Sterling is banned for life from NBA. It is time to ban for life (Congress seeking a permanent injunction) from the Federal government of corrupt officials, who persecuted political dissidents, violated federal laws and discriminated against political opponents
Posted on | April 29, 2014 | 17 Comments
Today NBA commissioner Adam Silver banned for life and fined $2.5 million Clippers owner Donald Sterling. At issue was a racist remark that Sterling made to a young woman with whom he had an affair and who promised to get back at him and did so by recording a statement he made in a private conversation with her and made it public.
The statement was racist, he told her that he did not like her taking pictures with black men and he told her that he did not want her to bring them to the games with her.
I personally find the statement to be racist and repugnant and there should not be a place for such statements in our society.
There is no question that the man is a racist and his continued ownership of Clippers would stain the team. What happens next?
I believe that he will transfer the ownership of the team to his children and I believe he will sue the NBA. There is also a high probability that after the case will sit in courts for a few years a judge will reverse or reduce the punishment imposed by Commissioner Adam Silver. I believe that it is highly likely that the punishment will be reduced not because the statement was not racist, it was. At issue is whether a person can be fined 2.5 million dollars for a private statement made in a private conversation with his wife or his girlfriend about a third person. Also, CA has strict anti-wiretapping laws. A person cannot be recorded and his statement cannot be made public and he cannot be fined for a private statement that was illegally recorded.
Moreover, I believe that this decision will bring an avalanche of similar recordings and multiple law suits. For example, athletes are known to be crude, calling women names, b-word and c-word, many call whites- crackers. We see it in sports, in music and entertainment and even in politics. Let’s say tomorrow a girlfriend of an African -American player comes forward with a secret illegal recording, where this player tells his girlfriend privately that he does not want her to hang out with these bitches or he tells her that he does not want her to hang out with these crackers. To get back at him she makes it public. Should this African-American player be banned from NBA for life and fined $2.5 million for saying to his girlfriend or wife privately that he does not want her to hang out with these bitches or these crackers? Should Obama ban for life from the White House events Jay-Z who called the Presidential candidate Mitt Romney all kinds of cussing words? After all Sterling made a statement in a private conversation, while people like Jay-Z, Kathy Perry, Jennifer Griffin, Cher and others made inappropriate statements publicly.
Let’s say a doctor, an engineer, a lawyer or any other licensed professional says something inappropriate in a private conversation to his girlfriend about a third person. Should he lose his professional license and be made to pay a fine?
Recently Shaquile O’Neil sent an extremely offensive instagram, where he mocked a disabled fan who had a face deformity. This was not done privately. This was done publicly. Maybe it is time to write to Adam Silver and seek a permanent ban and $2.5 million fine from Shaquile O’Neil for making fun of disabled people. See the instagram at link Shaquille O’Neal Faces Backlash For Offensive Instagram Snap
In no way do I condone the statement by Sterling, as I said, the statement was clearly racist and inappropriate, but people cannot be penalized for something they said in a private conversation and had an expectation of privacy. As a matter of fact, Sterling had a right to refuse to even talk about a private conversation with commissioner Adam Silver. He could tell Silver that he does not make any comments on private conversations and Silver will have to go to court and seek an order from the court for a deposition. No court would have granted it, as, again, it was a private conversation and recording was illegal.
More importantly it is time for the US Congress to grow some spine and some other parts that they are clearly lacking and start acting in relation to public officials who acted in unethical and criminal manner and seek not only their impeachment and removal from office (if those officials were appointed by the president), but also ban them for life from holding any position in the Federal government, which can be achieved by seeking a permanent injunction from the court.
I believe that US Congress should start with the IRS officials who harassed, intimidated and discriminated against political opponents. Those should be banned for life from ever working for IRS or anywhere else in the Federal government.
There should be an injunction, aka ban for life, of the VA officials who committed fraud, kept double lists and intentionally and maliciously denied care to veterans.
