The rain that falls on your property in the State of Oregon does not belong to you, and you will be jailed if you collect the rain water in containers, or at least that is what happened to Gary Harrington. Last week he reported to jail for a 30 day sentence.
This is environmentalism taking the next step. Environmentalism is about taking away freedoms, and placing their misdirected anger against people who dare to oppose them.
Harrington said of his sentence, “I’m sacrificing my liberty so we can stand up as a country and stand for our liberty.”
Harrington was found guilty 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.
I own a well on my property up there in Oregon, and the water in the creek that feeds my well is from rainwater and snow runoff. . . I wonder how long before that becomes illegal too!
Harrington has vowed to continue to fight the penalty, stating that the government has become “big bullies” and that “from here on in, I’m going to fight it.”
“They’ve just gotten to be big bullies and if you just lay over and die and give up, that just makes them bigger bullies."
"We as Americans, we need to stand on our constitutional rights, on our rights as citizens and hang tough. This is a good country, we’ll prevail,” he said.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Harrington was found guilty 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.
I own a well on my property up there in Oregon, and the water in the creek that feeds my well is from rainwater and snow runoff. . . I wonder how long before that becomes illegal too!
Harrington has vowed to continue to fight the penalty, stating that the government has become “big bullies” and that “from here on in, I’m going to fight it.”
“They’ve just gotten to be big bullies and if you just lay over and die and give up, that just makes them bigger bullies."
"We as Americans, we need to stand on our constitutional rights, on our rights as citizens and hang tough. This is a good country, we’ll prevail,” he said.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Just a guess but I imagine the law was initially put into place to stop people from hording water and stopping it from flowing onto the land of others that might be dependent on it too. Prime example of a law made with good intentions being turned to a reprehensible use.
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