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Saturday, April 23, 2005

It's Not An Innocent Coincidence: Earth Day = Lenin's Birthday

The first Earth Day in 1970 was, at the insistence of its founders, celebrated on April 22.

This date was no accident.

It was the 100th birthday of the founding Communist dictator of the Soviet Union Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin.

Earth Day ever since has been celebrated on Lenin's birthday, despite numerous requests to make it like other holidays tied to weekends by being designated "the fourth Saturday of March" or the "third Sunday of April."

For those who wonder if many of today's environmental movement leaders are really watermelons, green on the outside but red on the inside -- and are using green issues not to save Bambi but as a way of abolishing capitalism and private property -- click here to read my FrontPageMagazine documented investigation of how Earth Day was deliberately set to correspond to Lenin's birthday.


7 Comments:

Daniel said...

Before I comment on Berliner's article in FPM, or yours, let me state that I am for the war on terror, against appeasement of Muslim radicals, against the UN and its leadership, against illegal immigration, etc. In other words, politically speaking I am firmly in the FrontPageMag "camp".

Having said that, I think it's sad that most people in that camp also automatically subscribe to the "nature and earth are there to be used and abused by mankind" point of view. What is so difficult to understand about preservation? There isn't a person alive who does not appreciate pristine forests, seas, arctic tundra's, deserts, etc, with all the wildlife that comes with it. And it is impossible to escape the conclusion that if the human race insists on "growth" (in every sense of the word), then all of nature will eventually be relegated to parks and zoo's, and most animals will live only behind bars. The frontiers of nature are constantly being moved back, until there is no more. It will be too late to save nature, and where will mankind go then? Better get creative before then, I say. So our children, and all generations after can still get to enjoy nature as we could.

I am very much an environmentalist. But check my blog to see where I stand politically. I understand the sensitivity to possible Leftist or even Communist motives of the Earth Day organization. But this post isn't even preaching to your own parish, you are reaching only part of it. And alienating another part of it. Which is a shame, and unnecessary.

Sat Apr 23, 05:07:50 AM  
Carl said...

This blog is filled with so much idiocy that it is difficult to separate any single entry out for special praise, but the suggestion that Earth Day is a commie plot (based on the mysterious coincidence of its falling on Lenin's birthday) is unbelievably moronic, even by the abysmally low standards established by Moonbat Central day in and day out.

Unbelievable!

Sat Apr 23, 03:22:54 PM  
Mr. Beamish the Instablepundit said...

God created the Earth for mankind to have something to pee on.

Let it go.

Sat Apr 23, 04:06:26 PM  
Erik said...

Mr. Ponte,

The FrontPageMagazine article you linked to has nothing to do with Earth Day. While I learned some very interesting things about the Elian Gonzalez case by reading it, I am still in the dark as to how Earth Day was set to correspond to Lenin's birthday. You may wish to rectify this problem.

Sat Apr 23, 04:26:40 PM  
NanoBlog said...

Yeah... that's all happening just in the USA. Wait until we get to look into PRC, India, East-Europe, elsewhere in FSU... Anybody planning to start earth day campaigns in those places yet? "Activism" - it's global!

Sun Apr 24, 03:50:58 AM  
Mr. Beamish the Instablepundit said...

Speaking of "Earth Day" and the up-is-down, 2 + 2 = 5 world of Leninist environmental rhetoric, what the hell is up with the weather?

It snowed in Ohio and Michigan yesterday. Today here in St. Louis, it's freakin' 34 degrees outside. Brrrrrr!

Snowstorms in the middle of springtime do little to confirm to me that "global warming" is a problem.

Sun Apr 24, 11:28:52 AM  
Redbeard said...

Just the other day, I heard a "sky-is-falling" activist pontificating about how global warming is either happening or not (he couldn't say), is either natural or man-made (he couldn't say) and was gonna cause global cooling before global warming, or the other way 'round, or maybe not either one (he couldn't say), but he was positive that something was definitely afoot.

Suddenly it all made perfect sense.

Sun Apr 24, 12:27:35 PM  

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