Comments on: Navy: Murder charge filed in gay seaman’s death

By: craig

craig — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:03:27 +0000

Of course he didn’t file a complaint. If he did, they would know he was gay and either let it happen anyway for just boot him out. Remember, until our society emerges from the dark ages, being gay is still a crime and a sin.

By: davidwithak

davidwithak — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:52:30 +0000

Hate crime, hate crime, hate crime. I am so tired of hearing about crimes and about if it was a hate crime. Someone is killed while being mugged and the call for calling it a hate crime. When was some one killed in a love crime? How could someone be shot a number of times and then the guard shak set on fire and not be a hate crime. Oh wait, I forgot. If it had been a straight man would it be called a hate crime? I would hope so. We just continue let the powers to be divid us, the public. Every day there are stories of the crimes that should be called hate crimes. I have never heard of someone robbing a convennt store doing so with love.
Give me a break.

By: OhPlease

OhPlease — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:54:50 +0000

The navy promotes intolerance from day one in boot camp when we were told by the chaplan the navy has no room for gays. The navy is as responsable as if they had pulled the trigger.

By: Trace Eggers

Trace Eggers — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:29:43 +0000

Hello Congress? Hello President? Hello Joint Chiefs of Staff?

Does this case alone not make it crystal clear why Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Needs to End?

Mr. President, I know that you’re good (of recent) in making comments about local crime and arrest matters. Where is your outcry about this? I guess that someone being shot and burned does not rise to the ranks of someone that is handcuffed.

By: charley

charley — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:19:37 +0000

The Navy will never admit this was a hate crime. There needs to be an outside investigation.

By: wendi412

wendi412 — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:06:32 +0000

Of course there wouldn’t be any record of him filing complaints. Have you idiots(military) not heard of DADT??? Ooohhhh, I could scream! Yeah sure, they would have looked at his complaints…just to verify that he did in fact violate the DADT policy. Then he’d be facing a general discharge AND harrassment.

By: glmeb

glmeb — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:14:44 +0000

One would hope and pray that for the family and loved ones of August Provost that they will find peace and justice will be served for the obvious hate crime murder of their beloved son. I tend to agree with Katchafalinstar’s comments that “just because he didn’t file a complaint doesn’t mean that he didn’t complain to his family and friends” to be a very strong argument in the victim’s favour. Nobody knows how long Mr. Provost suffered from the abuse, maybe he was deathly afraid to say anything at all in fear of not only losing his position in the Navy for being Gay but the real possibility of suffering further abuse at the hands of Mr. Campos. Tragically, his fears came to reality when Mr. Campos chose to clear his gun completely of it’s ammunition just to rid his little homophobic world from the evils of another gay man. I hope you have the guts to look at yourself in the mirror, Mr. Campos, and to face your justice like the man you think you are!

By: ljrhodes

ljrhodes — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:31:51 +0000

Of course the Navy says that he wasn’t killed for being gay because he never filed a harassment report, the bastards. They know damned good and well that the guy wouldn’t've done that, because he’d've had to make an official declaration of his sexual orientation to do so, which would’ve resulted in his discharge.

Are they really so stupid as to believe we believe their crap where that’s concerned? It infuriates me that they’re so “oh well, a fag died, no big deal” about it. But it also infuriates me that they’d sit there and say that it couldn’t've possibly been a hate-motivated murder based on homophobia simply because the victim didn’t officially report anti-gay harassment.

I’d like to get a few minutes alone in a room with the dipsh*t who made that statement. I’d whoop the hell out of him just for being stupid, which isn’t a protected status under hate crimes legislation, either.

By: Twisted Pride

Twisted Pride — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:54:44 +0000

Interesting. How was he supposed to file a harassment report without breaching the DADT policy? The armed forces have a sexual harassment protection standard, but does it include everyone?
Now that his sexuality has come to light, will he still get a proper military burial, or will he get a dis-honorable discharge even after death?
I guess we are going to wait to see what the Navy does, I just hope they take the families feelings into consideration before they turn this into a huge media fiasco.
Either way this is a shame and I thank Provost for protecting and dying for my freedom.
Sigh…

By: Morgan

Morgan — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:48:06 +0000

Shot multiples time after harassment about his sexuality in the days before his death and his family and friends made aware of the harassment problem….how much more circumstantial evidence do you need pointing to a hate crime? What does the Navy call being shot multiple times? As in overkill when it takes only one bullet to the head or to the heart to kill someone. Someone really hated him very deeply for some reason to go crazy and “pump him full of “lead” execution style.