David Bomford Talks About the Forgers Who Used His Birth Certificate to Smear Obama

Wash. Independent Afterbirther ^ | 8/4/09 | David Weigel (who else?)

[pissant]

PM, a series on the Australian Broadcast Channel, tracked down David Bomford, the man whose Australian birth certificate was used as the basis for the forged “Obama Kenyan birth certificate” that Orly Taitz posted online Sunday.

The key bit of the interview:

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.

Adam Serwer asks whether this could be the end of the “birther” movement. That seems unlikely, but it’s at least as dangerous to their movement as the fake documents in the 2004 CBS News story on George W. Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard was to liberals and Democrats who wanted to prove that Bush skipped out on his duties. Orly Taitz, in particular, has stopped being an amusing curiosity, and become a scandalous figure even inside the birther movement who submitted fraudulent documents to courts of law.

[Freedom_Fighter_2001]

LOL LOL!

[Godzilla]

I’m still intrigued by how the letter both on the form and ‘typed’ in remain so smooth and uniform over the top of rather significant folding on the Aussie BC.

[PA Engineer]

Yes. That and a couple items in the signature. Here is one of the things I am working on:



Take a look at the handwritten "Y" intersecting the form print "D" and then compare it to the handwritten "Y" intersecting the form print "I & S". The first "Y" falls behind the printed text (unexplainable?) and the second is "signed" over the printed text (as expected).

Finally I am suspicious about the signature. This was 1964 and the "pen" revolution had not yet taken place. I was in second grade and remember what was available. The bic pen came out in 1950, but was a bit primitive from what I remember. I wonder if any Freepers have a suggestion on this? Just another avenue. The writing strikes me as both even and wide. How could this have been accomplished in 1964?

[Ann Archy]

Oh baby....David Bomford is DEFINTELY in on the Forgery!!

[Adammon]

I compared the “S” to other S’s in the document and while there are slight differences, it’s still a little hard to believe that the S remains that strong over a fold. The “a” in Page is distorted enough to be believed. It angles slightly into the fold as one would expect.

The Y crossing over the D is explained away as the inverted dark black being stronger than the inverted lighter Y. It’s similar to a grey pen being written on white paper and crossing a black line. When inverted, the grey will appear below the now white line because the black can’t get any blacker. Same principle applies.

The only reason the ‘Y’ appears below the ‘s’ in Registrar is because of the lightness of the font of ‘s’.

[PA Engineer]

Maybe this could shed a different light on it.

[Adammon]

Exactly. It would be impossible for the Y to make the D darker, hence when inverted, the D is going to be a bright white over top of the lighter grey Y.

It’s easy enough to reproduce. Scan a document with text on it, and then draw over top of it with a pencil. Invert it in photoshop and then text will appear over top of the pencil.

[Adammon]

There’s also much artifacting happening within this characters.

Overall though, it doesn’t make much sense for this to be photoshopped. A ‘professional’ would have printed out the document and then added back the details by hand - scanned the doc, and then uploaded it.

Which makes all of our pixel searching futile unfortunately - unless we find an incongruous detail with regards to the text.

[PA Engineer]

We will have to disagree for now. The Y did lighten the S, but not any area of the D. I will be porting this over to my old G4 tonight. I have much better software there. This will be a bit slow, since I want to review the actual file data before running some F. Transforms and I. Transforms. Will keep you posted.

[Barney59]

Gutter effect seems to be missing on the letters floating over the creased ‘gutter’... those are post applied if you asked me... there's no distortion of the letterforms as should be when folded and creased...

[PA Engineer]

Gutter effect seems to be missing on the letters floating over the creased ‘gutter’... those are post applied if you asked me... there's no distortion of the letterforms as should be when folded and creased...

That is what I noticed with the entire lower right quadrant of the Australian COLB. Is "gutter effect" an accepted nomenclature for this?

[BigDaddyTX]

The address on his bc does not currently exist. Look it up on maps.google.com No even numbered addresses on that block.

[Godzilla]

Didn’t notice the failed covering of the signiature over the title - good catch. The more I look at that folds (especially in the extract you posted) - the more it is apparent that this is a forgery. The scan makes it apparent that the crease is still present and deep. This makes the lack of lettering distortion all the more apparent. The Aussie BC is the forgery.

[Sibre Fan]

Whoa. I just read this lurking on another site. If the Bomford certificate is the fake, why did the forgers add a whole new section to the document that does not even exist on the Kenya certificate?

The Bomford certificate has a section for “Signature and Description of Authorized Person, and Name, Description and Residence of Informant.” That section is not on the Kenya certificate.

???

[Godzilla]

I have no doubt that the format of the Aussie BC is authentic for the period. If that is the case, a quick give away would not to include that material. However, the dead give away is how the lettering remains rock solid over the top of the creases in the document. That is physically impossible given the degree of residual fold evident from the document. Additional info has shown that the signature at the lower right goes under the typed signature block letter. That is a hard trick to do in real life, but easy if the letters were added as a layer later.

[theguyfromtampa]

Excellent, Finally someone with a brain. I thought the same thing. How does some Australian (Dina Rosendorff) just happen to find this “HACKED” birth certificate. He would have also had to post his birth cert on his genealogy website. No one else could put it there legally !

Here is why the Australian birth certificate Theory is Bull

1) The “d” in the top left hand corner is taller in the Australian B.C. than the Kenyan B.C.
2) The “N” in the top left hand corner is a different font
3) The distance between the words District & Registry at the bottom are not the same !
3) South Australian birth certificates don’t look anything like a Kenyan one anyway !
4) The seal at the top of the page is cut off so you can’t see it very good. This is done on purpose. This is not the seal of the South Australia at that time and doesn’t match any known Australian coat of arms seal. Funny !
5) The creases on the two documents don’t line up at all !
5) Here is what a real Australian Birth Cert really looks like: see link below !
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/2308687/posts

This wasn’t hard to figure out either !!!