There should be a ban from ever working in the Federal government, a permanent injunction against the State Department officials who refused to provide security to employees of the US embassy in Benghazi. Their incompetence or intentional misrepresentation or fraud led to death of of an ambassador and others.
There definitely should be a ban from any employment on the State Department by people like Secretary of State John Kerry, who called the state of Israel an apartheid state and did it on the eve of the Holocaust remembrance day. Kerry showed himself to be a racist, an antisemite, a Jew hater. He made this statement not privately to his wife or his Iranian Muslim son in law. He made his statement publicly and hurt relations with the only Democracy in the Middle East and the only ally the US has in the Middle East. He caused such damage that it is reasonable for the US Congress to seek not only impeachment and removal from office of John Kerry, but also a permanent ban, aka a permanent injunction for Kerry’s employment in the State Department.
How about Attorney General Holder, who de facto engaged in gun trafficking, flagrant violation of immigration laws, depraved dereliction of duties in his refusal to prosecute corrupt officials in IRS, Census, NSA, EPA, HHS, DHS, DOJ and so on. It is time for the US Congress to seek a relator status, meaning stepping in the shoes of the Attorney General who is derelict in his duties and seek permanent injunctions, a ban from employment in the US government of all the corrupt officials of Obama regime, and do it not for something that they said privately, but for something they said and did publicly.
How about judges who attacked civil rights leaders for bringing forward legal challenges against the current regime?
The public is urged to weigh in and call every member of the US Congress and demand such actions.
Dr. Orly Taitz, ESQ
04.29.2014
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April 29th, 2014 @ 5:16 pm
I agree with Rod…the racist actions always work for blacks…and whites get clobbered!
That’s not right! The Schack=Man should suffer the same penalty that the owner of the club received!
There’s always a “double-standard!”
April 29th, 2014 @ 6:30 pm
Great point Dr. Taitz! Has anyone heard hypocritical racist & bigot Kevin Johnson holding a press conference calling for the Commissioner of the NBA to ban the Shaq for his horrifying remarks toward someone who is maimed and obviously vulnerable to bigots like Oneal? Not me. If Oneal was white he would be out in front of the press corps now eviscerating them! Kevin Johnson, I’m glad you opened your mouth and showed us the racist you truly are.
April 29th, 2014 @ 6:55 pm
Call the Knicks front office and tell them that if they vote to ban Sterling from the NBA, they should also vote to ban black punk Spike Lee from attending any Knicks games in the future for his racist remarks toward Larry Bird.
April 29th, 2014 @ 7:35 pm
I ban you for life from LIFE!@#!@#!@!@! stoopidbitch…
April 29th, 2014 @ 8:29 pm
what did he specifically say about Larry Bird? do you have a quote, a link? I am not a basketball fan. Until a couple of day I had no idea who owned Clippers
April 29th, 2014 @ 8:39 pm
I sent this clip about Shaquille O’Neil mocking a disabled boy to commissioner Adam Silver and demanded equal punishment. People can send an e-mail to NBA.com, business department and demand equal punishment, ban for life as a team co- owner and $2.5 million fine for Shaquille O’Neil for mocking a disabled African -American young man
April 29th, 2014 @ 9:05 pm
Shaquille O’Neal retired from basketball in 2011.
What team co-owner?
April 29th, 2014 @ 9:37 pm
Shaquille O’Neil’s mocking was disrespectful. He mentioned this on his twitter.
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Made a new friend today when I called and apologized to Jahmel Binion. Great dude.#alwayslearning #MYBADCUZ
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April 29th, 2014 @ 9:53 pm
Isiah Thomas said that if Larry Bird was black, he’d just be another player in the NBA. Larry Bird was a true gentleman of the game. He was not a vocal guy but he lead by example thru his work ethic and the time & effort he put into his profession. He is arguably the greatest all around basketball player ever. That’s why they don’t like him and attack him with racist comments. Simply because he’s white.
