The Truth About Obama's forged birth certificate: What Polarik never told you.

Granted, you may find it a little strange for an author to talk about himself in the third person. But, for what I have to say, I should be the one to tell you.

I'm going to share with you everything that there is to know about the infamous image of Obama's alleged "birth certificate. For those FReepers who are new to the forum, or who have only recently started learning about the birth certificate controversy, you will be brought up to speed on one of the most bizarre events in American politics.

For those of you who know me and have closely followed my work, and that of others, much of what I say today will not come as a surprise.

Yet, even they will be shocked, for I intend to talk about things that I have never said before. What this post will not be is anything spiteful or derogatory. I've learned my lesson from my recent meltdown. I will not be cracking on anyone personally or on their work. In fact, I will not even mention them by name. But, you will learn why their work fell by the wayside, and why mine stood the test of time and weathered all attempts to discredit it. I will be telling you all of the facts as I know them. If any toes get stepped on, it will be from the boots of Truth.

One of the most important lessons I learned by conducting this research is that the Leftists who support Obama unconditionally, will not listen to anything you say if it involves Omama, no matter how reasonable, logical, and truthful it may be. Again, I won't mention their names, either -- but, if you do, then I will tell you what I said to them, and what they said to me. As a little hint, one of their names begins with a "K."

First a recap of the past two months. When the image first appeared on the Daily Kos (and then on OBama's website), I was the first person to brand it as a forgery through empirical research. However, before making such a bold claim, I knew that I had to demonstrate how and why Obama's "Certification of Live Birth" image was not a genuine copy.

Here are the "COLB" hard facts (Sorry, couldn't resist.) Discovering that a graphic forgery had been committed, and proving it, are two different things. Before my analyses ever hit the blogsphere, I took many steps to verify my results. The extra work paid off because, at the end of this two-month ordeal of my own making, I'm the last expert still standing.

While other experts have been subsequently discredited, I stood behind my work and weathered the storms of criticism that I knew would come. The most important thing that I wish to acknowledge is that I never did it for glory or media attention. I never ran to anyone else to pimp my story. I never said anything that I knew was false. I never promised one thing and then failed to keep that promise. I never said "Wait for my final report," and then turned tail and hide.

I laid all of my cards on the table. When it came to making my case, I held nothing back, and if I made a mistake, or was in error, I readily admitted it rather than make excuses for it. I kept it real, and never changed the results to fit my conclusions.

Although I'm pleased to say that I was right all along, and that I thoroughly debunked this forgery and the counterarguments of my detractors, I'm still not interested in garnering accolades or seeking media attention. I never had it to begin with so why would I want it now?

Rather, I'd like to think that I played a small part in bringing people to justice for trying to defraud the American public. Yes, there are greater issues at stake than confirming this image document to be a forgery. Yet, it's things like this that speak to the heart of the matter, that reveal the wolf in sheep's clothing, that confirm our worst fears about the most inept, corrupt, and dangerous Presidential candidate in history.

I'm here today to bring everyone up to speed on all that transpired, from June 12 to August 12, in the Obama Birth Certificate controversy. I'm also here to tell you that there were more than a few things that I intentionally held back, but not because I wanted to hide them.

What we know

We now know that there is such a thing as a "Certification of Live Birth," that it is quite different from a regular birth certificate, and that it is what Hawaii now issues in place of one. Before this controversy started, it's doubtful that more than a handful of people, with no ties to Hawaii, had ever seen a COLB.

Nevertheless, this document image drew a lot of criticisms for its content. There were complaints about why the Certificate Number was blacked out. There were complaints about how the race of Obama's father was listed as "African." There were complaints about the lack of relevant information, such as in which hospital (if any) Obama was born. There were questions about his date of birth.

While others were focusing their attention on the content, I was focusing on the structure of the image. This image was being touted as a true reproduction of a paper document. However, I immediately noticed the telltale signs that were indicative of graphic alterations made to an existing image.

While my detractors were trying to explain them away as "artifacts," I was making literally hundreds of test images to prove that these black-and-white pixels were not artifacts, but deliberate alterations.

