The Obama “Forged Birth Certificate” Myth Is Busted

Allow me to demonstrate why Mr. Strata is nowhere near my level of understanding regarding computer graphics. Plus, it’s obvious that he only read my first blog post (and not the other eleven) but without much comprehension. He still does not understand what I said, totally misrepresenting it on his “analyses” and, then has the gall to denigrate both my work and me personally:

“Days ago I looked into the forged Obama Birth Certificate Myth and realized it was all BS. Basically, we have a lot of people running around making mistakes and then trying to pretend revelations that destroyed their first claims are exposing other, new issues. All I see are people making wild claims, being proved wrong, and then moving onto new wild claims - to be proved wrong again. As proof of this pattern let me point to one of these ‘experts’ who did a poor job of examining the documents in the first place, a person called Polirak over at Town Hall.”

First, never trust a guy who cannot even spell your name correctly.

Secondly, let’s look at his earth-shaking discoveries:

“Before we get into this I want to share what I discovered when I looked into these files, before I even began to look around the blogosphere. First I noted the certificate was a recent production that is made by a laser printer and is on a form put in place in 2001 (look at the lower right hand corner of any version of the certificate for this information).”

Wow...ya think? Congratulations, you can read. Now, comprehending what you read is another story.

“I also noted a stamped date from the back which bled through on the two version (one on the DailyKos and one on the Obama campaign site) which shows this modern version was produced around Jun 6 2007.”

Who hasn’t seen the date stamp?? Who doesn’t know that the Smears image came from the Kos image??BTW, “modern version” of what, exactly? Remember, you’re looking at a JPG that has been graphically altered, and not an exact copy of an original, certified paper document — whose ownership has never been determined.

“I discovered 2 dots from the laser printer that can be found on all three files (some folks just recently discovered the large one next to the image of the state seal).”

There are dozens of dots on the image from crap on the scanner glass. And, you only found, “2?”

Well, there ya go. Two dots. Proof positive that something went through a laser printer. So far, you’ve failed to say what is that “something.”

“I could detect the impression of the state seal stamp and signature area on two of the files.”

With your naked eye? B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T! No way. Either you’re lying through your teeth, or you have Superman’s vision. Everyone else had to look at the Kos image with edge detection to see the seal.

But, the seal does not appear under edge detection, or any other image enhancement, let alone be visible to the naked eye on the Smears image.

That’s a deal-breaker, right there.

I’ll skip the previous parts and get to the really questionable part:

“In my analysis I find the Kos version to be the highest quality image file of the original document, produced in Jun of 2007 by the state of Hawaii.”

First of all, why did you put a link to my Photobucket account when you’re claiming to be linking directly to the “Kos version” of the “highest qualityf Kos image file.”

BTW, the Kos image file is NOT the one with the highest quality of the “original” document. The “original” image, which we have not seen, is of the highest quality. COPIES are not higher in quality than the original.

I should stop right here and just forget about answering this upstart. But, you cannot seem to stop cracking on me.

“I have been putting off this posting on this matter because there has never been anything ‘discovered’ that proved a forgery, but simply proved people were running wild with their imaginations. Polarik provides the best example of this.”

Oh, thank you...we are so freakin’ glad that you didn’t put this matter off any longer.

“On 6/20/08 the ‘expert’ Polarik claimed this certificate clearly produced a year ago was a forgery of an original from 1961, which Barack Obama claimed he had in one of his books from years ago.”

I never said anything of the sort. Go back and read it again...and again.

Unless you are like the guy in “Jumper,” and went back in Time, you cannot say with any degree of confidence, that this image is a genuine reproduction of a Certification of Live Birth that OBama requested from Hawaii’s Health Department in June 2007.

See, like I said. There’s no point in debating with someone who cannot even read what I wrote.

Anyway, Mr. AlStrata. Your post was dated today, July 6, and apparently you have not read anything on my blog since the first post, whether intentionally or not.

Had you bothered to check back frequently, you might — if you read it carefully — have been able to see that I corrected my statement about the OHSM 1.1 after talking directly with Vital Statistics at the Department of Health in Hawaii.

