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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Doesn’t rain water come from God and not the government?
Bert, I guess you’re educated considering you’re calling everyone else on uneducated. It’s people like you to lose the point. I don’t care if he was Gathering 13,000 gallons of water as long as he wasn’t damning up river beds. I’m so tired of liberal $#%&!@*s talking about education. You should call liberal ideology Indoctrination not education. If any man tries to become self-sufficient and does not need the government you see what happens too him.
Christian … Show this to ur dad
That’s crazy Joshua Curtis Rittenhouse
I was tellin ur dad about this today! Christian
I’ll show him when I get home
It would be OK if he was a illegal alien.
Dumb $#%&!@* govt
That’s what he gets for living in Oregon
$#%&!@*in bull$#%&!@*! $#%&!@* the government!