Friday, February 29, 2008

The Order of the Garter

From http://z13.invisionfree.com/THE_UNHIVED_MIND/index.php?showtopic=46272


MOUNTAINEER EDMUND HILLARY: AN ARGUMENT FOR HIM BEING “UNCONTAMINATED” BY THE ORDER OF THE GARTER “HONOUR”


Regarding Edmund Hillary, the pioneer Mt Everest-conquering mountainclimber & Order of the Garter Knight who died recently:

As both a non-Brit & non-Royal, Hillary would not have had full insider status, & my suspicion is that he was a “trophy” member.

I would like for the contributor [whose email this documentation is in response to is provided at the bottom of this entry] to provide his evidence on his allegations regarding Hillary’s connections with the Jesuits or the SMOM. The Jesuits do not have a provincial in New Zealand & Hillary was not a Roman Catholic. He had an Anglican funeral service.

My research below shows him to have been far more likely to have been the only member of the Order of the Garter to have been relatively uncontaminated by this Royal “honour”. In 2003 he declined an invitation to visit the Queen, preferring to socialize with Himalayan Sherpas & in January of this year, the British royals snubbed his funeral by not sending a member or British-based representative to his funeral.

Looking forward to either the presentation of some substantial supporting evidence or to the retraction of the allegations. We owe it to ourselves & each other not to be self-discrediting through unresearched smear jobs. If the evidence can be brought forward then I’m happy to be proven in error.

In truth & awareness -

Troy


EDMUND HILLARY’S KNIGHTHOODS:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Hillary

Hillary was created a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) on 6 June 1953; a member of the Order of New Zealand (ONZ) in 1987; and a Knight of the Order of the Garter (KG) on 22 April 1995. He was also awarded the Polar Medal for his part in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/
ViewPDF.aspx?pdf=54017&geotype=London&gpn=6023&type=ArchivedIssuePage&all=&exact=&atleast=&similar=

London Gazette 54017, Page 6023, 25 April 1995

The London Gazette
Published by Authority
Registered as a Newspaper at the Post Office
TUESDAY, 25TH APRIL 1995
State Intelligence

HONOURS AND AWARDS
CENTRAL CHANCERY OF THE ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD
St. James’s Palace, London S.W.I.
25th April 1995

The QUEEN has been graciously pleased to appoint the undermentioned to be a Lady Companion and a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter:

(To be dated22nd April 1995)

Sir Edmund Percival HILLARY, O.N.Z., K.B.E.
The Right Honourable Margaret Hilda, Baroness THATCHER, O.M., F.R.S.

(1 SI)


EDMUND HILLARY THE ONLY NON-POLITICAL ORDER OF THE GARTER OUTSIDE BRITAIN:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/1...y.ap/index.html

Hillary remains the only non-political person outside Britain honored as a member of Britain’s Order of the Garter, bestowed by Queen Elizabeth II on just 24 knights and ladies living worldwide at any time.

He reached the summit of Everest four days before Elizabeth was crowned Queen of Britain and the Empire on June 2, 1953. She immediately knighted the angular, self-deprecating Hillary, who was just 33.

He was at times controversial. He decried what he considered a lack of “honest-to-God morality” in New Zealand politics in the 1960s, and he refused to backtrack when the prime minister demanded he withdraw the comments. Ordinary New Zealanders applauded his integrity.


EDMUND HILLARY DECLINED THE QUEEN’S INVITATION:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3740536.stm

Sir Edmund was apparently so shy that he even proposed to his wife with a message via her mother.
In the years that followed his famous ascent, he shunned the celebrity that had become his overnight.

On the 50th anniversary of his achievement, he even turned down an invitation from the Queen, so that he could instead travel to Kathmandu to be with lifelong Sherpa friends. He was made an honorary Nepalese citizen in 2003. Sir Edmund was far happier exploring. During the next two decades, he led expeditions to the South Pole, searched for the fabled Yeti, and completed six Himalayan ascents. And he became increasingly concerned by the plight of the Sherpa people he had met on his expeditions.


ROYALS SNUB HILLARY’S FUNERAL:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1811

Outrage in New Zealand as Royals snub funeral of Sir Edmund Hillary
Last updated at 21:47pm on 18th January 2008

The Royal Family has caused outrage in New Zealand by not sending a representative to Sir Edmund Hillary’s state funeral.

Hillary was one of only 24 knights of the garter appointed by the Queen and his success as the first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest was proclaimed on the morning of her coronation in 1953.

