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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Actually look up the reason he was fined and jailed. Not because he collected rain water. Because he failed to do it within code for the state/county. It is actually legal to collect the rsin water as long as the collection points follow the law reqhited to build them.
cool. so far the only person who looked up the info. 🙂
What idiots…
Hey if you’re gonna get anything the claps the one ya want.
this is ridiculous and the EPA must be stoped, they are as bad as Obama has been on everything, disband the EPA NOW.
lowercaselettersonly says:
“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.”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/man-gets-30-days-jail-catching-rain-water-property/comment-page-16/#comment-336217
epa is ridiculous
Fu(king Bullcrap! Anyone who buys this is crazy! This man needs a trial by his peers! It’s so ridiculous, I’d have him back home in 10 seconds!
Just another step toward Obama’s ruling party. There will be more unless people wise up and vacate the space he is filling. There is a song that wrapes up the whole thing “Now Is The Hour”. GD
They probably are all stone even on the bench of justice….lmao
Of course, we are talking 3 lakes and 13 million gallons…just saying…