Maybe long-time Earth Day advocate Ira Einhorn took the whole “recycling” thing a little too far when he “composted” his girlfriend’s remains in a trunk in his closet...
Back in 1970, Earth Day was a grassroots hippie event. The organizers chose April 22 – which just “happens” to be the birthday of their Soviet Communist hero, Lenin:
“One of the self-identified ‘founders’ of Earth Day, Bay Area activist John McConnell, has written that in 1969 he proposed to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors a new holiday to be called Earth Day on the first day of spring, the Equinox, around March 21. But, he writes, in 1970 local anti-Vietnam War and Environmental Teach-in activists 'who were planning a one-time event for April 22, also decided to call their event Earth Day.'
“And what was this unnamed ‘one-time event’ in 1970? It was the 100th birthday celebration for Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, known to history as Lenin...”
(Amusingly, the Soviets marked Lenin’s 100th birthday with – a massive tree planting in Siberia. The trees spell out a congratulatory message to the late dictator when seen from above. How “green” of them! Alas, the Soviets normally weren’t so environmentally savvy; their factories typically expelled exponentially more pollution than those in the West, but few Leftists like to dwell on that “inconvenient truth. )
That very first Earth Day in Philadelphia, Ira Einhorn -- local leftwing activist and self-promoting gadfly, a would-be Abbie Hoffman -- served as the event’s Master of Ceremonies.
Today, Earth Day has been embraced by governments and corporations. Amazon.com is offering Earth Day specials; school kids are compelled to celebrate it instead of Christmas.
But founding organizer Ira Einhorn’s name is strangely absent from all the official Earth Day literature these days. It’s no wonder: the one-time up and coming counterculture superstar later killed his girlfriend and fled abroad to escape justice.
Ken Anderson explains:
“After bludgeoning his girlfriend of five years to death, fracturing her skull in a dozen places, Ira stuffed her body into a trunk, which he packed into a closet where it remained until discovered by the police nearly two years later.”
Incredibly, Ira Einhorn isn’t the only leftwing activist who founded a holiday and was convicted of committing an act of violence against a woman. As I wrote here last December, the fake holiday Kwanzaa sprang from the fevered imagination of an African-American radical who’d served jail time for torturing one of his female comrades.
None of this should shock even the most casual student of the Left. As documented time and again, their vaunted idealism is just a thin, publically acceptable veneer, barely concealing their misogyny, racism, misanthropy and hostility to any facts that contradict their beloved theories or people who dare to disagree with their viewpoints.
Ira Einhorn just took his hypocrisy, sense of superiority and entitlement a little farther than the average Leftist. And he got caught.
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Kathy it should also be pointed out that the murdering weasel spent years in France, as the US tried to extradite him.
During this time, he was supported by the luney left and the socialist movement in France.
After all, a brave man like this piece of S**t shouldn't have to face justice, for a little misdeed.
Great post Kathy
Kathy, another well written article, not so much content but rather excellent composition and style. Yours is quite the work of irony with just the right sprinkling of sarcasm.
This English professor scores you an A minus. I never give out straight A grades; this would not encourage students of language to strive to do better.
Quite ironic most people of our country have not yet caught onto left liberals. Democrats are not so bad but those on the far left creep me out.
Bill Ayers lucked out and escaped justice. Al Sharpton is not so lucky of late. Jessie Jackson Jr. has his own "pay to play" problem. I do not know about his illegitimate half siblings. Jeremiah Wright and Michael Pfleger, well, those two boys are men of God and beyond reproach. Louis Farrakhan, creepy, a really creepy murderer. And the beat goes on.
Rather ironic those people and many others like them have someone in common, Barack Obama.
Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation
<i>The trees spell out a congratulatory message to the late dictator when seen from above.</i>
Especially ironic, when you consider communism and most left-wing ideologues are pretty much atheistic. This almost makes it seem as if they believe Lenin went...up after his death.
I can't remember where I read it, so I can't take credit for this, but someone on another blog said that the more vicious and violent the criminal and the more innocent his victim, the more the left will defend them. Which is why Einhorn was so defended by liberals.
