-----Original Message----- From: Max Mallan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: alt.illuminati,alt.politics.org.cia,alt.alien.visitors To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, May 15, 1999 2:42 AM Subject: Einhorn's Lost Muse >Petition for Ira Einhorn >http://www.amgot.org/flodinec.htm > >opposing a demand by the USA for extradition from France for the >murder of Holly Maddux > >Following is an unauthorized translation from French to English of >a handbill circulated by Annika Flodin (Einhorn's wife) opposing >the demand for his extradition. The original French text >http://www.amgot.org/flodin.htm > > Various articles on this case and its current status > http://www.amgot.org/holly.htm > > >(original document printed JAN-20-1998 13:34) > > computer-aided translation with post-editing > by Roger Wiesenbach > Our comments are in italics [Indented w/"RW"] > >IRA EINHORN, AMERICAN CITIZEN, CONDEMNED IN 1993 IN ABSENTIA FOR >MURDER TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT IN HIS COUNTRY, RISKS BEING RETURNED >TO THE UNITED STATES TO PURGE HIS SENTENCE WITHOUT THE RIGHT TO >DEFEND HIMSELF. HE IS INCARCERATED AT THE PRISON OF GRADIGNAN, AND >THE TRIBUNAL OF BORDEAUX IS EXAMINING AT THIS TIME THE DEMAND FOR >EXTRADITION, > > [RW]: > This first extradition request has since been rejected on the > grounds that Einhorn would not be retried on return to the USA > and that otherwise his legal rights as exist in France would > not be respected under the US judicial system > >Who is Ira EINHORN? > >Born in 1940 to a Jewish family in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), >gifted pupil then brilliant student in Literature, he abandoned >his studies at the University of Philadelphia to join in the >American dissent movement born in the early 1960s. He became one >of the leaders of the American counter-culture, friend of Jerry >Rubin and Abbie Hoffman, he militated against the war in Vietnam >and organized peaceful demonstrations (Be-in's) the more famous >of which was in 1967 at the Pentagon. > > [RW]: > Einhorn has definitely inflated his role in these movements: > though he could count Rubin as a friend, this was not so with > Abbie Hoffman - whose widow describes Einhorn as only a passing > acquaintance. > >He participated in the creation of the Free University of >Pennsylvania in 1964, taught English literature at Temple >University in 1964 and 1965, > > [RW]: > He was a part-time instructor of freshman English > >as well as at Harvard (Institute of Politics, J.F. Kennedy School >of Government). > > [RW]: > A fellow for one semester. > >Fervant ecologist, antinuclear militant, inventor and organizer >in 1970 of Earth Day in Philadelphia, > > [RW]: > The four genuine organizers of Earth day wrote a letter to Time > magazine in 1997 explaining that Einhorn literally took over the > podium that day and would not let anyone else speak (delaying a > US Senator's speech) until forced to do so. > >then of Sun Day, > > [RW]: > He did organize a modest local event called Sun Day, while the > body of Holly Maddux was decomposing in his closet. > >he was also a social activist and served as mediator in conflicts >of motorcyclists and revolts of bands of young blacks, and was >comic candidate for mayor of Philadelphia in 1971. > >At the same time, he developed a network of several hundred >correspondants, a sort of Internet before its time, to which he >freely provided weekly information on the future of the planet >through the intermediary of Bell Pennsylvania and lavished his >advice on futurology to different multinationals (AT&T, Seagram, >Bell, etc). His friends and companions were Allan Ginsburg, >Ed Mitchell (astronaut), Arthur Koestler, Peter Gabriel, >Philip K Dick, Gene Roddenbery (Star Trek), Andrija Puharich, >Jacques Vallee, Tom Kuhn, Al Toffler, Frank Herbert (Dune), and >Bill Cashel (Vice President of AT&T). > > [RW]: > Einhorn met or communicated with varied and illustrious persons, > but he exaggerated his relationship with most of them. Some who > were scholars but unfamiliar with a particular field were quite > impressed with his erudition. Others who had expert knowledge > welcomed this person who could popularize their work and pass > around information. Many just idly scanned his postings - as we > have learned to do with the noise on the Internet. > >His centers of interest greatly exceeded the framework of hippy >culture, society and its changes, spreading to the paranormal, >telepathy, transmission of thoughts even to extraterrestrials, >and he was enormously interested in the more obscure aspects of >science and in particular the experiments of Nicola Tesla (Yugoslav, >inventor of alternating current in the beginning of the century) >and psychic and physical effects of electromagnetic waves at