Patsy

Patsy  (“Useful idiot”)
A fall guy, set up to take the blame for the wrong doing of others.

A patsy is a person set up to take the blame for actions which s/he did not (knowingly) commit.

The term is mainly applied to individuals (occasionally groups) who feature in Official Narrative's as the perpetrator(s) (often as "Lone nut" gunmen) in crimes with a deep political significance; and where there is compelling evidence that they are either totally innocent or have been engineered/provoked (wittingly or unwittingly) into action as part of a conspiracy. Examples from UK history are The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and the Walsall bomb plot of 1890.

 

Examples

Page name		Framed for	Description
Mark David Chapman		John Lennon/Assassination	The convicted but probable controlled patsy killer of John Lennon.
John Hinckley		Ronald Reagan/Assassination attempt	Would be assassin of Ronald Reagan, under institutional psychiatric care since the episode. Let loose in 2018.
Hasib Hussain		2005 London bombings	Patsy used in the 2005 London bombings
Lee Harvey Oswald		JFK/Assassination	A patsy accused of the assassination of JFK and assassinated himself 2 days later by another "lone nut" gunman
James Earl Ray		MLK/Assassination	Charged by the US government for the killing of Martin Luther King. He died in jail having never had a trial.
Sirhan Sirhan		RFK/Assassination	A patsy who was very likely MK-ultra'ed to assassinate Robert Kennedy.
Thomas Arthur Vallee			Patsy for a cancelled JFK assassination plot in Chicago 4 months before Dallas

 

Official examples

Name		Framed for	Description
Anis Amri		2016 Berlin attack	Supposed perpetrator of the 2016 Berlin attack, termed "Not independently notable" by Wikipedia.
Waleed al-Shehri

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