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? He was sent to jail for collecting water? What statute violation is that?
Tommy V says:
“These regulators are bullies. They must have had their lunch money taken from them as children. They now have become what they feared.”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/man-gets-30-days-jail-catching-rain-water-property/comment-page-9/#comment-321752
Oregon is stupid!!!! He probably should have given the rainwater to someone else…like the communist/marxist state of Oregon!!
That’s just not right
WTF!!!! America the land of the once free,any doubts we are ruled by a tryant and his court of jesters?
That is what I been trying to tell people the justice system sucks putting people in jail when there is no crime I collect rain water to water my plants we need to fight back before they take all our rights like the right to live
Good grief!
In the south the state will help you make a pond.
Jailed for collecting what God gives us freely. That is the sin!
This is not right. God gave that man the snow and water on his own property to use as he saw fit. The government has no right to jail him for having what is his own.