Thorburn’s resignation is our own town square execution.

If you’re an Australian, it’s hard not to feel disillusioned with the social plight of the country and where it’s heading.

‘The Lucky Country’, is descending into an unrecognisable State of misguided and confused awareness, and it’s no longer as ‘Lucky’ as it once was.

Somewhere along the way, in the past decade, a shift in Australia’s psyche happened, with many Australians failing to recognise the signs.

The slow creep of change suddenly became without notice, a tsunami gathering into a mass of moral and cultural destruction and erosion.

Virtually overnight, Australia lost its identity to hypocrisy and thoughtless awareness. Wokeismarrived, and the ‘moral do-gooders’ became demons of peril.

Which is why Australia should be ashamed of allowing itself to be hijacked by a minority hypnotised by some form of self-righteousderangement syndrome.

Those very same people have successfully transformed Australia into a nation of fear, where the minority have manipulated and captured Australians psychologically.

This isn’t just an Australian phenomenon, it’s global- and for whatever reason, Australia and the world have witnessed the right of independent thought and free speech, fall foul to an abuse of human rights and the madness driving it.

Wokeism and its emergence should never have posed a threat to Australia’s social and cultural values and sovereignty, but it was allowed to, and has, whileAustralians turned a blind eye to the rising waters ofdisintegration.

What’s most offensive is the disturbing influence the voice of a minority is having on thought and people’s freedom to think and speak without vile attacks.

Andrew Thorburn – former CEO of the National Australia Bank, and the newly short-lived appointee to the role of AFL Club Essendon as CEO, is now the ‘poster-boy’ of the assassinated by the woke.

Thorburn became the woke’s first high-profiled scalp. And as much he was their victim, he was also his own saviour – and hero now to many Australians.

Thorburn although humiliated, also drew strength from the madness that was building – rather than continue to be the subject of derision, he railed against it and walked away, voluntarily committingHari Kari to save himself anymore mental anguish for his brief tenure as Essendon CEO.

Thorburn should have been allowed to enjoy and savour his new role. But he couldn’t. Instead, he was terrorised, subjected to hate spewing from a vocal minority offended by his religious beliefs.

In just 24 hours, Essendon’s new appointee, resignedand the shambolic Club, remains in tatters as it has done for the past decade.

Since the drug doping scandal of 2012, Essendon has been a Club struggling to recover from its self-inflicted controversy.

Players and coaches were suspended, and questions were asked about the Club’s ability to survive its mess.

It was the biggest scandal to hit the AFL.

Since then, the once Mighty Bombers have consistently faced controversy.

Thorburn’s reputational assassination, by the flogs dictating the narrative and re-drawing the boundaries of social acceptability according to their offensivevalues, is another chapter of horrifying chapters in the Club’s history.

Prior to the 2012 doping scandal, Essendon were one of the AFL’s big money spinners, but in the last 10 years, it has faced challenge after challenge. The Thorburn issue is another one.

But those intolerable whining but nasty folk, who successfully beheaded Thorburn, is a victory of theirsthat has darkened Australia. These are the very same people who lack decency and integrity but falsely live as though they possess it.

What Australia learned this week about who it is as a nation is far from what its values once were.

By allowing the country to be overrun by zealots pedalling hatred, many Australians now live in fear –cautiously putting their heads above the parapet to see if danger looms to assess if they are safe to say or do. 

What happened to Andrew Thorburn was hatred perpetrated by a minor collective while Australians watched a public execution take place in its owntown square.  

Australians should never be able to condemn the acts of public beheadings or stoning’s in the Middle Eastbecause it allowed its own town square beheading to occur.

It mightn’t have been as gory, but it was just as evil. We watched as the parade of hypocrisy marched byand with each step taken, was another toward the erosion of the very values Australia was built on.

Why was Andrew Thorburn’s appointment to the position of CEO of the Essendon Football Club so offensive?

It wasn’t to most Australians, except for those who thought it was okay to dehumanise and humiliate him.  These are the same crazies that rally against hate speech but enact it themselves.

Thorburn should have been able to accept his role without the attacks of hatred, demonisation of his religion, the need to explain his faith, or the public and media humiliation poured on by a valueless vocal minority.

His need to resign should never have happened and nor was there a need for it, but it did.  

It did because Australia allowed failed and corrupt politicians like Victoria’s Premier Dan Andrews, to lead the charge on the assault of Thorburn’sreputation. 

To Australians, and especially Victorians, who endured the totalitarian rule and madness of Dan Andrews during COVID, and his preparedness to destroy the State and its citizens with it, nothing should surprise them about what he is prepared to do to retain office. 

Andrews’s form and history has shown he will do whatever it takes to win and where he sees an opportunity in securing votes he will. 

But will it work?

It may have backfired, if the polls of the last seven days are right, Andrews may have just lost a significant number of Victorians of all religious beliefs.

Leaders are meant to unite not divide however, Andrews has fuelled hatred and intolerance, and empowered a minority to further rise in strength.

But that’s what arrogance fosters – the belief of invincibility.

So, who would have thought with lockdowns, the destruction of the economy, vaccine mandates,masks, social distancin

g, it would be religious intolerance that could be the undoing of Andrews reign?

And it may have.

Andrew Thorburn should be applauded for not compromising his values and faith.

As for the lunatic fringe - they’re lunatics who have claimed an innocent scalp in the town square.