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Ask HN: Is Obama's long form birth certificate a forgery? It has a text layer!

3 points by aneth ↗ HN
Ok, I am the furthest thing from a birther. However, after reading some of what appeared to be utter b.s., I downloaded the birth certificate and opened it in Adobe Illustrator CS5.

My heart dropped to the floor when I found there are actually layers containing the text on the certificate which you can hide.

I am no CS expert, but it appears there is a serious chance this is a forgery. All I can say, is holy fucking crap, please tell me I'm wrong. Anyone?

The certificate:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/birth-certificate-long-form.pdf

Wacko forum where I was hinted about this. Maybe they aren't wackos after all?

http://www.thetreeofliberty.com/vb/showthread.php?p=1495321#post1495321

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aneth
One theory is that it could be some sort of OCR software that split it up into layers. However if settling this thing was their goal, they failed hard. The birthers will run wild with this.