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HOUSE RESOLUTION

  
 
2    WHEREAS, The tragic events that took place on August 12, 
32017 in Charlottesville, Virginia prove that
violence 
4threatens the maintenance of social order and individual 
5freedom; and
  
 
6    WHEREAS, Our nation was built on the idea that bigotry is 
7the disease of ignorance and all men and
women should be judged 
8by the content of their character; and
  
 
9    WHEREAS, Extreme rhetoric can reverse improvements in race 
10relations, divide the nation, and foment
hatred; therefore, be 
11it
  
 


  
12    RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE 
13HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we 
14strongly denounce and oppose the violent terrorism, extreme 
15rhetoric, and bigoted ideologies
that are being promoted; and 
16be it further
 
17    RESOLVED, That we urge law enforcement to recognize this 
18violence as domestic terrorism, and to
pursue the criminal 
19elements of these domestic terrorists in the same manner and 
20with the same fervor
used to protect the United States from 
21other manifestations of terrorism; and be it further
  
 
 
 
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1    RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be 
2delivered to the President of the United States, all
members of 
3the United States Senate, all members of the United States 
4House of Representatives, the
Governor of the State of 
5Illinois, and all members of the Illinois General Assembly.