very >low frequencies (ELF). > >He has demonstrated a capability to talk about people and events, >certainly part of any discussion of science, but the rigor and >competence to analyse technical subjects is absent. > >His network soon spread to 26 countries and beyond the iron curtain >to the Soviet Union, very advanced at the time in this research. He >participated in seminars for foundations and centers of research >(Esalen Institute, Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies, Institute >for the Study of Human Potential) where there would be off-beat >scientists, moviemakers, artists and intellectuals as well as agents >of the CIA who would make vain attempts at recruitment. > > [RW]: > The significance of any (unsubstantiated) efforts at "recruitment" > by any intelligence organisation, CIA or KGB, is debatable > >This subject bothered the intelligence services of the two power >blocs, which saw possible applications in psychotronic armament and >mental manipulation. Several of his friends and correspondants of >the period were victims of aggression or unexplained foul play. > > [RW]: > His files, available under the freedom of information act, reveal > nothing more than information on his early anti-war activities in > the 60s. Nothing in the mostly declassified files of the CIA or > KGB considered him worthy of attention. > Many of the people with whom Einhorn had contact, including > Puharich, dismissed the idea that Einhorn would be considered > a CIA or KGB target. The fire in Puharich's house was apparently > started by a former resident, nothing to do with government > agencies. Puharich in his later years lived openly in North > Carolina. > If there were really a conspiracy, Einhorn has had 20 years and > the support of many well-placed friends to offer some basis for > this allegation. > >On 28 March 1979, the police found in his Philadelphia apartment the >remains of his girlfriend, Helen Maddux, native of Tyler, Texas, where >her father was a notorious pro-Nazi. The young woman had mysteriously >disappeared 18 month earlier in September 1977, and Ira Einhorn was >the last person known to have seen her alive. > > [RW]: > Einhorn asked friends to investigate a "pro-Nazi" angle of > Fred Maddux, who parachuted into France on D-Day. They found > nothing. > [RW]: > For those who would like to think that there was some kind of plot, > an error, an accident or an unfortunate and temporary loss of > control on his part, the well-established trial testimony shows, > first that the perpetrator inflicted many deep skull-crushing blows > and then dumped the (perhaps still-living) girl into a steamer trunk > in a grotesque manner that indicated no compassion for the fact that > this was a human being. > [RW]: > This trial testimony revealed that, just after Holly's > disappearance, Einhorn tried to get help to dump the trunk into > the river, that he thereafter refused to let anyone approach the > enclosed porch and closet from which the foul odor emanated. > He continued with his carefree manner, showing no signs of being > haunted by this act. > [RW]: > There were two previous incidents in which he gravely assaulted > girls, see Phillynews > [http://www3.phillynews.com/packages/einhorn/einhornback2.html] > (search for "Bennington"). He then wrote lyrically about this in > his diary, drawing upon his extensive readings in nietzschean-type > philosophy, implying that he was entitled to this behavior. Extraits > of his diary, [http://www.amgot.org/unicorn.htm] translated to French > >An investigation led by two private detectives, ex-agents of the FBI, >paid by the family of the missing, led to the arrest. > > [RW]: > In order to get the search warrent, Philadelphia police > painstakingly reproduced the research in the detective report, > as was their duty when presented with evidence of a murder. > >Immediately placed in detention and liberated on bail several days >later, Einhorn denied having done it, affirming that he was victim >of a plot aimed at his social, professional and intellectual >elimination and to the annihilation of 20 years' work. He maintained >that the trunk in which the body had been found contained confidential >soviet documents on psychotronic armaments and refused to let his two >successive attorneys plead guilty. > >From this day Einhorn became the object of a hysterical media >coverage that eclipsed even the nuclear accident at Three Mile >Island which occurred the same day. The manipulation of the >media transformed the recognized and appreciated citizen into >a demon. > > [RW]: > There was local reporting of the crime when he was first arrested > in 1979, but no more than any other horrendous murder. There was > no publicity again until he fled in 1981 and hardly any until he > was captured sixteen years later. > Actually, the