Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

This is a response from the Wizard concerning the Steve Haydon/ Lance Uppercut fiasco:

Ralph, I have seen this sort of thing before on discussion forums: sock puppets 

echo-ing each other or using similar grammar, phraseology, etc. I can recall

observing people with different online names using the same very unusual 

expressions - perhaps about a year apart, when the writer has forgotten the 

previous use, that sort of thing. You also get a lot of "cheerleaders": people who 

log on, write: "Very good point", or something similar, in support of a lone nutter

poster, and disappear for months. W

Ralph Cinque: Yes, you put it well, Wizard. But, I'll

point out that there are plenty of Ops who claim to 

be conspiracy advocates or even Oswald defenders.

I wouldn't be surprised if close to half the Ops who

are working the forums do so as non-lonenutters. And

that's because they are trying to influence the people

who are not lonenutters. They have nothing to go after

with lonenutters. 

I am reminded of an experience I had on Amazon 

forum with a guy who went by Patrick Collins. He fit

a very typical pattern, claiming to be a longtime 

researcher who used to be an avid, zealous CT, but 

then realized the error of his ways and became a LN. 

Another common approach is to either claim to be an

agnostic (having no opinion about Oswald's guilt or 

innocence but strong opinons about everything else) 

OR to claim to be a CT by which they mean the HSCA

kind, in which Oswald did it but not alone. These are

all common tactics. 

But, this Patrick Collins was a reformed CT who 

became a LN after years of research- supposedly.

And he as from England. He claimed to be very

educated, with a doctorate I think. And, he claimed

to write his doctoral thesis about the medical evidence,

and he claimed to travel from London to Dallas to 

interview the Parkland doctors and nurses. 

But then he disappeared for a while, and then he

came back. But when he came back, his personality

and writing style were completely different. Now,

instead of sounding like a refined, educated

Englishman (one step below Henry Higgins) now, 

he sounded like an American street tough from, say,

Baltimore.

And when I called him on it, the fact that he didn't

sound English any more, he said that "I don't always

talk like that." Well, people talk however they talk, 

and they don't change their speech the way they 

change their clothes. 

So, to test him, I demanded that he tell me what he 

came to America for, to do what that was JFK related.

And after a lot of hemming and hawing, he said that 

he went to Arizona to stay with friends and work on

his JFK book. Wrong. The right answer was: go to 

Dallas to interview the Parkland doctors and nurses, 

as I explained.

Just another fake and phony; just another Op. 

There are so many.