I had the most surreal deposition today, wherein a K9 officer, who’s dog mauled a woman, refused to acknowledge that his dog “attacked,” the woman, instead insisting that the dog was “apprehending,” rather than “biting.”
I’m pretty sure he testified that it was the dog’s choice to use force, rather than his choice to unleash the dog and command it to seek out and “apprehend” the woman. And I think he said that the dog assessed the Graham Factors before making that decision. That he had nothing to do with it. 🧐
I really wish I had opted to video it…
“In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech ... Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom, and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech, which is the right of every man...”
Young Benjamin Franklin, under the pseudonym Mrs. Silence Dogood, wrote a series of letters to his brother James’ newspaper The New-England Courant, in 1722. The passage above is from one of those letters.
Pictured is a statue of young Benjamin Franklin, who came to Philadelphia in 1723 at age 17, carrying his belongings in a satchel and holding a walking stick. Young Ben had little personal property, no job, and certainly no fame, when he arrived. In the years that proceeded, that all changed 😉 The statue, dedicated on June 16, 1914, is located at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia that was founded by Benjamin Franklin.
Source: Statues, The People They Salute
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