They donate to the Democrat Party and they disrupt a speech by President Obama; it happened during a fund raising event in San Francisco on Thursday. Supporters of Pvt. Bradley Manning broke out in song during a speech by President Obama for the alleged mistreatment of the accused Wikileaks informant.
As the video below shows, the donors, or protestors, disrupted a breakfast speech by President Obama by breaking out in song, and held up a sign that said “Free Bradley Manning.” The fundraising breakfast reportedly cost $5,000 a plate.
As security guards escorted the protestors out, President Obama can be seen on the video saying “That is a nice song, you guys have much better voice than I have.”
Bradley Manning is the United States private accused of leaking confidential material to the website Wikileaks. Up until recently he was being held in Marine corps prison in Quantico, VA. Manning is now being held in Leavenworth, Kansas pending a trial.
Outside the Obama fundraiser, Oakland activist Naomi Pitcairn told the San Francisco Chronicle that she paid $76,000 for the protestors to gain access the Democratic fundraising event.
Bradley Manning Protest Song: Lyrics and video
Dear Mr. President we honor you today sir / Each of us brought you $5,000 / It takes a lot of Benjamin’s to run a campaign/ I paid my dues, where’s our change?/ We’ll vote for you in 2012, yes that’s true/Look at the Republicans – what else can we do/Even though we don’t know if we’ll retain our liberties/In what you seem content to call a free society/Yes it’s true that Terry Jones is legally free/To burn a people’s holy book in shameful effigy/ But at another location in this country/Alone in a 6Ã-12 cell sits Bradley/23 hours a day and night/The 5th and 8th Amendments say this kind of thing isn’t right/We paid our dues, where’s our change?
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