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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This will happen
Bloody ridiculas !
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/08/child-sacrificial-cult-disrupted-arrests-made-in-montreal-3013366.html
This is outrageous !
X24 says:
“Yes, this is bad, but to say that this is some new encroachment of government on our rights overlooks the fact that the law behind this is 89 years old. Before we condemn it wholesale, a little inquiry into why the good people of Oregon would have ever allowed such a law to be enacted seems in order. I mean, I feel all the “blame Obama” sentiment here, but he didn’t write the law. The context of the law being enacted in 1925 might tell us if the current enforcement has any merit. But I doubt anyone will care to do the leg work necessary, so they just rant.”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/man-gets-30-days-jail-catching-rain-water-property/comment-page-21/#comment-450727
Yes, this is bad, but to say that this is some new encroachment of government on our rights overlooks the fact that the law behind this is 89 years old. Before we condemn it wholesale, a little inquiry into why the good people of Oregon would have ever allowed such a law to be enacted seems in order. I mean, I feel all the “blame Obama” sentiment here, but he didn’t write the law. The context of the law being enacted in 1925 might tell us if the current enforcement has any merit. But I doubt anyone will care to do the leg work necessary, so they just rant.
Just wrong! That’s why you should never vote Democrat!
this is stupid what is wrong with what he did ?
What goes around comes back around.
retares that’s what our government is becoming or muslum thinking f epa