I make no claim that the Kenya document is authentic or a hoax. I don't know.
I am merely debunking (by request) the WhatReallyHappened.com analysis, which is the usual Obot misinformation.
WhatReallyHappened.com article about the Kenya Registration of Birth
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Originally Posted by whatreallyhappened.com
The latest "proof" is the following birth certificate.
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/918...ckobama1fo.jpg
The above purports to be a 1964 certified copy of the original 1961 birth certificate. Whether Kenya would spend the resources to recopy all the British birth certificates is open to doubt, but there are two other aspects of this certificate which call its authenticity into doubt.
Let us take a closer look at the document.
Note that the document number is given as 47,044. Obama is a 47 year old chief executive and 44th president of the United States. A rather amazing coincidence.
But only if the document is a hoax, and only if the hoaxer wanted it to include numbers significant to Obama.
The "0" in the middle was also supposed to be the letter "O", standing for "Obama". . . except that it wasn't.
http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/4...istrationo.jpg
The "0" in the middle does look like a letter "O", but it is not the same as the "O" in "MOMBASA".
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The location of birth is given as Mombasa. But Mombasa was part of the state of Zanzibar until December of 1963.
October of 1963, to be exact, but close enough. Like Kenya, Zanzibar was a British protectorate until December, 1963.
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This certificate is dated February 1964 and carries the name "Republic of Kenya", Kenya did not formally declare itself a Republic until December of 1964.
On Dec. 12, 1963, the Constitution of Kenya declared the country "the Republic of Kenya." Some newspaper articles from 1963 also used that name. It had been understood even before independence that the country would be called "the Republic of Kenya." That name was formally declared on the first anniversary of independence, but "Republic of Kenya" had been used from the date of independence and even before that.
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EF Lavender (the name given as Registrar) is a laundry detergent.
And by this do you mean . . . the Registrar is a laundry detergent?
The laundry detergent is Earth Friendly Lavender, not E.F. Lavender. E.F. Lavender was the name of the Registrar.
More accurately, from the image of this document before hackers altered it, the name of the Registrar was K.F. Lavouder.
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The certificate uses the label "Christian name" in a nation that is predominantly Mus|im.
False. You have probably been listening to someone who claimed that the United States is a Mus|im nation.
That someone's cousin, Raila Odinga, has led the recent black Arab thrust into Kenya, pressing for Shari'a law.
However, just as Anglicans largely evangelized Uganda, Lutherans almost completely evangelized Kenya.
On a recent (2000?) census, 88.5% of those between age 15 and 45 (or 50?) called themselves Christians.
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Kenya was independent in 1964 and not likely to be using British regulatory paperwork.
Why not? The form was perfectly satisfactory, and there was no need to change the printer's original except to put "Republic of Kenya" on it.
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Obama is a rather amazing man to have so many birth certificates!
If you think that's amazing, wait until you see how many Social Security numbers he has!
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The hoaxers have claimed that this certificate [the computer image of an Hawaii Certification of Live Birth] provided by the Obama campaign is a fake, but have yet to produce any evidence to back that claim up.
PLEASE! Don't go about using "hoaxers" interchangeably with "birthers"! If you have to call us "birthers", then we will wear your intended insult proudly. But don't insinuate that we created a document to make fools of ourselves, which may have been the hoaxers' intent (if this image should turn out to be a hoax).
The Obots have attempted to discredit TechDude and Dr. Ron Polarik (pseudonyms) by personal attacks, but with very few exceptions, these counterfeiting and forgery experts' facts, theories, arguments, and conclusions are still unbreached and unassailable.
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Their approach, straight out of the Napoleonic code, is to make continual accusations and demand that the accused prove their innocence. They hope that simply by repeating a claim often enough, useful idiots will come to believe it.
"Accuse the opposition of doing what you are doing yourselves." This Obot SOP was taught by
1) Saul Alinsky
2) Joseph Stalin
3) Vladimir Lenin
4) Leon Trotsky
5) Karl Marx
6) the accuser, Satan
Select all that apply.
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But here in the United States, we follow the principle that the ACCUSER must prove the accused guilty, beyond a reasonable doubt.
It depends on the type of case.
Any applicant for a job must allow verification of his qualifications; to refuse to do so is itself a disqualifying act.
Civil suits do not assume, "Innocent until proven guilty;" they are different from criminal suits.
When my daddy gave me a whipping, I was assumed guilty until proven innocent . . . and never once did I prove my innocence.
Leo Donofrio filed a Quo Warranto complaint in Washington, D.C., which is the prescribed way to bring suit for unlawful conduct against politicians and government employees in the District. Quo Warranto specifically requires that the accused present his credentials, rather than that the prosecutor find the credentials which the accused is hiding.
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There were no "provinces" in Kenya until 1970. Prior to that they were called "Districts".
At least partially incorrect.
Barack Obama, Snr., was born in Kanyadhiang village in Rachuonyo District, which is an administrative district in the Nyanza Province of Kenya.
You did recognize that Mombasa was part of Zanzibar when Barack Obama II was born? You can't say "Zanzibar" in one paragraph, and in another paragraph, apply to that same place and time the laws and regulations of Kenya.
Oh, you did? Pardon me, I wasn't thinking... that's just what Obots do.
a = b and at the same time a >< b ... it's the dualist philosophy of India ... or maybe just the Indian ganga.
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Obama's father would have been either 24 or maybe 25 when Obama was born. The certificate gives his age as 26.
I'm glad you have such good eyes. I can't say for certain whether that is a "6" or a "5". The lower loop of the character is more circular than the elliptical lower loops of the sixes elsewhere on the document.
Either the Kenya Registration misprinted the senior Barack Obama's age, or his tombstone incorrectly dated his birth in 1936. I'd be inclined to believe the tombstone over an unverified computer image, but your guess is as good as mine. Either way, an arguable typo for the father's age on a Registration of Birth is immaterial to showing that Barack Obama II was born in Mombasa, Kenya, on the date shown.
The document peculiarities which WhatReallyHappened.com discusses are the least of the problems with this Registration of Birth. They didn't even mention the absence of registrar signatures; the South Australia Bomford Registration with its matching registrar and district registrar names, the matching "No. 495" and the matching book number; and the bogus looking "embossed seal," which appears to be a rubbing of a two-shilling piece. The remaining arguments by WRH have already been answered in numerous places, so I'll call it a night.
But I'll leave you with this puzzle. The Hawaii Div. of Vital Records prints Hawaii COLBs on lightweight paper that is thin enough for the Registrar's signature stamp and the date stamp to bleed through. How then does the bifolded first generation paper copy that FactCheck has photographed and displayed not sag in the picture below? It looks like 24-pound paper stock.
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/5...cationbifo.jpg
Again, I make no claim that the Kenya document is authentic or a hoax. I don't know.