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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it keeps getting worse and worse.
Need to RAIN in the EPA! They are left progressive idiots that are slowly killing this country
What the flip wow this is gone to far wow wow
That is insane.
This is an old law about restricting the flow of moving water , like damming up waterways . As long as he’d had a trickle valve he’d been within the bounds of the law !
Totally stupid!!!!!!!!
But one has to wonder if maybe they don’t want you gathering it and testing it ! One word chemtrails !!
Stupid…..Stupid……My grandmother did that in WVA for years and used the water for washing her hair (coal black and shiny and went down to her knees……………something good had to be in that water)……They had a well on the farm too but she was a huge believer in capturing God’s rain!
Oregon can pass a law to buy and sell pot, but you cannot catch rain water. What a screwed up state.
Who property of rain fall grains?