April 29th, 2014 @ 10:02 pm
truth be told that most people are saying that if Obama was white, he would be considered an inarticulate teleprompter reading community organizer. Many believe that he got into Columbia and Harvard and was pushed ahead the rest of his life due to affirmative action and CIA connections of his mother and grandfather. After all nobody saw his grades.
April 29th, 2014 @ 10:09 pm
LOL!! Here’s a famous quote from one of the greats from NBA past. “Of all the guys that I play against, the only one that I truly fear is Larry Bird.” Earvin Magic Johnson
April 29th, 2014 @ 10:11 pm
he is a minority owner of the Sacramento Kings
Shaquille O’Neal buys a stake in the Sacramento Kings
April 30th, 2014 @ 2:43 am
This is an extremely well written article by Orly. I do however take minor exception to the statement that:
“there should not be a place for such statements in our society.”
In heaven or a perfect society that would be true; however, we are a republic made up of fallible people and the laws which govern us must take, and do take that into consideration. That is why we have a Constitutional _right_ to free speech. While you are correct that there are limits to this right such as endangering others through deliberately causing panic when no threat exists, this does not extend to private citizens speaking their mind. No matter how repugnant you may consider something, as long as it is only talk and not an attempt to incite others to violence then every citizen in this country has every right to be as racist as they wish and to openly say what ever they please. In my life I have been called a round-eye, cheechako, honky, gringo, farang, haole, and other names I don’t remember right off. As long as it wasn’t accompanied by threats or physical violence, and that was rare, I could care less. Race itself has nothing to do with the predominance of human dislike for others. It is sadly a part of human nature which no race or culture is immune to. You don’t address this issue by pandering to racial issues you only exacerbate it; you address it by stressing openness, education, fair play, and respect to others regardless of whatever mental, spiritual, physical, cultural, economic, etc. differences may exist.
There is even an argument against applying sanctions to elected officials for such utterances since the citizenry exercises it will and pleasure about such matters through the election process to begin with and once voted in to office they can be removed via recall petitions and other established means. Automatic sanctions should only kick in when such prejudices directly affects the carrying out of their official duties. Way back when, I didn’t have any issue with providing captured VC with the best medical treatment I was able to give even knowing they had been attempting to kill me and had killed other Americans. About the only restriction I placed on myself was that if in a triage situation for each category they would receive treatment after my brothers.
As far as the rights of the administrators of private organizations such as the NBA to punish members goes, obviously, as you so clearly pointed out, if supposed evidence is obtained by illegal means then fines are merely done for show since they can not be legally collected. However, banning is probably within their rights.
Quite frankly I would rather people say whatever they want where ever they want with the exceptions already discussed above, if for no other reason than that when people know they are free to speak their minds they make plain who they really are. Promoting truthfulness is _never_ a bad thing, it can be a difficult thing sometimes, but it is not a _bad_ thing. I’ve spent a large percentage of my adult life in a formerly monarchial society that is still struggling with embedded traditional behavior that is resistant to change. One of the sad aspects is that people do not have a tradition of speaking openly or truthfully, so no matter what their educational or socio-economic level may be there are many who act like sociopathic congenital liars. The cultural memory of what used to happen to those who openly spoke out against the established regimes is still there, and perhaps rightly so as such murders still happen to vocal critics. Fear of speaking one’s mind openly creates a society of liars, and if that is what you want then go ahead and support hate crimes, laws against speaking the truth, and the destruction of our Constitutional Rights.
April 30th, 2014 @ 3:54 am
There you go! Right in Kevin Johnson’s backyard. So you have racist Johnson and bigot Oneal together in Sacramento.
May 1st, 2014 @ 11:05 am
I must confess,I don’t get any of this race baiting scenario,Is it the white side of Obama or the black side of Obama that folks are supposed to be racist about ? To put it bluntly,No one knows for sure what the ethnic background of Obama is.I personally don’t have a clue who this man is.Many have tried to find out only to get stonewalled.
May 1st, 2014 @ 1:18 pm
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