Tournament: CSUN | Round: 1 | Opponent: Cal State Fullerton RaGo | Judge: Michael Eisenstadt
Plan: The United States Congress 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 ... 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, ...¶ 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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...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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... of 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 ... decide to ignore the Constitution's dictate.¶