OBAMA’S FAKE BIRTH CERTIFICATE: why I’m right, and they’re wrong!

Townhall ^ | 7/15/08 | Polarik

[pissant]

OK, it’s time to let the genie out of the bottle., and prove, once and for all time, that the images posted on the Internet are NOT true, original copies of Obama’s birth certificate (rather “Certification of Live Birth”, or COLB), that they NEVER WERE true, original copies, and if anyone tells you anything different, that they are flat-out wrong.

Period.

Exclamation point.

I direct your attention back to my main thesis – and what I said in my first post, “Was Obama's "Certificate of Birth" manufactured?”

I theorized that the fuzzy outline found in between the letters of the data fields on the Kos image is a dead giveaway that these letters were made by a graphics program.

All one needs to do to prove that Kos image was altered, is to view the space between the double “s” in Obama’s (alleged) middle name, “HUSSEIN,” under increased magnification, such as making the image 300% or larger.

Now, if you had a graphics program that could enlarge “HUSSEIN,” up to pixel level, the smallest unit of the image that can be seen, and look just at the pixels in the vertical space between the double “S,” you will see only FOUR (3) PIXELS, out of about 120 pixels, that are colored any shade of green.

Check it out:

Zoom in on this image. Notice how similar are the HUSSEINs?

If you are unable to zoom in far enough, Here's a close-up view of the pixels:

That second “HUSSEIN” was added by a graphics program that works with 8-bit, 256 color bitmaps. When one opens an image of a different format, let’s say the Kos JPG, it temporarily converts that image format to an 8-bit, 256 color bitmap.

Now, you can re-save your image back to JPG, but when you do, you do not get a bit-for-bit copy because JPG files are 24-bit, 16.7 million colors versus 8-bit, 256 color bitmaps. Hence, the loss of color pixels.

Why is this significant?

Because when you look at any other image that really is a true copy of an original COLB, the space between letters mostly contains green-shaded pixels. These green pixels come from the green part of the pattern that is found on the actual paper document.

As an example, compare the letters, “BIRT” taken from “DATE OF BIRTH” on image crops taken from both Obama’s COLB and DeCosta’s COLB and enlarged to show the pixels.

First, OBama's:

Now, DeCosta's

Both crops are approximately the same size, the same resolution, and the same JPG compression ratio.

Clearly, when comparing Obama’s to DeCosta’s, there is very little in the way of green shaded pixels between the letters on the Obama image as compared to the DeCosta image.

I can tell you what is NOT the cause of this difference:

Laser Printing

Anti-Aliasing

JPG artifacts

There is only ONE way for the lack of any green-shaded pixels to occur on the image.

Only ONE way for the predominance of white and grayish pixels to occur on the image.

And, that way is by importing the original scan as an 8-bit, 256 color bitmap into a graphics program and proceeded to change/add text to the image.

Don’t believe me? Then take another look at the "HUSSEINs" again on this modified Kos image right below Obama’s middle name:

Can you see the similarity at normal size? Here's a close-up:

It should be obvious to anyone seeing this that if I can add the name, “HUSSEIN,” to where it looks pretty darn close to the Kos image “HUSSEIN,” then the claim that the Kos image is a direct copy of a laser printed document is BLOWN CLEAR OUT OF THE WATER!

Now, if the forger was smarter, he or she would have altered the text using a 24-bit JPG editor and would have produced a higher-quality forgery as a result.

Here's what it could have looked like if MS Paint were used to modify the text. Again, look at the two HUSSEIN's. The one below is much higher in quality than the one in the original Kos image.

Here's a closeup of the "new and improved" forgery:

That’s it, folks. Listen, if I had the original scan to work with, as opposed to the copied Kos image, I could have produced an absolute, dead ringer for the Kos image using my 8-bit graphic editor.

To conclude: I just proved that the Kos image is not a true copy of a paper document by demonstrating why the text on the Kos image looks so differently from the text on the DeCosta image. I have ruled out ALL other theories as to how the Kos image got to be the way it is.

