and the theory we came to was that frank kitson in his classic manual of counterinsurgency operationshodes that if you can't catch the fish either by rod or by a net then poison the water and author areas that these ordinary people were targeted to persuade other ordinary people to repudiate the ira a to withdraw support from the ira course didn't work had the opposite effect violence begets violence if people can't trust the law they would take the law into their own hands it was completely counterproductive as well as illegal and immoral i think the stage we've reached as a longer stand. the legal cooperation. cooperation between. members of the security forces loyalist paramilitary groups sometimes as hop. and sometimes as hardened on a more structural level in the 1980 s. and ninety's. the crime of collusion in the. material before the number of criminal acts by police officers or soldiers and it's been a phenomenon through the troubles. collusion of many. shoes and soon to gunning so he's deniable 3rd forces in order to search and see but not tonight. i think the rule of loyalist