[Scoutmaster]

To summarize the article:

If Sterling knew he was being recorded, it was not only legal to record him, but it was legal to release the private conversation to the media.

[SMARTY]

I think it was ‘legal’.

People need to learn how to govern themselves... their mouths, their actions, everything!!

A sense of personal responsibility MUST be taught to young people.

The problems we endure now, are much the result of people (adults too) behaving irresponsibly

[MrB]

One thing to keep in mind over this.

We are here in 2014 America, and a man is being divested of his property for something he said in private.

[BitWielder1]

The one thing I find most abhorrent about this affair is that they filled the news cycle with it for 72 hours, overshadowing everything else in the world.

[Williams]

Was it really a racist rant?

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

Could someone please post a transcript of the entire conversation, I ahve yet to be convinced that he said anything worthy of death.

[Sloth]

I absolutely reject the legitimacy of laws like those of California or Maryland (invoked in the Linda Tripp / Monica Lewinsky matter) that prohibit a person from recording conversations they’re participating in.

[DoodleDawg]

Whether or not the recording was legal is a matter for California law enforcement.

But the NBA is not a court of law. Even if the recording was illegal, it can still use it to determine if Sterling violated any of the NBA rule or bylaws.

[2ndDivisionVet]

What do Cliven Bundy and Donald Sterling have in common? Nothing, but because they used their God given right of free speech to express an opinion, they have been crucified on the cross of major media——even some conservative media channels have turned their backs on these men’s right to speak their minds. Where’s the outrage from major media when members of the Black Panthers community brazenly walked the streets saying, they were going to kill all the cracker babies? Where was Obama when that was happening?

The media cry foul play when someone wants to censor them, but let all hell and its fury fall upon the heads of others they disagree with. In other words, in the America of today, only certain people have free speech, the rest of us, well, need I say anymore?

In truth, the major media is using these two men and any others, to create a race war, not end it!

Allan Hales

Salem

http://www.standard.net/stories/2014/05/01/media-used-bundy-sterling-create-race-war