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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Someone in Oregon is out of their pea brained mind
Oregonians ate rather stupid bunch of tree huggers.
There has to be more to this story than that!
YOUR NOT AS FREE AS YOU THINK YOU ARE !!
I wonder what will be next???
crazy guess he cant own a gun eighter sad sad sad sad
now the government owns the rain
Ridiculous.
Real smart for Oregon’s “governor” to allow something like this… DURING AN ELECTION YEAR! Oh, no word from the ACLU or AmNasty International, I assume…
There afraid what you might find in the water, it’s what there spraying in the air…..chemtrails and HAARP….. True reality