We now know that long before the Daily Kos COLB image was ever "manufactured," as I called it, there was one, and only one COLB posted on the Net. For identification purposes, I will call this, the PD COLB, and "PD" refers to the initials of the person whose name is on the document.

This fact is significant because I later discovered that the Daily Kos COLB was the "spitting image" of the PD COLB. In other words, the PD COLB was the one used as a template to create the forgery. It was absolutely NOT Maya Soetoro's COLB. Before reaching this conclusion, I tried to replicate the procedures of the person making that claim, as well as using my own methodology. I could not find any evidence that Maya's COLB was used to make the Kos image. But, I was not at all surprised by the lack of confirmation.

To put it mildly, I had doubts about the veracity of the procedures used and the conclusions made, because I had every reason to question the fidelity of the finder. Originally this individual was supposed to work conjointly with me and another blogger who used to frequent FR. The three of us were supposed to produce a joint report -- that is, until that person ran off to Atlas Shruggs to shut us out.

Having him turn renegade on us was not what really bothered me. I was more concerned about how he suddenly became knee-deep in actual paper COLBs and assorted COLB images. I wondered, "Why did he make such low resolution, out-of-focus scans from original paper COLBs? Why were only the 2001 to 2003 COLB scans in such poor shape when all of the 2006 to 2008 COLBs looked exactly the same as Michle's COLB (the only COLB from that later time period)? Why was so little of them shown (I saw only the corners) when Michele's COLB was a full, uncropped scan?

If you're getting the sense that I doubted the existence of all these extra COLBs, then you'd be right on the money. However, I promised to support the work of this person as a favor to other member of this now forgotten trio. I wonder if you really know what it was like for me to be sidelined, while doing my best to keep my suspicions to myself. That is, until now, after the Israel Insider discredited him and he has gone into hiding.

What we don't know (yet)

Over at my Townhall.Com blog, The Greater Evil, I describe the forger as a shadowy character I dubbed, "Dr. X." Some people think that the forger is a member of the Obama campaign. I'd like to think of him as an outsider, but one who has personal ties to someone deep inside the Obama camp. If the Obama camp ever needed to pull a "plausible denyability" scenario out of their bag of tricks, if the sh*t hits the fan, throwing an outsider under the bus would be far more preferable.

Will we ever get to know who is that person? Will he stay hidden in the wings, never to be heard from again? Only time will tell. I would love to find out who did this and why they thought they could pull it off.

Here are my final conclusions

So who made the forgery, who is pulling their string, and why won’t Obama just produce an original?

I can't speak for Polarik, but it's obviously one of the Obama hoard of supporters.

The whole idea seems almost unreal, but if you consider all the other unreal spectacles we've seen so far (e.g. Jeremiah Wright, Pfleger, Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko, the presidential tour of Europe, etc.), it starts to fit into the realm of possibility for the audacious one to think he could pull off a bogus birth certificate.

I think there's a logical (although yet unproven) case for the argument that the current birth certificate on file in Hawaii is in the name of Barry Soetoro, and that his step father adopted him before he and his mother left for Indonesia in late 1967. The proof of that, as in all adoption cases, would be sealed by court order, of course.

I also think you could argue that his mother retained an official copy of his original birth certificate in the name of Barack Hussein Obama, and when he returned from Indonesia in 1971, he used that for all official ID in the states -- but the original would also be sealed, with no record of it in Hawaii's Dept. of Health database (which is why he can't get a copy).

He may still have the original BHO certificate, but it may contain personal information (address of each parent, place of birth, etc.) that he doesn't want released for whatever reason, and, as I said above, it's the only one he'll ever have in that name, since it's no longer on file in Hawaii.

He may also have had passports in both names -- from both the US and Indonesia, which may explain the tampering with DOS passport records that took place some months back, by an employee of a contracting firm whose ex-CIA CEO is an adviser to the Obama campaign.

It's all a reach, but this campaign stretches credibility even without that possibility.

IMAGE FORGERY 101

I apologize for making my post a bit too technical for many of you. Sometimes, it's not that easy to please everyone along the image editing continuum. So, I will attempt to provide a less technical, more common sense approach to explaining how to create an image forgery. Befoee I begin, however, a few people asked me to clarify a few things I mentioned.pertinent questions.

