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To: don-o
I think the Australian BC looks legit. If it is not, someone took great pains to make it look so. The printer is easily found with a bit of Googling; the printer is missing from the purported Obama certificate. There's also the business of Dominion vs. Republic, but I wouldn't know how to prove or disprove one way or another without a lot of time at the library.

I do know a bit about image manipulation. I am not an expert, by any means, and I have never tried falsifying a document, but I figure I could reproduce the purported BC. It would take time, though. In a few minutes I was able to produce a couple of minor changes that suggest I could modify the Australian BC:

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Notice that I changed the book and page number, and began tinkering with constructing the "Coast Province of Kenya" phrase. That stopped me because I found that there was no upper case "K" in the document to copy and massage into place. Any attempt to create that "K" would be tedious and, unless expertly done, would stick out like Obama's ears.

It would be much easier to find a similar font and write the text as desired, then drop it in a layer over the template. Simply by resizing and playing with the DPI settings, it would be easy to reproduce the JPEG compression artifacts seen around the other text.

To create the bogus BC I'd make a template of the underlying government form with a similar font using Microsoft Word or a desktop publishing software application. I'd convert that to an image and drop in the text copied and assembled from the Australian BC. Finally, I'd print it, fold it, put it in my back pocket for a while, then unfold it and repeat as necessary. When I was satisfied with the result, I'd photograph it, not scan it. I'd make sure I shot it with a bit of perspective to mask any imperfections. There’s a reason we don’t see a simple scan like the Australian BC.

Why bother assembling the typewritten text like a ransom note from an old movie rather than just using a font substitution? I would do it because a substitute font might be easily recognized. One reason I think someone did assemble the text from the available typewritten characters is because the uppercase components of the deputy registrar's names are so similar: "YOUNG" and "ODUYA". The "D" is easily copied from "Douglas" and the "A" bears a distinct slant to the left that jars with the "ODUY". I don't see a similar "A" elsewhere in the Australian document, so it may just be sloppiness in skewing the character.

I cannot explain why someone who would use an Australian BC as a template would leave any significant elements unchanged. Perhaps the culprit used OCR (optical character recognition) to collect the text, then forgot to change it. I’ve done that sort of thing.

That’s as far as my eyes and thinking take me for now. Fwiw.
144 posted on 08/03/2009 9:35:03 PM PDT by Tawiskaro
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To: Polarik

Someone posting right up yer alley.


145 posted on 08/03/2009 9:45:34 PM PDT by Kevmo (So America gets what America deserves - the destruction of its Constitution. ~Leo Donofrio, 6/1/09)
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To: Tawiskaro
Good analysis.

The biggest flaw in the forgery is the book / page reference. But it's only a flaw if the original is found, as it has been. The forger found the Aussie BC, decided it was a good template, but then got lazy, figuring that his template was too obscure to be found by debunkers.

Of course, forgeries have a limited lifetime. The forger had to know that, if his work was any good, it would lead to a check of the actual government records, at which time it would be unmasked, no matter how good a job he did on the details. So, maybe it was late, and he just decided hacking the book / page wasn't worth the extra effort.

All in all, he had a much better than average run.

157 posted on 08/03/2009 11:13:43 PM PDT by cynwoody
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