Lol...a common, chat forum, figure of speech?
Whatever pal.
Have a nice day.
Amusing how quickly you're no longer worried about exact meaning of words. It's almost as if you really didn't care, and were merely trolling before...interesting...
So, apparently, the answer is you can't prove he is lying
No, the answer is I already have. Just because you seem to really struggle with comprehending the written word, it doesn't give you license to dishonestly misinterpret what is said. Once more, I cannot help but wonder if you're simply trolling.
I guess that would make Albert Einstein and Saul cowards then.
Perhaps...I honestly don't know to what you refer.
That's it? Nonsense? Sounds authoritative, yet lacks credibility.
I've already explained it multiple times throughout the thread. Go search for my previous posts.
and, Oh right, because Bradley Manning has had lots of access to the press.
I've already addressed this as well. While you're searching for the argument I made for your previous statement being nonsense, you can search for this as well.
It makes a lot more sense than your statement. What exactly is he doing on the run that he could not have done when he first came out with his claims? Is Snowden still gathering intelligence? Is he still discovering more information? The answer to both of those questions, we can logically assume, is no. So how exactly is Snowden fighting government abuses?
So the second our founders were charged with treason by the crown, we should have all laid down our arms, filed back to England and first stood trial? Where was Ben Franklin during the revolution?
I've already addressed this argument as well. But I'll cut you some slack on this, because while I've already posted it once, this will be the first time I repeated it.
If you're wanting to compare our founders to Snowden, then our founders would have signed the Declaration of Independence, mailed it to England and then hightailed it down to Mexico. Our founding fathers didn't run and hide, they stood up for what they believed in, even if it meant giving up their own lives to do so.
You could not have picked a worse example than our founding fathers to compare with Edward Snowden. They stood up before what they thought was an oppressive government and were willing to fight, and even die, for what they believed in. Edward Snowden ran away to hide.
If your aim is to continue to put pressure on the US to be more transparent in matters that directly affect it's citizens, to continue to work toward that end... you don't turn yourself in.
But he's not doing that. He's not putting any pressure on the US to be more transparent, he's running and hiding. If anything, he's doing more harm than good to his own cause. Unlike our founding fathers, he's not willing to stand before what he considers oppressive government and give whatever it takes to initiate change. No, he ran and hid.
I do not have a problem with the interview he gave to the Guardian, though as I've mentioned before, he didn't really say anything which wasn't already known. What he did when he revealed what he knew was a courageous act. But instead of standing up for his actions, he ran...which is not courageous.