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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Liberal policy that proves liberal insanity!
What’s their reasoning for not allowing people to collect rainwater anyway?
It isn’t like there is a shortage of rain water in Oregon. I use to live there and I was working outside in construction, so I was very aware of the weather. One year it rained fifty out of fifty two weeks. We had two weeks of summer then the rain started again, and kept up almost every day till the next summer. Nothing ever got dried out.
Sorry ass government
there crazy
Collecting rain water it free and nobody owns it I will collect it everyday for I save on my water bill this is agianst human nature omg
that’s no ones dam business ! they do not own the rain – absurd
bet there was no jury…this is an illegal detainment, false imprisonment…hope he sues for every damn penny they have
Love my country, hate tyrannical government
Jury of puppets if there was a jury at all, and a judge who now serves the Enemies of the Constitution of the United States. Every Solder and every veteran lied, when they took their oaths to protect the Constitution of the United States against foreign and DOMESTIC enemies. They are here, They have penetrated our government, they are in the Legislative branch, they are in the Executive branch and they are in the Judicial branch. They have penetrated our police forces, and are in high offices in every Agency and Government Organization. I Love America, she is my home, and I am watching her die a slow painful death from a malignant tumor that has spread to every part of her body.