leee. >> ladies and gentleman [ speaking in chinese] ladies and gentlemen, we gather today with one voice calling for truth. after the passage of 20 years there are those today who wish to cloud the legacy of 10 and then by saying democracy has many forms and western-style democracy is not for china. some even say the chinese people do not want democracy. some say that for the sake of stability, china needs a strong single party government -- single-party government. analysis of this reasoning quickly reveals itself as self- serving rhetoric devised to rationalize the legitimacy of absolute power. if one accepts this logic, then one must also accept the concept of slavery, that some people actually decide to be slaves, that one human being actually has the right to tell another human being how to think, how to pray, and how to associate. the absurdity of this logic is evident. freedom and democracy may indeed have many faces, but freedom, democracy in whatever form, have a common foundation. that foundation is truth. we are here today to call for truth. without truth, there's no basis for