Tournament: UNLV | Round: 1 | Opponent: LACC DJ | Judge: Chris Thiele
Plan: The United States Congress should establish a National Security Court with sole jurisdiction over cases pursuant to Section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012.

Contention 1 is inherency
D.C. courts are shaping detention policy now but lack of Supreme Court action means detention is here to stay.
Horowitz, J.D. Candidate at Fordham University, ‘13
Colby, “CREATING A MORE MEANINGFUL ¶ DETENTION STATUTE: LESSONS LEARNED ¶ FROM HEDGES V. OBAMA”, Fordham Law Review, Vol. 81, 2013, RSR

The Supreme Court has not decided ... in shaping substantive detention ¶ law with each decision.151

The NDAA of 2012 codifies the right of the president to indefinitely detain – expands on the AUMF.
Greenwald, Columnist for the Guardian, ‘11
Glenn, “Three myths about the detention bill”, Salon, 12-16-11,
http://www.salon.com/2011/12/16/three_myths_about_the_detention_bill/, RSR

Section 1021 of the NDAA ... Internal Security Act of 1950, about which I wrote yesterday.

Contention 2 is terrorism
Indefinite detention leads to terrorism – multiple warrants
First, motivation – comparative studies prove that indefinite detention increases the motivation for terrorism and the likelihood of an attack.
Roberts, Associate Professor of Philosophy at East Carolina University, ‘11
Rodney, “Utilitarianism and the Morality of Indefinite Detention”, Criminal Justice Ethics, Vol. 30, No. 1, RSR

Finally, ‘‘there is no evidence that ... it may increase the likelihood of future attacks.

Second, distrust – indefinite detention generates resentment that kills effective community cooperation within counter terrorism efforts.
Hathaway, et al, ‘13
Oona (Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, Yale Law School); Samuel Adelsberg (J.D. candidate at Yale Law School); Spencer Amdur (J.D. candidate at Yale Law School); Freya Pitts (J.D. candidate at Yale Law School); Philip Levitz (J.D. from Yale Law School); and Sirine Shebaya (J.D. from Yale Law School), “The Power To Detain: Detention of Terrorism Suspects After 9/11”, The Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 38, 2013, RSR

Legitimacy of the trial process is important ... recent statements from the   Department of Defense and the White House.

Third, signaling – use of indefinite detention hinders allied cooperation over counterterrorism – security experts overwhelmingly vote aff.
Pearlstein, Visiting Research Scholar and Lecturer in Public and International Affairs, Woodrow
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, ‘9
Deborah, “WE'RE ALL EXPERTS NOW:¶ A SECURITY CASE AGAINST SECURITY DETENTION”, Case Western Journal of International Law, Vol. 40, 2009, RSR

Particularly in the challenge of ... central to a state's strategic¶ counterterrorism plan.

Intelligence cooperation is crucial to quell the threat of terrorism.
Cordesman, Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at CSIS, ‘10
Anthony, “The True Lessons of Yemen   and Detroit:  How the US Must Expand and Redefine   International Cooperation in Fighting   Terrorism”, CSIS, 2010, RSR

The second answer is to put even ... strategic interests would face   far more serious threats.

The risk of a nuclear terrorist attack is high – top UN officials concede.
Sturdee, AFP, ‘13
Simon, “UN atomic agency sounds warning on 'nuclear terrorism'”, Fox News, 7-1-13,
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/01/un-atomic-agency-sounds-warning-on-nuclear-terrorism/, RSR

VIENNA (AFP) – The head of the UN atomic agency warned ... university campuses and are therefore seen as easy to steal.  

An attack breaks the nuclear taboo – leads to nuclear war.
Bin, director of Arms Control Program at the Institute of International Studies, Tsinghua University, ‘9
5-22-09 About the Authors  Prof. Li Bin is a leading Chinese expert on arms control and is currently the director of Arms  Control Program at the Institute of International Studies, Tsinghua University.  He received his  Bachelor and Master Degrees in Physics from Peking University before joining China Academy  of Engineering Physics (CAEP) to pursue a doctorate in the technical aspects of arms control. He  served as a part-time assistant on arms control for the Committee of Science, Technology and  Industry for National Defense (COSTIND).Upon graduation Dr. Li entered the Institute of  Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics (IAPCM) as a research fellow and joined the  COSTIND technical group supporting Chinese negotiation team on Comprehensive Test Ban  Treaty (CTBT).  He attended the final round of CTBT negotiations as a technical advisor to the  Chinese negotiating team. Nie Hongyi is an officer in the People’s Liberation Army with an MA from China’s National  Defense University and a Ph.D. in International Studies from Tsinghua University, which he  completed in 2009 under Prof. Li Bin

The nuclear taboo is a kind of ... danger of a nuclear war. 

