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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FU the EPA!
13thirteen says:
“sounds like a wagter rights issue. He should file for rain water rights to irrigate his property The sun is next. He only useS IT AND PASSES it on to the ocean or river. How does the lawyer justify the use incourt. what waS THE NEED FOR THEM TO MAKE SUCH A law. There has to be a reason?”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/man-gets-30-days-jail-catching-rain-water-property/comment-page-21/#comment-479911
Where do these idiots crawl out from ????
This is tyranny. The people who belong in jail are those who created, passed, and enforced, this stupid law.
Not right
Are you serious?
Hell he catches rainwater and Marylander’s are taxed for it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a wonderful Government we have !!!!!!!!!!!!!
boy, what is the world coming to? Rain falls from the sky and is free from God; no one but no one should go to jail for something so stupid
What the frag is going on here???!!! Where in the hell does the government – ANY government – get the right to make such a unilateral decision on something that falls from the sky???!!! What are we to expect next: being taxed for the air that we breathe???!!! :-/
Are you $#%&!@*ing thats just fuken nuts