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| Author: | Müs [ Tue Apr 29, 2014 7:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Donald Sterling Banned from the NBA Forever |
I agree with the punishment. The Donald Sterling thing is not about First Amendment rights. The Government is not mandating the sale of the Clippers. Sterling agreed to the bylaws of the NBA that include language to provide for the exact penalty that he is suffering. Under the "Conduct Detrimental to the League" heading, the NBA is legally within their rights to force the sale of the Clippers and ban Sterling from ever having anything to do with the NBA ever again. The First Amendment only prevents the *Government* from penalizing speech. The NBA is a private organization that can do exactly what they have laid out in their bylaws to excommunicate this bigoted, racist *******. They don't need to worry about the "legality" of the recorded communication because they're not the Government. The recording exists, it was released to the public, Sterling said those things. He now has to suffer the consequences. As he should. Edit: this is already in Hellfire. I should have checked there first. Mea Culpa. |
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| Author: | Midgen [ Wed Apr 30, 2014 12:34 am ] |
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I think saying 'Banned for life' sounds a lot more dramatic than it really is. Sure, he'll probably end up selling the team, but the way the by laws are written, he hasn't done anything that warrants them forcing him to. He is still paying the players salaries, so he's still a part of the NBA. He just can't go to games... |
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| Author: | Hopwin [ Wed Apr 30, 2014 7:01 am ] |
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I think they should not have banned him from the NBA. I think they should have kicked the Clippers out of the NBA and left him saddled with the player salaries/contracts and no means of income. |
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| Author: | Talya [ Fri May 16, 2014 1:25 pm ] |
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http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/15/us/donald-sterling-nba/ |
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