So? A nation has a right to prepare as it sees fit.
As for the price of beans in boston, the American Revolution was started at Lexington Green in response to the crown’s positioning of troops to put down the rebellion.
I don't remember that on the list of grievances.
I'm not getting your obsession with troop movements. Nations move troops, happens all the time. The Confederates surrounded Fort Sumter, but the fighting didn't start until the South attacked.
Patrick Henry in St. John’s Church, Richmond, Virginia
March 23, 1775:
“Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with these war-like preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask, gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us; they can be meant for no other”...http://www.history.org/almanack/life/politics/giveme.cfm
Declaration of Independence: “He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.”
It definitely was on the list of grievances.