Barack Hussein Obama and Harrison J. Bounel
Snopes says:
This claim stems from nothing more than the observation that a search of a personal information database back in 2011 showed that the name "Harrison J. Bounel" had been mistakenly cross-indexed with Barack Obama's home address and Social Security number. (This type of error is common in such databases and has since been corrected.) Aside from that temporary erroneous entry, there is no evidence whatsoever that Barack Obama ever used the name "Harrison J. Bounel" as an alias, or that Barack Obama's Social Security number was originally issued to someone by that name.
Just think of Snopes as a virtual sanitarium; read what they have to say and nothing else, and your fever will surely break.
But: there are a few problems with the Snopes refutation of Bounel-related conspiracy theories.
In regard to the Bounel/Obama link, we are clearly in the realm of fact, not conspiracy theory.
Notice that Snopes does not deny, but rather affirms, that the Bounel name was in fact linked to Obamas name, SSN, and home address.
Snopes question, and ours, is why?
It is very easy to show that what the Snopes folks offer by way of explanation for the linkage is very, very weak indeed.
What follows debunks the Bounel/Obama debunkers, all while extending Obama (and his aliases) every benefit of the doubt. Should Bounel-related problems remain for Obama, our reasons for harboring suspicion with respect to his identity will be very much strengthened indeed.
First, lets quickly deal with the notion that Obama, (like Bounel?), was (and may still be) using a Connecticut issued SSN.
Here is Snopes account:
Why Barack Obama's Social Security card application might have included a Connecticut mailing address is something of a curiosity, as he had no known connection to that state at the time, but by itself that quirk is no indicator of fraud. The most likely explanation for the discrepancy is a simple clerical or typographical error: the ZIP code in the area of Honolulu where Barack Obama lived at the time he applied for his Social Security number in 1977 is 96814, while the ZIP code for Danbury, Connecticut, is 06814. Since '0' and '9' are similarly shaped numbers and are adjacent on typewriter keyboards, it's not uncommon for handwritten examples to be mistaken for each other, or for one to be mistyped as the other (thereby potentially resulting in a Hawaiian resident's application mistakenly being routed as if it had originated from Connecticut).
You know what? Why bicker?
Lets just give Obama the benefit of the doubt here. A mistake was made. Beyond question, there are, by now, probably thousands of people wandering around Hawaiian zip code 96814 who are possessed of Connecticut-routed SSNs associated with Danburys 06814 zip code.
So just banish it from your mind, because there is more interesting ID related material to attend to.
But what about the cross-indexing of the name Bounel with Obamas name, his home address, and his SSN -- all of which Snopes admits happened?
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Oddly enough, with respect to the Harrison J. Bounel name, it is Obama supporters who must grasp at straws and pretend to rest satisfied with explanations that invoke random error stacked upon random error.
Indeed, the above argument is sufficiently powerful that some of Obamas supporters attempt, consciously or not, to avoid it by postulating a conspiracy theory which apparently holds that an anti-Obama individual may have placed the name Bounel alongside the Obama record!
Its a notable coincidence that Bounel appeared in a record with Obamas social-security number just one month after Orly Taitz published the Presidents social-security number on the Internet (meaning that anyone could have learned of it, along with Obamas name and public home address).
The fellow who wrote this calls himself, quite appropriately, Dr. Conspiracy.
His real name is Kevin Davidson, and he is not a doctor --but never mind.
I guess Davidson is either unaware of, or chooses to ignore, the many notable coincidences attending Obamas background and identity (some of which are specified here).
Either that, or Davidsons rule is: coincidences that can be construed in favor of Obama are actually conspiracies against Obama, while all coincidences that cast Obamas identity in doubt are in fact idle conspiracy theories.
In any event, there is at least one enormous problem with Davidsons conspiracy theory defense of Obama/Harrison J. Bounel: what search procedure did Davidsons supposed random anti-Obama actor employ in order to unearth a name they could be sure absolutely nobody else was using?