Earth Day's Founder

A very interesting article to read and forward to everyone you can this "Earth Day" (H/t http://www.examiner.com)

Earth Day founder murdered his girlfriend

April 21
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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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