[TheForge] Mark Krause held on bomb making charges

[Rufus]

Finger prints should indicate how much of the book Mark has read, or spent 
in it.
I feel for him, I was shocked at the heartless comments that had been put on 
his web site.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Boulay" <pboulay at earthlink.net>
To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Mark Krause held on bomb making charges


>
> Peter and all,
>
> I visited with Jill Turman at her ety deny making any such bomb or placing 
> any such device as he is accused of.
> Jill said that she has been in touch with a couple of federal criminal 
> attorneys in Arkansas. Their services would cost $50K to $75K plus 
> expenses plus the cost of expert witnesses. I note that the Mark Krause 
> legal defense fund has $1900 in it.
> What is so disturbing in all this is the sense that "there but for the 
> grace of God go I". Here is a creative hard-working artist-blacksmith 
> who's gone through a divorce and lost his house through foreclosure. He 
> has pulled up stakes and moved cross country to get work. He was 
> apparently putting his life back together when 10 FBI agents with guns 
> drawn show up on his doorstep at 5AM. How many of us have 100K at the 
> ready to defend ourselves from such a random event? How many of us have 
> books, pamphlets or computer files that could be taken as our personal 
> position simply because they happen to be in our possession?
>