“IMPERIAL METRIC SYSTEM” IS STILL PERMITTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
by Sharon Rondeau
(Jul. 20, 2011) — On July 19, 2011, Lucas Daniel Smith contacted The Post & Email in response to our interview of a person who stated that he had information regarding Obama’s alleged birth record in Kenya. The interviewee had stated that he believed that the document exhibited by Smith in 2009 as a certified copy of the Kenyan birth certificate of Barack Hussein Obama was “totally bogus…because Kenya was a country that was under British rule for many years, and when Obama was born, information on his birth record would have been given in metric measurements: height, weight, etc.”
Smith stated that that information is incorrect, and that Kenya, as well as Great Britain, used the measurements of “pounds” and “yards” until the mid-to-late 1960s. His blog posting today contains a page from the “Colonial Reports – Annual” dated “1938” which states that “The pound, yard and gallon, identical with those used in the United Kingdom, are the standard weights and measures of the Colony…”
Kenya was a colony and a protectorate of the British Empire until its independence was declared in December 1963.
Smith told The Post & Email that the metric system’s use in Great Britain and Kenya is “relatively new.”
The British Weights and Measures Act 1985, Chapter 72, states:
1 Units of measurement.
(1)[F1 Subject to subsection (6) below,] the yard or the metre shall be the unit of measurement of length and the pound or the kilogram shall be the unit of measurement of mass by reference to which any measurement involving a measurement of length or mass shall be made in the United Kingdom; and—
(a)the yard shall be 0.9144 metre exactly;
(b)the pound shall be 0·453 592 37 kilogram exactly.”
Section 6 as noted in footnote 1 above states:
6 Testing of other standards and equipment.
(1)The Secretary of State may, if he thinks fit, on the application of any government or person, accept for testing as to accuracy or compliance with any specfication and for report—
(a)any article used or proposed to be used as a standard of a unit of measurement of mass, length, capacity, area or volume, or as a standard of the weight of any coin,
(b)any weighing or measuring equipment,
(c)any other metrological equipment, and
(d)any article for use in connection with equipment mentioned in paragraph (b) or (c) above,
submitted by that government or person for the purpose at such place as the Secretary of State may direct.
(2) The Secretary of State may charge, in respect of any article or equipment accepted by him in pursuance of subsection (1) above, a fee of an amount ascertained in such manner as he may determine with the approval of the Treasury.
The United States uses what is known as the “Imperial Metric System,” which was reportedly “first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act of 1824.
One source states that “In the 1970s, most British Commonwealth nations changed from the Imperial system of units to the metric system.” A history of “metrication” in the United Kingdom reports that Parliament established a “Metrication Board” in 1969 which was dissolved in 1980.
A chart here shows that Kenya and Uganda officially adopted the metric system in 1967 following Great Britain’s conversion in 1965. The metric system was formulated during the French Revolution.
There are currently three countries which use the Imperial Metric System: the U.S., Myanmar, and Liberia. On January 1, 2010, a directive was issued stating that the metric system would be the sole system of measurement allowed for “most products sold in the European Union (EU).” Wikipedia does not appear to have updated its information in this regard.
The Post & Email interviewed Lucas Smith last September after he had just completed a personalized mailing of the alleged Kenyan birth certificate to every member of the 111th Congress. A spokesperson for Smith told The Post & Email several months ago that the new members of the 112th Congress have also received the mailing after taking office in January of this year following the midterm elections.
Smith submitted the document as an exhibit along with a sworn affidavit in a lawsuit filed in California approximately two years ago and provided background information on how he allegedly obtained it from the Coast Provincel General Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya.
Smith has a YouTube channel on which he has discussed the Obama eligibility question and the document he stated he obtained in Kenya in February 2009.
An initial video made by Smith shows him holding the document which bears the name “Barack Hussein Obama II.” The information on the form includes a footprint, name of the presumed delivery doctor, information about the parents, and two signatures. Smith told The Post & Email that in order for someone to authenticate the document he in the video, he would “have to put his life on the line.” He said that one document examiner had agreed to analyze it but that a large amount of money was required in order to complete the task.
Smith suggested that citizen researchers might consider trying to locate additional examples of the doctor’s signature which appears on the document for comparison purposes to help in the authentication process. He stated that eBay is “a great place to track down old documents and currency” and stated that not everything can be found on the internet by being a “Google king.” He also recommended university libraries as an excellent research resource and said that he used the UCLA library to complete much of his research on Kenya prior to its independence from Great Britain.