Great column.
"self-promoting gadfly"
You say that like it's a BAD thing!
Excellent article. This stuff never makes it to the posters and flyers, does it?
But this man is Saving the Planet! What's one little dead woman compared to that?
Oh, there's a blog about how he's innocent. Well there would be, wouldn't there? It's called "iratheunicorn".
I know Ira way to well. I attended Drexel University in the 80s and lived in an apartment near campus. The apartment building had two apartments on the second floor, ours in the front and Ira and Holly's in the back. Ira use to come borrow food from us while naked. He was clearly a weird guy. Holly was about as sweet as could be. One day she disappeared and Ira said she had left him. The police got nowhere so the parents hired an investigator who collected enough evidence to get the police to get a warrant. The found Holly stuffed into a trunk in his closet (he claimed the CIA was framing him and he had no idea she was there). Arlen Specter was his lawyer and somehow got him out on bail. He skipped the country as wasn't brought to justice for decades.
Make that 70s and early 80s.
Being a leftist and a murderer seems to give those so ascribed a bizarre sense of entitlement and cache amongst those of a similar mindset.
Very funny article. School kids are compelled to celebrate it instead of Christmas? Ha ha!
Actually, the Earth Day that is now celebrated nationally was founded by Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work in 1995.
And in reference to the last comment, Einhorn wasn't being supported by the socialists in France, it is just that France has laws that prevent suspected criminals from being extradited if there is a chance that they may be given the death penalty as the French government doesn't support the death penalty.
While you say we conceal our "misogyny, racism, misanthropy and hostility to any facts that contradict their beloved theories or people who dare to disagree with their viewpoints," yours is quite out in the open.
Just put your Palin 2012 sticker on your car and S T F U !
Leftist:
When lefties like you can't address the argument, you get real emotional, you stop thinking and use the cah-cah mouth. Just so you know, this means you lost the argument and we smile, but sadly. We really do look for some level of intelligent push-back to help us hone our arguments. Makes for debating fun for the entire family! But when you say what you said, it's like you give up so soon. Come on, give us something we can argue with. Don't wuss out on us!
Kathy:
Your article is awesome. Also, fivefeetoffury.com is one of my top spots for news and, frankly, it's like buffalo wings for my brain. Really gets me fired up! Keep up the good work. Examiner.com, you rock with this chick!
The question nobody asks about Einhorn killing his girlfriend is -- Did she deserve it? We have to be tolerant of multicultural values, you know, including honor killings and stuff like that. Diversity.
As a decadent Brit I had never heard of this bloke Einhorn (or "Earth" day for that matter). However, I read that he fled to France which is where I have come to live, so should I be worried? Did the useless twit just die or did the law finally catch up with him?
I get a big kick out of reading Kate Shaidle and following her links every day, most especially because she has a knack for luring the lice and cockroaches out of the woodwork. A propos, why ARE people like "Leftist" so scared of hockey moms?
Why should one innocent little human being be allowed to stand in the way of a Gaia saving "500 Millioner"?
Strangely enough, "Einhorn" means "unicorn" in German.
Be nice people. Rumor has it, Ira is Al Gore's half brother.
If anyone is curious, the Lenin trees are visible in Google Maps
Use these co-ordinates:
54.465673,64.7980000
Prophetic....depopulation was a core Earth first value from gay one.
Don't forget who Einhorns lawyer was at the time. The lawyer who git this pig out on bond and then he fled the country.
None other than Arlen Spector.
I believe Einhorn was tried and convicted in absentia as well. Something that is VERY VERY rare in this country.
More people died in Ira's apartment than (on the same day) at the Three Mile Island meltdown.
Earth Day has been embraced by governments and corporations. Amazon.com is offering Earth Day specials; school kids are compelled to celebrate it instead of Christmas.
I think that one line pretty much say's it all about how we got to this point in History where we are in decline. Well said.
The Ira Einhorn story will be repeated nationaly. Socialism only has one aim. The grave.
JMO
Just a couple WOW moments about this ridiculous article...
