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What is particularly important for the reader to realize is that there has been one, and only one,
forged image of a "Certification of Live Birth, or COLB, and
that there were four copies made of this image and distributed to
(1) pro-Obama face="Verdana">Daily Kos blog,
(2) Obama's href="http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/birthcert"> face="Verdana">Fight The Smears
campaign website, (3) Annenberg's href="http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/has_obamas_birth_certificate_been_disclosed.html"> face="Verdana">Factcheck website,
and lastly, the St. Petersburg href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/jun/13/obamas-birth-certificate/"> face="Verdana">Politifact website.
What is also important to know is that I was the first one, and
the only one, to prove, conclusively, indisputedly, and honestly,
that the images posted to these four websites were all made from
one forged image. Who had the original image? Right now, the
Obama Campaign is the leading suspect.
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The original image was made from a scan of a real, 2007 Hawaiian
"Certificate of Live Birth," (COLB) that belonged to
someone other than Obama (No, not his sister). This image
acquired by the scanner was then saved as a GIF file (an image
format different from the JPG format of the image copies posted
online. This GIF image was then imported into a graphics program
(NOT Photoshop) where the existing text was covered over with
portions of the background pattern, and on top of that, in the
spaces where the original text formerly information appeared,
fraudulent information was typed in to make the image LOOK like
it was Obama's COLB. I say, "fraudulent" information,
because if it were true information, then Obamasimply cold have
gotten a copy of his COLB from Day One.
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When the alterations were completed Then, it was intentionally
resaved as a JPG, at a 45% compresion ratio -- to hide the areas
where the forging was made. That's the reason why the image
(especially the borders) looks so lousy .
People have wondered about that black rectangle covering up the Certificate Number. I can tell you now,
that this black rectangle was added to the image using Photoshop,
and was the only thing added by Photoshop. I know this because
the forgery was not created using Photoshop, and neither was the
clone I reproduced following the same steps that the forger would
have followed. However, since Photoshop CS3 is contained within
the Exif information of the Kos and FactCheck images, it means
that the original forged image, the source image from which these
copies were made, was imported into Photoshop to redact the
certificate number and to make two copies: a full-sized one for
Factcheck, and a cropped one for the Daily Kos.
That's all. If Obama's real birth record does not match anything
on the forged image, then he is in pretty deep.
I proved that these images were forgeries over four months ago,
with all documentation posted to both The Free Republic forum,
and to my blog, The Greater Evil.
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I have been collecting and analyzing information ever since that
image was posted on June 12th
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Not only did I discover the methods used by the forger, I
validated my discovery by using them to recreate an Obama COLB
clone. Any attempt at recreating the COLB image MUST show the
same, exact pixel patterns that I found between the letters in
the original forged images.If it does not show those pixel
patterns, then it does not demonstrate how the forgery was made.
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People say, "What about the Factcheck photos" that were
allegedly taken of a real COLB on August 22?
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The answer begins with a conundrum:
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They cannot be real if the image is bogus. If the image is bogus,
then so are the photos.
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But, not only by logic, but by examinations that prove that one
of the paper COLBs (Yes, there were more than one) used for the
Factcheck's photo shoot was a color laser printout made from an
enhanced copy of the scan image -- and not the other way around.
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You can read about my research here, on Free Republic:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2084512/posts
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Or on Phil Berg's website, ObamaCrimes.Com.
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To date, no one has been able to show that this bogus image was
the result of scanner artifacts, JPG artifacts, anti-aliased
text, or any other naturally occurring phenomenon.
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There is only one possible way for the Obama COLB image to look
the way it does, and that's by direct graphic alteration of the
text made after the scan image was saved.
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Basically, this is the smoking gun, and the only smoking gun in
this birth certificate conspiracy. Yes, it is a real conspiracy
considering who and how many people are involved in this forgery
and cover-up.
