Blogger admits Hawaii birth certificate forgery, subverting Obama claims (Uh-oh)

Israel Insider ^ | 3 July 2008 | Reuven Koret

[SE Mom]

Jay McKinnon, a self-described Department of Homeland Security-trained document specialist, has implicated himself in the production of fraudulent Hawaii birth certificate images similar to the one endorsed as genuine by the Barack Obama campaign, and appearing on the same blog entry where the supposedly authentic document appears.

The evidence of forgery and manipulation of images of official documents, triggered by Israel Insider's revelation of the collection of Hawaii birth certificate images on the Photobucket site and the detective work of independent investigative journalists and imaging professionals in the three weeks since the publication of the images, implicate the Daily Kos, an extreme left blog site, and the Obama campaign, in misleading the public with official-looking but manipulated document images of doubtful provenance.

The perceived unreliability of the image has provoked petitions and widespread demands for Obama to submit for objective inspection the paper versions of the "birth certificate" he claimed in his book Dreams from My Father was in his possession, as well as the paper version of the Certificate of Live Birth for which the image on the Daily Kos and the Obama "Fight the Smears" website was supposedly generated.

Without a valid birth certificate, Obama cannot prove he fulfills the "natural born citizen" requirement of the Constitution, throwing into doubt his eligibility to run for President.

McKinnon, who says he is 25-30 years old, operates a website called OpenDNA.com and uses the OpenDNA screen name on various web sites and blogs, including his comments and diary on The Daily Kos. In recent years he has divided his time between Long Beach, California and Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a Democratic political activist, frequent contributor to the left wing Daily Kos blog, and a fervent Barack Obama supporter.

[Fred Nerks]

SUNAHARA FOR THE RECORD:

http://www.birthers.org/misc/sequential.html

[tutstar]

That article references a post 1566 by you on a thread but the comment was removed. ?

[txnuke]

Dang I missed being #9200. Oh well, maybe 10,000.

[Brown Deer]

I only reposted the link from this post, which I was pinged to:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2723118/replies?c=1306

I also posted the same documents which are displayed there, so that nobody would have to go to the site if they did not want to. The page is still there and I have visited it multiple times on different computers with no problems whatsoever, but of course I always have my AV running, don't allow popups, block most ads, and keep my OS up-to-date. In any case, I got no warnings whatsoever.

Seems it was the document itself that was the culprit.

The two documents were jpg images. I have scanned the documents and found no viruses. I have scanned the source code of the web page and found no viruses. I have run the web page through multiple virus checkers and found no viruses.

Maybe there is a virus out there that sits on a person's machine and waits until that person visits a specific website, then activates itself. I don't know, but if that were the case, you already had gotten it from somewhere else.

[Fred Nerks]

yes, I asked for the post to be removed, I had used an image supplied to someone else in confidence.

[Fred Nerks]

It’s going to remain a mystery, but as I commented elsewhere, I am not the only one it happened to under similar circumstances.

[LucyT]

Bookmark #9,201.

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[melancholy]

Maybe there is a virus out there that sits on a person's machine and waits until that person visits a specific website, then activates itself. I don't know, but if that were the case, you already had gotten it from somewhere else.

Or, the virus have been programmed to activate itself on provided IP addresses.

I'm no computer expert but I think the programmer could easily do it. Just sayin’

[Fred Nerks]

...Or, the virus have been programmed to activate itself on provided IP addresses.

I wonder if that is possible? Or is it likely that anyone logged onto FR - accessing the Taitz website becomes a target?

[porter_knorr]

just a funny picture, and a “here I am” post ;)

[bgill]

Can’t tell, but does that bc have a smilie face?

[bgill]

Mrs Zero gave the Queen the same hateful look she gave Mrs Sarkozy...several times.

Every day, another embarrassment from those two.

[bgill]

A thumbs up for the Queen? Really? How ghetto.

BTW, where’s her wedding ring? Not gaudy enough to help pull off that mess of costume jewelry around her neck?

[Fred Nerks]

Bear with me...I am a comp dummy. I just picked up this image from Google at random, and have posted the image here.

Is that the same as you did? You picked up 'properties' from the document on the Taitz site, and posted the image to the FR comments?

If that is so, how come, when I clicked on the image of the doc you posted, I ended up on the Taitz website?

Try doing that with the cat, and where does that lead you? No-where, right? So...what is the difference? HOW and WHY did I end up on the Taitz site?

Please pardon my ignorance, but if it had not been for the indication (the little hand) that the document LED to something, I would never have ended up there...

[Fred Nerks]

'He bequeathed the name to me before he went back to Kenya'

[Fred Nerks]

So the 'bequest' of the name must have been sometime between 17 August, 1962 and 21 April, 1964...

[Brown Deer]

No, I posted it like this:


If you look at the bottom left of your browser, it will always show you where you are going before you click on a link.

[Fred Nerks]

So that’s what I am missing...my browser doesn’t show me anything.

[little jeremiah]

Do you have a Mac?

[Fred Nerks]

No. I don’t know what I’ve got, LOL! The tech built it!