ONE: I can't believe nobody has yet to point out that this hack literally transcribed parts of FATMAN, DRUG ADDICTTED, RUSH LIMBAUGH'S pathetically biased, uninformed EIB re-hashing of the Einhorn case. AND WITHOUT CREDIT TO RUSH! To the writer: Are you nuts? Do you realize you are still entitled to give credit when you use other people's material?
Even when you are using material provided from your heroes?
That is dedication to the conservative movement, you thief.
TWO: To add to the comment below that said, "I believe Einhorn was tried and convicted in absentia as well. Something that is VERY VERY rare in this country."
Don't forget that there was a "special law" that was designed that led to Ira's extradition, a completely UNCONSTITUTIONAL law. (Laws are not to be created to single out individuals...)
Show me the DNA evidence or just stop pretending to know what the hell you're talking about.
“And what has happened in this case – and I challenge defense counsel or anybody else to cite any case ever – and I really do mean that – ever in the State of Pennsylvania – possibly the whole country – that has so personalized and so sensationalized not just the case but a defendant.”
Prosecutor Joel Rosen, Notes Of Testimony.
Why don't you read the following and write an argument that puts these claims to bed... betcha won't.
From Ira:
1. I was arrested in late March of 1979 for the murder of Holly Maddux whose bloodless body was discovered in a trunk in a closet on the back porch of my small apartment.
2. The original prosecutor, Barbara Christie, blew down a report, due to us under normal discovery procedures, so that she could remove the page numbers. This allowed her to disappear certain pages containing exculpatory (Brady) material.
The report, done by two ex-FBI agents, hired by the family of the deceased, formed the basis of my arrest.
A. She removed five sightings of the deceased that took place up to nine months after the prosecution has insisted, for 27 years, that the murder took place.
Two of the sightings made by police detectives who knew me well and were assigned to my neighborhood, for an extensive period of time during the first MOVE disturbance, were withheld from us until 2002, thus were not available during my in absentia trial.
B. She removed a statement by these two FBI agents that began: “If we are going to pin this on Einhorn…”
C. Other material, that for reasons unknown, I have never seen.
3. It required five court hearings to get some of the material mentioned in 1.(A) and (B), but the DA’s office continued to withhold two of the sightings until 2002.
4. The DA’s office did not use the normal procedure for the forensics whose results form the basis for any conviction. First, they sent all the material to the FBI Laboratory; when they came up empty: no blood, no human protein and fingerprints that were neither mine nor that of the deceased, they did not bother to ask to be identified, they sat on the results.
It took a court order to get the results.
5. The same procedure was tried again with Toxicon Associates, the same laboratory that later did the O.J. case. They came up with the same results.
6. So in a quandary, they turned to the local man that they had by-passed twice. He invented a new test: never repeated by anyone, never published and never peer reviewed.
He got a possible positive for protein: this new untested procedure is a violation of the Frye/Daubert standard which governs the admissibility of evidence allowed in court. It never should have been allowed in the court room.
Dr. Tumosa, the man who did the original testing for Toxicon Laboratory, made that clear during the trial: You can’t use an untested procedure when a man’s life is at stake.
But Judge Mazzola wanted a conviction, not justice.
N.B.: The untested fingerprints were conveniently lost, as were the bloodless clothes that the deceased was wearing.
As the 2002 trial made clear, blood would have sprayed everywhere.
NO BLOOD was found in the body, in the fluids inside or outside the trunk or anyplace else in the alleged murder scene.
7. After my first lawyer, now U.S. Senator, Arlen Spector and I parted company, a young lawyer, Norris Gelman, took over the case. He made it clear that I was not about to get a fair trial.
“They are changing the rules as they go along!”
8. Thus I went underground in January of 1981.
9. In the mid 80s, 67 volumes of my diaries, supposedly taken as evidence after my arrest, were turned over illegally to a journalist; he used them to write a totally sensational, damning book about the case. 13 TV specials, innumerable other media tales and a two part TV mini-series – now available on video all over the world – were to follow. All based on material plagiarized from my journals, as for almost twenty years, I spoke to no journalists.
