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Sawyer (6) Austin (34) Resolution
Condemnation of comparisons of COVID-19 vaccines or
masks mandates to Nazism
Committee on Health and Human Relations
Committee on Human Relations Chicago City Council September 14, 2021
RESOLUTION CONDEMNING COMPARISONS OF VACCINE AND MASK MANDATES TO NAZISM
WHEREAS, The Holocaust was a unique historical event; the systematic state-sponsored killing of over six million Jewish men, women, and children - and other victims targeted by the Nazi state - by Nazi Germany and its collaborators priorto and during World War II.
WHEREAS, millions of victims were killed in Nazi extermination camps primarily through poison gas -either in permanent installations or in gas vans. The six main extermination camps were Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau.
WHEREAS, at these camps, many victims were told by the Nazis that they were to receive showers and then directed to chambers were they were, instead, killed in groups via poison gas. Nazis also painted the logo of the Red Cross on to the backs of vans to lure victims into mobile poison gas killing chambers.
WHEREAS, there are survivors of this terrible Nazi Holocaust in Chicagoland today who are valued members of our community and who contribute greatly to the study and commemoration of this period of history and impart its lessons to younger generations.
WHEREAS, there has been a shocking and offensive rise in public statements - locally and nationally -which equate or compare the efforts to promote potentially lifesaving masks and COVID-19 vaccines with the tactics and deception used by the Nazis to murder their victims.
WHEREAS, these public statements are both historically inaccurate and deeply offensive to the memory of Holocaust victims, their families, and survivors.
Michele Smith, 43rd Ward
Debra Silverstein, 50th Ward
Therefore, be it resolved, that the Chicago City Council strongly condemns any statements which equate or compare the promotion of COVID-19 vaccines or masks with the motivations and tactics of the Nazi murderers who perpetuated the Holocaust.
The following legislation is being introduced by Alderman Michele Smith regarding Condemning Comparisons of Vaccine and Mask Mandates to Nazism co-sponsored by
Daniel La Spata
George Cardenas
Alderman Ward 1
Alderman Ward 12
Brian Hopkins
Marty Quinn
Alderman Ward 2
Alderman Ward 13
Pat Dowell
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Alderman Ward 3
Alderman Ward 14
Sophia King
Ray Lopez
Alderman Ward 4
Alderman Ward 15
Leslie Hairston
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Alderman Ward 16
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David Moore
Alderman Ward 6
Alderman Ward 17
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Alderman Ward 7
Alderman Ward 18
Michelle Harris
Matt O'Shea
Alderman Ward 8
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Jeanette Taylor
Alderman Ward 9
Alderman Ward 20
Susan Sadlowski-Garza
Howard Brookins, Jr.
Alderman Ward 10
Alderman Ward 21
Patrick Daley Thompson
Michael Rodriguez
Alderman Ward 11
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Michael Scott
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Alderman Ward 25
Roberto Maldonado
Alderman Ward 26
Walter Burnett
Alderman Ward 27
Jason Ervin
Alderman Ward 28
Chris Taliaferro
Alderman Ward 29
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Alderman Ward 30
Felix Cardona
Alderman Ward 31
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