You made the statement that “Inspection of the files shows consistent anti-aliasing across all letters and images (e.g., the state seal in the middle). Consistent anti-aliasing across the document tells me this was induced when the document was originally printed - not from later manipulation,” and my response is you is that you do not know what the Hell you are talking about, and your credibility is seriously in doubt — as if your comment about “seeing the seal and the signature stamp” with your naked eye wasn’t enough already.

What I’d like you to explain is why the text on DeCosta’s image fails to show the pixel patterns found on the Kos image and its descendants? Text that you describe as “laser print?”

HINT: It ain’t “anti-aliasing,” to be sure.

The bottom line is that the patterns that I found around the letters are not the result of changing the size of a scanned JPG, and/or the result of changing the commpression factor, either.

It’s not just my opinion, either. Everyone on the FreeReublic thinks that you’re a blowhard.(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2042120/posts).

The only thing you’ve “proven” is that you can be very annoying. But, if you’d like to put your money where your mouth is, I will bet you that you cannot recreate the Kos image from an original, scanned JPG, or even a “blank JPG template” like OpenDNA made.

If you think it’s so easy to recreate the Kos image simply by reducing and/or compressing a JPG, without any graphical manipulation of the text on the image, and without any image enhancements, go ahead and try it.

And, when you lose, and you will lose, will you have the guts to admit you were wrong and I am right?

Are ya’ feeling lucky, Punk.

Well, are ya?

Forgery Revealed in Kos Publication of Obama ‘Birth Certificate’ (updated)
American Thinker | July 04, 2008 | Rick Moran
Posted on 07/04/2008 3:29:39 PM PDT by Red Steel
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2040876/posts

Blogger admits Hawaii birth certificate forgery, subverting Obama claims
Israeli Insider | July 3, 2008
Posted on 07/04/2008 6:27:41 PM PDT by ckilmer
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040924/posts

A Freeper rebuttal to AJ Strata’s claim of debunking the Obama Birthgate doubters, part 1!
PA Times | 7/7/08 | Pissant
Posted on 07/07/2008 4:57:52 PM PDT by pissant
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2042120/posts

Atlas Tech Expert Declares Obama Birth Certificate Forgery
Atlas Shrugs Blog | 7/4/08 | Techdude
Posted on 07/11/2008 8:34:46 PM PDT by freespirited
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2044290/posts

Forensic Expert: “the [birth] certificate is still a horrible forgery”
Atlas Shrugs Blog | 7/11/08 | Techdude
Posted on 07/11/2008 8:39:42 PM PDT by freespirited
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2044291/posts

Atlas Exclusive: Final Report On Obama Birth Certificate Forgery Change You Can Believe In
Atlas Shrugs | July 20, 2008 | Atlas Shrugs
Posted on 07/20/2008 3:01:38 AM PDT by Amityschild
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2048301/posts

Document forensics expert: Obama “birth certificate” a “horrible forgery”
Israeli Insider | July 20, 2008 | motoman
Posted on 07/20/2008 3:41:34 PM PDT by motoman
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2048526/posts

Obama birth certificate ‘horrible forgery’
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/ | July 20, 2008 | Isaeli Insider Staff
Posted on 07/20/2008 8:19:37 PM PDT by motoman
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2048616/posts

Obama’s Fake Birth Certificate: why I’m STILL right, and they’re wrong.
Polarik’s Blog | July 20, 2008 | Polarik
Posted on 07/21/2008 3:34:02 AM PDT by Amityschild
http://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2048687/posts

I have the documents on Obama’s birth Certificate
self | Vanity
Posted on 07/21/2008 8:22:06 AM PDT by 47samurai
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048805/posts

Document forensics expert: Obama “birth certificate” a “horrible forgery”
web.israelinsider.com | July 20, 2008 | Israel Insider staff
Posted on 07/21/2008 2:50:02 PM PDT by 4kevin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049009/posts

Obama’s Birth Certificate Forgery: The SMOKING GUN has been found!
The Greater Evil | 07/27/08 | Polarik
Posted on 07/27/2008 3:13:09 PM PDT by Polarik
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2052236/posts

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