10. The bias in the book was made clear by Stafford Beer and others who were horrified by what the author did with their interviews.
11. In 1993, an unprecedented in absentia murder trial was held. My lawyer was coerced into defending me. I was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
12. By early 1997 my decision was final.
13. In June of 1997, I was discovered in France.
14. In early December of 1997, the French refused to extradite me as a retrial was impossible.
15. In response, under the auspices of the Philadelphia DA’s office, the Pennsylvania legislature passed the Einhorn Law. All jurists who have written about the law, in any serious manner, have declared it unconstitutional as it violates a basic American political/constitutional principle: The separation of powers. (For those readers who have some legal training, 24 Suffolk Transnat’l L. Rev 353 is an extensive discussion of the issue.) A number of legal experts filed affidavits with the French court explaining the above.
The court granted the 2nd extradition request and allowed me to remain free. The politicians, however, initially refused to execute the request as I had enormous political support across the entire spectrum of French political life and they knew that the law was a ploy.
Prime Minister Jospin just let the order molder on his desk.
He gave way only when President Clinton called.
16. The media commotion that Joel Rosen mentioned felt unprecedented as the battle raged. It certainly continued during and after my return to the United States in July of 2001. There were 565 local newspaper articles.
17. On September 28, 2001, I was compared to Osama Bin Laden in a local paper, complete with a picture. A tomato throwing contest sponsored by local media was presided over by the Commissioner Of Police.
Under these circumstances a fair trial in Philadelphia was not possible.
18. Handing evidence, taken with a search warrant, over to a journalist for his own use is unprecedented in the case law I and a number of others have examined. It is such egregious prosecutorial misconduct that it would produce a mistrial or dismissal in an honest court, but Judge Mazzola did not even allow it to be discussed during the pre trial motion about it. He was blatantly protecting the prosecution, as he did throughout the trial. He acted as a second prosecutor throughout the trial.
Some examples follow:
A. He did not permit my wife to testify at the trial. Her absence totally unbalanced the court room.
B. He allowed 15 year old defamatory evidence to be presented. Material that took up the majority of the cross examination of my testimony.
C. While I was testifying about prosecutorial misconduct, he interrupted me to question me about how I had been treated during the trial. A question that was totally out of context and only posed as an attempt to confuse the jury.
D. While I was testifying, the assistant DA held up a 4” by 12” bag which had ‘Bullshit Bag’ inscribed on it. My lawyer insisted she be questioned about the matter (obvious grounds for a mistrial or a dismissal). Judge Mazzola refused.
E. At the end of the trial he insulted me on the basis of a word I had used while testifying. He insisted it didn’t exist in his dictionary. An international society bearing such a name has existed since at least 1975. At the time of the trial google.com produced 4,000 hits with 3 articles about me in the top 20.
F. In violation of Pennsylvania rules of court, he reseated the jury in the box after the trial was concluded and allowed TV into the courtroom. My lawyers could not believe their eyes.
G. His worst and most flagrant act of bias was his telling the jury that they could ignore the time of death when deciding upon my guilt or innocence, thus doing away with the very basis of the trial as both the prosecution and the defense focused most of their arguments upon the date that the prosecution had insisted upon for over two decades.
He effectively did away with my defense.
19. He then delayed my appeal for 28 months.
20. My lawyers refused to act.
21. I filed three pro se motions with the superior court about these delays. Twice the court ordered the judge to file. He finally did after 28 months when he had been in contempt of court for six months.
22. My lawyers ignored the first filing date for over a month; the court could have dismissed the appeal.
23. I have done two years of intense work on the issues, but my lawyers refused to communicate or share a draft of the brief.
24. They did not brief all the issues as I asked.
25. The judge’s 218 page submission (most are a few pages) is an abomination and full of outright lies.
26. Both the judge and my lawyers lie about the history of the case in their respective briefs; both omit my three docketed and responded to motions.
27. Judge Mazzola defends my lawyers a number of times in his brief – hardly his function – and asks the court to close out all further appeals – hardly his prerogative – and rule on matters that were not raised in the appeal.
