Norfolk - Just now had declared U.S. President Barack Obama or a breakthrough in the rights of homosexuals: Just before Christmas, Obama signed a gay-regulation for the American military. The law allows homosexuals in future military service without having to deny themselves. Now the public is shocked by a video scandal that highlights the urgency of an effective law back on the agenda.In the center: A dozen anti-gay videos, filmed and broadcast on the U.S. aircraft carrier "USS Enterprise". In the short films will be demonstrated and simulated masturbation gestures scenes of same-sex couples showering together. The videos should have been the nearly 6,000 sailors on board the "USS Enterprise" was shown.
Protagonist of the clips is the former fighter pilot Owen Honors, the time they first officer on the Navy ship. Honors will become the supreme command on the "Enterprise". As the U.S. newspaper Virginian Pilot "and the Internet magazine" Huffington Post "reported that the films are from the years 2006 and 2007.
It is unclear why the clips surfaced only now. The videos should have been broadcast on the internal television of the aircraft carrier - as a weekly video show for the 5800 permanent crew members. On the website of the Virginian Pilot "are excerpts shown, in which imitated insulted homosexuals and Honors along with other crew members masturbation movements.
The next sequence, he will ring with the words: "Finally, my favorite subject ... chicks in the shower." You can see then are women and two pairs of men who do this, as if they showered together. Even scenes where a man dressed as a woman, and a rectal examination plays come in the film clips.
The Navy issued a statement reaffirming to examine the emergence and spread of the "clearly inappropriate video." "The videos then were not acceptable, and they are not in today's Navy," says the statement. Case, long known internally further stated that the broadcast of the video had already been stopped "several years".
It was "unfortunate" that apparently still circulating copies of the video clips. At the same time rejected the U.S. Navy back fundamental criticism of the video show: the films were intended to offend anyone. The original intention of the film clips on board the "Enterprise" was, crew members to keep the "fun way" on issues and problems on board to date, such as port stops, traffic safety, cleanliness and hygiene on the ship.
It is unclear why Honors was promoted despite his major involvement in the video in May last year to captain of the ship. The "Enterprise" was, according to the magazine at the time of broadcast stationed in the Middle East, supported the U.S. missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Several crew members testified against the newspaper that they had complained about the films.
The concerns had been ironed out but removed from the majority of the crew. Honors protagonist in the video even ridiculed his critics by saying "some discomfort" speaks openly about his show - and a few seconds later on rails against gays. The videos do not shy away from physical effort officer Honors: Among other things he imitates on camera masturbation-like movements of the hand in an office chair, combined with other anti-gay insults.
At the same time suggest the videos that Honors possible consequences was aware - in a sequence, he asked that the ship's command in case of a "judicial inquiry" outside to make before: "As always, the admiral and the captain of the contents of these videos no idea "Honors tells the camera.
According to the Virginian Pilot Honors was completed in 1983, the American Naval Academy, and later trained as a fighter pilot. The "Enterprise", the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, in service since 1961 and is to be decommissioned in 2013. In a few weeks they will be sent to one of their last missions.
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