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Supreme Court says if Parents OK it kids can do it, except in Colorado were bureaucrats know more than parents or the rest of us!

Posted: February 16, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized |Leave a comment

Colorado Department of Human Services says Mountain Boarding is not OK for kids. 

Sometimes you read something so stupid you just can’t believe it. Here is the letter from Kathi Waggoner, Licensing Supervisor of the Colorado Department of Human Services.

Thank heavens for the government to let us know that skateboarding on concrete is OK, but skateboarding on dirt. Softer dirt is an extreme sport. Thank heavens the government knows better than the parents who have agreed to allow their kids to do this.

Even better our new Governor’s name is not the stationary. I suspect this letter catches him off guard. He is touring the state promoting Colorado as a great place for jobs and his bureaucrats are putting Colorado companies out of business. Mountain Boarding was created in Colorado by MBS Mountainboards. However, its home state has deemed the activity an extreme sport.

I’ve searched the Colorado statutes and regulations and have not found a definition of extreme sports. No law or regulation defines extreme sport. Of course the Colorado Tourismhttp://www.colorado.com/Office nd out you can come here, but you can’t do it!

There is no contact information on the CDHS website except this (anther agency that believes killing trees is the best way to contact them and the internet is just a billboard):

Colorado Department of Human Services
1575 Sherman St.
Denver, CO 80203
Tel: 303.866.5700
Fax: 303.866.4047

Reggie Bicha, is the Executive Director. Call him and let them know how out of touch this decision is. At the same time, contact Colorado’s new governor and let him know the decision is without any merit and there must be a way to contact CDHS other than by phone and mail. You can email the Governor Hickenlooper here.

However, that is not the bad part. What is bad is the government telling people what they can and cannot do. Educo Adventure Camp has mountain boarding on its front page. It’s not like it’s hiding the issue from parents. A parent has the right to say to Educo, I don’t want my kid doing that. The kid in the picture has a helmet, elbow pads, knee pad and gloves on. He is on dirt. You are going to tell me that a bureaucrat in Denver, knows more about sports than that kid or the child’s parents. The Supreme Court of the US said that no government has the right to tell a parent how to raise a kid subject to killing the kids. See Courtney Love in Outdoor Recreation Law and Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57; 120 S. Ct. 2054; 147 L. Ed. 2d 49; 2000 U.S. LEXIS 3767; 68 U.S.L.W. 4458.

Do something, send an email to the Governor and call the CDHS and let them know this is outrageous.

What do you think? Leave a comment.
 
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