC Activist Arrested for Using Social Networking Site during G-20 Protest in Pittsburghl

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Twitter Crackdown: NYC Activist Arrested for Using Social Networking Site during G-20 Protest in Pittsburgh

Elliot Madison was arrested last month during the G-20 protests in Pittsburgh when police raided his hotel room. Police say Madison and a co-defendant used computers and a radio scanner to track police movements and then passed on that information to protesters using cell phones and the social networking site Twitter. Madison is being charged with hindering apprehension or prosecution, criminal use of a communication facility, and possession of instruments of crime. Exactly one week later, Madisons New York home was raided by FBI agents, who conducted a sixteen-hour search. We speak to Elliot Madison and his attorney, Martin Stolar.

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  • Do these cops that raised the right hand to uphold the Constitution realize they are committing Treason ? 1. Violation of allegiance toward one's country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one's country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies.

    2. A betrayal of trust or confidence.

  • i don't know what this guy was protesting, but if it was peacefully then he had every right to do what he did.

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  • Reminds my of the British in the Colonies of 1775... history repeats. Don't the know when you use a heavy hand against people unConstitutionally will only serve to infuriate the people?

  • This is pointless and stupid how they try to criminalize people.I can see martial law creeping closer and closer.

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