[Jim Robinson]

The post was over the top but I don’t see it as a serious threat to anyone. Perhaps Timber rattler should chime in.

[Timber Rattler]

Well, the discussion that sent Travis here into a hysterical fit concerned comments on other Russia-Ukraine War posts and threads about what has in fact been happening to actual Ukrainian collaborators and Russian-installed administrators following the recapture of Ukrainian territory. As we all know, it generally hasn't ended well for them, and the general feeling among those of us who support Ukraine is that we probably shouldn't feel too sorry for them, considering their poor life choices in selling out their people and country to Putin.

Once the discussion on this thread starting jumping the track though, I merely pointed out the historical fact that things tend to end badly for collaborators, pointing to what happened to those in France after World War II. I like to use photographic illustrations in my posts to make my points because they are hard to refute or deny (a picture is worth a thousand words!), and that photo of the French firing squad dealing with a Nazi collaborator was actually pretty mild (they hadn't shot him yet and he was still living), compared to most others out there on that topic, which is why I chose it.

But Travis' claims to the contrary, no threat was intended nor implied, and being a member since 2011, I well know the posting rules here and abide by them, as my posting history will attest.

My apologies if my "Historical Fact" post crossed the line, or if it was perceived as a threat by Travis. It was not, and was never intended to be. It was removed by admin and that really should be the end of the matter.

[Travis McGee]

“The post was over the top but I don’t see it as a serious threat to anyone. Perhaps Timber rattler should chime in.”

WTF, Jim?

“This is what happens to Nazi collaborators!” directed straight at me, after repeatedly calling me such, with a photo of partisans of some kind doing an ad-hoc execution in the the woods is just “over the top?”

IT WAS A DIRECT DEATH THREAT AIMED AT ME.

Why don’t you unblock #41, and let’s do a fresh thread over the new Free Republic policy of allowing people to make direct death threats aimed at individual freepers and retrain their posting privileges.