Posted on 08/04/2009 5:55:59 AM PDT by markomalley
MARK COLVIN: An unsuspecting Adelaide public servant has found himself swept up in a conspiracy to oust the 44th President of the United States from office.
A movement known as the Birthers, which originated in California, is attempting to prove that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii, therefore making him ineligible to be President.
In a bid to stake their claim they released what appeared to be a Kenyan birth certificate with Obama's name on it.
Sceptics soon traced the bogus birth certificate and found it to be a forgery. The document turns out to have been based on the birth certificate of an Adelaide man called David Jeffrey Bomford.
Dina Rosendorff broke the news to him.
DINA ROSENDORFF: David Jeffrey Bomford's language was a touch too colourful for radio when PM first contacted him with news his birth certificate had been used in a bid to oust Barack Obama.
Now that he's come to terms with his unwitting involvement in an international conspiracy, he's slightly more amused.
DAVID JEFFREY BOMFORD: (Laughs) That is ridiculous. Little old person in Adelaide, the President of the United States. I don't know whether to laugh about it or not, be worried about it.
It is interesting someone from here being involved in a conspiracy - that is so funny.
DINA ROSENDORFF: It's believed computer hackers found Mr Bomford's birth certificate on his family's genealogy website.
They used it as the basis for a forgery in an attempt to prove President Obama was born in Kenya rather than Hawaii.
Only people born in the USA can be president.
The fake Kenyan birth document has been circulated by political opponents of Obama's, called the Birthers, who are out to unseat him.
A growing online community who are against the Birthers quickly picked apart the bogus birth certificate and traced it back to about as far from Kenya as you can get - Thebarton Community Hospital at Mile End in South Australia and David Jeffrey Bomford.
As for the unsuspecting man at the centre of the political storm, he says he's not a Birther - just a public service clerk from Adelaide.
DAVID JEFFREY BOMFORD: I'm not involved in anything. To think that someone like me would be involved in an international conspiracy, considering I'm a conspiratist myself, I believe everything in all the old Roswell and all that rubbish. So this is quite funny.
DINA ROSENDORFF: Do you have anything against President Obama?
DAVID JEFFREY BOMFORD: No. I think he was a good choice for President. Apart from that, I didn't at first think he was a good President but he's proved himself alright so he changed my mind.
DINA ROSENDORFF: Looking over the documents in question Mr Bomford still can't quite believe his eyes.
DAVID JEFFREY BOMFORD: It's little old me and my mum and everything else up there. Oh I definitely confirm that the birth certificate was mine. That was quite easy to see - my address, even the style of the birth certificate was an old South Australian one.
So it's quite easy to identify that it's mine.
DINA ROSENDORFF: And looking at the fake Kenyan birth certificate what do you make of it?
DAVID JEFFREY BOMFORD: It's definitely a copy of my certificate. It's so laughable it's ridiculous.
DINA ROSENDORFF: Internet security expert Dr Asha Rao from RMIT University says although this case is quite funny, it's also very dangerous.
ASHA RAO: It just shows you what is possible on the Internet; that ultimately digital documents come down to a string of zeros and ones. This is an extreme case. Of course they must have trawled around and found something they could use.
But it's also, you know, you really don't, if you put that up, that is the main document that shows your identity. So, identity theft starts with getting hold of that document. So it's very dangerous to put stuff like that online.
DINA ROSENDORFF: Mr Bomford agrees with the experts and says he'll definitely be removing it from the website.
DAVID JEFFREY BOMFORD: I'm very surprised at how anyone would even find it on the net unless they were looking for something like that because it's buried on a little known research site that's particularly for my family.
So I was very, very surprised that anyone would even find it on the net. I'll be certainly contacting my friend who runs that web and asking him to remove it.
DINA ROSENDORFF: But he reckons it's a good story to tell his friends and family.
DAVID JEFFREY BOMFORD: I'm not particularly worried about it because no-one would honestly believe that anyone like me would be involved in it - just a grey-haired old guy sitting in a corner in quiet old Adelaide.
