“History repeats itself,” said the founding father of modern liberalism. “First as tragedy, second as farce.” Sometimes it turns out to be, “First as patriotism, second as farce.”

Via Boston.com:

In honor of the Boston Tea Party’s 252nd anniversary next week, local activist groups are calling for Bostonians to recreate the historic protest as an act of resistance against immigration arrests and what they describe as tyranny.

“Tyranny” refers to the federal government finally lifting a finger to enforce immigration law before America is washed away in a tsunami of unlawful foreign invaders.

The original Boston Tea Party was the work of patriots. The Boston Ice Tea Party is to be staged by the diametric opposite of patriots, driven by hostility toward their own democratically elected president and their own country.

“Today, a President who behaves like a king occupies the White House. He has sent ICE to harass our city and kidnap our friends, families, and neighbors,” Boston Indivisible, a chapter of a national group that strives to defend democracy and resist authoritarianism, said on its RSVP page. “Let us rise once more to take down tyranny!”

Lack of self-awareness allows moonbats to push self-parody to the last extreme.

They plan to resist tyranny by throwing ice into the water. Not to worry; the rebellious ice will comply with bureaucratic regulations:

There will be “clean” ice — adhering to Boston Conservation Commission and Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection guidelines — for participants to throw into the water, according to Mass 50501.

If only all liberal foolishness had such little impact.

On a tip from Franco.