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This image is shown below. It was first posted on the pro-Obama face="Verdana">Daily Kos blog who claimed that it was sent to them by the Obama Campaign:
width="585" height="575">
On the same day, the Obama Campaign posted a duplicate copy of that same image on
their website, href="http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/birthcert"> face="Verdana">Fight The Smears,
(FTS) although the size of their copy was reduced to about 42% of
the Kos image:
width="585" height="575">
What very few people know about this image is that it was taken down the very next day, replacing it
with one half as big and poorer in quality (the original FTS
image was 1024 x 1000 pixels, the replacement is 585 x 575
pixels). Did FTS take down the original because some people were
finding anomalies in it? The entire FTS web site has only one
purpose: to mislead the American public by labeling as
"smears" all of the factual statements made about
Obama. Posting a bogus birth certificate on their website
fits their modus operandi.
The headline that redirects readers to their statement about Obama's birth certificate is shown below.
Following it is the text of the email that FTS urged
supporters to send to their friends.
Barack Obama has made his birth certificate public and it can be seen here color="#0066CC" size="3" face="Verdana"> color="#0066CC" face="Verdana">.
You may have recently heard right-wing smears questioning Barack Obama's birth certificate and citizenship. These assertions are completely
false and designed to play into the worst kind of
stereotypes. You can see Barack Obama's birth certificate for
yourself and help push back with the truth...
As of September 13, I can confirm that face="Verdana">FTS is still
posting the same image, the same headline, and the same
email letter. What is also of interest on the FTS website is
a reference to "the independent group, Factcheck.org."
FactCheck.org is most definitely not independent
group, but belongs to the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the
University of Pennsylvania: a Center run by Obama supporters and
funders.
FactCheck.org was also the third group to post a copy of
the now infamous Obama "birth certificate"
image to their href="http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/has_obamas_birth_certificate_been_disclosed.html"> face="Verdana">website four
days later. Only this time, an uncropped copy of the image was
posted:

FactCheck claimed that "bloggers raised questions based
on the absence of evidence, specifically the lack of a publicly
available copy of a birth certificate and the supposed secrecy
surrounding it". According to FactCheck, Tommy Vietor at
the Obama campaign sent a message to them and "other
reporters" saying, "I know there have been some
rumors spreading about Obama’s citizenship, so I wanted to
make sure you all had a copy of his birth certificate."
Three months later, no other "reporters" have ever
received a copy of this "birth certificate" image, or
any other birth certificate image, for that matter, from
Tommy Vietor or any one else. To reiterate, there has been one,
and only one, image alleged to have been scanned from Obama's
"original birth certificate," and that the only people
alleged to have received a copy of this document image from
the Obama Campaign have been (1) Markos Moulitsas, the creator of
the face="Verdana">Daily Kos, a
pro-Obama blog, and (2) href="http://www.factcheck.org/about/">FactCheck face="Verdana">, a pro-Obama political research group.
The wildfire begins
From the first moment this image was posted to the Internet, the
reactions and criticisms spread like a wildfire through a forest.
While Obama supporters -- who still cling to its claimed
veracity today -- celebrated its appearance as a way to
squelch Obama's skeptics, Obama detractors not
only protested its appearance for the data that it held and
lacked, but also for the way it looked to them; that is, nothing
like this one:
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To anyone not born in Hawaii, Obama's "original
birth certificate" looked nothing like what a
traditional birth certificate should look like (such as the one
above). At a minimum, original birth certificates
contained the names of the hospital where the child was born
and the doctor who delivered the baby. Birth certificates also
had signatures and stamps or embossed seals on them that
certified their validity. By the second week of this controversy,
the American public discovered that this type of document was
not a photocopy of an original birth certificate
completed at birth, but was, instead, a shortened transcript of a
person's birth record.
This transcript is called, a "Certification of
Live Birth," or COLB as I came to call
it. A COLB is what Hawaii's Department of Health now issues in
place of actual photocopies of the original, long-form birth
certificate. The COLB is a "short form birth
certificate," and when duly certified by them, can be used
for all intents and purposes that a regular birth
certificate would be used.
A genuine COLB (as shown below with private data covered by tape)
contains the names of the Father, Mother and Child, the
"race" of the Mother and Father, the time and date of
birth, and the island and city of birth. Regardless of a person's
actual birth date, anyone authorized to request this COLB, will
receive the specific data currently listed on a person's
actual birth record, on the date the copy was created.