Independently, an attack on US soil causes extinction.
Ayson, Professor of Strategic Studies at Oxford, 10
Robert, Director of Strategic Studies: New Zealand, Senior Research Associate with Oxford’s Centre for International Studies. “After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Volume 33, Issue 7, July 2010, pages 571-593

But these two nuclear worlds ... although it must be admitted that any preemption would probably still meet with a devastating response.

Contention 3 is hegemony

U.S. policies of indefinite detention are damaging U.S. legitimacy abroad

Welsh, J.D. from the University of Utah, ‘11
David, currently a doctoral student at the University of Arizona, “Procedural Justice Post-9/11: The Effects of¶ Procedurally Unfair Treatment of Detainees on Perceptions of Global Legitimacy”, 9 U.N.H. L. Rev. 261, March 2011, Lexis, RSR

The Global War on Terror ... this article offers a psychological perspective of legitimacy in the context of detention.

Legitimacy is needed to maintain Heg

Dr. Yannis A. Stivachtis?(Director, International Studies Program?Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) http://www.rieas.gr/research-areas/global-issues/transatlantic-studies/79.html12
In the most general sense, hegemony describes ... recognition as social agents with identities and interests worthy of respect.

Here are more impacts to decline - great-power war, collapses trade and spreads economic nationalism.
Zhang and Shi 11 – Yuhan Zhang, researcher at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Lin Shi, Columbia University, independent consultant for the Eurasia Group and consultant for the World Bank, January 22, 2011, “America’s decline: A harbinger of conflict and rivalry,” East Asia Forum, online: http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2011/01/22/americas-decline-a-harbinger-of-conflict-and-rivalry/
Over the past two decades, no other state ... is one possibility we can forecast in a future that will inevitably be devoid of unrivalled US primacy.

Great power war causes extinction
Chisholm 5 (Paul K. Chisholm, foreign policy and international relations scholar based in Kenya, holds a University Degree in Sociology and Diploma in Human Resources, Terrorism, the Threat in Perspective and Great Power Conflict, Free World Syndicate, April, 2005, http://www.synd.org/opinion-columns-chisholm/terrorism.html)
We've heard much about terrorism ... redirected to head off a full scale arms race and potential conflicts between nuclear parties.

Hegemony solves extinction---every other alternative fails---retrenchment fosters transitional conflicts
Bradley A. Thayer 6 is an associate professor in the Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, Missouri State University, “In Defense of Primacy,” November/December 2006, Issue 86, National Interest, p.32, EBSCOHost, Accessed Date: 5-7-13 y2k
A grand strategy based on ... America's interest--and the world's--to have it last as long as possible.  

Contention 4 is solvency
The national security court solves – preserves national security while providing the appropriate international signal.
Sulmasy, Commander and associate professor of law at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, ‘6
Glenn, “THE LEGAL LANDSCAPE AFTER HAMDAN:¶ THE CREATION OF HOMELAND SECURITY¶ COURTS”, NEW ENG. J.INT'L and COMP.L., Vol. 13, RSR

Article I judges with law of ... this proposal certainly requires further elaboration prior to implementation.

Congressional action on detention is the only way to make the executive accountable – empirically proven, the court will back them up and preserves executive flexibility.
Harvard Law Review, ‘12
“RECENT LEGISLATION”, Vol. 125, 2012, RSR

Just as the Commander-in-Chief power is not preclusive ...  does not make it unconstitutional.

Tournament: USC | Round: 4 | Opponent: CSU Northridge CC | Judge: Joel Salcedo
Plan: The United States Federal Government should establish a National Security Court with exclusive jurisdiction over cases pursuant to Section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012.

Contention One: Fear of Islam

The upsurge of Anti-Muslim rhetoric threatens to turn the political sphere into an echo chamber of racism, sacrificing any remaining semblance of critical thought on the altar of bipartisanship.
Giroux 11
Henry A. Giroux, Global TV Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, formerly Boston University, Miami University, Penn State University, "Breivik's Fundamentalist War on Politics, and Ours," August 3, http://www.truth-out.org/breiviks-fundamentalist-war-politics-and-ours/1312390288

The tragic slayings in Norway raise anew serious questions about domestic terrorism and its roots
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can flourish, politics becomes a noble practice and democracy has a future. 

This is evident in status quo detention policy. Indefinite detention represents an attempt to single out, debase and eradicate Muslim culture.
Elver, Research Professor of Global Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara, ‘12
Hilal, “Racializing Islam Before and After 9/11: From Melting Pot to Islamophobia”, TRANSNATIONAL LAW and CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS, Vol. 21, Spring 2012, RSR

The combination of prolonged illegal detention, a new interpretation of ¶ torture, and
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abundant evidence that racial ¶ subordination of the Iraqi people was common knowledge. 

Our detention policy is founded upon the basis of racial profiling. It creates a perpetual security state that dehumanizes the Brown Other.
Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, ‘3
Judith, “INDEFINITE DETENTION”, La Rivista del Manifesto, Numero 35, 2003, RSR

The license to brand and categorize and detain on the basis of suspicion alone,
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photos released by the Department of Defense of the shackled bodies in Guantanamo.

