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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PROOF READER!
We used to be the land of the free!
Ok where is the rest of the story? Doesn’t explain how that Is illegal
We were all born 100 yrs to late. Not as many laws back then and no one to gripe at on facebook !!! Lol
WTF
People that uphold a sentence like that and make laws to imprison a man over that need to be in jail themselves and out of office. The government needs to be overthrown and started over with Obama and corrupt politicians thrown out first.
Meesh says:
“cool. so far the only person who looked up the info. :)”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/man-gets-30-days-jail-catching-rain-water-property/comment-page-16/#comment-336504
bob marley says:
“THEY MADE UP THE PART OF RETREIVING RIVER WATER JUST SO THEY CAN TRY AND JUSTIFY IT IN COURT ! THE MAN CLEARLY STATES ” I ONLY COLLECTED RAIN AND SNOW WATER ” ! NO RIVER WATER AT ALL ! Einstein once said, ” It wont be the government that destroys us, but the people doing nothing that destroys us !”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/man-gets-30-days-jail-catching-rain-water-property/comment-page-18/#comment-384303
THEY MADE UP THE PART OF RETREIVING RIVER WATER JUST SO THEY CAN TRY AND JUSTIFY IT IN COURT ! THE MAN CLEARLY STATES ” I ONLY COLLECTED RAIN AND SNOW WATER ” ! NO RIVER WATER AT ALL ! Einstein once said, ” It wont be the government that destroys us, but the people doing nothing that destroys us !
Why couldn’t he collect rainwater?