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.
Source: /cnsnews.com
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Washington State also has this law – seems our lawmakers are sneaking this kind of legislation through – why they think they own the rain water I do not know, but we need to start working on getting these laws repealed – the only thing I can think is that they are working on getting Agenda 21 enacted which means we need to get these people out of their office
Ok. WHO should be the one to try and stop ot?? Talk is cheap and so far lip service is all we got
That is an inaccurate statement. He diverted a creek to fill his pond.
This is totally disgusting govg needs to mind thier own business it’s his property
TOTALLY STUPID NOW THEYRE STARTING TO CHARGE PEOPLE FOR AIR
WTF?
Don’t you all see this is no longer America because of Obama this country is going to hell
what in the world??? These judges have gone plain crazy……
Completely out of control.
$#%&!@* this stupid $#%&!@*! Time to ignite!!