“Now a question. If HDOH had said that rather than photocopy the original paper record, they instead had printed a digital copy, how well do you think birthers would have reacted? Would it be any different than when Obama posted the COLB, which is an electronic abstract?”
If this was the approach why bother with a pseudo-security background?
Why bother flying an attorney (supposedly) out to Hawaii to pickup a piece of paper that could be printed on any old printer?
In fact why fly anyone out at all - even for a actual physical document. US Post Office is and was in operation. UPS or Fedex would have been a lot cheaper as well.
Electronic copies are worthless for true authentication. That is why they are usually include numerous anti-fraud physical mechanisms such as watermarks, intricate borders, micro-printing, multiple colors and so on. Hawaii actually dumbed down their anti-fraud process years ago - as the Peterboy COLB shows. It went backwards to having almost no anti-fraud features. How useful.
“In fact why fly anyone out at all - even for a actual physical document. US Post Office is and was in operation.”
I have always regarded this as possible “tell” (fraud tip-off) because knowingly sending forged documents through the US Mail is a serious felony form of “mail fraud”!
Sending Barry’s personal lawyer out to HI to pick up the “document” removes any HI official from potential liability for mail fraud.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_fraud
18 U.S.C. § 1341 provides:
Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, or to sell, dispose of, loan, exchange, alter, give away, distribute, supply, or furnish or procure for unlawful use any counterfeit or spurious coin, obligation, security, or other article, or anything represented to be or intimated or held out to be such counterfeit or spurious article, for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice or attempting so to do, places in any post office or authorized depository for mail matter, any matter or thing whatever to be sent or delivered by the Postal Service, or deposits or causes to be deposited any matter or thing whatever to be sent or delivered by any private or commercial interstate carrier, or takes or receives therefrom, any such matter or thing, or knowingly causes to be delivered by mail or such carrier according to the direction thereon, or at the place at which it is directed to be delivered by the person to whom it is addressed, any such matter or thing, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. If the violation occurs in relation to, or involving any benefit authorized, transported, transmitted, transferred, disbursed, or paid in connection with, a Presidential declared major disaster or emergency (as those terms are defined in section 102 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122)), or affects a financial institution, such person shall be fined not more than $1,000,000 or imprisoned not more than 30 years, or both.[2]