His bias screams as loudly as Caesar’s wounds.
28. My lawyers continue to refuse all communication.
29. I have filed three pro se motions asking the court to dismiss them and appoint a new lawyer. The court denied my motions and failed to follow their own procedures as laid down in the case law for such matters.
30. I filed a 4th pro se motion reminding them of their own procedures. I await their response.
31. During this recent period, November 05 – February 06, my lawyers have not sent me any of the papers filed with the court relevant to my case.
32. Thus, I have effectively no counsel, a direct violation of my 6th Amendment rights.
33. The DA was given a Final Notice to file his brief by January 24, 06. On January 23, he filed for a continuance, contrary to court order and a motion to correct the record in the case.
34. I could oppose neither motion for my lawyers did not send me a copy and the court has not responded to my requests, both formal and informal, to send me copies of motions filed in my case.
35. On February 14, 2006 the DA filed his brief. I have two weeks to file a rebuttal, but I can’t do so as I have not been sent a copy of the brief.
36. Seven year old TV specials, play again and again, month after month, reiterating my ‘obvious’ guilt based upon facts that my trial blew away.
37. A two part TV mini-series, 50% fantasy, is on video in many languages. It is televised quite often in the USA. Ms. King Kong, Naomi Watts, play my supposed victim.
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No one seems to have mentioned the fact that the matriarch of the Bronfman empire aided and abetted Einhorn as he hid in France. She was not charged, to my knowledge and her money and family have managed to erase any mention of it on the internet.
Are you on crack? As an independant I cannot believe what I see coming from the Rush Limbaugh types. How in Gods name can anyone be opposed to Earth Day? How does Einhorn being a murderer make or break the message of Earth Day? If the next mass murderer carries a Republican voters registration card - is that an indictment of what being a Republican is all about? Grow up.
The guy didn't invent Earth Day
The left eats their own right....
Maybe his girlfriend wasn't being green enough..I'm sure nature took care of that problem with the two years she spent stuffed into a trunk in a closet.
What is it with leftist movements and murder? They sure have an affinity for it. Mao, Hitler, Che, Stalin, Pot..the list is endless.They all had their own 'days' too.
Want to defend them as well leftist, you red sympathizer?
Unfortunately time distorts many truths. Got to comment on the person's whose comment was did his girlfriend deserve it? Is that person completely crazy or just depraved. I do know about the first earth day and that Lenin's birthday was the real deal and that Einhorn's remarks are just that, his. The earth is the LORD's and everything in it. 'Nuff said. I won't be back to see the comments of the Lost.
"Show me the DNA evidence or just stop pretending to know what the hell you're talking about."
You're scaring us Buzz. Please, for the sake of Earth and Humanity, don't propagate yours.
ever hear of intelligence agency ops? oh yeah journalists are part of it. Wonder what Ira did make them frame him like that. He must have been good.
wow plagiarizing Limbaugh- LOL- historically leftists have been killed THEN smeared here- Ira is lucky
good riddance in advance Examiner and tool "reporter"
Dear Wombat Writer with NO clue...
How are you? Still dictating Rush Limbaugh to create trash? Ira, in his attempt for a fair trial failed himself. He was never well-liked except for and by the people that he got to really know. Your portrayal in this article feeds upon all the clown-faced sheep who still steep their opinions in his bunk retrial details and the words of the media. The media we'll all forever love to hate.
Thanks for continuing to be part of the mess.
I even went back and listened to Limbaugh's Earth Day show in which he ranted on Einhorn. Problematic is that information like this is all the media reported even though Ira claimed his innocence since day one. He is forever described in the light of only a few different reporters. While there may have been quite a few articles, if you do the homework (don't worry, cookie, I know you won't...), you'll be surprised at the very few different writers -- when sourced down to the information's originality -- with opinion on the matter. To find anything even CLOSE to neutral you have to dig and dig, and a lot of that digging is for info in the pre-internets days -- so explain that one. Why should it all be uninformed, unqualified faux-writers like you we must come across?
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