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Rand, Ron Paul split over travel ban

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By JONATHAN TOPAZ | 10/20/14 2:49 PM EDT Updated: 10/20/14 4:42 PM EDT



Ron Paul on Monday said that calls for a ban on travel from West African countries affected by Ebola are primarily “politically motivated”
— just days after his son Sen. Rand Paul announced his support for one.

Appearing on Newsmax TV’s “America’s Forum” with former Arizona Republican Rep. J.D. Hayworth, Ron Paul said he wouldn’t support a travel ban. “Right now, I would say a travel ban is politically motivated more than something done for medical purposes,” the former Texas congressman and three-time presidential candidate told Hayworth.

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Ron Paul, a favorite within the libertarian community, said the death of Thomas Eric Duncan, who died earlier in October in the U.S. after apparently contracting Ebola in Liberia, was not enough to justify a travel ban. “We’re talking about one person that’s died, and we want to close down the world travel system, and yet right now, it doesn’t look anything like that kind of a problem,” he said. He also noted that the expected U.S. death toll for influenza is far higher than that for Ebola.

When asked whether he agreed with his son’s views on Ebola, Ron Paul added: “Probably not exactly, but I haven’t dissected every single thing.”

His comments come after an interview last week with Larry King, in which the former congressman called the response in the U.S. to Ebola “hysterical” and “way overblown.”


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/rand-paul-ron-paul-ebola-travel-ban-112042.html#ixzz3GnyJyLVN

Finally a conservative politician that shows some common sense and tries to calm rather than promote more fearmongering and panic !
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