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This is an article by the guy with the youtube video that shatters any notion that the PDF image the White House posted was done as they said - without *some* electronic editing.

(My apologies not not being better at HTML.)

1 posted on 04/30/2011 8:37:37 PM PDT by Triple
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To: Triple

Well, the images did not come through - any help from HTML savvy freepers appreciated.


2 posted on 04/30/2011 8:39:21 PM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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I think are missing a very important point. To be a natural born citizen, BOTH your parent must be US citizen at the time of your birth. The birth certificate obama released proves that his father was not, thus obama is NOT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN. This is no conspiracy. Even if obama is born in hawaii, he still not qualified to run


3 posted on 04/30/2011 8:40:36 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: Triple

The doctor’s name on a separate layer is the key.

Case closed.


4 posted on 04/30/2011 8:43:34 PM PDT by ILS21R ("Every night before I go to sleep, I think who would throw stones at me?", she said.)
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Deninger is of course correct that the thing ‘released’ by barry bassturd’s minions is a composit and not a photocpy of an actual paper document. Deninger also notes that Hawaii has vouched for this fraudulent ‘release’. Therefore what was shown to the public has now become either the official Hawaii source data, or the most blatant insult/in your face/piss on the American people for questioning bassturd’s credulity/I won so I can do as I please, laws be damned. Frankly, the amatuerish state of the forgery tells me it is the latter ... We The People have been shown in no uncertain terms that the law we think exists, only applies to we peons not to the democrat oligarchs and their feckless Pubby enablers.


9 posted on 04/30/2011 8:48:54 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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National Review's document, unsurprisingly, is a scan of a color document.  How do we know?  Because if you simply pull it up in your web browser (which will open the embedded Acrobat Reader) and zoom it up, you will see this:

Note the chromatic aberration.  This document is in fact a color scan.

And here is a blown-up piece of the so-called "scan" of Obama's document:

Note the absence of chromatic aberration.  The Obama White House document is not an unaltered color scan.

Folks, this is physics.  It is "how things work."  It is why you see rainbows.  Light always is refracted slightly differently depending on wavelength when it goes through a lens - as is necessary to focus it so as to make an image. 

17 posted on 04/30/2011 8:54:55 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Race? Obama is only 1/16th Black. He is 1/2 Caucasion, 7/16 Arab. He has an Arab name not African.)
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The National Review has some brilliant folks...but they apparently are just about as tech ignorant as the Obamaloon crowd. Methinks they just want to get the birth thing out of the say so they can argue other things.

Fine...but they’d better kick the repulsicans in the Obama-end and get some candidates out there......

We don’t want no stinkin’ RINOs. (Ya hear that, Romney?)

We don’t want no stinkin’ “old” repulsicans.

We definitely don’t want ANYONE who’s even spoken to McCain in their lives.


19 posted on 04/30/2011 8:56:00 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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National Review's document, unsurprisingly, is a scan of a color document. How do we know? Because if you simply pull it up in your web browser (which will open the embedded Acrobat Reader) and zoom it up, you will see this:

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Note the chromatic aberration. This document is in fact a color scan. And here is a blown-up piece of the so-called "scan" of Obama's document:

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Note the absence of chromatic aberration. The Obama White House document is not an unaltered color scan.

21 posted on 04/30/2011 8:57:11 PM PDT by Doofer
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His video explanation of the chromatic aberration is what convinced me that those who are whining to “move on” and about how “this makes us look like morons” were wrong, and that this whole thing is just one more case of Obama playing the nation for suckers.

The BC pdf file proves nothing about Obama’s legitimacy.

Anyone who still thinks this is a scan of a 50 year old piece of paper has swallowed a heapin’ helpin’ of Obama kool-ade.


22 posted on 04/30/2011 8:57:34 PM PDT by bigbob
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Karl Denninger supported Barack Obama in 2008. I know, I participated on Ticker Forum during the course of 2007 - 2008, and was very put off by it. Ticker Forum doesn’t appear to be the busy place it once was. Maybe “Obot” Karl Denninger is just trolling for site hits like all the others who are cynically stirring the pot with this.

The eligiblity of Barack Obama is in doubt at best, based upon the original intent of the Framers of the Constitution. That much is clear. The birth certificate thing is about as clear as mud. This game of Where’s Waldo, trying to be the next Buckhead of Rathergate fame, leads nowhere but occupies a lot of mindspace and it certainly runs down the clock.


36 posted on 04/30/2011 9:05:08 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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As I understand it, the original scan of the document was black and white. This explains the jagged edges. That scan had only black and white pixels, and it wasn't compressed (unless with RLE, which is lossless.) This could have been done decades ago. Perhaps all original data is stored as monochrome, 1 bit per pixel scans. It certainly saves storage space (24x is a lot!) and the government probably never cared about finer details of the scan.

At a later time - say, last week - that bit plane was pulled out of the archive and positioned over the modern, color image of the security paper. This can be done to protect the resulting paper copy or the PDF itself, though it should be digitally signed for that. Then the background was imprinted with the negative of the image (to make forgery harder, I guess - but that's silly) and written into the PDF container "as is", without flattening of all layers into one.

At the same time the modern OCR software could have broken the bit plane into chunks, as it tried to figure out what belonged where. I don't know what would be the purpose of that, except that layers are easier to OCR (or ignore during OCR.)

