Protesters at Obama fundraiser: "Free Bradley Manning"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Protesters at Obama fundraiser: "Free Bradley Manning"

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Carrie Dann writes: Protesters interrupted President Barack Obama’s remarks at a breakfast fundraiser in San Francisco early Thursday, urging the president to “free” Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence specialist accused of releasing hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables to the website WikiLeaks.

According to a pool reporter in the room, a woman in the crowd of about 200 guests began singing and humming as Obama was speaking, removing her blazer to reveal a T-shirt with picture of Manning.

From the pool reporter:

She started singing and humming and then everyone at her table, in coordination, held up tiny signs - yellow and white that said "Free Bradley Manning."

Some of the lyrics of her song - which the people at the table hummed along too, "Each of you brought you $5,000 - we'll vote for you in 2012, yes that's true, Look at the Republicans, what else can we do."

[Wilms]

1. Hey unrecers.

You snooze, and you loose.

It's on the greatest page now.

:hi:










They hate us for our love of freedom.

[Wilms]

2. The song they sang sums up one of the issues so well. n/t

[EFerrari]

3. People shouldn't have to pay $5,000 to get their president to listen

to a human rights concern.

[apples and oranges]

4. I hate to say this, but Manning broke the law

Why should he be freed when people are doing time for lesser crimes?