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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When Imbeciles elect idiots, guess what kind of laws they write?
We better start standing up or America will be gone. This is unbelievable.
I thought that’s what the enviros wanted us to do!
Rise oh people and let the storm break out!
ridiculious
Since when did the Government OWN rainwater???? We have a bunch of ‘IDIOTS’ in EPA and Government!! Stop funding the EPA, get rid of everyone from top to bottom, and rebuild it with Common Sense people, and abolish all the ‘stupid’ regulations and ‘laws’ they don’t have the RIGHT to have!!!
the left coast again
We can only hope the Cascadia Subduction zone slips and dumps all the liberals into the drink…and that Las Palmas erupts and the big sunami takes care of the other bastion of “progressives”!!!!
These NUT CASE LIBERALS must be stopped!!! They are a Special Kind of STUPID!!!!! WAKE UP AMERICA…What the HELL is it going to take to get your attention!!!??? Don’t you recognize TYRANNY when you see it happening right before your eyes!!!???
CAN’T BE TRUE.. I CATCH RAIN WATER ALL OF THE TIME AND I WILL BE SURE TO CATCH MORE FOR THIS GUY.