This last criteria is crucial to understand because so many of
the criticisms leveled against it had to do with
the "apparent" conundrum posed by a
computer-generated certificate for people whose birth predated
the computer age.
This is the front side of a genuine COLB:
src="http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn227/Polarik/small-COLBS/Michele-front.jpg">
And, this the reverse side of a genuine COLB:
src="http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn227/Polarik/small-COLBS/Michele-back.jpg">
Computer printout or photocopy, notwithstanding, many people were
still aggitated by the apparent lack of visually recognizable
features on the Obama COLB that would attest to its validity,
such as an embossed seal, official signatures, and a date stamp
as shown in the images above. Keep in mind that the public was
shown only one scanned image of Obama's alleged COLB, and that
was its front side. Had a scan of the reverse side been
made, the questions about the absence of seals and stamps would
have been answered.
That is, of course, IF the scanned image was genuine.
Which it never was from the beginning.
The birth of the forgery
Initially, as someone who had also never seen a Hawaiian COLB
before, I was also critical of the omissions apparently absent
from Obama's COLB. However, once I got to examine the
alleged Obama COLB up close, the focus of my criticisms quickly
changed.
Although Obama's COLB image did not look the same as a
traditional birth certificate, what captured my attention was not
its contents, or lack thereof, but the image anomalies I saw
-- anomalies that never would appear in any genuine
scan of this document.
Specifically, I saw that the text in this image bore the telltale
signs of being graphically altered after the image had been
created. From June 13 onwards, the unfamiliar format of this
document, and the questionable information that it contained,
became tangential to my discovery that the scanned
image alleged to be a true copy Obama's original COLB, was a
forged document image . Today, with three months
worth of research and supportive evidence behind me, I can
now say, without any reservations, that my initial recognition of
this image forgery was absolutely correct.
Surprisingly, the same people who posted this forged image three months earlier, namely the Obama
Campaign, the pro-Obama Daily Kos blog, and the pro-Obama
FactCheck group, are still passing it off as a
genuine copy of Obama's original birth certificate. At
no time during this 3-month period, did any of these pro-Obama
groups submit a second scanned image to corroborate the
first one, such as a scan of the reverse side where the
certification elements appear: the embossed Seal of Hawaii, the
date stamp, and the signature stamp of Hawaii's State
Registrar.
Rather than make that second scan, FactCheck recently compounded
their role in the forgery by posting suspicious-looking photos of
the same document that they claimed to have scanned in June 16.
Since I now have no doubt that their scanned image was
fraudulent, I have no reason to believe that their
"photographs" are any less fraudulent. Later on, I will
explain why these photos are so suspicious.
Supporters of Obama spent a great deal of time trying to explain
away these fradulent actions, but logic and subterfuge are no
substitutes for having independent observers examine not only
Obama's original birth certificate, but also a current
COLB containing his current birth record -- two
things that the American public have yet to see.
I've been working with computers, printers, and scanners, going
back to 1969, and with graphic arts as far back as 1965, and
given a set of printed letters, I can discern what kind of device
made them. Printer output is quite different from the text
created by a graphics program, and even if a document looks
"official," it may not be. More importantly,
graphically altered text in an image would look the same
regardless of what was scanned to create the image.
For comparative purposes, shown below is the same copy
of Obama's alleged ""original birth
certificate," a.k.a, a COLB, that was posted June 12 on the
Daily Kos website. Following the Kos image is the only other
Hawaiian COLB found on the Internet at that time. I verified that
finding by doing an exhaustive Internet search looking for any
other COLB examples, only to come back to that same, single
image:
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width="553" height="540">
Both of these images are in JPG format, which is the most commonly used format with scanners
and digital cameras. The reason why JPGs are the preferred format
is because they can compress a lot of picture information into a
much smaller file size. For example, the image of the Kos COLB
shown above would consume over 16 megabytes of file space if
it were not compressed; but, as a compressed JPG
image, it only consumes one-half of a megabyte of file
space. The tradeoff in space savings, however, is a loss of
fine detail that was present in the original image produced
by a scanner or camera.