treatment he received was quite favorable > considering the strong evidence against him. His bail was > incredibly low. His friends, ignoring the strength of the > evidence, gave him the benefit of the doubt, and believed him > when he told them that the truth would come out in court. He was > represented by the former Phila DA (soon to become a US > senator). He was hardly monitored during this bail period, no > limitations on his travel. > >With the odds of obtaining an equitable trial dwindling as the trial >neared, where favorable evidence was systematically neglected or >hidden, and fearing for his life (the death penalty was re-established >in 1978), in January 1981 Ira Einhorn left the USA for Europe some >weeks before the trial date. > > [RW]: > At no time was he in danger of the death penalty nor was there > any future risk, facts fully known by him. > >In 1988, an American journalist wrote a book on Ira Einhorn >considering only his guilt, illegally using 63 volumes of his diaries >seized by the police at the same time as all his personal papers. > > [RW]: > Steven Levy began his book "The Unicorn's Secret" with an open > mind. But after 30 months of research and talking with hundreds > of people, it became evident there was no mystery but only the > case of a violent person reacting when someone rejected him. > Einhorn's own diaries, consulted legally by Levy (and by some of > Einhorn's former friends who saw them before seizure by the > police), reveal this violent streak. > >Since his departure from the USA, deprived of public activities, >Ira Einhorn has devoted himself to literature. He has written four >novels, one a philosophical novel on the Holocaust and the >suppression of memories, to which he devoted six years of research. >None have been published because of clandestinity, and his arrest >has interrupted the writing of a fifth book. > > [RW]: > He had one book of dadaesque ramblings published in the 1970s, > a flop. > >An event extremely rare in the USA, Ira Einhorn was judged in >absentia in 1993 at Philadelphia, recognized as guilty of murder >and condemned to life imprisonment. His absence has lost him all >right of appeal. > > [RW]: > Eight other states have trials in absentia. In 1998 the > Pennsylvania law was changed allowing a new trial. Note that > there is a vital difference between a US trial in absentia which > follows fully the rules of procedure as in a normal trial and a > French trial par contumace, where where the mere absence of the > accused is taken as confession of guilt, where there is no jury > and no hearing of witnesses or defense -- which case obviously > calls for a retrial. France is known to refuse retrial after such > a conviction 'par contumace'. > >After a manhunt of 16 years, Einhorn was found by Interpol in June >1997, in France where he lived the last four and a half years with >his Swedish wife, Annika Flodin, who has shared his life for nine >and a half years in Sweden, Great Britain and then in France. > >He is currently incarcerated at the prison of Gradignan as a result >of a demand for extradition by the American authorities that is >presently being examined by the Tribunal of Bordeaux. > > [RW]: > After being liberated in March 1998 (the first extradition > demand being rejected) he was rearrested on September 22, 1998 > and then freed a week later pending a hearing on December 1, > 1998. A judgement was scheduled for January 12, 1999 but the > court postponed it to February 18 without giving any reason, > thus inconveniencing all those who had travelled from afar. > >If Ira Einhorn were extradited, he would pass the rest of his days >in prison, without possibility of parole or appeal. By contrast, >French law grants a new trial to those who have been convicted in >absentia. All avenues of redress being exhausted in the USA, the >condemnation to prison for life is applicable immediately and in >its totality. > > [RW]: > Although a fugitive forfeits his right of appeal, he can file > to have it reinstated. This is usually granted. > >Without prejudging the culpability or the innocence of Ira Einhorn >and considering the breach of fundamental human rights for an >equitable trial and elementary rights of defense, we ask the French >justice to refuse the demand for extradition presented by the >American authorities > > [RW]: > A simple examination of the case shows that Einhorn has > benefitted from full respect of his rights by any standard, > US or French. > >COMMITTEE OF SUPPORT AGAINST THE EXTRADITION OF IRA EINHORN > >Annika FLODIN: >Moulin de Guitry, >Champagne-Mouton 16350 >Tel & Fax: O5 45 30 01 05 > >His attorney in Paris is Me Dominique TRICAUD. >Tel: 01 40 64 00 25 Fax: 01 42 79 84 14 >His attorney at Bordeaux is Me Dominique DELTHIL. >Tel: 05 56 44 44 51 > > end of translated text
