Tabloid web site WorldNetDaily now presents us with a report from an alleged detective, Takeyuki Irei (a search of Hawaii’s professional licenses yields no one named Takeyuki Irei). Mr. Takeyuki’s shtick is a fake Hawaiian birth certificate from 2010 that supposedly shows Barack Obama’s actual place of birth in Kenya. Here’s the image from a website called the “Aloha Reporter”.
Fake birth certificate
I examined this fake before in June of 2010 in my article: It’s raining fake birth certificates, writing:
This is what I would call a “birther fantasy” certificate. It encapsulates the mythology of Barack Obama born in Africa, and registered by the statement of his grandmother. This is the kind of certificate that was claimed to be possible in some of the birther lawsuits, such as Keyes v Bowen and by birther attorneys like Paul Jensen.
My original article details numerous problems with this document, the most glaring error being the citation of HRS 338-17.8, a law that wouldn’t exist until two decades later. I have been told, although I cannot personally verify, that this particular certificate was created to embarrass the birthers. Loren reports further evidence of the fakery on the Barackryphal web site.
The WND article says:
A private investigator claims employees of the state Department of Health forged three Hawaiian birth certificates for Barack Obama to “screw with birthers.”
Takeyuki Irei told WND one document placed the birth at Kapiolani hospital, another at Queens Medical Center and a third in Kenya.
All this proves is what we have long known, WorldNetDaily has no problem packaging crank theories as “news.”
I wonder if there is any such “birth certificate” that predates the release of the Obama COLB and has the time of birth as “7:24 pm”. It’s funny how these only popped up once Obama gave his full birth date details.
And not one forger has yet dared to simply put in another date – which would be more consistent with claims of “Obama’s BC’s are forgeries” if you really think about it. Somehow they all fear that having a different date/time will have the birthers think “forgery!” right away. But if I were to forge such a document, I’d make sure it stands out by showing as much of the real BC to be different. After all, so far no forgery has anything “worth hiding” to show except a foreign birthplace which has been thoroughly debunked by now.
It also makes you wonder why the birfers don’t jump on “Negro – African” – aren’t they claiming “African” was not a race? Then what the #?ߧ$ is “Negro – African” supposed to mean?
PS. In case it wasn’t mentioned in the original discussion, I think the two first signatures clearly come from the same hand (then again I’m not a signature expert).
PPS. If I really were to forge an Obama BC, I’d add at least these spicy bits to make it stand out:
(1) Date and time a bit different (like August 1st, 6:21 am)
(2) Lists father as “unknown”
(3) Has box for “Twins, 1st child” checked.
and then watch the conspiracy theories unfold from there. 😉
Back on April 30. Loren of Barackryphal tracked back the original birth certificate used as a template for the Blaine Document forgery. http://barackryphal.blogspot.com/2011/04/provenance-of-blaine-birth-certificate.html
Needless to say, it shows the sheer fictionality of Corsi’s claims that either Obama’s original was copied from it, it was copied from Obama’s original, or they were both copied from the same source. It also shows how bad both Corsi and this “Private Investigator” are at researching, since they both seem to think the Blaine Document first appeared in March 2010 on the Aloha Reporter website. It was making the rounds back in October 2009, first by Orly (who believed it, of course) and then by The Post and Email (who, ironically, debunked it as a forgery).
I also liked how Corsi’s comparison of the markings was cited to some guy on Facebook! Obviously an impeccable source for valid document analysis.
They are also alleging that this document and the LFBC were created by the same forger:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=295109
Unless that same forger also forged this 1963 certificate posted in June of 2008, their “analysis” of the marks on the Blaine Document and the form the White House released is complete crap. http://snarkybytes.com/2008/06/18/hawaii-birth-certificate-1963/
I know which one *I* believe is the case…
I was just going by my instinct which said it was a stupid lie – thanks for backing it up…
some discussion from dr k(H)ate’s on the topic:
Wow, that’s full of crazy.
And Obama’s certificate was signed by a “felt tip pen” now? I thought the line was that it was ballpoint, and that’s the reason it’s obviously a modern forgery?
I can confirm that, as I’ve exchanged emails with the guy who made it. And like ANT Pogo wrote above, it was made from a blanked-out certificate that was made from the Snarkybytes certificate, as I detail here:
http://barackryphal.blogspot.com/2011/04/provenance-of-blaine-birth-certificate.html
Maybe ALL the birth certificates released by Hawaii were forged by the same guy!
Someone alert Miki Booth!
Anonymouse would make a great cintelligent designist – that’s a textbook ‘God of the Gaps’ argument if I ever saw one…
As has been noted elsewhere, Hawaii has no record of a private investigator named Takeyuki Irei. You can search by first name, last name, or full name here:
http://pvl.ehawaii.gov/pvlsearch/app
Hawaii calls them “private detectives,” not private investigators.