Like any printed certificate, the COLB has a border that
"frames" the body of information it contains. The
original COLB certificate is printed on an 8 1/2" x
11" letter-sized sheet of paper having a
green-and-white "Rattan" pattern. The top part of the
COLB is blank, and when removed, what remains is an 8 1/2"
square of paper. The crosshatched border, however, measures
8.09" x 7.90" and is not exactly square. The COLB
borders are changed from year to year as a way to distinguish
them from other genuine COLBS, and from fraudulent COLBs whose
date stamp (and other year-relevant information) does not
corresponds to the border used that year.
Until I received a copy of a genuine 2007 COLB and confirmed that
its borders were similar to Obama's COLB, critics were still
taking issue with the look of its border, as compared to the
borders on 2008 COLBs.
Once the COLB Genie was out of the bottle, other genuine COLBs started made their appearances on the Internet:
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After seeing how differently the Obama COLB borders looked in comparison to these other COLB images, I
also had issues about its validity and purpose. Yet, unlike other
critics and researchers, verifying the border was never crucial
to my investigation. From the very beginning, I theorized that
the Obama COLB image had been "manufactured" using
someone else's COLB as a template or starting point. I also made
allowances for the possibility that a real 2007 COLB could have
provided the border for the forgery, even if the rest of it was
not used for the other components of the COLB. I had not actually
seen what a genuine 2007 COLB looked like, so I focused my
research on everything else that lay inside of the border. If the
Obama COLB image was, in fact, graphically altered to make it
look like an "official" birth certificate, then the
border pattern would be inconsequential compared to passing off
fraudulent information as genuine -- especially when no one else
had ever seen a genuine 2007 COLB before.
Then, the unthinkable happended when I received a genuine 2007 COLB issued less than three months before
Obama's COLB was allegedly issued to him or to one of his family
members. It was a deal-breaker!
Here was a genuine 2007 COLB, with a border similar to the Obama COLB, that Obama supporters could
triumphantly claim was proof that the Obama COLB was genuine. It
was also a death knell for another researcher who had based his
work on his claim that 2007 COLBs had the same border as 2008
COLBs (as shown above). Needless to say, I was also aware of
other fabricated evidence that he produced, but I had pledged to
a friend that I would keep the revelations to myself.
Before I ever received a genuine paper COLB, I had no idea how it would look and feel in person. The
most surprising thing about the COLB is how thin is the paper
that it's printed on. It's as thin and light as a piece of cheap
copy paper. The green and white pattern is only on the front
side, and whatever pattern that one sees on the reverse side is
actually coming from the pattern on the front side.
While both the Daily Kos and Obama's website (aka, "Fight
The Smears") posted trimmed copies of the same COLB image,
FactCheck.org posted the letter-sized version of the same image
copy. Although these three image copies are made from the same
source image, they were intentionally made to look different from
one another (this will be explained later on).
For display purposes, I am using the Kos copy of the image
because it was the first one posted on the Internet, and the
first one to catch my eye. Obama's "Fight the Smears"
website posted their small, illegible copy of the image after the
Kos did, and a week later, FactCheck.org posted theirs.
How Hawaii creates (and how one gets) a genuine Hawaiian
COLB.
The entire Hawaiian Certification of Live Birth is a
computer-generated graphic that is printed on specially
patterned, green and white paper (as shown above). Usually,
official certificates are printed on patterned paper that also
have a ready-made border. As a safety measure (or as a
recognition tool), Vital Records has generated different border
patterns every year since November 2001, or when this form
was put into service (as indicated by the footnote in the bottom
left corner). Although the border patterns were changed annually,
the border dimensions have remained the same (well...not exactly
as I'll explain below).
The computer-generated COLB is like a form-fillable PDF file. In
fact, you can order a copy of a Hawaiian COLB (if you're
authorized to get one) by completing an order form that is a
form-fillable PDF file on Hawaii's Vital Records website:
Certificate Order Form. face="Verdana">
More than likely, what a computer operator at Vital Records gets to see, when responding to a
request for a COLB, is a graphically-created template with blank
fields that are replaced by the information requested on the
order form. That's the Catch-22 in ordering a COLB: you only get
back what you correctly request to see. If the name of the father
on the form does not match the name of the father on the official
birth record, then what you get back is a blank space where the
father's name would be.
