Some random stranger? This is a MTGOX customer who has enough funds tied up in his account to make the trip out to Japan and figure put what's happening.

The movement and energy around Bitcoin is to circumvent all of the non-sense in the financial/banking/corporate world and get straight to the point. This difference between asking for everyone or himself is nonsense because everyone's bitcoins are his bitcoins and being as he is the first and only one to do something like this, I applaud him for taking on the responsibility of representing the entire community.