An Oregon couple have been ordered to stop collecting rainwater and destroy a 2-acre pond on their property because the government says it is illegal. Oregon couple Jon and Sabrina Carey face criminal penalties unless they tear out a 2-acre pond that has existed on their property for decades, long before they bought it, because they don’t have any water rights to it. Who owns the rain? Apparently the US government. … Because the rain belongs to the overbearing government, because corporate greed claims water is not a human right, and because Americans are not entitled to do what they please on their private property… AnonHQ reports: Remember the Oregon ‘Rain Man’ or Gary Harrington — who was sent to 30 days in Jackson County Jail and slapped with a $1,500 fine for collecting rainwater on his 170-acre property? He was ordered to breach his dams and drain his ponds that held more than 13 million gallons of water, enough to fill 20 Olympic-sized swimming pools. Now, an Oregon couple faces a similar fate as Gary Harrington because the rain belongs to the overbearing government, because corporate greed claims water is not a human right, and because Americans are not [...]
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