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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What about the resivoir that a kid peed in and they dumped the water to drain it?
This is BS!
i collect rain water a lot of times if these pansy ass stuffed shirts dont like it than come get me. besides they dont own the water god does.
Well I better start covering my pool when it rains.
ummm.. Ridicolus… 🙁
Better study a little more 10 companies are buying water rights all over the world. 8 of them are American owned.
TOTALLY !!! DISGUSTING !!!!!
Where do they find these people? Paid actor?
What? WTF???
I collect rain water like my father taught me when I was knee high to a grasshopper. This is Unfrigginbelieveable, it’s time to vote the Leftwing loony toons out in November. I’d fight this all the way to the Supreme Court….