Jamesian Philosophy Refreshed

Following up on my observation yesterday that the critical actors in the manhunt were private citizens, I should add that Daniel McAdams has made a good related point. One of the two private citizens I discussed yesterday was actually acting in violation of the police demands when he made the critical discovery. A private citizen, "happened to go out and check on his boat (i.e. violating the lockdown order of the cops)." The police, then "achieved nothing but the psychological conditioning of the population...." From the Lew Rockwell report .

I expect that if I don't say something about this subject I will soon be the only regular blogger in the northeastern United States who hasn't. My sympathies of course to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, the dead and the injured and the families of both. The death of someone as young as Martin Richard is always especially heartbreaking. But you don't come here for the usual hearts and flowers dear reader. Let's see if we can say something not already said.  We can do so if we turn our attention to the manhunt, which began in earnest Thursday evening with another crime, the murder of a security officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Late Thursday evening, Sean Collier, responding to a disturbance, was shot and killed. That set off a wild 24-hour period that ended with one of Collier's murderers dead and the other in custody. Perhaps this is something of a take-away. We're often told that government is necessary to keep people ...