As bizarre as it sounds, laws restricting property owners from “diverting” water that falls on their own homes and land have been on the books for quite some time in many Western states. Only recently, as droughts and renewed interest in water conservation methods have become more common, have individuals and business owners started butting heads with law enforcement over the practice of collecting rainwater for personal use.
Utah isn’t the only state with rainwater collection bans, either. Colorado and Washington also have rainwater collection restrictions that limit the free use of rainwater, but these restrictions vary among different areas of the states and legislators have passed some laws to help ease the restrictions
It’s all about control, really
As long as people remain unaware and uninformed about important issues, the government will continue to chip away at the freedoms we enjoy. The only reason these water restrictions are finally starting to change for the better is because people started to notice and they worked to do something to reverse the law.
Even though these laws restricting water collection have been on the books for more than 100 years in some cases, they’re slowly being reversed thanks to efforts by citizens who have decided that enough is enough.
Because if we can’t even freely collect the rain that falls all around us, then what, exactly, can we freely do? The rainwater issue highlights a serious overall problem in America today: diminishing freedom and increased government control.
Today, we’ve basically been reprogrammed to think that we need permission from the government to exercise our inalienable rights, when in fact the government is supposed to derive its powerfromus. The American Republic was designed so that government would serve the People to protect and uphold freedom and liberty. But increasingly, our own government is restricting people from their rights to engage in commonsense, fundamental actions such as collecting rainwater or buying raw milk from the farmer next door.
Today, we are living under a government that has slowly siphoned off our freedoms, only to occasionally grant us back a few limited ones under the pretense that they’re doing us a benevolent favor.
As long as people believe their rights stem from the government (and not the other way around), they will always be enslaved. And whatever rights and freedoms we think we still have will be quickly eroded by a system of bureaucratic power that seeks only to expand its control.
Because the same argument that’s now being used to restrict rainwater collection could, of course, be used to declare that you have no right to the air you breathe, either. After all, governments could declare that air to be somebody else’s air, and then they could charge you an “air tax” or an “air royalty” and demand you pay money for every breath that keeps you alive.
What could be Next?
Think it couldn’t happen? Just give it time. The government already claims it owns your land and house, effectively. If you really think you own your home, just stop paying property taxes and see how long you still “own” it. Your county or city will seize it and then sell it to pay off your “tax debt.” That proves who really owns it in the first place… and it’s not you!
Who owns your Body?
How about the question of who owns your body? According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark office, U.S. corporations and universities already own 20% of your genetic code. Your own body, they claim, is partially the property of someone else.
So if they own your land, your water and your body, how long before they claim to own your air, your mind and even your soul?
Unless we stand up against this tyranny, it will creep upon us, day after day, until we find ourselves totally enslaved by a world of corporate-government collusion where everything of value is owned by powerful corporations — all enforced at gunpoint by local law enforcement.
Source: ufo-blogger
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Here in the effete over-educated liberal Northeast, we believe in slowing down the rain that lands on your roof, roads, and land. Why? So that the water gets a chance to soak into the ground. Developed land leads to faster running rivers, and dry wells. Developed land leads to dry gulches instead of year-round river flow. Out here the extra rain can be caught in barrels, ponds, and what have you. Excess river flow here leads to silicate pollution of the oceans, which kills the little fishes. Point is, a rain barrel at a time isn't going to kill or cure either problem, but excess man-made developent is already the man behind the curtain, Dorothy.
ReplyDeleteIt's ridiculous to believe the government owns your home. In a (very polite) word, it's poppycock!
ReplyDeleteStop paying your taxes...OK...you'll learn, after a couple years, that your home can have a TAX LIEN put on it. So? You think this is wrong?
OK...don't pay the taxes. But don't expect the Fire Department to protect your home from your neighbor's fire, or your own. Don't expect the Police Department to come to your aid should someone be breaking in, or if there's a Domestic Violence episode occurring. Don't expect the Water Department to come out and fix the pipe that burst in your yard; or the sewer line, fo that matter.
Get real; anyone who believes your home belongs to the government because YOU PAY TAXES is a moron.