Friends of the accused Pepsi can bomber in Arkansas insist he’s not a “paranoid sociopath with right-wing affiliations,” as one friend put it. Another friend of Mark Krause, who is apparently well known in the artist community in Northwest Arkansas centered on Fayetteville, told us that he’s “a freedom loving artist liberal who had a taste for tinkering with machines. And of course he likes to blow things up.” Ryan Reilly has our report.

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