just as i got to the phone, in came lech walesa, president of poland. he helped topple the communist regime. here washe was. he walked by everybody in the door and he walked over to me. he put his hand on my shoulder and said, "thank you." i said, no, no, no, thank solidarity. he said no. radio free europe and the holy father. they brought the world down. he is right. one thing tyrants have known is that information is power. it is a powerful weapon in the hands of a free people. it masks lies, rips off the bandage of deceit for all to see. it emboldens freed men and women -- men and women all pressed to be free -- oppressed to be free. look at today -- twitter, cell phone video. how rapidly they are unmasking the lives of tyrants. they have given everyone in an oppressed land a worldwide platform in their pocket in a way to both listen and to speak. the printing press, radio, television, and the other tools of liberty could not and did not. technology is neither inherently good nor inherently bad. and internet that enable all pressed citizens to take n