Reply #31: Interesting. Thanks.

[bean fidhleir]

It's still a "trust me" since, as I asked before: would you trust anything that came from BushCo? Or, if you prefer, some state like Mississippi or Alabama? Or the FBI? You might, but I wouldn't. Just because they're government doesn't mean they're not criminals.

As far as those photos go, you'll have noticed (or perhaps not) that it doesn't seem possible to see everything at once. Where we can see the name, we can't see the signature stamp. We can see a raised seal, but it doesn't look anything like the state seal. Or anything, really. All the raised seals I've ever seen (my own b. cert, passport, car titles, etc) are all recognizably the embossed version of the respective seal. But not this one. We're shown pieces of a cert, but not the whole thing.