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1AC - Harvard Round 1
Tournament: Harvard | Round: 1 | Opponent: Wake MQ | Judge: Ana Nikolic Poem 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 THEY FIGHT FOR PEACE Peace, they say. AND They talk, they argue, they kill – They fight for peace. Detainees Rachel Martin, from NPR News, interviewed former detainee Omar Deghayes in 2013 Omar Deghayes, interview with Rachel Martin for NPR, “Former Detainee Talks of Desperation in Guantanamo Bay: Transcript,” NPR, http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=181215131, DLP HRVD OMAR DEGHAYES: My name is Omar Deghayes. I'm a lawyer. I graduated from law school here in the AND (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) MURAT KURNAZ, former detainee, told his story in 2012 after being released from Guantanamo Murat Kurnaz, former detainee, NYT, “Notes From a Guantánamo Survivor,” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/notes-from-a-guantanamo-survivor.html?ref=opinionand_r=0 DLP HRVD I LEFT Guantánamo Bay much as I had arrived almost five years earlier — shackled hand-to-waist, AND wonder how it is possible that a democratic government can detain people in intolerable conditions and without a fair trial. The following comes from an ABC NEWS INTERVIEW WITH LAKHDAR BOUMEDIENE, 9 June 8, 2009, Written by Jake Tapper, Karen Travers, and Stephanie Smith, Interview with ABC, “EXCLUSIVE: Recently Released Gitmo Detainee Talks to ABC News,” http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=7778310andpage=1andsinglePage=true DLP HRVD For 7½ years, Lakhdar Boumediene was known simply by a number: "10005." AND thoroughly investigated and, when substantiated, individuals are held accountable for their actions." LAKHDAR BOUMEDIENE continued in a 2012 statement LAKHDAR, “My Guantanamo Nightmare,” 1/7/12, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/my-guantanamo-nightmare.html?_r=1andref=opinion DLP HRVD ON Wednesday, America’s detention camp at Guantánamo Bay will have been open for 10 years. For AND Guantánamo Bay from 2002 to 2009. This essay was translated by Felice Bezri from the Arabic. SAMIR NAJI al HASAN MOQBEL, a prisoner currently held in Guantanamo, said on April 14th of 2013 “Gitmo is Killing me,” 4/14/13, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/opinion/hunger-striking-at-guantanamo-bay.html DLP HRVD ONE man here weighs just 77 pounds. Another, 98. Last thing I knew, I weighed 132, but that was a AND interpreter, to his lawyers at the charity Reprieve in an unclassified telephone call. Advocacy Dan and I advocate that the United States federal government should not indefinitely detain anyone under the President’s executive war powers authority.
10/26/13
1AC Cites
Tournament: Neregional | Round: 3 | Opponent: Binghamton Cepin-Pinchuk | Judge: Keenan Inherency Supreme Court silence since Boumediene has left lower and appeals court national security fundamentalism unchallenged Vaughns and Williams, Profs Law at Maryland, 13 Katherine L. Vaughns, Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, Heather L. Williams, Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, “Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: KIyemba v. Obama and te Meaning of Freedom, Separation of Powers, and the Rule of Law Ten Years After 9/11,” Asian American Law Journal, 20 Asian American Law Journal (2013), http://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/fac_pubs/1246/, DLP SPR Thus, in the years immediately following 9/11, the Supreme AND , Cass Sunstein termed this phenomenon "National Security Fundamentalism." This has left virtually all of Guantanamo’s detainees in indefinite detention CSM, 12 Christian Science Monitor, Warren Richey, Staff Writer, “Supreme Court Deals Blow to Guantanamo Prisoners Challenging their Detention,” http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2012/0611/Supreme-Court-deals-blow-to-Guantanamo-prisoners-challenging-their-detention, DLP SPR There are currently 169 detainees at Guantánamo. Six AND to their home country for release or continued detention there. There are also over 3200 detainees in Afghanistan, unknown and without access to any form of review Eppinger, Prof. St. Louis Law School, Winter 2013 Monica Eppinger, Assistant Professor, Saint Louis University School of Law and Department of Sociology and Anthropology; J.D., Yale Law School; Ph.D. Anthropology, University of California Berkeley; “Reality Check: Detention in the War on Terror,” Catholic University Law Review, 62 Cath. U.L. Rev. 325, Winter 2013, DLP SPR The detainee counts of Guantanamo do not include the 3,200-plus detainees that have AND , U.S. authorities did not know who they held. n43 One Bush administration official recalls, Literally everyone outside the US can be indefinitely detained for interrogation Eppinger, Prof. St. Louis Law School, Winter 2013 Monica Eppinger, Assistant Professor, Saint Louis University School of Law and Department of Sociology and Anthropology; J.D., Yale Law School; Ph.D. Anthropology, University of California Berkeley; “Reality Check: Detention in the War on Terror,” Catholic University Law Review, 62 Cath. U.L. Rev. 325, Winter 2013, DLP SPR Extreme measures involving high-value targets, although AND the greater the number of detainees, the more sources of mosaic bits, and the more full the picture composed. n182
Plan The United States Supreme Court should rule that all people indefinitely detained under executive war powers have full habeas corpus access.
