[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 51 (Friday, April 19, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H3652]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           LIBERALS AND CRIME

  (Mr. BAKER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BAKER of California. Mr. Speaker, well, we have just heard it, 
today we are celebrating that sad tragedy of a year ago, and while this 
House and the liberals talk about taking away private citizens' right 
to own a weapon, we do almost nothing to those heinous killers and 
criminals who violate society's rules. We have heard about Harold Baer 
until we are sick of it. Harold Baer decides that it is OK to run away 
from policemen. From kindergarten we are taught policemen are our 
friends and we, even if a red light is in front of them and they tell 
to you go through the light, do what the policeman says.
  They run away from the policeman and Harold Baer says that is a 
natural thing to do in that neighborhood so they should not have 
searched the poor, sorry individual who only had 80 pounds of cocaine 
in the trunk of their car.
  Then Rosemary Barkett, who we just heard about, and I am going to 
read her famous line because nobody could even believe this. She says 
this about a killer who killed someone and then sent a tape recording 
mocking the killing to the victim's mother. This is what she said about 
that inhuman human being:

       His impatience for change, for understanding, for 
     reconciliation matured to taking the illogical and drastic 
     action of murder. His frustration, his anger and his 
     obsession of injustice overcame reason. The murder victim was 
     a symbolic representation of the class which caused the 
     perceived injustice.

  You talk about it is society's fault, what nonsense. Let us get a new 
President and some new judges.

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