🟥 Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, better known as the musician "Sting," recently told his live audience:

"Democracy is under attack in every country in the world. The alternative to democracy is a nightmare, a prison for the mind. That alternative is tyranny. Every tyranny is based on a lie. The greater the tyranny, the greater the lie. Those who disagree with the tyrant risk prison, torture and death. But that is what we must do, all of us.

We must defend our right to tell the truth. If we swallow the lies, the lie will eat us up. The lie is afraid of the truth. We must not lose this battle [...]"