Joe Scarborough: “we have been talking so much about crime and about the prevention of crime, I am going to tell you, we are not going to…”

“we have been talking so much about crime and about the prevention of crime, I am going to tell you, we are not going to be able to tackle the issue of crime until we get tough on criminals and, unfortunately, the Clinton administration continues to coddle criminals through the judges that they appoint. Mr. Speaker, I am going to tell you, being from Florida, I am distressed by what a Florida judge recently wrote that was appointed by Bill Clinton. Rosemary Barkett, a Clinton judge, voted to reduce the death sentence of a murderer who sent a tape to the mother of the murdered victim, boasting about his crime and killing her daughter. Judge Barkett wrote: The killer's impatience for change, for understanding, for reconciliation matured into taking the illogical and drastic action of murder. His frustration, anger and obsession of injustice overcame reason. The murder victim was a symbolic representation of the class which caused the perceived injustices. She went on to say he matured into the decision of killing this person, then bragging about it by mailing a tape to the mother of the murdered victim. And so she reduced the sentence.”