A matter of principle

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not committed to doing the right thing, regardless of what it takes, and we believe that, in the long run, doing the right thing is always better than doing the easy thing.  It is this dedication to doing the right thing that has led us to our current situation, in which our former nemesis is, apparently sincerely, applying to become a member of the Board of Dictators.  If he were still our nemesis this decision would have been extremely easy, but as he has married one of our best operatives and is now dedicating his life to the eradication of evil office products and the purveyors of said products (and to the acquisition of power and influence over his fellow world citizens, but that's not the point here) the decision has proven extremely difficult.  We have held several emergency meetings of the Board of Dictators to decide how to proceed in this matter, and we have concluded that we will accept "Edgar's" application and process it according to our standard procedures.  This does mean that, if he is found to be right for the position, that we will join forces with our former nemesis to stamp out his former cohorts.  In an effort to be fair to him we have informed him of this decision and that he failed to include a valid sleep number on his application.  Hopefully he will provide this critical information before our deadline of tonight.  For those who have not applied yet, consider this your gentle reminder that you only have a few hours left to do so!  Application materials can be found here.