Bill Text: TX HR24 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Recognizing November 7, 2019, as Victims of Communism Memorial Day.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-11 - Considered in Calendars [HR24 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HR24-Comm_Sub.html

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86R2015 JGH-F
By: Oliverson, King of Parker, et al. H.R. No. 24

R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, In 2017, President Donald Trump designated November
7 as a national day of remembrance for the victims of communism; and
WHEREAS, The date commemorates the anniversary of the
Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917, when the first communist
regime, led by Vladimir Lenin, initiated decades of oppression and
violence around the world; despite promises of equality and
liberation, communist dictators such as Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong,
Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, Nicolae Ceausescu, Fidel and Raúl Castro, and
the Kim dynasty of North Korea have murdered vast numbers of people
in genocidal purges, persecuted others for speaking out, and
suppressed freedom of thought, cultural life, and
self-determination movements in more than 40 nations; and
WHEREAS, Based on the theories of Karl Marx, this political
ideology has been responsible for the deaths of more than 100
million people, and it has subjected countless others to some of the
worst human rights abuses in history; as the bipartisan
U.S. Congressional Caucus for the Victims of Communism has stated,
"Marx's defenders often say he cannot be held accountable for what
communist regimes did long after his life and death, but Marxist
dictators who massacred their own people were applying communist
ideology to political practice"; and
WHEREAS, The United States Congress has established the
Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington, D.C., a
nonprofit organization tasked with the dual purpose of educating
Americans about the history and legacy of communism and honoring
those who have suffered and died under it; and
WHEREAS, For more than a century, communist regimes have
deprived their own citizens of the freedoms of religion, speech,
and association, and their official policies of coercion,
brutality, and fear have proven incompatible with the ideals of
liberty, prosperity, and the dignity of human life; now, therefore,
be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 86th Texas
Legislature hereby recognize November 7, 2019, as Victims of
Communism Memorial Day and commend all those associated with the
Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation for their important work;
and, be it further
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be
prepared for the foundation as an expression of high regard by the
Texas House of Representatives.