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and please use the microphone, and name and area in which you live and you may begin. <br /> <br />HAMPTON: My name is R. J. Hampton and am a resident of Sea View, Kalapana Estates, and I live <br />within walking distance of the venue that we are talking about. Usually deception and secrecy is for <br />) <br />evil lands (phonetic. I don't say that’s what going on here. But I will say that there are questionable <br />motives, and because the person seeking to deceive those and his acts and his motive became known to <br />us too late. So that the spectacle today of all the green has to do with nothing going to Georgia but <br />everything to do with the market. But the special use permit is not about the market. And as Jeff said <br />to me on the phone, because I'm going to make it known, uh huh, I'm not scared of anybody and the <br />tyranny. I'm the tyranny of the minority I guess, that everybody's talking about cause I made a <br />complaint. I felt that after all the years that I have been in a nonprofit person too that the one thing you <br />want to do is protect your nonprofit status. When you do this, this is where the leadership comes in. I <br />thth <br />had an argument my neighbor about whether or not this event of February 24 and 25 should happen. <br />Basically we got into, well, I'm very emotional, a screaming match. For as much as I love education, <br />as much as I love juggling and everything that goes with SPACE, when I see Graham Ellis I don't see <br />SPACE. What I see is a corporation of entertainers from Europe and America who came to the Big <br />Island to settle in and make their fortune. Isn’t it nice? Therein lies -. <br /> <br />PUBLIC: (Laughter). <br /> <br />HAMPTON: Therein lies your fame -. <br /> <br />KERN: Respect, respect. <br /> <br />HAMPTON: Your frame and your fortune. And I remember when Graham told me that this was a <br />good thing because he'd never have to take his equipment out. So what am I trying to say to you, <br />Commissioners? I would find it a travesty a broken trust for you to give SPACE, Village Green, <br />Hawai‘i’s Volcano Circus, any more time to do what they say they are going to do. I expect this <br />Commission to revoke the permit and make them reapply. Hopefully, put out, if the County needs <br />such a thing, there's a thing called RFP, somebody responds to a proposal. But nobody has proposed <br />this. This is a vision of an organization in my community. Are you going to, when I come, are you <br />going to give me the same leniency? You are opening the door, a Pandora's box, if you do not allow <br />the Planning Director to revoke and you don't, and it would be a travesty if you didn’t allow somebody <br />to come forward and put a proposal before you that will work. Education, economics, entertainment, <br />that entertainment got left out. It's called recitals, it's called hoike -. <br /> <br />KERN: Thank you. <br /> <br />HAMPTON: It’s called graduation. <br /> <br />KERN: Thank you. Thank you. Any questions for the testifier? Seeing none, thank you. James <br />MacRae. Give me your name and area you live, and you may begin. And please use the microphone. <br /> <br />MACRAE: My name is James MacRae and I live in Kalapana Sea View Estates. <br /> <br />PUBLIC: I can’t hear you. <br /> 35 <br /> EXHIBIT B <br /> <br /> <br />