Conspiracy theories have been around a long time, it seems when something big happens in the world someone, somewhere comes up with one of these to justify what happened. And usually these theories are supported by a mass number of people who just either don’t trust what the mass media is telling them or simple they really do believe what these people are telling with them. Because lets face it, people who come up with these things really do there homework and they always leave you saying “what if?” Because these claims usually cant be disproved or proven its really hard to know what’s real and what is just a plain lie. For this assignment I am going to be examining an aspect of one particular conspiracy theory, which is if President Obama is really a U.S citizen. The part of this theory I will be examining is if is birth certificate is indeed real or was it hoax that the president made after people started to question his legitimacy. I will be looking at other people’s research on this topic, and also people who are supporting that it is indeed real.
So this whole conspiracy theory started when president Obama was campaigning to because president in 2008. People started to questing wither or not he was a natural born citizen of the United States thus making him a illegitimate candidate for being president of the United States. The whole reason behind this was because his family was from Kenya instead of the United States. And the fact that Obama wouldn’t immediately come forth with his birth certificate raised some eyebrows across the United States. But that was back in 2008, and now it is 2012 and there is still some people who believe that the birth certificate that Obama did come forward with was in fact a fake. The evidence these conspiracy theorist have against Obama is for one he did not immediately come forth with a birth certificate thus leaving him more time to create one because he is a person of power so they believed he could have one created quite easily. Adding to the conspiracy theory was when he did release it late in 2011 it was believed that it was digitally forged, with the program Adobe Photoshop and that it lacked a Stamped Seal of the State of Hawaii to see a picture of this I provided a website with a detailed analysis http://rightcounterpoints.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/is-obamas-newly-released-long-form-birth-certificate-legitimate/.
Now I will began to look at some sources who will give more insight on the claim that the President’s berth certificate is a forgery. My first source that I looked into was CBS news.http://www.kpho.com/story/17053035/arpaio-to-reveal-results-of-birther-probe. The reason that I looked into what they had to say is that I believe that they try to stay unbiased and stick to the truth of what is really going on. In this particular article they are examining Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s claim that the birth certificate was not real. This article was in reaction to Sheriff Joe’s investigators who were trying to bring the truth out about the birth certificate. It even gave a link to the full investigation that Sheriff Joe put on. I believe that the article on CBS news was credible because it is a mass media news company and I believe it is the most unbiased out of all of them.
My second source of information on this conspiracy theory was
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/birthcertificate.asp. Snopes has long been a website for people who like to question things and look deeper into certain aspects of what is going on in the world around them. I believe that this website is credible because you said it was. The fact that it gives links that support the information that they have provided goes to show you that they did there homework and they can be credible. They give in-depth views on certain aspects of the conspiracy theory for example how Sherriff Joes claim was Debunked and even gave links to show how it was debunked. I liked how Snopes gave both aspects of the conspiracy theory then backed up how it was supported or was debunked.
My third source of information about this subject was the actually the White House website (
www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/.../birth-certificate-long-form.PDF)
. The reason I chose this for information was because it released the official copy of President Obama’s birth certificate. Even though I am not an expert in the field of document examination I still thought it was important to actually see the real thing. I believe that this website is credible because it is a .gov website meaning that it is run by the government of the United states. Usually this means that you can trust the information on the website that you are reading when it has a .gov domain on it.
Because of all the evidence from my sources I believe that this particular conspiracy theory is that it is indeed false. There is just to much evidence that it is real to believe that the president created a forgery. The fact that sheriff Joe's highly educated investagators team worked so hard to make us beleive that it was false then other experts debunked this goes to show you that it is infact a real birth certificate. So this conspiracy theory is BUSTED!
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