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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Capt John says:
“Whatever agency that would do this needs to have their budget ELIMINATED!!!!!!!!!!!”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/man-gets-30-days-jail-catching-rain-water-property/comment-page-20/#comment-417483
Whatever agency that would do this needs to have their budget ELIMINATED!!!!!!!!!!!
We`ll be paying for the air we breathe here before too long.
Wow
Judge needs an enema! LOL
pray for his safety in there. Todays jails and prisons are death camps
Jr. says:
“This action totally lets us know that we NEVER OWN anything we have. Always a tax of some kind and
now you can not catch rain water and melting snow on your
OWN PROPERTY!
This is so wrong so the government
OWNS rain and melting snow?????”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/man-gets-30-days-jail-catching-rain-water-property/comment-page-20/#comment-417668
This action totally lets us know that we NEVER OWN anything we have. Always a tax of some kind and
now you can not catch rain water and melting snow on your
OWN PROPERTY!
This is so wrong so the government
OWNS rain and melting snow?????
OMG this is way to far out of hand. Help God!
This is madness. Government has exceeded its mandate. The peoples revolution cannot be far off. Oregon is a Marxist state, like California, and Colorado. On the east coast, are the NAZI states like NY and Jersey, Connecticut and Illinois, who deny you the right of armed self defense.