Tony Cooper
Just answer who "we" stands for. You've avoided this and danced around it. "I knew" says that you knew. "We knew" says that you and others knew. Who is "We"?

PeterN
Perhaps an imperial we?

Tony Cooper
He could weasel out of this if he wanted to. All he has to do is admit that it's a figurative use and not a literal use. He doesn't have either the integrity to admit there is no "we" involved or doesn't have the intellectual capacity to understand the difference between literal and figurative.