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In a search of his house, police found
what has been described as a manifesto
of his Free Market Party, which advo-
cates the rights of European Americans
and denounces immigration from the
Third World.
Baumhammers' manifesto is appar-
ently linked to a philosophy known as
the Third Position, an ideology of revo-
lution and racial separation that is
attracting right-wing and left-wing
extremists.
Baumhammers also created a Web
site for the party he founded with links
to other "white-rights groups." The site
has since been closed down.
Baumhammers, who is of Latvian
descent, apparently became more inter-
ested in his heritage during the past few
years. He made several trips to Europe.
During this time, Baumhammers
became convinced that he had been poi-
soned, according to a woman who told
the Pittsburgh Post - Gazette that she had
been hospitalized with him. He has
reportedly been treated since 1993 for
an unspecified mental disorder and has
spent at least one stint in a psychiatric
hospital.
Baumhammer's lawyer, William
Difenderfer, said he would pursue a
mental infirmity defense for his client.
The combination of an apparently
deranged individual who had easy access
to a racist, antisemitic ideology is an
"explosive mix," said Joel Ratner, the
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Gordon, who had known
Baumhammers since he was a young
boy, was held Monday.
The other four people killed last
Friday were also minorities: an Indian
man, Anil Thakur, was killed at a gro-
cery; two Asian men, Thao Pham and
Ji-Ye Sun, at a Chinese restaurant;
and an African-American man,
Garry Lee, was shot and killed at
a karate school.
Another Indian man shot in
the rampage, Sandip Patel,
remained in critical condition in a
Pittsburgh hospital.
Baumhammers also allegedly
shot through the windows of the
two suburban Pittsburgh syna-
gogues — Ahavath Achim and
Beth El of South Hills — and
spray-painted the antisemitic graf-
fiti outside Beth El. No one was
hurt in the synagogue incidents.
Anita Gordon with her husband
Pennsylvania prosecutors charged
Sanford in December.
Baumhammers with five counts of
homicide. Baumhammers, who' plead-
League in Ohio/Kentucky/Allegheny.
ed not guilty to the charges Monday,
"Gun safety laws are crucial," he said,
was also charged with seven counts of
adding that the ADL is also pressing for
ethnic intimidation under
passage of the Hate Crimes Prevention
Pennsylvania's hate crimes law.
Act.
Hate crimes were down by 4 percent
in the United States last year, to 1,547
Racial Separation
incidents, according to a recent report
Baumhammers, who lived with his par-
published by the Anti-Defamation
ents in the Pittsburgh suburb of Mt.
League. But they were up, from 70 to
Lebanon, is a lawyer who studied immi-
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