An Oregon man, Gary Harrington, has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for of collecting rainwater – he surrendered Wednesday morning to begin serving his sentence.
This is how far gone our country is to a totalitarian state: a man can’t dig a big hole on his property and let rain fill it without going to jail.
Gary Harrington, the Oregon man convicted of collecting rainwater and snow runoff on his rural property surrendered Wednesday morning to begin serving his 30-day, jail sentence in Medford, Ore.
“I’m sacrificing my liberty so we can stand up as a country and stand for our liberty,” Harrington told a small crowd of people gathered outside of the Jackson County (Ore.) Jail.
Several people held signs that showed support for Harrington as he was taken inside the jail.
Harrington was found guilty two weeks ago of breaking a 1925 law for having, what state water managers called “three illegal reservoirs” on his property. He was convicted of nine misdemeanors, sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined over $1500 for collecting rainwater and snow runoff on his property.
The Oregon Water Resources Department, claims that Harrington has been violating the state’s water use law by diverting water from streams running into the Big Butte River.
But Harrington says he is not diverting the state’s water — merely collecting rainwater and snow melt that falls or flows on his own property.
And they keep voting the same people back into office How smart is that We get the government we deserve. VOTE THE BASTARDS OUT. Vote Conservative The Progressive`s are nothing more than communist
It’s not the governments water, it’s the water GOD gave us..
Our government is being run by idiots.
Now this is c**p. let this Man go home and collect more water,Its his water.Hes paying for his property and what goes on it.
And the rain barrels were for what?
BS… It’s all the Dems blame
The greedy bastards known as our government that we pay with tax dollars have forgotten there paper pushing pushing purpose and need to be held in check. Thos os blasphemy and people should be outraged. Day by day they take more and more rights from the people and its time we stand up. Those law makers have nwvwr seen a truly hard time and dont know what survival is like. Land of the free, and The American Dream seem to be phrases that no longer carry meaning because the government takes and moderates everything. Its their fault this country is in such bad shape yet we let them to continue calling the shots. This is total bull$#%&!@*!!!
He’s a liar. The man was not just using water on his own land, he’s not just collecting runoff from his own property. He had built at least two damns and was trying to divert water so it went to his land ONLY (two large ponds he stocks with fish), keeping it from getting to the property of others. He’s a well known water hoarder who is just being selfish.
http://www.mnn.com/your-home/at-home/blogs/oregon-man-in-possession-of-13-million-gallons-of-illicit-rainwater