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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Better take heed of this! Vote these bastards making such absolutely stupid decisions straight out of office. Time for a Common Sense Party to roll and rule with the will of the people!
Next thing you know they’ll be arresting people for breathing! maybe they should start putting the cops and judges in jail for doing this stupid shi!!!!
Can t believe it
Ridiculous someone needs to stop this.
With all the corruption and crime out there they arrest someone from a 1925 law about collecting rsin water? Talk about wrong priorities! No wonder this country is going downhill with bungling idiots ruining everything.
I have mentioned this to some people also. Seriously…It’s getting out of control. Basically, the government is telling us that we CAN’T support ourselves and that we HAVE TO pay exorbitant prices on NECESSITIES! This is NOT OK! They can’t tell us what we CAN or CAN’T do on our PRIVATE properties! There is NO REASON for the city to do this to someone other than CONTROL and/or MONEY. BULL! We MUST stand for our RIGHTS or EVERY single ONE of them will be taken away!
Those evil people!
It’s OUTRAGES Unbelievable
Time for a revolution.
the judge is one sorry piece of $#%&!@*, no i take that back..the judge that convicted him is LOWER THAN SNAKE $#%&!@* for his verdict and sentencing of this man