A reminder that Earth Day’s founder was an Ivy League-educated, woman-killing, homicidal maniac
Christopher Tremoglie
Earth Day, a day set aside to honor the planet, advocate conservation, and promote responsible environmental practices, was celebrated over the weekend. The official theme for this year’s festivities was “Invest In Our Planet.” But while the day’s intentions appear noble, it is little more than just radical environmentalist propaganda.
However, none of this should be surprising given that the founder of Earth Day, Ira Einhorn, an extremist left-wing activist who cared so much about saving people’s lives, murdered his then-girlfriend in cold blood.
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Like myself, Einhorn attended the University of Pennsylvania. While studying there, he began a romantic relationship with Holly Maddux, a graduate of the Philadelphia-area Bryn Mawr College. The couple dated for five years before Maddux allegedly ended the romance. Einhorn subsequently murdered her in a heinous act of rage after being dumped. As if this wasn’t gruesome enough, Einhorn hid Maddux’s body in a trunk in his apartment for a year and a half. This is the man who founded Earth Day.
Einhorn’s crime was only discovered after decomposed human body liquids and foul smells plagued neighboring tenants, causing them to complain. Police investigated the issue and found Maddux’s decayed corpse in a chest closet at Einhorn’s apartment, and he was arrested and officially charged with her murder.
But, despite his crime, wealthy, white, liberal elitists rushed to his defense. A contingent of luminaries praised him: Ivy League professors, an Episcopalian minister, and corporate executives who fundraised with Einhorn. Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter represented him in court. Barbara Bronfman, an heiress to the Seagram liquor fortune, paid Einhorn’s bail.
Thanks to Bronfman, Einhorn skipped town while on bail and fled to Europe, where he remained free for over two decades. It wasn’t until 1993 that Philadelphia’s District Attorney’s Office tried Einhorn in absentia and convicted him.
Einhorn was found in France in 1997, but the country refused to extradite him and demanded a new trial. He persuaded French courts only to return him to the U.S. if he was granted a new trial. Einhorn remained free for four more years until July 2001, when the French government returned him to Pennsylvania. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison on Oct. 17, 2002. He died in jail in 2020.
It’s important to note that wealthy, powerful, and influential left-wingers did everything they could to keep a murderous psychopath out of jail. Why? Because of Einhorn’s influence in peddling radical environmentalism to the masses. The decomposed corpse of his former lover in a trunk in a Philadelphia apartment was less important than protecting Einhorn because of his extremist, fanatical politics.
Again, this is the man who founded Earth Day, and these are the kind of people who supported him and his leftist political and ideological whims.
Einhorn, a member of the counterculture pantheon, one of the founders of the environmentalist movement, and an icon of the liberal intelligentsia, was a deranged murderer. He preached peace and love to his left-wing hippie friends in the 1960s and ’70s, only to commit a gruesome murder of an innocent, unsuspecting woman.
The rabid environmentalists on the Left frequently warn of the planet’s destruction because of irresponsible human activity. They regularly preach forthcoming doom and warn of the deaths of millions of people. Yet, more people died in Einhorn’s Philadelphia apartment than any of the numerous hysterical, but repeatedly disproven, claims of alleged, impending, environmental disasters.
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This hypocrisy is a common theme among radical, left-wing political activists — though most do not turn out to be bloodthirsty maniacs like Einhorn. They supported Einhorn, defended his character, and testified that he was a great man — even after Maddux’s body was found in his apartment. These are the depths to which left-wing activists will go to defend their allies. Einhorn’s crimes, and all of his left-wing accomplices who helped keep him free, warrant the cancellation of Earth Day.
Caring about the planet is a noble pursuit, and there are other ways to honor pursuing those goals. However, none of it should be tainted with the horrific acts of a radical, murderous, left-wing wacko. Get rid of Earth Day and instead, celebrate Earth.