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Freedom campers allowed with rules

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Should freedom campers be allowed to use public parks?

More freedom camping spots are being trialled in Marlborough during summer but the proposals have received mixed reviews.

New restricted areas are being trialled at Blenheim's A&P Park, the railway station, Wynen St car park and Picton High St car park.

Freedom campers that are not self-contained can use A&P Park only between 6pm and 9am under the restrictions.

Marlborough District Council's reserves and amenities manager Rosie Bartlett said the restrictions were put in place to avoid conflict with day users.

Self-contained vehicles can park at the Blenheim Railway Station and Wynen St car parks between 6pm and 9am for one night only.

Campers must not cook outside their vehicle and are not allowed to hang up their washing.

The new proposal would provide economic returns by providing more areas for tourists to spend a greater time in Marlborough's town centres, Bartlett said.

It has been rubber stamped by the Marlborough District Council's assets and services committee and will go before full council for approval.

Blenheim Railway Cafe owner Jeremy Harris said the trial in the railway station car park would be good for business

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Campers can't find freedom in Twizel

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Wider bans on freedom campers in the Mackenzie District are likely after more than 100 submitters opposed a draft Mackenzie District Council bylaw.

The council's planning and regulation committee yesterday voted to extend draft bans after receiving submissions heavily in favour of a stricter bylaw.

Of the 117 submissions received only a handful were in favour of the draft bylaw.

The committee resolved to ban freedom campers from council land in Twizel's town centre, the Ruataniwha lagoon, a broader section of Tekapo's commercial centre and lakefront, and Murray Park.

Camping would also be banned from December 23 until the second Monday in January on the shores of lakes Ruataniwha and Opuha.

Under the revised bylaw, all campers on other council land must be able to meet their ablutionary and sanitary needs for three days.

The bylaw is scheduled to be confirmed at the next full council meeting.

Submitters from Tekapo and Twizel said they did not want freedom campers staying anywhere in their towns. Mayor Claire Barlow said the council could not ban campers outright, as the Government's Freedom Camping Act 2011 allowed bans only in places where freedom campers were already causing health and safety, public access, or site protection problems.

In a submission supported by 36 Tekapo ratepayers, Tekapo Community Board member Stella Sweney told the council freedom camping ought to be prohibited within the town's 80kmh speed zone, and locals had volunteered to enforce the rules themselves.

Lake Tekapo Motels and Holiday Park general manager Gavin Cox told the committee the strategy would encourage freedom campers' "smelly van mentality" and the 20 proposed spaces had the potential to cost the holiday park $300,000 annually.

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Freedom campers unwelcome in Mackenzie

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Considering the Mackenzie District Council's Draft Freedom Camping Strategy are, from left, councillors James Leslie and Murray Cox, deputy mayor Graham Smith, mayor Claire Barlow and councillor Russell Armstrong.

Tekapo and Twizel residents do not want freedom campers in their towns, submitters told a Mackenzie District Council hearing this morning.

The council received 117 submissions on its proposed Freedom Camping Bylaw and Freedom Camping Strategy.

In a submission supported by 36 Tekapo ratepayers, Tekapo community board member Stella Sweney told the council freedom camping ought to be prohibited within the town's 80 kmh speed zone.

When Mayor Claire Barlow asked if Sweney believed Mackenzie residents would be willing to pay for the costs of enforcing such a ban, Sweney said residents had told her and fellow board member Lyn Martin they would volunteer to enforce the rules.

Tekapo Holiday Park manager Gavin Cox told the hearing panel the strategy would encourage freedom campers' "smelly van mentality" and the 20 proposed spaces had the potential to cost the holiday park $300,000 annually.

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Pastor Jack Interviews Robert Tyler of Advocates for Faith and Freedom – Video

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Acton Institute’s Acton University – Finalist for 2014 Templeton Freedom Award – Video

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Freedom camping concerns

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Neville Peat.

The disquiet came as councillors at yesterday's Dunedin City Council planning and regulatory committee meeting received an update on additional steps taken to manage freedom camping problems in the city.

