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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I know it’s asking a lot, but if all you republicans making coomments had read the whole article you would have seen that the law he broke was on the books from 1926 and is a state law. More stupidity from the right wing wackos who can’t read and blame President Obama for everything. ……
So if rain falls from the sky, who owns the sky?? Last I heard God did and he gives rain away for free. So really how stupid is this?
This is outrages there are companies that are not even from this country that are allowed to tap into the underground water supply and sell it to us like if it we are not entitled to our own water supply and this poor guy cant get it on his own land. What makes it so bad is that the government states they is a drought and we must conserve, meanwhile we conserve and those multi billion foreign companies keep on siphoning are god given water supply that is being sold to us. We as consumers keep falling for this bs tap water is cleaner and safer than that c**p they sell at the store,dont believe do some research for your self stop purchasing water from foreign companies telling lies that municipal water supplies are not good.
This is outrages there are companies that are not even from this country that are allowed to tap into the underground water supply and sell it to us like if it we are not entitled to our own water supply and this poor guy cant get it on his own land. What makes it so bad is that the government states there is a drought and we must conserve, meanwhile we conserve and those multi billion foreign companies keep on siphoning are god given water supply that is being sold to us. We as consumers keep falling for this bs tap water is cleaner and safer than that c**p they sell at the store,dont believe do some research for your self stop purchasing water from foreign companies telling lies that municipal water supplies are not good.
joker says:
“This is outrages there are companies that are not even from this country that are allowed to tap into the underground water supply and sell it to us like if it we are not entitled to our own water supply and this poor guy cant get it on his own land. What makes it so bad is that the government states they is a drought and we must conserve, meanwhile we conserve and those multi billion foreign companies keep on siphoning are god given water supply that is being sold to us. We as consumers keep falling for this bs tap water is cleaner and safer than that c**p they sell at the store,dont believe do some research for your self stop purchasing water from foreign companies telling lies that municipal water supplies are not good.”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/man-gets-30-days-jail-catching-rain-water-property/comment-page-15/#comment-325352
joker says:
“This is outrages there are companies that are not even from this country that are allowed to tap into the underground water supply and sell it to us like if it we are not entitled to our own water supply and this poor guy cant get it on his own land. What makes it so bad is that the government states there is a drought and we must conserve, meanwhile we conserve and those multi billion foreign companies keep on siphoning are god given water supply that is being sold to us. We as consumers keep falling for this bs tap water is cleaner and safer than that c**p they sell at the store,dont believe do some research for your self stop purchasing water from foreign companies telling lies that municipal water supplies are not good.”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/man-gets-30-days-jail-catching-rain-water-property/comment-page-15/#comment-325359
Absolutely sad
THIS IS JUST SO WRONG
Who did he REALLY p**s off?
SOME SAD $#%&!@*!!