And it wasn’t any shallower 237 years ago. Rivington’s Gazette for March 9, 1775 reported that “Two Tories, William Cunningham…and John Hill, are handled roughly by ‘a mob of above two hundred men’ near the liberty pole [in New York City]. The former is called upon ‘to go down on his knees and damn his Popish King George,’ but he exclaims instead ‘God bless King George.’ This so enraged the people that they ‘dragged him through the green, tore the cloaths off his back, and robbed him of his watch.’” [Quoted in Stokes, I. N. Phelps, The iconography of Manhattan … Continue reading How Deep Statism Runs!