The lack of legal protections risks of a repeat of Korematsu. Detention risks racialized dehumanization outside the sphere of law.
Muller, George R. Ward Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law, ‘3
Eric, “Inference or Impact? ¶ Racial Profiling and the Internment’s ¶ True Legacy”, Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 1, 2003, RSR

On the other hand, however, there are plenty of reasons to worry that
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the firebreaks in the ¶ legal landscape that were supposed to control it. 

Muslim Otherization creates a dyad between the faiths, making global war inevitable.
Batur, Professor of Sociology and Director of Environmental Studies at Vassar College, ‘7
Pinar, “Heart of Violence: Global Racism, War, and Genocide”, Handbook of the Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations, 2007, RSR

Albert Memmi argued that “We have no idea what the colonized would have been
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do, but because of who they are and what they believe in.”

The way we frame the Other is a pre-condition to all violence.
Collins and Glover, 2002
John Collins, Ass. Prof. of Global Studies at St. Lawrence, and Ross Glover, Visiting Professor of Sociology at St. Lawrence University, 2002, Collateral Language, p. 6-7, The Real Effects of Language

As any university student knows, theories about the “social con¬struction” and social
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less likely to avert our mental gaze from the physical effects of violence.

Contention Two: Solvency
The national security court would ensure defendants’ rights and solve status quo abuse.
Sulmasy, Commander and associate professor of law at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, ‘10
Glenn, “Create a Hybrid Court”, 11-18-10, The New York Times,
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2010/11/18/prosecuting-terrorists-in-federal-court/create-a-hybrid-court, RSR

A National Security Court System (as part of a broader FISA court) would
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to create a new system to prosecute fighters in this kind of conflict.

Combating fear of Islam requires access to the political sphere – prevents the right wing takeover of the status quo.
Yazdiha, PhD in Sociology at the University of North Carolina, ‘13
Haj, “Law as Movement Strategy: How the¶ Islamophobia Movement Institutionalizes¶ Fear Through Legislation”, Social Movement Studies, 2013, RSR

First, the successful use of law as strategy brings Islamophobia into an elite political
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which movements can build and¶ through which related movements can be framed.

The law can help people --- reformism is empirically more successful than revolutionary withdrawal.
Kazin, Professor of History at Georgetown University, ‘11
Michael, Has the US Left Made a Difference, Dissent Spring p. 52-54

But when political radicals made a big difference, they generally did so as decidedly
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…are too much to live up to and too much to escape.” 

The aff’s discursive act successfully breaks down myths regarding Islam. This makes peaceful coexistence possible.
Nimer, Professor at the American University School of International Service in International Peace and Conflict Resolution , ‘7
Mohamed, “Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Islamophobia and Anti-Americanism”, PRINCE ALWALEED BIN TALAL¶ CENTER FOR MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN UNDERSTANDING¶ GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, Islamophobia and the Challenges of Pluralism  in the 21st Century, 2007, RSR

Dialogue for the purpose of exposing myths and forging a common understanding is a must
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future. Within this framework, various sub-discourses may prove fruitful. 

We must reject complicity with racism – no instance is too small.
Barndt 91
Joseph. NYC pastor and author, “Crossroads; Dismantling Racism” p. 219, date accessed: 7/8/2010 AJK

To study racism is to study walls. We have looked at barriers and
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time to tear down once and for all, the walls of racism.

Our commitment to social justice can transform foreign policy - viewing the identity of the state as static abandons a critical opportunity to challenge domination
Schwedler et. al 11
Jillian Schwedler teaches political science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Josh Stacher is an assistant professor of political science at Kent State University  Stacey Philbrick Yadav is the coordinator of the Middle Eastern Studies program and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges Jadaliyya June 10 http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/1826/three-powerfully-wrong_and-wrongly-powerful_americ

We can expect that Islamists are likely to point out the inconsistencies in our policies
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do more to show our support for what they have come to represent.

State engagement is a good method ---- refusal to engage in the methodical politics of democratic citizenship makes every impact inevitable.
Dietz, Professor of Political Science and Gender Studies Program at Northwestern University, ‘94
Mary, “’THE SLOW BORING OF HARD BOARDS’: METHODICAL THINKING AND THE WORK OF POLITICS”, American Political Science Review, Vol. 88, No. 4 December 1994, http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/2082713.pdf

Earlier, in considering the means-end category in politics, I suggested that
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Management (to borrow Simone Weil's prescient phrase)" (1978, 146). 

Tying our individual objections to congressional action is the only way to check presidential tyranny
Kleinerman, Ph.D. in Political Science from Michigan State University, 2009 Benjamin, The Discretionary President: The Promise and Peril of Executive Power, p. 10-11

If the people were sufficiently vigilant against the abuse of executive discretion, it would
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to make the case strongly if they decide to ignore the Constitution's dictate.¶