Internet message boards have carried comments such as “Shame on Britain” and demands for Prince Charles to change his engagements.

Lewis Holden, a leading republican, insisted the Queen should attend as New Zealand’s head of state.

“The absence of the Royal Family shows plainly they are not able to do the job for New Zealand,” he added.

Anand Satyanand, the Governor General, will represent the Queen at the funeral in Auckland on Tuesday.

New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said, “This exceptional arrangement reflects the personal and historical associations of the Queen with Sir Edmund from the beginning of her reign.”

The Queen had also offered the Hillary family a memorial service at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, on a date to be set for April.

But New Zealand First MP Ron Mark said British royals did not understand the level of Kiwi reverence for Hillary.

“It is surprising. One would have thought some of the younger members could have been here.

“Maybe some of the officials have a lack of understanding as to how revered Sir Ed is by Kiwis.

“We would hold him with the same love as their people had for Princess Diana, but we would argue there is no comparison in substance between the two,” he said.

Mr Mark also said Prince Charles should attend the funeral rather than the Mutton Renaissance Campaign event scheduled in his official diary for Tuesday.

The absence of royals also set New Zealand online message boards alight with outrage, many suggesting it will hasten the country’s move to become a republic.

“Sir Ed helped make the Queen’s coronation year a huge success for Britain and the commonwealth.

“I really am speechless, Prince Charles should have been the one. Shame on Britain!” wrote one person on Trade Me’s message boards.

“I can’t believe that not one of those parasites couldn’t find a day or two to come out here,” wrote another.

Republican Movement of Aotearoa New Zealand chairman Lewis Holden said the “snub” showed the Queen was unfit for her role as head of state.

“Since Sir Edmund Hillary was personally awarded Knight of the Garter by the Queen, this decision is very disappointing.

“This national day of mourning is the sort of occasion where the presence of New Zealand’s head of state would be appropriate.

“The absence of the Royal Family shows plainly they are not able to do the job for New Zealand,” he said.

But former Prime Minister Jim Bolger and Maori Party co-leader Pita Sharples both felt it was for New Zealanders to pay respects to Hillary rather than the Royal Family.

“Sir Ed was a uniquely New Zealand figure and New Zealand will give him the farewell a New Zealander of his stature deserves,” Bolger said.

Sharples said: “I am not put out by that at all. It may be disappointing to many, but not to me because they (the British) have honoured him and he is our hero so it is our role to treat him as such.”


WHAT THE ROYALS ATTENDED TO INSTEAD:

http://inastrangeland.wordpress.com/2008/0...wind-in-public/

The Queen will visit the King’s Lynn Preservation Trust Limited to mark its Fiftieth Anniversary. Her Majesty will also open the new CT Scanners/Radiology Suite at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn.

The Duke of York United Kingdom Special Representative for International Trade and Investment, will attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

The Earl of Wessex will attend the Annual Banquet of the Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers at Mansion House, London EC4.

The Princess Royal Patron, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, will hold a Dinner at Palace of Holyroodhouse.

The Princess Royal will Launch the Lothians and Edinburgh Abstinence Programme at Malta House, 1 Malta Terrace, Edinburgh.

The Princess Royal Patron, Silver of the Stars, will open an Exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh.

The Duke of Gloucester Colonel-in-Chief, The Royal Army Medical Corps will receive Colonel David Morris upon relinquishing his appointment of Representative Colonel Commandant and Colonel Peter Roberts on assuming the appointment at Kensington Palace.

MY THOUGHTS ON HILLARY'S INTEGRITY:

Below is an email that I sent to friends & family when I read about Hillary’s death. I knew that he was a Knight of the Garter but could find nothing on him that would put him in league with the British agenda. The following seemed to typify who he was:

Dear [NAMES REMOVED] & anyone else reading this who might have heard of Edmund Hillary & still have the remains of a mind & soul left,

While looking up Edmund Hillary’s biography on free internet encyclopedia Wikipedia, I found the following article. You might be familiar with it, but I’d never come across it before. This is a perfect example of how desensitized, idiotic, callous & even murderous the braindead/souldead zombies of the paradoxically herd-like me-me-me western “culture” have become. Just as sad is the lack of moral integrity & the lack of respect shown by the parents of the dead man, no doubt “worried about people might think”. Truly pathetic.

