The AFF torques sovereignty against itself, deploying precedents at hand while demanding decisions grounded in universal principles Michaelsen, English Prof, MSU, and Shershow, English Prof, UC-Davis, '4 Scott Michaelsen and Scott Cutler Shershow, 1-11-04, "The Guantánamo "Black Hole": The Law of War and the Sovereign Exception," Middle East Report, http://www.merip.org/mero/mero011104 ACG PRE Sovereignty Against Itself The act of sovereignty that captures the Guantánamo detainees only to push them beyond the reach and protection ...can hardly be overstated. At any rate, one thing is clear: at Guantánamo Bay, as Walt Kelly once observed, "we have met the enemy and he is us." We recognize our complicitous accountability in the perpetuation of indefinite detention and endorse using enmeshed relationships to refashion power relations and end indefinite detention Kaufman-Osborn, Prof Politics @ Whitman, 8 Timothy V., Timothy Kaufman-Osborn is the Baker Ferguson Professor of Politics and Leadership at Whitman College, From 2001-03, he served as president of the Western Political Science Association; from 2002-06 as president of the American Civil Liberties of Washington; and he recently completed a term on the Executive Council of the American Political Science Association; “We are all torturers now;’ accountability after Abu Graihb,” http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/v011/11.2.kaufman-osborn.html#back DLP WFT13 From Liberal Guilt to Complicitous Accountability¶ If what happened at Abu Ghraib is ultimately a manifestation of unaccountable...refashion the relations of power, which, although differentially constituting everyone as a subject, leave no one innocent.
2/16/14
1AC Round 1
Tournament: Usc | Round: 1 | Opponent: Michigan State Thur-Ramesh | Judge: Severson SHAKER ABDURRAHEEM AMER wrote this poem from solitary confinement From solitary confinement. Saudi Arabian and British man. “Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak” Marc Flakoff, Flagg Miller, Ariel Dorfman. 2007 page 20 DLP HRVD
Tournament: D8ndtqualifier | Round: 6 | Opponent: CUNY McIntyre-Joseph | Judge: Cameron, White JUMAH AL DOSSARI, a father who has tried to kill himself 12 times “Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak” Marc Flakoff, Flagg Miller, Ariel Dorfman. 2007 DLP HRVD Pg. 31-32 DEATH POEM Take my blood. Take my death shroud and The remnants of my body. Take photographs of my corpse at the grave, lonely.
Send them to the world, To the judges and To the people of conscience, Send them to the principled men and the fair-minded.
And let them bear the guilty burden, before the world, Of this innocent soul. Let them bear the burden, before their children and before history, Of this wasted, sinless soul, Of this soul which has suffered at the hands of the “protectors of peace.” His poem affirms his existence and despair – like their Middleton ev. Describes – but he was released – it’s possible – and he had no home in detention. The AFF is about sharing the counter-narrative of oppressed peoples – this creates permanence to create a written trace of Dorfman, 7 “Where the Bureid Flame Burns,” “Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak” Marc Flakoff, Flagg Miller, Ariel Dorfman. 2007 DLP HRVD Three decades ago. when I was living against loneliness and death
The law and rights talk can be changed and are key to stop detention – even if the aff fails, it solves by delegitimizing the state Ahmad 9, Professor of Law 2009, Muneer I. Ahmad is a Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School, “RESISTING GUANTÁNAMO: RIGHTS AT THE BRINK OF DEHUMANIZATION”, Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 103, p. 1683, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 08-65 As I have discussed thus far, we believed the commission to be a purely political gradualist, liberal perfection of the injustice in the world.
The NEG focus on the “here” is an evasion tactic that severs responsibility and fails to account for the racial particularity of indefinite detention Sunstrom 8, Associate Professor of Philosophy 2008, Ronald R. Sunstrom is a black Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco; additionally, he teaches for USF's African American Studies program and the Master of Public Affairs program for the Leo T. McCarthy Center of Public Service and the Common Good. He was awarded the 2008 Sankofa Faculty Award from USF's Multicultural Student Services, USF's 2009 Ignatian Service Award, and was a co-winner of the 2010 USF Distinguished Teaching Award. His areas of research include political theory, critical social and race theory, and African American and Asian American philosophy, “The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice”, pp. 65-92 It would be odd and troubling cosmopolitan direction the very idea of social justice
PERM: Take account of social location while considering the kind and quality of speech. Who says what matters, but what is said matters more. The ALT is essentialist. Krupat, Literature Prof, Sarah Lawrence, ’93 Arnold Krupat, “Scholarship and Native American Studies: A Response to Daniel Littlefield, Jr.,” American Studies, 34(2-Fall): 81-100, pp. 86-87, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40643668 ACG CEDA I hope it will have been clear that I am not automatically convey the kind and quality of the speech.
Their ontological framing of blackness is BAD METHOD because they deny it existence independent of white supremacy and suffering. This becomes a suffocating, codependent construct that is counterproductive to change. PINN prof @ Macalester College 2004 (Anthony, has authored The Varieties of African American Religious Experience (Fortress Press, 1998), The Black Church in the Post-Civil Rights Era (Orbis, 2002), Why Lord?: Suffering and Evil in Black Theology (Continuum,1999), and has edited By These Hands: A Documentary History of African American Humanism (New York University Press, 2001).” “Black Is, Black Ain’t”:Victor Anderson, African American Theological Thought, and Identity”, Dialog: A Journal of Theology, Vol 43, No 1, Spring, .p57-58 Note: is inserted by me to indicate par. breaks, page# for page breaks)AR USC13 At its best, African American criticism draws from critical theory embracing difference as positive? Anderson looks to Nietzsche.
