Who Silenced John Hume?
So why did these three prominent men, all ostensibly members of the Catholic Church like myself, ignore the pleas of the father of a large Catholic family in distress? John Hume apologised for taking six weeks to acknowledge my first letter stating that he had been on holiday. Referring to the help I needed, Mr. Hume told me that he would be contacting ‘his people’ in Downpatrick right away and would get back to me after that. John Hume never did get back to me. Given Mr. Hume’s ready access to the most powerful people on Earth, his ready access to the finest minds on Earth and his obvious authoritative and commanding presence in the most prominent company on Earth the question has to be asked why Mr. Hume was stopped in his tracks by ‘his people’ within his own political party, especially when that political party, the Social Democratic and Labour Party of which Mr. Hume was the leader, actually had an outright majority on Down District Council for most of these past thirty one years.
