Posted on 07/18/2011 4:28:59 AM PDT by RobinMasters
NEW YORK – Unless the typewriter used to type Barack Obama's purported Hawaiian "Certificate of Live Birth" in 1961 was magically capable of producing different size and shaped images with the exact same key, the document released by the White House April 27 is a forgery, says a professional typographer with 50 years experience.
"Steel-stamped letters do not expand to larger sizes and morph into different styles of type," retired New York City typographer Paul Irey told WND.
As WND previously reported, it would be impossible for the different letters that appear in the Obama birth certificate to have been typed by one typewriter, according to Irey.
"These are irrefutable proofs of forgery," he said.
His newest analysis suggests the document was assembled from images of letters or words taken from other documents.
"The forger who produced the Obama Hawaii long-form birth certificate may have thought that all typewriter typeface styles were alike," he said.
"To get his letters, the forger must have understood that he needed to copy the old typewriter styles," he continued. "So the forger probably scanned a bunch of old birth certificates, without realizing that the letters in the old files were from different typewriter styles. That's why the letters in the forged document do not match each other."
Irey used as a source document the Xerox copy of the Obama birth certificate the White House press staff handed to the press assembled in the White House pressroom on April 27, as seen in Exhibit 1:
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I believe there is. I think I used to have a link to it. (I'll see if I can find it again.)
Everybody needs a pastime. So far i'm kicking @ss!
Why?
Well some people will tell you that it's because Obama scrubbed that out of existence, even going so far as to hack into private computers to remove it, and has intimidated Keyes into silence. And replaced the videos and transcripts with ones that do not show him ever saying that.
Or you can understand that it never actually happened and that is why Keyes, the video and the transcripts do not support that claim.
“I recall reading...”
Probably. But you don’t seem to have investigated whether or not it actually happened.
“So far i’m kicking @ss!”
Well, if you say so. But I have to say that you certainly dont’ seem to have made any progress.
This may be where I saw that bit of information. There are also people on the internet claiming that the story is false, so at this point I will put it in the ambiguous category.
http://www.thepostemail.com/2009/10/21/2nd-witness-to-obama-admission-in-keyes-vs-obama-2004-debate/
http://www.thepostemail.com/2009/10/15/obama-concedes-hes-not-a-nbc-in-obama-vs-keyes-2004-debate/
I'm not sure what you're getting at, but my mother was a teacher, so tread carefully.
Coarser pixels are "De-optimized." Not "Optimized. Under no circumstances does it make sense to coarsen the resolution. None.
Sure it does. If you're optimizing for file size, reducing resolution is one way to achieve that. From Adobe's Help page on optimizing options:
Downsample Reduces file size by lowering the resolution of images, which involves merging the colors of original pixels into larger pixels.The question is whether some optimization procedures can do that certain parts of a scan while leaving other parts at a higher resolution. I think one explanation for the "layers" in the document was that they were caused by a mask, so maybe that's why the characters aren't downsampled.
Note: Masked images and images with a size less than 16-by-16 pixels are not downsampled.
And that is why I used a qualifier. The links I have provided will have to be accepted on the credibility of their source. I make no claim to first hand knowledge of this.
I have personally met Alan Keyes, and It is my impression that no one is going to silence him on anything. He would have made a far better Senator Or President than the man-child we have now.
Or you can understand that it never actually happened and that is why Keyes, the video and the transcripts do not support that claim.
It may be a false claim, but until it is rebutted by someone who knows, dismissing it out of hand is foolish. I used to be a member of BAMPAC. Perhaps I could get an answer from Keyes himself. I'll see if I can contact his office about it.
So we are on an even footing in that regard. :) I at least qualified my statement. You on the other hand, are vehemently certain.
You can lead the ignorant to knowledge but you can't make them drink.
How about an expert on manual typewriters?
"Typography" is an ambiguous term. Most often it relates to the arrangement of type for printing, not to the study of typewriters and their typescripts. An "expert in typography" could be a forensic consultant, but might be -- more likely would be -- somebody who produced and knew much about printed, as opposed to typed documents.
Nowadays everybody wants to play CSI, but was Paul Irey really a forensic document analyst or FBI typewriter consultant or just a guy who worked with type for printing? Judging from his analysis I suspect he's the latter.
Irey does mention the IBM Selectric in his analyses, but that typewriter only came out a few days before Obama presumably was born and would not have been used. It doesn't look like Irey knows or cares much about manual typewriters and their quirks.
One thing noted in the blogs: Irey is working from that black and white (or black on gray) graphic. This is already a scan or copy of a copy and the letters are bound to be a bit coarser and less defined than they are in the black on green graphic (or in the original). Depending on the resolution of the various graphics involved what he comes up with is bound to be different from any "original" document.
Apples are popular in the Educational system. They are, of course, not exclusive to them.
Sure it does. If you're optimizing for file size, reducing resolution is one way to achieve that.
Complaint from Pilot:- #2 propeller seeping prop fluid.
Reply from Mechanic: -#2 propeller seepage normal.
Subsequent Complaint from Pilot:-#1, #3 and #4 propellers lack normal prop seepage.
Letters "B","A","C" and "K" lack normal Optimization.
Step one would be convincining them he wasn't born here. The problem is nobody wants to believe that.
You gotta get past that part first before you worry about the "rule of law".
Yeah. I agree. The Bin Laden killing was fishy in so many ways. I still don’t believe it, or at the very least the timing was something they had control of.
Absolutely certain.
And also absolutely correct.
Oh, okay. They're also popular in the graphic arts and printing, which is where I first got to like them (and why I'm comfortable discussing pixels and resolution).
Letters "B","A","C" and "K" lack normal Optimization.
Like I said before, the 'R' wasn't read as a letter. For whatever reason--probably because it was lighter than the other letters--it was read as part of the background, like a gray smudge, and downsampled along with the rest of it.
“Why is that hard to understand? From my perspective, The Governor is ignorant of the Federal issue involved, and places the state laws of her state in higher regard. In fact, it is not the Governor’s job to insure compliance with Article II for an Election. That job falls to each State’s election officials, who are ALSO incredibly ignorant of their responsibility in this regard. The Governor’s job *IS* to enforce the laws of their state. If according to the laws of their state they are supposed to accept whatever the bureaucracy asserts, then that’s what they will do.
All of this belies the point of why we allow the Tail of Hawaiian bureaucracy to wag the Dog of American Constitutional law!”
I know of no court in any state nor any federal court which has ruled that state officials in any state failed to uphold state or federal law with regard to Article II, Section 1 eligibility.
Constitution Party candidate Alan Keyes sued Governor Lingle and Hawaii’s Chief Elections Official, Kevin Cronin in Keyes v Lingle and made the argument that Obama’s Hawaii COLB was forged. He included an affidivit with a forensic analysis of the COLB but the Hawaii courts dismissed the lawsuit.
Leo Donofrio also made that claim in New Jersey and in Connecticut and appeals went all the way to the US Supreme Court (Donofrio v Wells (NJ) and Wrotnowski v Bysiewicz (CN)). Obama eligibility attorney Gary Kreep made the same argument in California in “Keyes v Bowen” which went all the way to the US Supreme Court but was rejected.
“Is it too much to ask that an Article of the Constitution should outweigh the privacy law of a state? Be Honest.”
Yes, it’s too much to ask because Article IV, Section 1 of the US Constitution carries just as much weight as Article II, Section 1. And so does the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution.
And besides, Hawaii’s privacy laws allow for a confidential birth record to be inspected or obtained via “a court order from a court of competent jurisdiction.”
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