Once the birth record data has been inputted into the COLB form, it is then sent to a networked laser printer to be printed off on a sheet of COLB paper.
Recognizing "red flags" in an image forgery.
Transferring the computer-generated COLB into a high-quality image file can easily be done with any
computer scanner (even with ones that cost less than $100).
Scanning a full-sized letter document into a digital image file
initially requires a lot of computer memory and file space.
However, as a way to reduce the file size while maintaining some
of the document quality, the image is saved in a compressed image
file format known as JPG (pronounced, "Jay-Peg"). With
JPG files, there is always a tradeoff between the file size and
the amount of detailed information that can be saved in it. As a
consequence of scanning text documents and saving them as JPG
files, there will always be some degree of distortion in parts of
the document image, particularly around areas of line art and
text in the document.
However, the distortion patterns that I initially found when examining the text in the Obama COLB image,
were ones that are not produced by either a printer, scanner, or
the compression factor of the JPG image. Critics of mine have
tried to explain away these patterns as "scanner
artifacts" or "JPG arifacts," but to no avail. The
anomalies that I found should not be there if a document was
faithfully scanned from an original paper document. Yet, these
anomalies are there for all to see, and are proof-positive that
the text in an original image was deliberately altered, after the
image was created, by someone using an image editing program.
Normally, there should be a lot of green pixels from the
background showing up between the letters on the COLB,
but there is noticeable lack of green pixels can be seen in
the word BIRTH (taken from CITY, TOWN, OR LOCATION OF BIRTH) as
shown in the following two examples. The first example is from
the Obama COLB image followed by an example from the genuine 2007
COLB (which I will call "Dan's COLB")
src="http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn227/Polarik/kosbirth.jpg"
width="32" height="315">
width="32" height="315">
Take a look at the area between the letters in the Obama COLB: very little, if any, hint of green
from the background. Plenty of grey and white pixels instead --
exactly the pattern that would result from replacing the existing
text with other text.
Now, look at the area in between the letters in Dan's COLB. Lots of green shades from the background
-- exactly what should be there if an image is a genuine
scan of a laser-printed document.
All of the type on this document was produced by the same graphics program. Whatever made the text for
all of the headings also made the text for all of the entries.
Any text made by a typewriter, laser printer, or even inkjet
printer, on a piece of colored paper, would have that color
showing between the letters. When the paper is digitally scanned,
it would still have some of that color showing between the
letters. What it would not have, are only smeared, black
& white pixels between them. Pixels are the dots that combine
to make a digital image or photo. There would always be several
pixels bearing the same color as the paper. Printed type produced
by a graphics program will look about the same regardless of the
magnification, with a minimal number of white and grey pixel
patterns between the letters.
Here are some examples:
Here is the "HOUR OF BIRTH" header from Barack's COLB
enlarged 5 times:
src="http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn227/Polarik/small-COLBS/BHO-birth.jpg">
Here's the same data header taken from Dan's 2007 COLB scanned at the same resolution with the same amount of file compression.
This is how this text data should look on a genuine, unretouched document image.
Some of my original complaints about this COLB image was the lack of a signature from individuals
within the State's Department of Health who are authorized to
reproduce the document, and an embossed seal to certify that the
document is genuine, along with a date stamp. However, the
date stamp did bleed through from the other side, and it was
clear enough to read with the naked eye: June 6, 2007.
Not long after this uproar, there were ways discovered for
restoring this lost detail in the image. Via image enhancements,
the seal, and the signature block were visible, albeit not nearly
as evident as in the genuine image scans. However, a significant
feature was not recovered at all in the Obama COLB -- and that is
the second fold line that always appears in geniune COLBs.
In Part Two, I will explain how the forgery was made, and also demonstrate how to make one. I
will also provide a full deconstruction of the phony photographs
that FactCheck posted on August 16.
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