Someone asked me, "What is the 'PD' COLB?" This was the only COLB image ever posted on the Internet at the time that the Kos COLB forgery was made. The owner of that COLB is the daughter of the woman whose name appears on it, and who is not at all happy that other people, myself included, were using it for purposes never intended. I spoke with the daughter, who is a very nice person, and I told her that I would not be referring to her Mother's name anymore. I also suggested that she either remove it, or make it totally unusable for its intended purpose. She did the latter.

Here is my Five Step program:

Find a genuine image that you can use as a guide or template.

If you want to create a believable forgery, you have to start with a real example. In the case of the Kos image forgery, the genuine image used as a guide or template was a real example of a Hawaiian COLB that had been posted to a genealogy website.
Choose an image editing program that you know how to use and will do what you want.

One of the Kos COLB image clones that I created was done with Microsoft Paint -- a very basic image editor -- in the span of about two minutes. Cresting an image forgery from an image is easy if the original that you start with is easy to modify, as the COLB turnout out to be.
Decide what information you need to change and what information you can keep.

When I say, "Which information you can keep," I'm not suggesting to physically leave any existing printed information from the original. All of the original typed information must be replaced by freshly typed information so that all the type looks consistent.

In other words, if Honolulu is actually where Obama was born, you would still need to erase "Honolulu" and re-enter it using your current font throughout the document. The font has to be consistent for all text entries. In other words, you cannot leave any existing field titles like CITY OF BIRTH and "Honolulu" because the font will not match the original font.
The goal is to make an image whose text font is consistent across the entire COLB.

If you don't replace all of the text with a new font, then the forged text will stick out like a sore thumb. Others will recognize the differences among the fonts. Genuine COLBs use the same type face (font) throughout the document -- only the size of the font used for field titles is larger than the data typed in below it. If the font style is not the same across the document image, then people can spot it and use it as evidence that the text has been replaced.
Pick the simplest way to remove or obscure the old information.

There is more than one way to remove or erase existing text prior to typing in new text. One involves filling in the letters with background colors.

The other way, and the one that does a better job, is copying a rectangular section from a blank portion of the background and pasting it over the existing text.

This is the simplest way of eliminating any traces of prior information, and also the most effective. In the case of the COLB, the background has a simple repeating pattern that makes it easier to copy a portion of the blank background that matches the background underneath the existing type and pasting it over the old text by lining it up with the previous pattern.

The image editing software must be able to create a cutout (or copy of the background) that you can move around before pasting it in place over the old text. In fact, the simplest way of covering up old text prior to typing over the "new" background is make a mental note of where on the background the old text began.

You can use the inside edges of your computer display as a guide for making the first text entry, by scrolling the image left and right until the left edge of the first letter of the existing text entry is lying right next to the left edge of your screen.

Then, you can align the bottom of the existing text by scrolling up and down until the bottom edge of the first word is lying above the bottom edge of your screen. Lastly, paste the blank background over the existing text, and type in the new info using your screen edges as a guide for putting it in place.
Cover any traces that your image was manufactured.

I cannot emphasize this point enough. You need to make sure that the newly-pasted background pieces line up with the existing background, and that all of the text is consistently typed in the right places. One way of checking you work is to create an overlay, similar to creating animated GIFs like the ones above. If you've never done that, then you can even use two printouts: the original image is printed on paper, and the modified image is printed on transparency.

By placing the transparency over the paper printout, you can see just how well both the pasted background and the new text match the underlying printout of the existing image.

The last step is saving your work as a JPG file. Most, if not all, image editing software can edit and save JPG images (which are the standard format of digital cameras). Choosing the size of the saved image and the degree of quality (image compression percentage) will have a definite effect on how easily or difficult it will be to spot any evidence of forgery.

Like I noted above, Microsoft Paint (a program that comes with Windows), could be used to make the forgery. It's not the best one to use, but it is readily available.

I may create a video demonstrating these steps because I know that there are people who are reading this, and who have never used a graphics program at all.

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