ESDCHearing--Espinola

Near the end of the ESDC hearing July 29, 2009, Steve Espinola testifies

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[dreamwulf]

Part 2:

So I was out there and I had the--

Audience man: You are an animal!

Espinola: --the "For" or "Against" [a column in the signup sheet where speakers had to state their stance as "For the Project" or "Against the Project"] and I was trying to figure that out, and I was just kinda like, "Let's Eat." That's what I wrote down. And, when, back when I was a tiger, you know, I had to eat some other animals. And there's a way to eat animals in a respectful way--

Audience woman: What?

[dreamwulf]

It's hard to hear, so here's a transcript. Part 1:

Steve Espinola: I have no idea what I'm gonna say, I, uh.I keep changing my mind on that, but um.(pause) You're either making a circle or breaking a circle at any moment. That's what I was starting to think, and then I was thinking.You know, we're all just animals here, after all, right, that's all we are, we're all animals, and we all just gotta eat.