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Dec. 16, 2009 Whenever I check Yahoo News on the subject of Barack Obama’s birth certificate, I am certain to see a number of results, many from mainstream media, denouncing any and all people who wonder why Obama has refused to release his birth certificate. I am usually shocked at the substandard English of the shower of invective, where words like ‘wingnut’, ‘wacko’ and ‘nutcase’ are directed indiscriminately at the so-called ‘birthers’. Along with this, they are often dismissed as ‘conspiracy theorists’, ‘racists’ ‘bigots’ and ‘fringe elements’. Undoubtedly, there are some people in the world who have concocted wildly implausible conspiracy theories about this, but that does not mean that anyone who wonders why Obama has refused to release the certificate is one if them. The question is perfectly legitimate. One needn’t entertain any theories at all. As for myself, I sometimes muse about the why’s and wherefore’s of Obama’s duplicity, but, no, I draw absolutely no positive conclusions. I harbor no conspiracy theories whatsoever on the subject. The mainsteam media keep insisting that the certification of live birth posted on Internet constitutes sufficient proof of Obama’s having been born in the United States , especially in light of two notices that are supposed to have appeared in Honolulu newspapers shortly after Obama’s birth. And they may be right. Everything may be just as Obama maintains. But that raises the question of why he doesn’t merely release the certificate. The release would put to rest all the confusion and doubt. Some skeptics claim that the posted certification looks inauthentic, while the mainstream media painstaking answer this objection with minute explanations. But both sides are missing the point. Anyone inside the Hawaii Department of Health could prepare a certification of live birth in a matter of minutes, and, of course, it would look equally genuine whether the information contained were true or false. Scrutinizing an online image cannot prove anything whatsoever in this case. Many people have the mistaken idea that forgery consists of altering a genuine document already in existence, but forgery includes willfully creating a document with false names, dates or other information, with intent to defraud. So even if the certification has not been visibly altered, it could still be a forgery. As for the two newspaper notices, you can judge for yourself how easy it would be to doctor images projected from microfiches almost 50 years old. It may sound as if I have subscribed to the idea that the three items are indeed forgeries. I have not. They may be perfectly legitimate. But if so, why doesn’t Obama simply release the original? Not only has Obama refused to release the certificate, but he has spent millions of dollars in legal fees for attorneys to answer lawsuits and get them dismissed on procedural grounds rather than on the substantive issues. It’s incredible to me that the American public can swallow this kind of skullduggery so nonchalantly and that their representatives in Congress are so mum, for the most part. Here is an article that appeared in Kenya in 2004, with the headline “Kenyan-born Obama All Set for US Senate”. http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm Associated Press has not denied that this article appeared when and where is seems to have appeared, but they do deny that their original release referred to a Kenyan birth, suggesting that the Sunday Standard added that tag on their own initiative. But in the light of the behavior of the mainstream media vis-à-vis the birth-certificate issue, I surely would not give Associated Press an unqualified vote of confidence. How many of these same mainstream media lied through their teeth about the Niger forgeries and the imaginary WMD during George W. Bush’s misbegotten war in Iraq ? If the Standard’s article is correct, then the certification and the newspaper announcements are mistaken, at best, and forged at worst. ------------ About the author Thomas Keyes: I have written two books: A SOJOURN IN ASIA (non-fiction) and A TALE OF UNG (fiction), neither published so far. I have studied languages for years and traveled extensively on five continents. Visit my website here. Email: udikeyes@yahoo.com Comment on this article here! 
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