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 have to laugh at this so hard…I live in the southwest , Within our reaches of the Empire of Washington, nothing has changed for Native Americans And Ranchers and farmers in this region of the states, …The Army wants its F……. water because they follow the recomendations of a computer program…WWW3 is over water rights..make no mistake !
Smh
Some of you are clearly the least educated people on earth.
You are embarrassing.
He had 13 Million gallons.
He built massive reservoirs.
You can not do that.
Good god please dont reproduce
Did he steal it from someone else? If he did not what difference does it make how much it is? Was he planning on black marketing it? As you clearly stated we are too stupid and should not reproduce and because you seem to think you are much more intelligent than everyone else; How and why was this 1925 law written and enacted? Please educate all of us, those morons out here.
That’s the EPA hard at work. Government taking over .
Please tell me how does some one hoard 13 million gal of water it’s kind of improbable an to fine some one over water no matter how much is utterly rediculas let alone jail them for it. Water falls from the sky it’s free! And I live in the south east and I really believe it hasn’t changed much here because most politicians live here while they work. Why would they make life harder for them selfs? They wouldn’t and if they are gunna start fining ppl over water they should hold themselves accountable for California! Get rid of the damns around there and let it be like it was once before they damned it up let Vegas find their own water. When u disrupt nature your going to have unforeseen consequence.
Shyntia Radford, while I disagree with some of your post.
Thank god for an articulate thought.
LOLOLOL!!!!^^^
$#%&!@*in Greedy Government Bull$#%&!@*!!
It rains so much there!! Whats the $#%&!@*in problem?? Bunch of $#%&!@*s who run this country!!
Im dumbfounded. This country has become a joke a mockery. It stands for nothing it did. Something bad is gomna happen to this world. Politics are disgusting. , rediculous.
Wow what a shame !! Are you kidding me