I’ve got no idea whether or not Hillary was always a saint, we’re all human after all, but he hits the tragedy of the current state of humanity on the head with these comments. Over 40 climbers left this man to die? No wonder people don’t even have the strength of character to defend the destruction of civil liberties, national sovereignty & cultural identity, squandering the remains of autonomy, mutually-supportive individuality & freedom from increasingly invasive state control for empty, useless & ultimately self-destructive false “goals”. These “adventurers” won’t even stop to help a fellow in such dire circumstances. Nice one guys!

Feel free to repost this to anyone on your email lists. Our thoughts & actions are the future that we leave to upcoming generations. And if anyone thinks that sticking up for the kind of integrity that Hillary represents here is “just knocking the younger generation, like all the generations before have done”, then I strongly suggest chucking the TV mind-control machine out the window & flushing your i-pod down the toilet & wake up. This is a classic case of preprogrammed auto-response serving as both a short-term copout & as a long-term coverup for the ongoing mass-media channelled social-engineering. It is also a classic case of “dumbing down”. We’ve been dumbed down emotionally & spiritually as well as intellectually. It’s up to all of us to regain lost ground.

In truth & awareness,

With love -

Troy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Hillary

Hillary spoke of his disdain for the attitudes displayed by many modern mountaineers. In particular he publicly criticized New Zealander Mark Inglis and 40 other climbers who, in various groups, left British climber David Sharp to die in May 2006. He said:

“I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top, it was wrong if there was a man suffering altitude problems and was huddled under a rock, just to lift your hat, say good morning and pass on by.”

He also told the New Zealand Herald that he was horrified by the callous attitude of today’s climbers:

“They don’t give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn’t impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die.”

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Sir_Edmund_Hil..._climber_to_die

Sir Edmund Hillary angry with mountaineers who left British climber to die

May 24, 2006

Sir Edmund Hillary, the New Zealand mountaineer and explorer, is angry with 40 mountaineers, including Mark Inglis, the first double amputee to reach the summit of Mount Everest, who left a British climber to die. Sir Edmund was the first person to climb Mount Everest, in 1953.

David Sharp, 34, who had reached the summit of Everest after two other unsuccessful attempts, ran out of oxygen on his way back. Sharp was found 305 meters below the summit, in a cave. He had apparently climbed alone.

According to Inglis, he was the first of 40 people to pass David Sharp, and his party was the only one that offered help. He radioed in to his base camp, but his expedition manager, “Russ,” said, “Mate, you can’t do anything. He’s been there X number of hours without oxygen, he’s effectively dead.”

“The trouble is, at 8,500 metres it’s extremely difficult to keep yourself alive, let alone keep anyone else alive,” Inglis told Television New Zealand.

Hillary faulted commercialisation of the mountain for the climber’s death, saying that had a fellow climber been in distress he would have helped him even if it meant abandoning his own summit quest. “I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying,” The New Zealand Herald newspaper quoted him as saying. “The people just want to get to the top. They don’t give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress.”

Hillary said that heading for the summit and letting people lie dying is not pleasant and he hopes it is not repeated.

Sharp’s parents, for their part, said that they do not blame Inglis, or anyone else for their son’s death; the other climbers had to look after themselves.

Sources

* RNZ/One News “Hillary angered by lack of help”. tvnz.co.nz, May 24, 2006

* “Edmund Hillary blames climbers for Everest death”. Reuters, May 24, 2006

* Deutsche Presse-Agentur “Hillary says Everest climbers should help dying men”. Monsters and Critics, May 23, 2006

Retrieved from:

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Sir_Edmund_Hil..._climber_to_die


THE ABOVE DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED IN RESPONSE TO THE FOLLOWING ALLEGATIONS FROM A CONTRIBUTOR TO ERIC PHELPS’ MAILING LIST REGARDING EDMUND HILLARY HAVING ANY S.M.O.M. OR JESUIT CONNECTIONS:

—– Original Message —–
From: [NAME REMOVED]
To: Eric Phelps
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 10:57 PM
Subject: Would I be hated along with Craig Oxley and you since I have done a lot of exposing on the Jesuits?

Dear Eric Jon Phelps

I have been doing a lot of exposing on the Jesuits in youtube and last Sunday one of my friends invited me to St Mary’s Catholic church and I managed to question a few things in front of the person leading the mass and the person I qurstioned was also the main apeaker in the SMOM or Order of Garter Sir Edmund Hillary about his SMOM and Jesuit connection and now I am hated by lots of Roman Catholics in my area and also my Youtube profile named [NAME REMOVED] has also been banned just for exposing jesuits on Youtube as well

Regards
[NAME REMOVED]

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