There are still some interesting details. For example, the BC's number '1' is not jagged - it was scanned (or inserted) on a modern grayscale (or color) scanner. How could that happen? One explanation would be that different layers have different compression methods. Most of the jaggedy, monochrome text belong to their own layers... but this particular corner was recognized by the software as color, and promptly compressed. Anyone with a copy of Illustrator can check which layer that digit belongs to.

All this process can and should be done automatically. Adobe products have a good scripting interface just for such cases (and for many more.) I can't say, of course, that this is what happened, but it is technically possible, and is even likely because it makes sense to set up the workflow this way.

44 posted on 04/30/2011 9:12:21 PM PDT by Greysard
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Production typists used tab stops and if you look at other, known-authentic birth certificates from the time, you'll note that they're tab-aligned. Obama's is not. Remember Dan Rather and his little forgery? 20-something idiots in the White House IT department have never used an actual typewriter in their life.


You got to "hate it" when Obama employs ignorant kids who have seen a typewriter. LoL.

45 posted on 04/30/2011 9:15:32 PM PDT by Red Steel
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A comment and thought from CDR Kerchner (Ret) on the "assembled" PDF document put out on the internet by Obama:

While this whole "assembled" PDF document the White House put out could be a ruse and trap to further embarrass the "birthers" as Mario considered in his new article, I had another thought. What's to say that the copies given to Obama's lawyer sent to Hawaii, and attested to by Hawaiian officials, actually show the same information on those two paper copies that is now being displayed on the internet in this very badly assembled PDF document.

As I recall the former HI director when interviewed in recent weeks, she said when she saw the alleged original Obama birth registration document she said it was half typed and half hand written. What we are being shown on the net is something that is entirely typed except for the signatures. That does not comport with what the former HI Health Dept Director said.

What if the Obama powers sent the lawyer to Hawaii to provide the necessary cover story that they did get two copies of the Obama vital record there ... but the image on the net now is NOT of the paper copies that they picked up ... say because there is something on it that Obama still does not wish to reveal. So he has a version cooked up once again to put online, and someone screwed up and did not flatten the PDF file prior to release to hide the layers. Would Hawaii officials speak up to affirm or deny that what Obama put on the net is not an image of the copy of what they gave to Obama's lawyer. Or would they keep silent in much the same way they did regarding the Certification document, the short form images on the net since Jun 2008. Remember that Hawaii never confirmed that any of those images on the net were copies of something that they issued. Hawaii has been very willing to cooperate with Obama's stonewalling and game playing regarding the vital records in HI for Obama. And, Obama is playing such a cat and mouse game with the American electorate about all his hidden records that one can never tell with him as to what is real or what is memorex. It is a disgrace how this administration is treating the American citizenry. And the main stream media does not call him out on this and instead helps and enables Obama to conduct such offensive disinformation tactics on the American electorate. Journalism no longer exists in this nation. The media should be ashamed.

46 posted on 04/30/2011 9:18:23 PM PDT by shield (Rev2:9 Blasphemy of them which say they're Israelites, and are not, but are the synaGOGue of Satan.)
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Karl is the best blogger on the web. What a guy.


48 posted on 04/30/2011 9:21:02 PM PDT by spyone (ridiculum)
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Yes, because they had a faked COLB, and they scanned it, and then they decided they would alter the scan so people would think it was fake.


50 posted on 04/30/2011 9:22:45 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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We will never hear the end of ukelele which I'm convinced from another freeper is Vick Lee. Messed up royally on the doctor's name, too.

But one thing I'll throw out there. I can't look at the layers, but saw a video where you turn off and on the layer with the terminal 1 in the certificate number; some say it's a different font. But that you only have 10 digits to play with.

What I notice about that is that artifacts or bleedthrough are mentioned, some have been discussed. I wonder if the one wasn't on the main document for whatever reason, and the opacity slider was not set at 100% for that layer which caused the bleedthrough, easy to show visually if I could. People who know Photoshop will know what I''m talking about. And there could be some other explanation. An OCR scanner could drop the 1 and mess up other things but don't know what it would do with the handwriting. They're designed to scan text.

Obviously the BC number on factcheck COLB and the number on what was released have to match.

FWIW, it looks like the doctor part is on a separate layer as someone showed on YT.

Tab stops? I've done hundreds of forms, and unless I did the same form over and over (can't remember a single incidence offhand), I didn't bother to set the tabs. Just spaced over, released the carriage lock and rolled it up or down to position the data in the right spaces or boxes of the various forms.

I'll reserve final judgment until later. Much later. When you're not an expert, someone can convince you of a lot of things one way or another.

62 posted on 04/30/2011 9:35:22 PM PDT by Aliska
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"Among them are that there are no apparent tab stops used on the Obama "birth certificate." 1961 was the day of the typewriter, and nobody hand-centered things like that."

Here he is mistaken. The "Gold Standard" twins BC is centered similarly to WH copy.

75 posted on 04/30/2011 9:57:53 PM PDT by moehoward
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Note the chromatic aberration! Obviously, it's a fake!

84 posted on 04/30/2011 10:04:58 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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And this?


87 posted on 04/30/2011 10:08:04 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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Placemark.


103 posted on 04/30/2011 10:24:10 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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For all you folks who believe “citizen by birth” is the same thing as “natural born citizen”, I’m curious to know why you think the founders included the grandfather clause in the eligibility requirements. Seems rather redundant if your definition is correct. Yet the grandfather clause was joined to the natual born citizen clause by the word “or”, as if a person had to be one or the other to qualify. Please enlighten me.


136 posted on 04/30/2011 10:50:10 PM PDT by Jess79
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