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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Yes EPA is now a mussel arm for Oboma . Rules and regulations are terrible on farmers. Typical fascist government rules and more rules strict enforcement harsh penalties. Hitler would be proud
tthis is $#%&!@*d up
A liberal government for you, maybe the law has been around forever, but it took this government to actually convict someone
that’s just crazy
This is so WRONG, there is nothing wrong with catching RAIN WATER on your own property for your own use it is better that pumping water from a stream.
THIS IS A REAL CROCK OF C**P
OMG it’s water that falls from the sky!! It belongs to the person that owns the land it falls on!! I didn’t know the clouds belong to the state!!
We The People demand the release of Gray Harrington. We The People own all water not the Fed. or the State Government. We The People are the Government, not Fed nor State Government you do what we say not the other way around.
The united states government no longer exists, and it’
That’s funny and stupid I swear I don’t know what’s going on everybody going nut one put flag on his front yard this one collect the rain I can’t even put my neighbor on jail when he shot my German shepherd a and it’s very rear to find