America’s First Revolution against a Deep State

From 1763-1776, many Americans felt the mounting force and expanding intrusion of a Deep State and their anger grew.

Canada Free Press
by Lee Cary
5/26/2017

Excerpt:

It happened in 1776 – America’s first revolution against a Deep State.

President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to “Drain the Swamp,” if fulfilled, will bring a second revolution against a Deep State.

The first Deep State in America was foreign born in 18th Century England. It impacted the Colonies through the Crown’s operatives and emissaries, some American born – some British.

Today’s American Deep State is born and bred in the United States. We Americans own it – it’s ours free-and-clear.

So what is the Deep State today?

So what is the Deep State today? The answer is found in our past.

Bernard Bailyn (b. September 9, 1922), Adams University Professor and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, Harvard University, received the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for his book entitled The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Among his explanations for the American Revolution is one particularly relevant to today’s political environment in America.

The American Revolution did not begin with gunfire at Lexington and Concord. Years before then, “the colonists believed they saw emerging from the welter of events during the decade after the Stamp Act [1765] a pattern…with increasing clarity, [of] not merely mistaken, or even evil, policies violating the principles upon which freedom rested, but what appeared to be evidence of nothing less than a deliberate assault launched surreptitiously by plotters against liberty both in England and in America.” (pp. 94-95)

This “deliberate assault” traced back to the “invasions of custom officers” into the Colonies “born with long claws like eagles” dating back to the Seven Years’ War (pp.102-103).

Along with the proliferation of British taxes on the Colonies came a growth in the American Board of Customs Commissioners born in 1767. James Wilson wrote that “the crown will take advantage of every opportunity of extending the prerogative in opposition to the privileges of the people, [and] that it is the interest of those who have pensions or offices at will from the crown to concur in all its measures”(Bailyn, p.103, …).

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