That included new signs and security patrols at Macandrew Bay and Ocean View, which together would cost the council about $17,600 this summer.

Despite that, council reserves and recreation planning team leader Richard Saunders said some freedom campers were continuing to ignore rules at Macandrew Bay.

Five overnight parks had been set aside in the area for vehicles without on-board toilets, but more than that had been staying in recent weeks, he said.

Extra security patrols could also not be expected to encourage ''total compliance'' this summer, ''as this would require an almost constant presence on site'', his report said.

The council was continuing to talk to the Department of Conservation about the development of a Doc-style camping ground on the peninsula, with a feasibility study expected to be completed by March 31, he said.

Some councillors spoke in support of that initiative at yesterday's meeting, including Cr Neville Peat, a staunch critic of freedom camping provisions in Macandrew Bay.

He reiterated those concerns yesterday, but said a Doc-style camping ground on the peninsula would plug a ''glaring gap'' in Doc's national network of camping grounds.

''On the peninsula, a major wildlife attraction for visitors, we don't see anything of the sort.''

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Freedom Center may host town halls on Ferguson

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Efforts to find common ground in the wake of Monday night's violence in Ferguson, Missouri, could involve conversations that are about to take place in Cincinnati.

That's what WLWT News 5's Todd Dykes discovered when he visited the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center on Tuesday.

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"What's so important is that we learn from past struggles for freedom," said the Freedom Center's Assia Johnson. "History only really serves to help us to be able to have those discussions, to have open dialogue about what's going on right now, about what's going on in Ferguson."

Encouraging discussions about the volatile situation in Ferguson is not a simple task, but Johnson says the museum's emphasis on new beginnings makes it a logical place to start.

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"This is a place where you not only learn, but where you connect and engage," she said.

While visitors to the museum on Tuesday viewed portraits of despair and hope in America, the Freedom Center's leader, Dr. Clarence Newsome, was on a tour promoting the facility to other cities. But he was also keeping close watch on what's been happening on the streets of Ferguson.

"I want to say that violence is not an appropriate or an effective response or reaction," Newsome said. "Violence polarizes. It separates people, and so I want to discourage that in every way that I can. What we need to do is to focus ourselves on having very, very meaningful conversations. More than one conversation. We need to start a series of conversations, and we need to make sure these conversations are all-inclusive."

With that in mind, efforts are underway to host a community in dialogue to talk about the events unfolding in Ferguson.

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US Freedom Act's faltering progress through Congress sparks debate

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POLITICAL WATCHERS and rights groups were divided by November's Senate vote on the US Freedom Act, some saying that its passing would have saved citizens from the worst excesses of government snooping, and others suggesting that the opposite was more likely. For now the Act is in the wilderness, but the debate will rage on.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) expressed its disappointment almost immediately, saying that the Act was a glimmer of hope for believers in snooping reforms.

"We are disappointed that the Senate has failed to advance the US Freedom Act, a good start for bipartisan surveillance reform that should have passed the Senate," it said.

The EFF said that it hopes the Act returns with the appropriate amount of support and with no alterations.

"The Senate still has the remainder of the current legislative session to pass the US Freedom Act," it added.

"We continue to urge the Senate to do so and only support amendments that will make it stronger. We strongly oppose any amendment that would water down the strong privacy, special advocate and transparency provisions of the bill."

Fight for the Future, a group with similar beliefs and aims as the EFF, took a different line, contacting its supporters with a warning about the passing of the Act in advance of the vote.

"Two years after we learned about the US government's massive surveillance programmes that target every internet user in the world, the Senate goes to vote on a bill that's supposed to end them," the group said on the day of the vote.

"But it's a wolf in sheep's clothing so far; as written, it does not protect free speech in the digital age.

"It's also possible that some of the amendments being considered could make the bill a little better, but even if that happens it will still fail to be a net positive for privacy.

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Religious Freedom: "The law that let us practice our spirituality came too late." – Crouser #2/4 – Video

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