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  • 2009-08-06 (xsd:date)
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  • Is This Barack Obama's Kenyan Certified Registration of Birth? (en)
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  • On 2 August 2009, realtor/dentist/lawyer Dr. Orly Taitz Esq. unveiled her latest piece of dubious evidence in her long-running quest to demonstrate that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States of America: A photograph of a document purporting to be a Certified Copy of Registration of Birth issued by the Republic of Kenya in February 1964 which recorded a Barack Hussein II as having been born to Barack Hussein Obama and Stanley Ann (Dunham) Obama in Mombasa, Kenya, in August 1961. Said document was reportedly obtained by Dr. Taitz from an anonymous source who didn't want his name disclosed because he was afraid for his life: Within a few days the certificate was clearly revealed to be a fake — it was actually a forgery based on a copy of an Australian Registration of Birth issued to one David Jeffrey Bomford (who was born in South Australia in 1959) which was grabbed off the Internet and used as a template for creating the fake Kenyan certificate: When reporters tracked down David Bomford, who currently lives in Adelaide, South Australia, for comment, he was somewhat bemused at having become the focus of an international news story: Dr. Taitz declined to throw in the towel and admit she was duped by a forgery, however, instead claiming that the Bomford [birth certificate] was created to try to discredit my efforts and suggesting that hoaxsters had created an identical (phony) Kenyan Registration of Birth in order to discredit her genuine (phony) Kenyan Registration of Birth. Another Barack Obama Kenyan birth certificate of dubious origin was offered for sale by one Lucas Smith via eBay in August 2009: In September 2009, Orly Taitz attempted to introduce the second Kenyan birth certificate in the case of Rhodes v. MacDonald as evidence that Barack Obama was born outside the United States U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land dismissed the complaint and threatened to sanction Ms. Taitz if she filed any similarly frivolous motions in the future: A spoof web site, the Republic of Kenya Birth Certificate Generator, allows Internet users to create their very own fake Certified Registration of Birth documents from Kenya. (en)
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