MARK COLVIN: Adelaide public servant David Jeffrey Bomford ending that report by Dina Rosendorff.
due credit ping
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2306351/posts?q=1&;page=6091#6080
Dear Mr Bomford, you’ve been pwned.
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Someone maliciously identified Bomford’s B/C as the one Orly has?
And of course the left now hope to use this as ‘proof’ that the Orly B/C is a fake.
Awwww, comon guys, NOT ENOUGH COWBELL! Here, let me help:
An idiotic dupe, a soon-to-be-fired Adelaide public servant conspired with other revolutionary anarchists in a bid to overthrow the lawful government of the United States. These whackjob conspiracy nuts claim, nonsensically, that Dear Leader Obama has no Divine Right to rule America in perpetuity.
Wow! Great find.
Isn’t it just precious that Mr. Bomford thinks Obama’s a good president for the US?? Gee willikers, how convenient.
Thanks for posting this.......I didn’t have the time to pop it up.
Nevermind the leftist love of labels ("Birthers") is this an intentional mischaracterization or an example of an Alinsky tactic to "freeze the target" then attack it mercilessly? Or is it just your typical lazy journalist?
Where's that list of every sealed or unrecoverable record of Obama's life? Perhaps this Aussie journo would find it newsworthy.
The spin is in. Interesting how the state run media is shaping public opinion. Not often one gets to see such a blatant bit of propaganda, but they do have a lot on the line. Note how "a conspiracy" is tied to "Birthers" and "attempting to prove obama was born in Kenya" and oust the President.
I thought the idea was simply to have obama release his BC, school history, and other documents that would prove his history is what he says it is and then let the chips fall where they may.
That's just ridiculous.
Read the Photoshop Elements description of the Divide Scanned Photos command. It says:
"If you scanned several pictures at once on a flatbed scanner, you can automatically divide the scanned image into its component photos. The photos must have a clear separation between them.
In the Editor, choose Image > Divide Scanned Photos.
Photoshop Elements automatically divides the image and places each photo in a separate file."
If you have ever actually learned to use Photoshop or the cheaper version Photoshop Elements, you would know that when you save a file as a jpeg, ALL OF THE LAYER INFORMATION IS LOST. It's called "flattening the image".
Once you do that, it is no longer possible to separate the layers.
What happened when you ran this command on the file was that the software tried to divide it up based on the dividing lines that separate the area of the document.
Furthermore, if you view the original Australian file using a hexadecimal viewer, you will find that the word "Adobe" has not been inserted into the file, something that Photoshop always does. If you open the Kenyan forgery that way, the "Adobe" word is there in the first few bytes of the file, meaning that file has been edited using Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.
The name Photoshop Elements means only that it contains elements of the full (and much more expensive) version of Photoshop. It doesn't imply anything about being able to separate an image into "elements".
Freshwind...what do you make of post #4 in this link?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2307802/posts?page=4
Also, just to be clear, the “original” BC that was posted very early Sunday was hacked almost immediately and changed. Could that be what’s showing the word ‘adobe’?
No, "Birthers" are attempting to have Obama prove that he was born in the US as our Constitution demands....
There is a campaign to discredit those who want to see Obama’s original birth certificate. It includes hoaxes and distractions aimed at ridiculing those who dare to ask the eligibility question.
None of us brings us closer to seeing the original long-form BC, which we will never see, most likely because it does not exist.
When the White House press secretary says “Even a DNA test would not satisfy them,” that is an intentional dodge of the question.
What dos DNA have to do with asking the simple request to see Obama’s original BC.
We will never, ever see it.
And there are enough people who will make it their business to discredit those who make the request to completely marginalize the issue. We’re almost at that point already.
“....ALL OF THE LAYER INFORMATION IS LOST....”
Thanks! You saved me the trouble of explaining this. Geez!!
Sorry, I gotta go with the typewriter being used HAD A “1” KEY, and for what ever reason the person typing this happened to use the “1” key for the 1st line then after that habit took over and they used the lower case “l”.
I’ve come across a few popular 1960 era typewriters that have the “1”
http://www.mrmartinweb.com/type.htm#triumph
http://www.mrmartinweb.com/type.htm#brother
http://www.geocities.com/wbd641/BestTypers.html
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