Posted on 05/06/2011 10:39:58 AM PDT by Red Steel
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- Even after the White House offered up President Obama's birth certificate, there are still those who are questioning it's legitimacy.
One Grand Junction man who works as a graphic artist says he has discovered something strange about the certificate. "There's no doubt that it has been edited and quite significantly," James Colby said.
He's been involved in graphic arts since 2004 and has never had a reason to doubt our president's birthplace. In fact, he says he is politically independent. Yet, Colby says he can't ignore the obvious.
After downloading the birth certificate straight off of the White House's website, he started noticing the apparent flaws in a computer program called Adobe Illustrator.
"Legitimate digitized, scanned documents will always have [a] faded appearance... There are too many jagged features, here." he said as the scoured the certificate. "So, it's not a single document, it's actually 'compositive' layers."
Colby says scanned images should only have one digitized layer. He says President Obama's birth certificate has almost 50 layers. "You can see the layers flash yourself just by rapidly zooming in and out in your web browser. That means that the browser is rendering different layers."
Colby concedes that there are some instances where scanned images produce multiple layers. "It's a program called OCR that converts text in the images into computer readable text," he said. "But, it would never work on signatures. So, the fact that the signatures have been edited discounts the possibility of it being OCR."
Colby continued pointing out the apparent problems. "You'll notice the white background behind these letters, which is also super-imposed, actually covers up a little bit of the 'D' in this word," he explained. "Even his name has been edited, all except for the 'R' in 'Barack.'"
But, Colby can not figure out why the White House would release something so obvious. "The question is why is it so obvious," he said. "Maybe the original certificate was damaged, maybe it was faded, maybe someone was just trying to clean it up. [But,] you'd think if that was the case, they would supply the original certificate just so there would be no suspicions."
Colby says as strange as the edits are, they don't prove a thing. But, he believes that they do point in one direction. "It's definitely been edited in its entirety, so the indication would point to the probability of it being fake," he said. "But, nobody can really make that claim."
Colby isn't alone in believing the birth certificate has been altered. Other graphic artists and various conservative groups from across the country are saying the same thing.
BOH...
. thats Hawaii DOH to you pal...can you get anything right? you want us to ask the Bank of Hawaii about birth certificates? sheesh...
Seems it's quite out of hand ~ people have nothing but digital records available to them and they are apparently unaware of that.
Obama’s mother’s records are a different matter than this. Where do you imagine State Department keeps records of archival interest?
ask them the question, why Obama still has not provided a copy of the original document.
What do you think of the Nordyke twins’ documents? Were they original enough for you?
ML/NJ
They have an official state seal affixed to it, unlike the pretender’s recent attempt.
That's quite a different comment, don't you think?
And I would point out that FReeper DANAE posted a Hawaiian BC here that didn't look like it had a seal; and I do not recall you calling her on it.
There's lots wrong with Bamie BC II but your blowing smoke doesn't help the cause.
ML/NJ
Source?
My understanding is they have an archival copy of the original .
They all scan. Before that it was micro fiche. Simple. But it was a photo of an original.
yes layers can be OCR but NOT THESE KIND OF LAYERS~!!!!!!
Teh single biggest error they made was NOT FLATTENING THE IMAGE
IT would have removed all the layers and just left the final composed image
SOMEONE screwed them big time
These layers ARE NOT OCR
They have an official state seal affixed to it, unlike the pretender’s recent attempt.
That’s quite a different comment, don’t you think?
I responded to YOUR query “What do you think of the Nordyke twins’ documents? Were they original enough for you?”
The Nordyke COLBs have a seal affixed...not blowing smoke but it appears you must be smoking something.
> Oh, and the issue of OCR came up and was thoroughly debunked.
Actually, it APPEARS that it was thoroughly debunked.
This kid actually doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about.
The trolls don’t know what they are talking about.
ML/NJ
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=105233
“I am not aware of any birth certificate records that have been destroyed by the department,” Janice Okubo, public information officer for the Hawaii DOH, told WND. “When the department went electronic in 2001, vital records, whether in paper form or any other form, [were] maintained. We don’t destroy records.”
Okubo affirmed that beginning in 2001, all vital records, including birth records, moved to electronic formats.
“Any records that we had in paper or any other form before 2001 are still in file within the department,” she insisted. “We have not destroyed any vital statistics records that we have.”
Thanks for posting both the MRC and National Review links.
This is a dead horse.
It just doesn’t know that it’s dead... lol.
Local news has more gumption than the brain dead national press corpses including the establishment Republicans which is 99% of "txe" party and Dem trolls ever had.
Why would BHO have any reason to have to ask Hawaii DOH for anything? When did he NOT have his own personal copy of his own birth certificate? And what birth certificate did he use for every school he ever attended? How did he ever get a passport if he did not have his very own original copy of a birth certificate?
Begs the question what is he hiding?
Any other form would clearly NOT be an "original birth certificate".
Also your WND link was posted 2009 and indicated the certificate may not exist at all. This newer post looks like they still have their doubts.
yeah im still waiting for the MSM to ask him any questions about his BC, social security number, school records, law license etc....
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