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To: i-node who wrote (98536)	10/14/2018 5:51:11 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 365418

Tennessee legislature kills resolution condemning neo-Nazis as terrorists Avery Anapol 3/14/2018 A Tennessee state House committee on Wednesday refused to vote on a resolution to denounce neo-Nazism, white nationalism and the alt-right as terrorist organizations. State Rep. John Ray Clemmons (D) sponsored the resolution which went beyond condemning the movement, without naming specific groups, using "terrorism" language. It also called on law enforcement to pursue the "criminal elements" within them "with the same fervor used to protect the United States from other manifestations of terrorism." The resolution did not get a second motion to proceed with debate during a meeting of the House State Government Subcommittee, which means it will not make it to a vote by the full legislature. It was introduced by the committee's sole Democrat and did not have support from the Republicans on the committee. Clemmons told the Tennessean that he was in "utter disbelief" that the resolution did not even come to a vote. "I didn't think there was anything controversial about this resolution," he said. "We strongly denounce and oppose the totalitarian impulses, violent terrorism, xenophobic biases, and bigoted ideologies that are promoted by white nationalists and neo-Nazis," the resolution reads. "I would love to try to pass a resolution denouncing white nationalists and neo-Nazis, but if I can't even get a second in a subcommittee, it evidences this Republican supermajority's refusal to denounce these hate organizations, for what reason I cannot begin to imagine," Clemmons added to the Tennessean. The resolution also points to the alt-right as a reinvention of white nationalism, adding that "their present-day rhetoric and terrorism conjure painful memories of our nation's past." continues at msn.com