1. Remove trolls, but forget about the brownshirt behaviour.
The "Zot" threads are intended to be humorous and fun. Just a little "blowing off steam" as we sometimes say. The person getting zotted has almost invariably come to the site for the purpose of posting inflammatory leftist nonsense and getting flamed and banned for doing so. We are just having a little harmless fun while taking out the trash. Sort of a "whistle while you work" kind of thing. There is nothing fascistic about it, it's just the site rules are being upheld: no leftist trolls allowed. So please reconsider your use of the term "brownshirt". I think it is unfair in this context.
2.I guess you Yankees has not experienced occupation and oppression on your land.
Brits and other foreigners sometimes call Americans "Yanks". That's fine. "Yankees" are something else, namely Americans from the North and in particular from the Northeast. We Americans from the South are almost always happy to be called "Yanks" but we most certainly are not Yankees. (And we have experienced occupation, but that is an internal matter among us Americans.) FYI.