I have also shown that all of the images on the internet are directly related to the Kos image, so if the Kos image is a fake, then all of them are fake.

It is time to stop the fraud being perpetrated on the American public. It is time to demand that Obama produce a paper record of his birth instead of carrying on this charade.

[itsPatAmerican]

If one of these documents was scanned at 1200dpi and down sampled to 72dpi and the other was just scanned at 72 dpi how would the letters of the different documents compare?

[pissant]

Welcome to FR, BTW

[itsPatAmerican]

Thanks for the welcome, but I’m more interested on your take on the scanning resolution question.

[Jet Jaguar]

BTTT

[fanfan]

Good work, FReeper!

:-D

[itsPatAmerican]

sorry to keep asking questions, but is the gist of what you’re saying is that the lack of green is because the document was forged using an 8-bit graphics program? There are so many words in your argument, makes my head hurt a bit :-)

[pissant]

This document was not a scan, it was a computer generated jpg. But you can certainly do all kinds of things with the overall resolution if you resize it via a graphics program or offer up varying quality of scans. The Decosta document is a relatively poor quality scan, yet look at it in comparison to the Obama forgery.

[hole_n_one]

......but I’m more interested on your take on the scanning resolution question.

No, you're not.

You're more interested in being a pest.

[dfwddr]

Good find Pissant.

While I only know enough about digital imagery to be dangerous, Polinak makes several very valid arguments.

It seems so simple to provide a COLB, and thousands of Americans must do it every day, I don't understand his hesitation in doing the same. You would think he would want to make at least this one “go away”.

How be the FALCONS ?

[itsPatAmerican]

Huh, pest? no I am interested in the truth, and when someone believes in something wholeheartedly sometimes logic gets sloppy.

[plain talk]

We have other samples to verify against. He used Decostas.

I don't know what that means and doesn't answer my question. You sound like an expert in this area but not all of us are so equipped. But always good to summarize in layman's terms so all can understand. I need it dumned down for me. Thanks!

[ncalburt]

Now we know why those Clinton operatives were caught digging around his passport data .

[ml/nj]

Thanks for making some interesting points.

ML/NJ

[pabianice]

I understood “of,” “and,” and “the.”

[Red Steel]

It’s a graphics image that was altered again to produce the KOS image that gives the tatttle tail signs of alteration. . It’s pretty convincing. Furthermore, Hawaii sends only the paper BC or COLB’s to individuals, and they do not send BC mages via email or any other electronic device. There’s no good reason for anyone to alter a jpg image after it’s been scanned other than to deceive.

[BfloGuy]

Maybe I’ll turn out to have been wrong, but this is getting to be a very, boring “scandal.”

[Red Steel]

Polarik clearly makes the case here. Some of these guys are not following his reasoning very closely.

[Kevmo]

Keep up the good work.

I wonder when this will break. Any junior journalist looking to make a name for himself must be mighty tempted right about now.

[itsPatAmerican]

is the gist of what you’re saying is that the lack of green is because the document was forged using an 8-bit graphics program?

Because it seems very unlikely that someone would try to forge anything with an 8-bit graphics program. The only one I can think of is MS Paint, any program you'd buy--and most freeware ones--are at least 24-bit. Seems very unlikely.

[Neidermeyer]

Do you know that the State of Hawaii does not use graphics programs in generating copies of birth certificates?
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I do not work for the state of Hawaii but to assume that they use a graphics program to put text onto preprinted forms is a ridiculous premise ,, you use a text editor... in this case it is probably a CICS or IMS transaction creating a VSAM or DB2 database entry which is then directed to a printer ,, the CICS or IMS transaction program would have the formatting for placement of the datafields (name , place of birth etc. etc. etc) designed in... IMS is the older of the two but may not have been around prior to the early 1970’s ,, version 1.x was still in use in 1981 when I started with it... the original BC was probably encoded on a punched card (2501 or similar device) and printed manually with a typewriter as most computer printers back then fed only continuous greenbar,,, later ,, perhaps in the 1970’s the punched card records were read into an online database (VSAM based) ...