Posted on 07/27/2008 3:13:09 PM PDT by Polarik
Sometimes, you don't always find what it is that you're seeking on the Internet. At least, not when you could have really used it.
I decided today to search through the web archives to locate other COLB images that have not been seen since their original posting. What I found was downright shocking!
First, props to Brian Ledbetter and his blog, The Snapped Shot, for providing both the references to my original, June 20 post, and for providing what was presented as "proof positive" that the Kos image was genuine. The "proof" provided was an animated GIF showing the DeCosta COLB morphing into the Kos COLB.
The conclusion reached by the eager detractors and debunkers of my theories was that the similarities between the two prove that both images are genuine, and that all of the differences I found in the Kos image -- the anomalies of the text -- were, and I quote:
"inconsistencies that've been pointed out can now be attributed to scanning/copying/encoding/transmission artifacts."
Or, the SOS, the same old stuff that every detractor has tried to postulate as the only reasons for the vagaries of the Kos.
A light went off in my head, and lights were flashing.
Unwittingly, the creator of this GIF just provided me with the smoking gun I needed that conclusively proves my theory!
After cropping both the Kos image and the DeCosta image down to just the outer edges of the borders, I decreaed them proportionately to 921 x 903 pixels each.
First, the Decosta image:
Now the Kos image:
To make my case even stronger, I performed Sobel edge detection on each image, and then created an animated GIF from both to demonstrate the closeness of the alignment.
They overlapped perfectly. Presenting, the DE-KOS-TA composite:
OK, like what are the odds of having two COLBs, one that we know was from Sep 9, 2002, and one that was 'allegedly' from June 9, 2007, with different border patterns, lining up perfectly on the placements of the borders, images, headers & footers, text fields, and data fields?
Like the odds of winning the lottery.
What are the odds that the Kos image was manufactured directly from the DeCosta image?
Take the odds! You'll win every time.
For comparison purposes, here is a composite of the DeCosta image with an overlay of Michele's image (another genuine COLB):
As you can see, although the top of the COLB image is similarly placed -- which is what you would expect it to be -- there is quite a difference in the placement of the text, which is also expected given the different time periods in which they were originally produced.
But, what is not expected are the anomalies in the Kos image. From where did the other date come? Why does it seem like the 'hidden seal' on the Kos image is smaller and shifted up and to the left relative to the DeCosta image? Why is the date stamp on the Kos in a different place? Why does this date stamp look so prominent on the Kos when the 'hidden seal' is hardly visible?" Why is the font of the Kos date stamp different from the DeCosta date stamp when everything else is the same?
These questions certainly do not detract from the fact that the DeCosta image served as the basis for the Kos, but it raises the question as to whether there was a second COLB -- one that could have been Obama's -- but contained information that he did not want to release to the public.
After all, the first one used for the forgery belonged to someone other than Obama.
Since I created my Kos clone to be the same size as the Kos, there is no doubt that an enlarged copy of the smaller DeCosta image became the "canvas" for the Kos "original. Then, copious amounts of cutting and pasting from another COLB's background was done to cover up the existing information, followed by typing directly onto the copied background while in Photoshop, or another image editor.
The bottom line is that the Kos was never a true copy of Obama's birth record, if it ever existed as a COLB. There is nothing to rule out the copying of parts from a second COLB (such as the background, seal stamp, and date stamp) belonging to someone other than Obama.
To me, this case is closed.
Now, the only thing left for me to do is to follow the same procedure I used to create the Kos clone shown in my previous post (which was made from Michele's COLB) by using the Decosta COLB as the starting point for the Kos clone.
THEN, we can now bid adieu to the doubters, the detractors, and the debunkers who were way off course with their rebuttals, and welcome back the faithful who never waivered from that nagging feeling that what they were looking at, was a fake!
All hail the DE-KOS-TA image.
I called them today on their interference in the Texas death penalty case for an illegal alien. I may give them another call.
Good post Phil.
I keep getting a “Security Certificate” popup every time I come to this thread!
The only other time I ever got that was on the Canteen when some were posting from Iraq. Says my computer is ‘set not to accept certificates from this site’. I can choose to accept or decline. Certainly ‘this site’ can’t mean Free Republic so I don’t know.
I am not up to par on what all it means but I keep choosing to decline so it keeps happening.
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A mystery!
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Don’t think it’s a big deal devolve. On the Canteen that time it was happening to many and they said just to accept the certificate. It says it’s a ‘valid certificate’.
I need to do some research and read up on it.
Say, I’ve been thinkin’ ‘bout this all day.
The fact that bama’s daddy is from Africa is big play.
The fact that bama’s daddy got one over on whitey is even bigger play.
IOW, payback’s (and we’re not talking 40 acres and a mule) a bitch, Thomas Jefferson.
I saw the surge thread and a comment that Hil may call for a roll vote. Man that convention is going to be something.
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Try it on an Obama BC thread!
Lol, don’t go getting all suspicious. I’ve been all over the web, Obama sites pro and con and it has only happened here!! Twice in all the years.
Has to do with ‘active X’ downloads!
Security Warning popup
http://www.dslreports.com/faq/8489
Now, why would I need that here?
security certificate errors message has disappeared
security certificate errors message reappeared
The thread has seemed to come to a stop now and I am no longer getting them. Do you have any idea why we would get them here?
I was looking at another forum recently and saw a post talking about a ‘one pixel’ photo that had been posted by someone who was able to get people’s internet ISP locations that way.
No one would even know about a 1 pixel thing!
Read the posts right above and below your last one devolve.
error box is back
I’m no longer getting them unless it happens when I post this. Mine said it was a valid certificate but my computer was set not to accept them from ‘this site’.
Strange how the whole thread came to a standstill too!!
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