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.
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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