[TheForge] Mark Krause held on bomb making charges

Sat Dec 11 15:48:50 EST 2010

There are some variations on the reporting, some of you may wish to follow:
http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=%22mark+krause%22+FBI
looks like almost 50 different articles, at this point.

The affadavit is not very specific, describing a circuit that closes
with connection to the positive terminal of a battery (as could
diagram any battery-operated device), aside from the claimed
correlation.  It is not reassuring that there are such seemingly-weak
links in all this.

Best regards,

Ben

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 12:23 PM, peter fels & phoebe palmer
<artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:
> Hi Mike;
> The FBI affidavit looks pretty circumstantial, as evidence goes, to me.
> The informant may well be his ex wife who is apt to be very unhappy
> about Mark
> and his pretty new blacksmithing lady friend.
> Mark is too politically aware, and empathetic to even consider a CS,
> counterproductive and ineffectual
> act like the one described. It's just not in his character.
> My worry is that as a Californian with liberal leanings ,a taste for
> firearms and blowing the anvil;
> he's going to have a tough time in this political climate, getting a
> fair trial, there in the south.
>
> On 12/11/2010 8:08 AM, Mike Linn wrote:
>> I hate to say it as I don't know the guy, but the affidavit seems pretty clearcut and damming. You read all the time about people whom family and friends would never have suspected.
>>
>> He'll get his day in court, and the prosecution will have to prove it's case beyond a reasonable doubt.
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Dec 11, 2010, at 8:24 AM, "Rome H. Hutchings"<tpimg at tds.net>  wrote:
>>
>>> It was taken down, apparently the email was not totally Board approved.
>>> When
>>> I received the text content from Paul Boulay (1st VP) for the Constant
>>> Contact it
>>> was thought that the Board had approved to put out the word for Mark.
>>>
>>> To the contrary!  I received a request from Peyton Anderson, ABANA's new
>>> President
>>> to take down the posting and remove the link from my Facebook page.
>>>
>>> So much for the new Board being on track and progressive in thought and
>>> deed.
>>>
>>> I have since reposted the entire message with the links, minus the ABANA
>>> header on
>>> my Facebook page.
>>>
>>> Here is the content and links:
>>>
>>> Artist and Blacksmith Mark Krause was arrested last week on charges of
>>> domestic terrorism. This stems from a home made device alleged to be a bomb
>>> in the guise of a Pepsi can having been found at the Osage Baptist Church
>>> that was being use...d as a polling place. This occurred a few days after
>>> the 2010 ABANA conference which Mark attended.
>>>
>>> The connection between Mark and the bomb is that the house that Mark once
>>> occupied and had abandoned due to foreclosure proceedings was found to have
>>> pepsi can bits, modified batteries and drawings that were identified as
>>> Marks that are said to resemble parts of the device.
>>>
>>> Marks long time friends and associates among the blacksmithing community
>>> strongly support Mark and vouch for his character. Among these are Jill
>>> Turman, Toby Hickman, and Jon Sarriugarte. Mark is the author of a guide on
>>> how Nazel power hammers work and was known as the "power hammer whisperer"
>>> for is knack of being able to coax the best out of these tools of our trade.
>>> He had spent the last few months rebuilding the hammers of several West
>>> Coast Smiths.
>>>
>>> You can find out about Mark's case and if you choose, contribute to his
>>> legal defense fund see the "Donate with WePay" button on this page:
>>> http://freemarkkrause.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>> Jon Sarriugarte's page http://www.formandreform.com/wordpress/?p=4314 has
>>> additional links and shows the sculpture "Icarus" Mark was creating before
>>> and after the ABANA conference.
>>>
>>> If you attended the 2010 Conference in Memphis and met or spoke with Mark,
>>> have any information that may assist Mark, or are just simply a friend, Mark
>>> is in need of your help.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "peter fels&  phoebe palmer"<artgawk at thegrid.net>
>>> To: "Rome H. Hutchings"<rome.hutchings at theprairieismygarden.com>;
>>> "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA"<theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>>> Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 11:11 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Mark Krause held on bomb making charges
>>>
>>>
>>>> Pulled a 404 on that link Rome. Ah well
>>>> Thank you for alerting us to this travesty...much appreciated.
>>>> Please add me to the list of folks vouching for Mark.
>>>>
>>>> On 12/10/2010 4:01 PM, Rome H. Hutchings wrote:
>>>>> You can see more information at the following link:
>>>>> http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs033/1101903933417/archive/1104054990343.html
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "peter fels&   phoebe palmer"<artgawk at thegrid.net>
>>>>> To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA"<theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>>>>> Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 5:34 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Mark Krause held on bomb making charges
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> My friend Mark Krause..a fine artist-blacksmith, a good friend and a
>>>>>> kind, creative  and generous person
>>>>>> has been charged with bomb making etc.
>>>>>> It's absurd but looks nasty.
>>>>>> Please see
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://freemarkkrause.blogspot.com/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> pete fels
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