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Ron Paul - Secession Movements are Great for Liberty - 9/29/14
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Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas speaks at a campaign stop, Friday, Jan. 27, 2012, at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty

Former Rep. Ron Paul, the Texas Republican who became a libertarian icon after two presidential runs, wrote on his website this week that Scotland's failed bid for independence should encourage secessionist movements in the United States and around the globe.

"Americans who embrace secession are acting in a grand American tradition," Paul wrote. "The Declaration of Independence was written to justify secession from Britain. Supporters of liberty should cheer the growth in support for secession, as it is the ultimate rejection of centralized government and the ideologies of Keynesianism, welfarism, and militarism."

The former congressman said that support for secession is growing in America, citing as evidence the campaign to split California into six states. While the initiative didn't gain enough support to make it on the November ballot, more than one million Californians signed a petition to get it on the ballot.

"The possibility that people will break away from an oppressive government is one of the most effective checks on the growth of government," Paul wrote. "It is no coincidence that the transformation of America from a limited republic to a monolithic welfare-warfare state coincided with the discrediting of secession as an appropriate response to excessive government."

Paul similarly touted the virtues of secessionist movements in 2012, when he was still in Congress.

Ron Paul's son, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, had to distance himself last year from a member of his staff who supported pro-Southern secessionist and racist views. The senator accepted the staffer's resignation and argued that libertarianism is "a philosophy that encourages a more tolerant worldview."

Rand Paul appears poised to follow in his father's footsteps and launch his own presidential bid, but he's made clear he wants to be judged for his own views -- not those of his father, his staff or anyone else. Earlier this year, the senator said he has "pretty much quit answering" questions about his father's views. "I've been in the Senate three years, and I have created a record of myself," he said.

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Ron Paul: Scotland's secessionist movement should inspire U.S.

As he moves toward a 2016 bid for the Republican presidential nomination, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is working overtime to win over GOP factions skeptical of the conservative libertarian brand embodied by Paul and his father, former Texas congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul.

Though Rand Paul got his start in electoral politics working on his fathers campaigns, the success of his likely presidential campaign depends on distancing himself from Ron Pauls more strident rhetoric regarding U.S. economic policy and foreign intervention, and from the elder Pauls extensive history of bigoted and racist commentary.

In a lengthy profile of the Kentuckian for the forthcoming issue of the New Yorker, Ryan Lizza offers a glimpse at the nascent Paul campaigns early efforts to create space between father and son ahead of the 2016. An aide to the senator expressed exasperation that the old man is still out there speaking his mind after Ron Paul released a statement supporting Russian President Vladimir Putin shortly after the Russian-backed rebels showed down a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine. Rand Paul, commenting on his familys ties to far-right and white supremacist figures, told Lizza that he was never associated with any of these people. Ever. Only through being related to my dad, who had association with them. (Not quite.)

Pauls claim might not withstand scrutiny, but this much is clear: his efforts to keep his father from becoming a problem are unlikely to succeed if Ron Paul continues to voice inflammatory views. And Ron Pauls latest essay makes clear he has no intention of fading quietly into the night.

Hailing the September 18 independence referendum in Scotland in which voters rejected a split from the United Kingdom Paul said the referendum should cheer supporters of the numerous secession movements springing up around the globe despite its failure. Paul left little doubt that he counts himself among their ranks.

Americans who embrace secession are acting in a grand American tradition, Paul writes. The Declaration of Independence was written to justify secession from Britain. Supporters of liberty should cheer the growth in support for secession, as it is the ultimate rejection of centralized government and the ideologies of Keynesianism, welfarism, and militarism.

Paul doesnt endorse secession as an outcome so much as a useful form of blackmail.

The possibility that people will break away from an oppressive government is one of the most effective checks on the growth of government, he posits, proceeding to state that the threat of secession will make it easier to achieve the [d]evolution of power to smaller levels of government.

In a subsequent interview with National Journal, Paul pronounced himself real pleased with secessionist movements in the U.S. His only lament is that there arent more.

[O]n second thought, you think, Why not? Why not more? Paul wondered to National Journals Rebecca Nelson.

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Rand Paul wont like this: Ron Paul weighs in on secessionist movements in the U.S.