Like it or not; it is the truth:
BEAUMONT — Relatives of a slain sailor are calling the 29-year-old’s death a hate crime.
Rose Roy of Beaumont said her nephew, Navy Seaman August Provost III, had complained a year before about being harassed for being gay.
Roy said she advised Provost to report and document the incidents, but she said the military did little to help.
“He went to the Navy to serve and protect,” she said in an interview with Beaumont’s KFDM News, “he didn’t get protected at all.”
Roy told The Associated Press that the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy discouraged her nephew from asking for help.
“That phrase is just stupid because it tells them they have no one to speak to,” she said.
The 29-year-old Houston native was found dead Tuesday at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, north of San Diego. Roy said the family was told that Provost was shot three times, had his hands and feet bound, his mouth gagged, and body burned.
The family plans to hold funeral services July 10 in Houston.
Democratic Rep. Bob Filner of San Diego said Thursday he wants a Defense Department investigation into the death, after leaders of the city’s gay community asked him to intervene.
Investigators have called the sailor’s death a random act unrelated to the his sexuality and have taken a “person of interest” into custody. No charges have been filed.
Roy said Provost joined the Navy in March 2008 to pay off college debt.
via Family of gay Houston sailor found dead faults military | Chronicle | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle.
Had he not been in the Navy; he would still be alive. The Armed Forces is not a place for Homosexuals. It is a tragic thing; but it his own fault. Gay blades do not belong in the Armed Forces; it is just that simple. This is why this person is dead. Most likely he came onto some officer and they did not like it and they killed him. Do I think it was right, that he was killed? No, I do not. But, if he had not been in the Navy and most likely not shot his mouth off, he would still be alive.
That might be the most ridiculous post I have read anywhere, and that includes Kos and the rest of the lefty lunatic sites. He’s dead cuz he’s in the military and gay?
I have no idea what happened to this poor guy, but when its all said and done I will bet dollars to donuts it wasn’t cuz he kept his nose clean, didn’t bother anyone and was only killed cuz he was a gay sailor.
That’s right libber; faggots do NOT belong in the Military. That morally depraved lifestyle is totally opposed to our American Christian values.
Keep the queers in Berkley, California where they fucking belong and out of the damn Military.
” Most likely he came onto some officer and they did not like it and they killed him.”
Hey you stupid douchebag, who are you to gratuitously insult the military by implying they’d kill someone in such an offhand manner. Having spent 22 years in the USN before retiring I can honestly say dickwads like yourself are worse than any of the anti-military libs I’ve run into.
I’ve no use for gays in the service but you should just STFU if your condemnation of them includes trashing our troops.
That was not my intent. You go talk to the people in the Military and ask them how they feel about fags being in the damn Military. I’m sure you’d get an ear full.
Having said that. I know nothing about the case. But, I’d be willing to bet; that the damn situation could have been avoided, if he’d just kept his queer ass at home.
“That’s right libber; faggots do NOT belong in the Military. That morally depraved lifestyle is totally opposed to our American Christian values.”
Hooded, bound, gagged and shot 3 times in the head.
Morally depraved is still a step up from morally devoid.
Until now I’d never considered that perhaps there is a demographic which despises the Iranian rulers for the treatment of their people…. out of jealousy. I mean, what’s hanging a homo from a crane in the street if not something to aspire to if this is your logic. American Christian values shouldn’t stop at the gates to the military base, should they?
He’d be alive, if he’d kept his gay ass at home; where the little faggot belonged.