The Grand Master of the Lusitano Grand Orient, Fernando Cabecinha, expresses concern over the Portuguese’s “growing lack of trust” in institutions at a time when he sees democratic regimes being “challenged” by their “traditional enemies”.
“The Grande Oriente Lusitano sees with great concern the growing lack of confidence of Portuguese citizens in the fundamental institutions of governance, in their holders, in elected representatives, in the judiciary and in the authority of the state, whose mission is to enforce the law maintain and ensure public order”, writes the leader of this masonic obedience, a year after his election, in a message “to Portuguese citizens”.
According to Fernando Cabecinha, “it is imperative that appropriate measures be taken urgently to bring citizens closer to their rulers and to promote active and responsible citizenship” and to achieve this goal, all holders of public offices must raise the level of demand in its intervention so that its actions are not devalued for reasons of legality or improper conduct”.
“Prior investigation into incompatibilities and transparency should not hinder good governance, but promote it”defends the grandmaster.
Fernando Cabecinha warns that “liberties, equal opportunities for men, democratic and free regimes that respect human rights are being questioned again by their traditional enemies”.
In addition, “bad economic, industrial and financial practices deeply pollute the environment and promote critical imbalances that endanger humanity and facilitate the germination of anti-democratic ideas that appear to be easy solutions to the problems we all face, globalization, despite also with positive effects, it is currently amplifying the effects of pandemics and war on a planetary scale and, as it cannot be otherwise, is seriously affecting our country”.
Warning that “no human being is defended against and immune to the ill effects of the times in which we live,” the Grand Master emphasizes: “It is, here and now, the time for Freemasonry to contribute, as it should in principle – and all Freemasons know and desire – to set the course of increasing destruction and degradation of humanity as a whole from human beings and the to turn existing humanity into all of them and of the planet as an ecosystem to be preserved as the support of all life.” emphasizes.
The Grande Oriente Lusitano “launches a warning about the indicators of human development, social welfare and economy that are moving us away from European convergence, accentuating inequality between citizens in terms of access to health and housing, as well as accessible quality education to all”.
Fernando Cabecinha believes that “the forms of popular representation must be enriched, improved in all its dimensions, so that citizens feel their own, respect the Republic and be proud of it”, and also demands “a legal framework that is always of high quality strict technique and clarity, so as not to create the feeling that the Laws and their application only protect powerful people and organizations with great financial and economic resources”.
The leader of this masonic obedience claims that “young people need the country to have a political agenda that opens horizons for them”, but it is also “a need for generational solidarity”, not only with the young, to create a to have a serious policy of framing the seniors “to prevent them from feeling abandoned. “Whoever forgets or ignores his seniors forgets and ignores his own,” he warns.
The grand master of this masonic lodge warns against this “the ferocious economy, the rampant speculation, attack the fundamental values of liberty, equality, and fraternity, and deplete resources that are unfortunately finite” and criticize “all business activities that are predatory on the resources that sustain life and that sustain both the present and the future of humanity”.
It also believes that “the moment is important for the extremisms that take advantage of citizens’ fatigue in relation to current forms of political practice, so often demagogic, of their alienation in terms of participation, promotion of hatred and expressions of fear, arrogance, while at the same time using democratic rules to gain power, to condition national and local governments, thus confirming an agenda that Freemasons everywhere can only reject”.
“We, as Freemasons, are at the forefront of the fight against these extremist and totalitarian ideologies that manifest themselves to a greater or lesser extent in different democratic countries, and unfortunately also among us,” he emphasizes. calling for a “free and responsible journalism” that “does not succumb to sensationalism or personal and group interests” in order to preserve the “master beam” of defending democratic values, namely freedom of expression.
Source: DN
