Gov’t To tell You What Kids to Invite to Birthday Parties

Posted on June 30, 2008

-By Warner Todd Huston

OK, now go read that headline again. There is no trick to it. I am saying that government is aggregating unto itself the power to tell you, a parent of an 8-year-old child, which of his school classmates he is allowed to invite to his birthday party. And government has decided that if your child doesn’t invite every kid in his class, then he isn’t allowed to invite any of them.

It’s about discrimination, don’t you know?

You see, our wilting flowers, our fragile, unable, emotionally unstable children will grow up to become serial killers if they don’t get invited to YOUR child’s birthday party. The government cares, see, and has so decreed. YOU will just have to invite everyone or you will be barred from having that party.

Fortunately this stupidity hasn’t yet happened in the United States but it did just occur in Europe. Sweden to be exact. The AP is reporting the Nanny State in Sweden has forcibly taken away the birthday invitations to an 8-year-old boy’s birthday party and told his father that he isn’t allowed to pass them out to only some of the other kids. If it isn’t all of them, then NONE should be invited.

The boy handed out invitations to classmates at his school in Lund, southern Sweden, but did not invite two boys because they were not his friends… The school, 360 miles south of Stockholm, confiscated all the invitations, saying it objected because it had a duty to ensure against discrimination.

The Father of the boy told authorities that one of the two boys had bullied his child and the other had not invited his boy to a past party.

Now, the anti-American left in this country would have you believe that Europe is the closest thing to nirvana, they say we should be emulating what they do there. We’ve even had self-hating Supreme Court Justices imagining that we should jettison the Constitution and take up foreign precedent as our own.

Big Brother and his nanny state rules all, even your 8-year-old’s birthday party.

Don’t laugh this off as something that could not happen here. Total domination of government over our lives is the ultimate end of modern liberalism. From the most important decisions to the least, most personal decisions, government must take all power unto itself to fulfill the liberal mantras of “fairness,” and “non-discrimination.”

It is already happening in Europe. It will come here if the Democratic Party and their malcontent, meddlesome constituency have anything to say about it. It’s just the kind of “change” just the kind of “new tone” they want. In fact, even if that isn’t their ultimate plan, it IS the ultimate destination, regardless.

Hot Air grabs their quote of the day from this news.

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6 Responses to “Gov’t To tell You What Kids to Invite to Birthday Parties”

Eema23 on July 1st, 2008 1:10 am

The key point here is that the boy was distributing the invites at school. If he handed them out after school or mailed them the school would not be involved at all.

I have heard of classes in the United States where parents are asked not to distribute invitations at school unless the entire class is invited. I think our daughter’s kindergarten class had that rule. (Sorry I am not sure; she is 22 now and we homeschooled after kindergarten.)
James on July 1st, 2008 7:17 am

If they are going to force kids to invite everyone, then they need to force everyone invited to come.
Darth Keller on July 1st, 2008 8:47 am

“The Father of the boy told authorities that one of the two boys had bullied his child and the other had not invited his boy to a past party.”

You don’t have to justify why you did/didn’t invite some kid to your kid’s party, IT’S YOUR KID’S PARTY! “I didn’t want that kid at the party………” Enough said
Panday on July 1st, 2008 9:22 am

The key point here is that the boy was distributing the invites at school. If he handed them out after school or mailed them the school would not be involved at all.

No, the point here is that the school shouldn’t be involved at all, period.
The Machine on July 1st, 2008 11:13 am

The Peoples Republic of Swedenistan
Parker on July 1st, 2008 5:29 pm

I believe the media omitted some important information when it printed this story. As always, the medias do not release all pertinent facts, and thus caused confusions in the public minds.

Therefore, the readers are left to assume or presume by filling in the gaps.

For example, perhaps contentions, like arguments and disagreements, on the invitation among the students begin to get out of control and the school felt compelled to stop the source of the problems, which is the distribution of the birthday invitation.

True, the birthday child should exercise some control, but one wonders whether he was actively involve in the arguments and disagreements. Further, perhaps the school cautioned the birthday child about the disruption and the nuisance he was creating, but ignored the school advice.

I am not in favor of the out-right confiscation of the invitation, but if the invitation and the distribution was creating disruption, nuisance and impacting health and safety issues, I will have to agree with the school.

In America, school officials have authorities to confiscate any items they feel will cause disruption, nuisance and affect the health and safety of other students and the school. School officials even have authorities to search and confiscate school bags if a student has a reputation to bring dangerous items on to the school premises. I am from Arizona, USA.