Happy Earth Day!
I saw a note that the date for Earth Day (April 22) was chosen because it was V. I. Lenin’s birthday.
Well, interesting, but that is probably not correct, given the stated rationale of the founder of Earth Day, U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson (Wisconsin) — but still, it is a fun thought isn’t it?
Note this hilarious entry in Wikipedia:
April 22, 1970 was the 100th birthday of Vladimir Lenin. Time reported that some suspected the date was not a coincidence, but a clue that the event was “a Communist trick,” and quoted a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution as saying, “Subversive elements plan to make American children live in an environment that is good for them.” J. Edgar Hoover, director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, may have found the Lenin connection intriguing; it was alleged the FBI conducted surveillance at the 1970 demonstrations. The idea that the date was chosen to celebrate Lenin’s centenary still persists in some quarters, although Lenin was never noted as an environmentalist.
“Lenin was never noted as an environmentalist.”
Uh . . . yeah . . . . I think that’s accurate.
I remember the first “Earth Day” back in 1970. I worked at a school on the East Coast at that time and all the leftist students went ga-ga over Earth Day. I’m sure some of them had been told the significance of the day they picked for celebrating it. I guess I am one of those members of the Flat Earth Society that agrees that the date picked was to commemorate Comrade Lenin’s 100th anniversary of birth.
No one in his right mind would claim that Lenin was an environmentalist, but the choosing of his birth date to launch the movement was a clue to those on the left as to what the so-called “environmental movement” was really all about.
If you will notice, many of the planks of this movement invite some sort of government control of the environment in some area.
Years ago a man I know called the environmentalists “the watermelon gang” because they were “green on the outside and Red on the inside.” It was and is an accurate description.
Al Benson Jr.