Fogdog
Well-Known Member
I'd call walking about armed to the teeth in the crowd without reaching out beforehand to make sure they were welcome is a negative. They project a menacing paramilitary police presence among protesters that know if they did the same they would be down in a pool of their own blood before they could say don't shoot. So yeah, a lot of negatives.Not defending them in the least as I do think their presence is at the least inflammatory, but I've been out of the loop for the last couple - any reported negatives in the media?
Looks very much like the paramilitary groups in Iran... They probably seemed neutral until they weren't.