massachusetts radicals throw 10,000 pounds value, that's millions of dollars by our standards of tea into boston harbor. and the cannot tri isountry is this. without virginia, there is no revolution, because it's the most populous, richest state. virginians are appalled by this tea party. and if the brits had acted moderately, which is asking a lot because they had been appeasing the colonists every moment, they repealed the state back, they kept repealing and backing away. and now enough is enough, they said. destroying property, that's outrageous. and they come in with the coercive acts. they close the port of boston, do away with the town meeting, change the massachusetts charter. well, the virginians say if they can do that to massachusetts, they can do that to us. now, if the economic is the fear of power, of sovereignty, it's a complicate the issue. i don't think you can measure it in terms of well, they're going to lose some money. there was much more fear of what an alien force, 3,000 miles away, could do to them. i think it's a fear of power. >> would our representation in the british parliame