And so it begins. Navy Seaman August Provost III at Camp Pendleton was "a random act unrelated to the his sexuality."

"There is no evidence or information that suggests this is a hate crime," Capt. Matt Brown, director of public affairs for Navy Region Southwest, tells the UPI. "The military also couldn't confirm that Seaman August Provost was

harassed in the days before he was killed, the San Diego UnionTribuneThe family is outraged and says otherwise. Provost's sister says family members Brandon Browner Jersey advised Provostwho had a boyfriend and was open about his sexuality on Facebook and MySpaceto "tell his supervisor" about the repeated homophobic harassment. And more confirmation plus chilling details in the Houston Chronicle: "Rose Roy of Beaumont said her nephew had complained a year before about being harassed for being gay.

The 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."

Meanwhile, the political fallout begins. Democratic Rep. Bob Filner of suburban San Diego wants the Defense Department and Marine Corps to investigate whether the killing of the sailor was a hate crime. The powerful Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman will also hold hearings because he was at Pendleton "for over 5 hours the day of the murder and no one in the Navy thought it was important enough" to tell him, says San Diego Commissioner Stampp Corbin in a scathing oped. Corbin, who also is black and gay, slams antigay Republican Congressman Brian Bilbray, whose district includes Camp Pendleton, as "missing in action."

Corbin writes at SDNN: "Bilbray has not been a friend to the LGBT community and I have to wonder if Darrelle Revis Youth Jersey his silence has to do with Provost being a gay sailor. I cannot imagine Bilbray ignoring the murder on the base for any other reason. The murder has taken place within Bilbray's district, he is an avid supporter of the military, but he has said nothing, absolutely nothing about the Provost incident. Bilbray is also a member of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee. So Bilbray is a murder at Camp Pendleton unimportant because you don't like the victim? Are you embarrassed that your support of Don't Ask, Don't Tell creates a situation where gays and lesbians in the military, like Provost, may be hesitant to tell superiors of harassment because that would be 'telling?'"

NCIS has released the one person held and another "person of interest" is reportedly in custody. When will Naval Investigators charge someone with this brutal homicide? Brandon Browner Kids Jersey And how much longer will the military continue to pretend torture, shootings and firebombings are routine and "random acts" on United States military installations?

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Awful to think if a heterosexual, White, Godfearing, middleclass male were a victim of such a crime it would be on the headlines. And Heaven only knows the cnts that would use this to validate their bigotry on DADT, as well as their stupid beliefs about the gheys getting special rights or being "senstive".

2010 ain that far and still such primitive way of thinking. The USA military thinks teh gheys are a bigger threat than Muslim radicals and will harm the "unity" of the soldiers and disorganize them. Sorry, I just giving the countless, weak, stupid arguments we here that people cover up their homophobic bigotry or somehow turn the tables to make themselves "victims".

This is hell on earth, when people are being killed and the evidence is clear and people try to act like somehow if they sweep it under the carpet, then they don have to acknowledge the abuse and hatred that LGBT people face in America!

HELL NO! This will no be swept under www.patriotsnflofficialproshop.com/Nike-Danny-Amendola-Jersey.html the carpet.

The lives of Men of Color in the Military are being used this year to be vocal and to show that THERE WILL BE A CHANGE IN THE SYSTEM AND THERE WILL BE A CHANGE IN THE LAW!

These brothers are busy serving our country and offering themselves as a sacrifice and in return are being tossed and, in this horrific case, killed by fellow Americans!

If it were not for your continued reporting of this story. As vile and disgusting as it is, and as sick to my stomach as it makes me, I have yet to read about (and I certainly have not heard about) it anywhere else. When I look at Mr. Provost smiling face, or his style profile in the hat, it just makes me sad and angry, too! I reminded of how little regard and how little worth there is for our lives.

So, they are no longer interested in the first "person of interest" and so quickly they moved onto another, huh? For someone whose claims of harassment (supposedly) cannot be proven, and who apparently met his end so randomly, there seems to be no shortage of people "of interest". I wonder how many of them it took to gag Provost mouth, bind his hands, feet, and burn him.

This is Darrelle Revis Womens Jersey so revolting. It turns my stomach. You know, The Revkev is right it should be all about some action, but what the first move?

Thank you Rod. Please continue to keep us updated. I wonder if the investigation will allow the family to discuss what was told to them? They are the ones who hold all the information, yet the militart may only go with what was told to their organization.

Not telling the Head of VAC is what will bring this into the light more. He is now embarrassed and asking questions, as well as being a Democrat at a time that Obama was/is courting the LGBT vote and funding. Obamam is asking him what happened and all the Head of VAC can say know is that he didn know this had happened even though he was there when it took place.

He is the one to write to and stay on about being present during the time something so horrific had taken place, and that he was not informed at patriotsnflofficialproshop.com/Nike-Brandon-Lafell-Jersey.html the least as the Chairman of Veteran Committee(of course we all know he may have known, but is trying to save face now that it is all over the media, or at least starting to go all over the media).

As much as some say this can be spun to verify why DADT should stay in place as is (Repub, consrv, haters), it is even more reason to do away with this policy that promotes closet behavior and killings of those who feel they can go to their Commanding Officers with these harrassment issues. If they go to their CO that could start an investigation into their sexuality and have everyone look into whether they are or are not gay, as oppose to simply stopping the harrassing behavior.

Clinton himself has said that DADT is a failure and that the military has taken it into a direction that he had never intended it for. There are more investigations than Clinton intended, where one was not supposed to be asked. But since it is under the guise of an investigation, the military person has to answer whatever questions are asked. So DADT can work.