Just joining in to say that although I don't believe everything I read (who does?) I've seen a helluva lot of "bad sorts" (loyalist and republicans both) where local knowledge points to racketeering of some sort (the usual smuggled tobacco, fake designer gear, drugs, porn, protection money) given their "choice" taste in gold jewellery and fast cars and their reputation for links with paramilitary sorts. Perhaps not evidence that can stand up in court, but most people seem to be aware of it all the same.
Yes, paramilitaries of various breeds cry out against anti-social behaviour, but it is often accepted that some form of collusion is occurring when it comes to drugs, especially in our ceasefire days. I admire your standards regarding rhetoric and hope you won't consider my reply to be generalising an issue, but it seems to me and those I know that most of the illegal behaviour (from drugs to murder) in our beloved Norn Ireland is just all the same shade of dodgy.