If the cancel culture is as “authentic” and devoted to the truth as they claim then Earth Day needs to be canceled. Here’s why…

The Ivy League-educated, homicidal maniac who founded Earth Day

Friday, April 22, 2022

By Christopher Tremoglie and Michael Tremoglie

Reprinted from The Washinton Examiner

Today is Earth Day. It is a holiday created by environmentalists in the 1970s to help protect the environment and save the planet. Like many things in this country’s history, the annual celebration has its roots in Philadelphia. Earth Day’s founder, Ira Einhorn, was born there, and the first Earth Day event occurred in the city’s famous Fairmount Park in 1970. But while Einhorn magnanimously wanted to save the planet, he showed no such virtue to his girlfriend Holly Maddux, whom he murdered in cold blood.

While a student at the University of Pennsylvania, Einhorn was in a relationship with Maddux, a graduate of nearby Bryn Mawr College. After dating for five years, Maddux ended the relationship in 1977. Afterward, Einhorn descended into a jealous rage and killed her.

He concealed the murder for 18 months by stuffing Maddux’s corpse in a trunk in his apartment. The body was discovered after a malodorous red liquid leaked into the apartment below, which caused neighbors to complain. Police investigated the matter and found the decomposed body in a trunk stored in a closet.

Einhorn, a member of the counterculture pantheon, one of the founders of the environmentalist movement, 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 act of domestic violence. This hypocrisy is a common theme among radical, left-wing political activists — though most do not turn out to be bloodthirsty maniacs like Einhorn.

Furthermore, this hypocrisy, sans homicide, continued at Einhorn’s bail hearing. 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, heiress to the Seagram liquor fortune, paid Einhorn’s bail. All vigorously supported Einhorn and defended his character. These elitists, many under oath, claimed that he was a man of great integrity — 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 proclaimed his innocence. He said the CIA or the FBI committed the murder, and they were trying to frame him for it because of his political activities. Einhorn skipped bail and left the country. More than a decade passed before Philadelphia’s District Attorney’s Office tried Einhorn in absentia after being unable to find him. He was convicted in 1993.

In 1997, Einhorn was found in France. Philadelphia’s District Attorney’s Office requested to have him extradited. However, the French denied the request, citing Pennsylvania’s use of capital punishment and Einhorn’s conviction in absentia as reasons for their refusal. Einhorn convinced the French courts not to extradite him until he received the promise of a new trial.

He eventually received a new trial and was returned to Pennsylvania in July 2001. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison on Oct. 17, 2002.

Additionally, there is some irony to the Einhorn saga. He was originally arrested for murder on March 28, 1979, the same day the Three Mile Island nuclear plant accident occurred — also in Pennsylvania. It was the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power history.

Ironically, while many environmentalists, including those who supported Einhorn, warned of the imminent dangers of nuclear energy, more people died in his Philadelphia apartment than in a nuclear catastrophe and so-called environmental disaster.

Given the despicable acts of Earth Day’s founder, shouldn’t the holiday be canceled? After all, this is the logic leftists use to cancel Columbus Day. And, unlike the alleged sins of Columbus, murdering paramours and stuffing their dead bodies into trunks was not a common practice in the 1970s. If Earth Day was created by a human mind that could commit such a horrifying, despicable act, maybe the continued celebration of the day should be reevaluated.

Written by Christopher Tremoglie and Michael P. Tremoglie