Comrades and fellow Chewers, I greet you all in the name of frivolity, bad jokes, and freedom for all to talk about things other than movies. I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the posters. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today (well, that and the loophole that allowed my login to work). I therefore place the remaining years of my life in the hands of Eileen and Ripoll, who has inexplicably been named a moderator in my absence.
On this day of my release, I extend my sincere and warmest gratitude to the tens of my compatriots and those in every corner of the internet who have campaigned tirelessly for my release: Jcassady, Jonathan Banks, and The LD foremost among them. I extend special greetings to the people of [REDACTED], the message board which has been my home for the past months. Your dumb jokes, mean-spirited insults, and other forms of struggle have served as a constant source of strength to all people who were wrongly banned.
I have fought against the elitist stuffiness (of Devin and Dellamorte), and I have fought against child-rape apologia (ibid). I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free board in which all chewers live together in harmony and with equal opportunity to make any joke that tickles their fancy. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But, if need be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to be banned once more.
God Bless you all (except Nordling, who isn't into that sort of thing),
Joe LeFors
