Patsy

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 ^[1] ^[2] and the Walsall bomb plot of 1890. ^[3] ^[4] ^[5]

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 President John F Kennedy and shot to death 2 days later himself 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