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The Carlisle Park Affair - Where Silence Is Golden
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The above picture shows my neighbour's half of the party wall dividing our two houses when I took my half of the party wall away to see why my neighbour's fire-smoke was entering our home through this wall even when our own fire was not lit. Three sets of inspectors passed this building and our local Council have emphasised for thirty years that there is nothing wrong with this building. No solicitor will act against this Council.
On November 28th 2006 I sent this letter to the British Prime Minister Mr. Tony Blair.
My letter was acknowledged stating that it would be sent to the Northern Ireland Office.
I didn't get any acknowledgement from that Office but received this letter from the Department of the Environment dated January 17th 2007.
The Clerk and Chief Executive of Down District Council, Mr. John McGrillen who is mentioned in the above letter, is a relative of mine. His grandmother and my mother were sisters.
I received this reply from Mr. McGrillen dated February 12th 2007.
I am retyping Mr. McGrillen's letter here for ease of explaining its total inconsistency with the facts of this matter.
"Dear Mr. Rice,
Re: Houses Built with Terralux Blocks
I have been asked by the Department of the Environment, Local Government Division, to respond to your letter of 28 November 2006 to the Prime Minister.
The houses to which you refer where (should read 'were') built under the Bye Laws made by Downpatrick Rural District Council in 1958. The terralux blocks used in the construction of these houses complied with those Bye Laws.
They had widespread acceptability and were used by various Housing Authorities, including the former Northern Ireland Housing Trust.
Currently, Down District Council is not in receipt of any complaints from the owners / occupiers of the houses in question.
Yours sincerely
John McGrillen
Clerk and Chief Executive"
Here you can see the full Report of the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Complaints/Ombudsman in 1979. Some weeks before this report was issued a man who was teaching my children at the time in a local school and was also a senior member of the SDLP called with my wife and me and in a whisper, smilingly told us that the Commissioner's Report was coming out in our favour. Just after the Report was issued and was against us, this same man called with us again and was profusely apologetic saying that he did not know what had happened. This was about the beginning of July 1979 and the change seems to have taken place just after the Conservative party had won the General Election in May 1979. While Labour were in power the Report was not changed despite repeated delegations being sent from Down District Council to the Commissioner/Ombudsman, but when the Conservative party came to power that all changed.
The worst of the Troubles is over in Northern Ireland but a much bigger mess has yet to be exposed and cleaned up. Unfortunately the people who are responsible for this exposure and clean-up actually belong to the government bodies who have been and are creating this mess.
Every political party in Northern Ireland is aware of my situation, but, while a few individual members of those parties have tried to get it exposed, their party machines will have none of it. Why?
Liverpool writer, Jimmy McGovern, has written many dramas for television including "Cracker", "The Lakes" and "Hillsborough", and when he read my story he said that he found it riveting. I hope that you read Mr. McGovern's Summary - at least.
My name is Gerry Rice and I exist in Northern Ireland.
In 1987 I began gathering up all my many papers on this affair. I then typed out
my story on an old typewriter. This task took up all my spare time over the next three years which was quite exhausting as it was done under the shadow of all our suffering. Over the
next few years publishers in London, Dublin and Belfast refused to publish my story as a book.
In January 2000 I bought my first computer. I typed my story into the computer over a number of months while I was still recovering from being knocked down by a car in January 1998. I felt that this story had to be told. For legal reasons I have omitted some of the story and in the chapters I have included, I have deleted some place-names. Also for legal reasons I have changed the names of many real people involved in this story of corruption to names which are not connected in any way to any living person. Notwithstanding, I was taken for libel by "Mr. Big" as related in Chapter 17 and even though I 'wiped the floor' of the High Court in Belfast with his high-powered legal team, it is not an experience that I would recommend. These changed names are in italics. I have always tried to keep within the laws of this land in which I choose to live and I continue to do so here. Nevertheless I have ended up with a criminal record and I was also made bankrupt just because I chose to do what was right in the midst of so much wrong. Both these black marks against my character were wrongfully imposed upon me by Government agencies. My home was taken off me and sold, my thriving business decimated and because I relentlessly sought justice, people in authority here have tried, and are still trying, to make me out to be a crank. I call my story:
"Where Silence Is Golden"
Silence is Golden. Silence can bring peace of mind, silence can bring peace to the soul. The silence in my story however, is a totally different silence. This silence brings hurt, frustration, misery, pain, loss and much more. This silence is destructive. It is the silence that surrounds official wrong-doing, official injustice, the silence that, if not checked and dealt with by the law, becomes institutionalised violence. It is silence which is financially golden. This silence punishes the innocent in order to protect the guilty who in this case are also powerful. I refused to accept this silence, I refused to be a part of this silence, and along with my wife and our children, I have been made to pay a very heavy price for that refusal. This is our story, a story that has gone on under the cover of the Troubles for over 30 years and is still ongoing. It is one of many such stories in Northern Ireland.
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