Of course, the birthers will undoubtedly claim that “Takeyuki Irei” is a pseudonym because he fears reprisal by Obama’s thugs.
I meant to add that I have e-mailed Corsi and asked him if he verified Irei’s credentials.
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so you’re saying that it was really “Magnum P.D.”? 😉
Like they did with Polarik?
“WND verified that he is not misrepresenting his credentials or expertise.”
This BC was so pathetic, it gave me quite a chuckle. I picture the guy saying to himself “OK, we’ll just put the law right in there, that’ll fix it.”
Just dumb.
I think the WND people are the most despicable of the birthers. Orly and her gang are handicapped by delusion and paranoia. The Post and Email people and their ilk are blinded by bigotry and hatred. But Farah and his cohorts are not the buffoons that other birthers are. They know very well that there is not an ounce of truth at all to this birther BS—including this Blaine birth certificate—but they peddle it as truth nonetheless. They succeeded in playing Donald Trump for the fool and are now desperately trying to stay in the “birther” game until their book comes out.
Give it up! “Swiftboating” is s-o-o-o 2004.
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I share your wonderment and I truly find it amazing that the Lucas Smith POSFKBC shares this telling detail.
Well this certificate was obviously copied from the “Alan” certificate as evidenced by the identical handwritten number “2” written after the Plantation question.
Jerome Corsi is a clumsy, unskilled and incompetent investigative reporter and a pseudo-scholar.
Corsi is also an unscrupulous character. See ‘Jerome Corsi vs Eagle Publishing’ (case filed in 11.06.2007 which I have uploaded to my scribd.com account, Patriot1980) which is a conspicuously unscrupulous case in which Corsi knows that he can’t sue his imprint underling publisher that published his crappy book because of the contract that he has with them so he (Corsi) attempts to sues the imprint’s parent company.
“01.30.2008. Jerome Corsi vs Eagle Publishing. Memorandum Opinion by Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle. Case Dismissed”
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49715096/01-30-2008-Jerome-Corsi-vs-Eagle-Publishing-Memorandum-Opinion-by-Judge-Ellen-Segal-Huvelle-Case-Dismissed
My mother used to refer to that kind of comment as “the pot calling the kettle black.”
But Lucas you and Corsi have so much in common
I don’t think so, but you’re dealing with an awfully narrow window of time there. Virtually nobody expressed any doubt about Obama’s birth or eligibility prior to June 9, 2008. That’s the date that the Birther rumors suddenly tipped into popularity, and then the COLB was released on June 12.
And I don’t think anybody was producing fake birth certificates during those three days.
I wonder if Miki Booth knows her son’s birth certificate was forged by the same person who forged Obama’s birth certificate. The fact that the attending physician is the same on both certificates should have tipped her off; the handwritten number 2, as shockingly revealed by Corsi and his “private detective”, just confirms it!
what do you mean WND bogus story, WND has the largest reliabullity factor on the internet, it is considered ultra reliabull! Anybody at all trusts their manifiabull reporting.
And you, Lucas Smith, are a forger who tried to sell a fake Obama birth certificate on e-bay. I can understand how you could have thought that a birther might fall for your scam, had e-bay not shut it down, but why are you here? That you appropriately denigrate Corsi isn’t going to convince anyone here to fall for your deceit.
I read this blog because I find some of the articles (though certainly not all of them) to be semi-objective. Whereas most other Obot blogs/websites are very subjective and filled with an overwhelming amount of misinformation, disinformation and other drivel.
Thanks, Interesting read.
Lame Cherry is saying that the law was added later. This is problematic for many reasons. First, why would someone type this 21 years or more later than the law was passed? Second, where would they get the information if it wasn’t on the original? Third, why would they put such an explanation in a block reserved for something else. Lame Cherry says that the practice of registering out of state children was documented since 1904. What this probably references is the fraudulent Sun Yat-Sen Certificate of Hawaiian birth — obtained by fraud, not by policy. See my article Hawaiian Birth Certificate: It’s a fraud!
However, there are other proofs that it’s a fake. Look at the time of birth. The “m” in the Time of Birth is typewritten, but authentic forms have the “M” pre-printed.
I try to meet your exacting standards for accuracy, objectiveness, and integrity.
Oh crap! It’s going to take at least an hour to clean my monitor and keyboard now.
I too like this blog, that debunked your Kenyan birth certificate (as if anyone but the most gullible birthers believed it anyway), and that bestowed upon you, Lucas Smith, the “Second Batshit Award”.
http://www.obamaconspiracy.org/2009/09/latest-filings-in-barnett-v-obama/
http://www.obamaconspiracy.org/2009/10/second-batshirt-award-winner-lucas-smith/
How about contributing? People might be interested in whether you actually uses a typewriter for portions of your fake Kenyan certificate. Explain how it came about that you messed up the date format. Tell us where you got that spelling of Heltan Maganga’s name.
Thanks!
I’ve got to recalibrate those irony meters, they keep blowing up.