No, no… He hasn’t been found guilty yet. Must wait to pass judgement…
Fuck that. This fucker stuffed his girlfriend into a trunk and left her decomposing body there for three weeks! The reason he got caught was because his neighbors complained about the smell! And then he claims that the body was planted there by the CIA to frame him! Right, the neighbors noticed the smell, but you didn’t. It all makes sense now.
So he skips out of the US for twenty years. Lives the good life, thinks nothing of poor Holly. Now, finally, we get our hands on the little pus-bucket again.
I’ll admit to being completly puzzled by his supporters, such as the Green party who are still protesting his extradition. I can understand the reluctance of the French government to hand him over until promises were made to give Ira a new trial (Trail in abstentia isn’t really fair) and not seek the death penalty. But now that those assurances are made why are the Greens still objecting? They can’t seriously belive in this guy’s innocence? Or maybe rational thought isn’t their strong suit, I’ll admit to not knowing much about them.
But Ira dear buddy, we’re going to give you a fair trail and then a first class trunk for a cell.
Nice try at manipulating the world, Mr. Unicorn. I especially liked the cheesy throat-slashing bit, although getting local Philly-area TV to cover your “last supper” was pretty cute, too. Well, we got you now, and despite your best efforts, you’re going to have to face your accusers, you malicious lump of shit.
A quick self correction. Holly wasn’t in the trunk for three weeks, it was 18 months. Based on the neighbor complains about the smell and -sorry “Leakage” - it is very apparent that the body was in Ira’s apartment the entire time.
The crime story site mentioned that Einhorn had been convicted in absentia and sentenced to death, one of the several things that delayed his extradition from France for so long.
However, the CNN links repeatedly say that he was sentenced to life in prison. Which is it?
As I understand it, he WAS sentenced to life in prison, but faced the death penalty if he were to be retried. The Frogs wouldn’t cough him up if he was facing the needle, so they harbored the sick little monkey on priciple.
This news story really chilled me. I guess it’s just one more example of a monster wrapped up in human flesh. Ira Einhorn’s victim attitude really bothers me. It’s as if he’s gone on to bigger and better things and he doesn’t understand why something that happened 30 years ago is being brought up to harass him. I also am fed up with the way the french government has employed their delaying tactics. Isn’t there some king of boycott we can start so that the french can feel our wrath hit them in the wallet?
The French government has made a principled stand against the United States’ consistently barbaric reliance on capital punishment. I appluad them wholeheartedly. They should only be so kind to everyone else on death row in my beknighted country.
I’m not sure what principle they were invoking by allowing Einhorn to run free for the years spent haggling over whether he could be extradited…remember, this is a guy who had already been a fugitive for a long time. Guess it was worth the risk of having him flee in order to spit on the U.S. a few times.
Then again, maybe the C.I.A. sabotaged Ira’s sense of smell so he wouldn’t detect the rotting body they hid in his closet. It’s a famous dirty trick in the intelligence/counter-hippie guru game.
But consider this:
At least the guilty fuckers on death row (as opposed to the several possibly innocent twits on death row) know when the moment of death comes for them. And usually the method of death is a lot less brutal than whatever the method they used on their victims were.
And you can’t possibly say Tim McVeigh didn’t deserve his fate. Although frankly I would have preferred a firing squad or hanging, lethal injection was too kind for him.
I probably sound like a ghoul now, but I’m not. Trust me.
I have no problem with France delaying the extradition on this point but I do protest their allowing a murder suspect to simply go free for so many years. If we should be so kind to everyone else on death row I assure you that those on death row will not be nearly so kind to you when you meet them on the street.
Except that Ira Einhorn had been sentenced to Life in PRISON, not the death penalty. So un-fuck the French as George Carlin would say.
The French bent over backwards for this scumbag who was tried in absentia (that’s what you get when you jump bail pigfucker) with a lawyer of his own choosing.
Now before we get all haughty about barbaric America practices, let us remember that:
A) The French happily tried some terrorists in absentia. I rather doubt that they had lawyers of their own choosing.
B) In France, the trial modus is "guilty until proven innocent. "
Mr. Miskatonic said it, but just to emphasize: The death penalty did not exist when the crime was committed, and according to Pennsylvania law, the death penalty was not an option then, nor is it an option in the future. Period.
The French did, in fact, object based on the threat of the death penalty, despite the fact that it was never a remote possibility. When that hurdle was removed by virtue of someone pointing out the obvious, the “trial in absentia” objection was voiced, despite the fact that the “absentia” part was necessitated by the fact that our pal Ira jumped bail.
When Pennsylvania passed legislation guaranteeing Einhorn a new trial if he requested one, they then ruminated for a while over the injustice of…over the barbaric American policy of, uh…um, I’m not sure…the Court of Human Rights was, of course, clearly needed in this case because, um, well, it was obviously related to, uh…yeah, let’s applaud those French…
Anyway, I agree with Einhorn that it is absolutely plausible that the CIA hated him so much that, rather than killing him, they framed him by killing his girlfriend, mutilating her and locking the corpse in a steamer trunk, a trunk for which Einhorn supplied the key when asked to by the authorities (after initally denying ownerhip)…sure, that’s it!..again, kudos to the French…
Well, in light of this information, I DO have a problem with the French with delaying justice on this point because apparently it was fucking nonexistent!