Ron Polarik identified?
The Barackyphal Blog claims to have identified the figure behind Ron Polarik as Dr. Ronald Polland. What is remarkable, if this identification is true, is that the man behind the Ron Polarik mask really does have a PhD in Instructional Systems, albeit no credentials in computer imaging (which anyone who had the stomach to wade through his “analysis” knows).
I was all over Florida State graduates in Instructional Systems half a year ago, but somehow I didn’t find the fellow. I could kick myself!
Now if we could just prove that this fellow is a descendant of the Bulgarian financier Petko Strashnika, the identification would be cemented.
Here is the latest rant from Polarik in a post titled “We were warned…” over at the Free Republic site.
Update:
It appears that lawyer Phil Berg has confirmed the identification.
Further evidence Polarik is Polland!
With this additional information, I believe the Polarik/Polland association is proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
I have said many times in private that whoever outed Ron Polarik would be doing a tremendous service to the United States. Huge thanks to Loren at the Barackryphal blog for this.
Update:
Aha! The Bulgarian is Polland’s wife. So we come full circle.
I think Loren should be voted man of the year.!
Obama’s entire life: PhotoShopped!
according to pseudonym-about-town “Ron Polarik” in a set of recent postings on FreeRepublic.com. Ron said:
I already examined that photo and all of the other class photos — they are all faked.
Here on Obama Conspiracy Theories, we don’t PhotoShop images because I’m too cheap to buy a copy. Some of the images, however, are PhotoImpacted to crop or re-size them. But resizing is not “faking”, and “faked” is the word Ron Polarik (not her real name) used.
“Ronald Polarik”
YouTube Photo of "Ron Polarik"
“Ron Polarik” is the pseudonym of a human being who claims to be an expert in the detection of altered document images. Polarik is mentioned as an expert in the Berg lawsuit and he appears under the further pseudonym XXXXXXXXXXXX in the Alan Keyes lawsuit in Hawaii.[1] Polarik publishes a web site Obamas bogus birth certificate exposed. Polarik also has a YouTube video.
It’s somewhat difficult to write a biographical sketch of someone who invents himself out of thin air. Polarik creates a history for himself at various times and places. The most comprehensive version is in the Keyes lawsuit, where Polarik claims academic credentials, and indeed, he often signs his name as Ronald Polarik, PhD.
I am Dr. XXXXXXXXXXXX, and I hold a PhD in Instructional Systems with 25+ years of post-doctoral work experience, and a Masters Degree in Educational Research, Design, and Testing. I have worked with computers and computer printers, plotters, and optical/digital scanners, typesetting, offset printing, and automatic typewriters, for over thirty (30) years…In my professional career I have held positions as a Computer Programmer, Web Designer, Media Consultant, Research Director and Statistician. I have testified as a Statistical Expert in Governmental hearings over the last twenty (20) years.
In a later statement this distinguished person said “I’d say that I punk’d you good enough.”
A computer image analysis expert, Dr. Neal Krawetz, has analyzed Polarik’s work and published his results describing Polarik’s analysis as “bad science”.
Why would anyone doubt the word of a US Senator who puts forward a birth certificate, and then turn around and accept an analysis of it from someone who won’t even give his right name?
I suppose the guy behind Ron thinks this is fun, making fake affidavits files in court cases, spouting bad science as if it were real, keeping tens of thousands of people in an uproar. I suppose he is laughing at the people who have bought his phony PhD. Personally, I think the guy belongs in jail. I hope some prosecutor will figure out a crime that matches his hoax and let “Ronald Polarik, PhD” learn how a real court works.
The Outing of Ronald Polarik
YouTube Photo of Ron Polarik
I present this rare unretouched photo of Ron Polarik showing the severe facial injuries he received while scanning 700 Hawaiian birth certificates with a scanner (close the freakin’ lid already!). Note Ron’s imaging skills as he provides glare-free lighting for his video presentation.
Reports have surfaced that Polarik (alias XXXXXXXXXXXX) has been identified as none other than the owner of the great mother of all things spun against Obama web site, TheObamaFiles.com. This assertion appeared yesterday over at Top 10 Bad Guys. I won’t say the name here without more information.
The person behind the Polarik puppet posts from an IP address in or around Longwood FL, as confirmed by several web sites including this one.
Attempts to track down Polarik from his credentials and biographic information have lead exactly nowhere, which suggests that some or all of the biographic information is fake. Given that the name is fake, the signature is fake and the analysis of images is fake, some question remains as why anyone would accept the rest as anything other than fake too.
So I have just two questions before I move on:
Why has Ron Polarik’s Final Analysis disappeared from the web?
and Where is my Cease and Desist order?
[The "Final Analysis" has been replaced by a longer rant at http://polarik.blogtownhall.com/ ]
Update
The identity of “Ron Polarik” has been found to be Ronald Polland, PhD of Florida. Dr. Polland is an ardent supporter of Israel, and has no academic credentials in image analysis.
Polarik’s Hawaiian “affidavit”
An affidavit is a sworn and witnessed statement. The Alan Keyes lawsuit in Hawaii had something called an “affidavit” from Ron Polarik (not a real name). Here’s the signature:
Ron Polarik signature
The first thing it reminded me of was this birth certificate (click for larger image):
Poopy Birth Certificate
I had wondered what Ron Polarik would say under oath, but I guess that will have to wait for someone else. Note that someone has questioned whether XXXXXXXXXXXX is Polarik, but one need but read it. What would be the chances that two different forensic document examiners with unusual degrees made 700 test scans to come to a “Final Report”?
A detailed forensic proof that XXXXXXXXXXXX is really Polarik is available at the Barackryphal blog.
Polarik is Back!
Readers here may recall that I dismissed Ron Polarik, MS, PhD as a credible examiner of the Obama birth certificate image, and cited some third-party analysis debunking it.
Let me say first that Ron Polarik (a pseudonym) has no MS and no PhD. The person behind Ron may have these degrees or he may not. So long as “Ron” is anonymous, he has no right to claim any qualifications beyond what his own skill as a writer and scientist exhibits (i.e. high school dropout). (more…)
