50 Greatest Conspiracies | Dept. of Unimaginative Adjectives

Meticulous UnabomberWould You Describe
This Man
As “Meticulous?”

For more on the Unabomber bust see Conspiracy Currents No. 22


The American Heritage Dictionary defines "meticulous" as "extremely careful and precise," or "extremely or excessively concerned with details." No adjective could better be used to describe Theodore J. Kaczynski, the Montana mountain man arrested as the notorious environmentalist-radical terrorist known as the "Unabomber," and who lived in a rundown shack with no running water and no bathroom and who witnesses describe as smelling like, in the words of one reporter, "ripe garbage." According to our major news media, this is one meticulous man. To wit...

USA Today, April 4:

San Jose Mercury News, April 5:

Daily Telegraph, April 4:

Associated Press, April 5:

New York Times, April 5:

Philadelphia Inquirer, April 5:

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New York Times, April 6:

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New York Newsday, April 8:

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TIME Magazine, April 15 Cover Story:

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