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Earth Day co-founder killed, composted girlfriend (The original environmental wacko!)
NBC News ^ | 4-21-2013 | Remy Melina

Posted on 04/22/2013 9:56:23 AM PDT by smoothsailing

April 21, 2013

Earth Day co-founder killed, composted girlfriend

Remy Melina

Ira Einhorn was on stage hosting the first Earth Day event at the Fairmount Park in Philadelphia on April 22, 1970. Seven years later, police raided his closet and found the "composted" body of his ex-girlfriend inside a trunk.

A self-proclaimed environmental activist, Einhorn made a name for himself among ecological groups during the 1960s and '70s by taking on the role of a tie-dye-wearing ecological guru and Philadelphia’s head hippie. With his long beard and gap-toothed smile, Einhorn — who nicknamed himself "Unicorn" because his German-Jewish last name translates to "one horn" —advocated flower power, peace and free love to his fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania. He also claimed to have helped found Earth Day.

But the charismatic spokesman who helped bring awareness to environmental issues and preached against the Vietnam War — and any violence — had a secret dark side...

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: cofounder; composted; earthday; einhorn; envirowhackos; founder; girlfriend; iraeinhorn; killed
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To: robowombat
RINO scum such as Arlen Specter should be always remembered for the things that did.

He was also on the Warren Commission -- providers of the entirely plausible "lone gunman" theory.

21 posted on 04/22/2013 10:39:27 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Don't believe any rumors in Washington, DC until they are officially denied.)
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To: smoothsailing

Is a composted girlfriend better or worse than a composite one?


22 posted on 04/22/2013 10:41:30 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: RedMonqey

It would appear both processes were in play. The variable was the level of moisture present. Composting receded as mummification increased.


23 posted on 04/22/2013 10:46:47 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Amberdawn

But he committed his crime in an earth friendly way - he composted his girlfriend. That would get him a significantly lighter sentence in San Francisco.


24 posted on 04/22/2013 10:55:41 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: Albion Wilde
As for Benedict Arlen, we should pass a Constitutional Amendment to never, ever let any former criminal defense lawyers run for Congress or the White House.

I think I would be tempted to expand that to ALL lawyers, regardless of specialty. And then along comes someone like Ted Cruz. :)

25 posted on 04/22/2013 11:02:32 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing
The perfect environmental solution to an old girlfriend, recycling.
26 posted on 04/22/2013 11:08:03 AM PDT by Cyman
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To: smoothsailing

Isn’t that what Obama did with his old girlfriend? ...composted her?


27 posted on 04/22/2013 11:27:38 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Is a composted girlfriend better or worse than a composite one?

That would depend on the composite.


28 posted on 04/22/2013 11:31:27 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

Well played. Nauseating, but well played.


29 posted on 04/22/2013 11:33:46 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory, and He will not be mocked! Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever!)
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To: smoothsailing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7r5RYThiHM


30 posted on 04/22/2013 11:35:27 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Everybody DANCE!!!!


31 posted on 04/22/2013 11:37:48 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory, and He will not be mocked! Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim; don-o

LOL!!!

Nice legs, Shame about the face

I had to take her dancing
I couldn’t let her down
So we caught the bus
To the other side of town
Out upon the dance floor
I wasn’t getting far
So I had a drink with my friends
Up at the bar
I asked them what they thought of her They fell about the place
And they said nice legs
Shame about her face


32 posted on 04/22/2013 11:44:54 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing
The story has been denied by the original Philadelphia Earth Day committee. They say that he just grabbed a microphone and wouldn't get off the stage.

It's hard to say what's true at this point, but somebody crazy enough to kill someone and leave her in a trunk may well be crazy enough to boast about things that aren't true.

33 posted on 04/22/2013 11:54:04 AM PDT by x
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To: x
It's hard to say what's true at this point, but somebody crazy enough to kill someone and leave her in a trunk may well be crazy enough to boast about things that aren't true.

Well, at least that helps explain Al Gore.

34 posted on 04/22/2013 12:02:14 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: F15Eagle

I’m sorry, but I see no humor in this. He was an abusive pos who beat his girlfriend and murdered her when she tried to leave. I don’t find anything funny about that.


35 posted on 04/22/2013 2:47:36 PM PDT by chae (I was anti-Obama before it was cool)
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To: x

A friend of mine grew up in that neighborhood and remembers Einhorn as this weird hippy dippy dude but hardly any kind of community leader, except in his own mind.


36 posted on 04/22/2013 2:51:47 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: x
I believe that is accurate.
He was a fraud and opportunist. Like many of the leftists then and now he was an insufferable hypocrite and criminal. Just another big mouth community organizer and narcissistic starved for attention.
38 posted on 04/22/2015 3:56:42 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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