Solvency 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 AND , as Walt Kelly once observed, "we have met the enemy and he is us." Habeas ensures review and interrogation of conditions Garrett, Prof Law UV, 12 Brandon L. Garrett, Roy L. and Rosamund Woodruff Morgan Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, “Habeas Corpus and Due Process,” Cornell Law Review, 98 Cornell L. Rev. 47, November, 2012, Lexis, DLP SPR In this Article, I argue that Boumediene can and should provide a theory of the AND criminal conviction, habeas corpus may offer much less than due process. 48 Habeas is necessary to combat executive avoidance Azmy, Prof Law Seton Hall, 9 Baher Azmy, Professor of Law at Seton Hall Law School, March 11, 2009, Iowa Law Review, Vol. 95, 2010, “Executive Detention, Boumediene, and the New Common Law of Habeas, Seton Hall Public Research Paper no. 135778, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1357788, 447-538 DLP SPR Indeed, though the question was not presented to the Court, AND these questions in a doctrinally distinct manner. Judicial archaeological excavation is necessary to demystify post-9/11 discourse and construct definitions to govern society Shaub, JD from Northwestern, 11 Johnathan David Shaub, JD Northwestern University School of Law, MA in English from Belmont University, “A Foucauldian Call for the Archaeological Excavation of Discourse in the Post-Boumediene Habeas Litigaton,” Northwestern University Law Review, 105 NW. U.L. Rev. 869, Lexis, DLP SPR Conclusion This Note contends that judges in the Guantanamo habeas cases, and in future cases AND the province and duty of the judi-cial department." n277 Separating the legal and ethical aspects of due process in public deliberation enables us to challenge the fixivity of national identity and construct a new identity centered on who we want to be Robertson, Prof. Case Western Law, 12 Cassandra Burke Robertson, Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Alabama Law Review 2012, 64 Ala. L. Rev. 225, “Due Process in the American Identity,” Lexis, DLP SPR Due process is a fundamental American value, and it is a value that deserves a role in the national debate AND we are as a nation and who we want to be. Guantanamo is a lens through which courts mediate terrorism discourse – it legitmates the whole scope of executive action and post-9/11 exceptionalism, bolstering racism against Muslims Gathii, Prof Law Albany Law School, 3 James Thuo Gathii, Assistant Professor at Albany Law School, “ARTICLE: TORTURE, EXTRATERRITORIALITY, TERRORISM, AND INTERNATIONAL LAW,” AlbanyLaw Review, 67 Alb. L. Rev. 335, Lexis DLP SPR Federal courts have overwhelmingly declined to entertain suits alleging torture and other conditions of confinement in Guantanamo Bay AND by the discriminatory treatment of Muslims of Arabic and Persian descent, especially after September 11th, 2001
9/23/13
1AC Kentucky
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: Wichita State Donnell-Sullivan | Judge: Leader Inherency In Boumediene v. United States the Supreme Court granted complete autonomy to the lower courts to make decisions on indefinite detention– but the DC circuit appeals court subverted Boumediene by rejecting habeas relief Vladeck, Prof Law @ American, 12 Stephen I. Vladeck, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Scholarship at American University Washington College of Law, part of legal team against military tribunals in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Chair-Elect of the Section on Federal Courts of the Association of American Law Schools, the Supreme Court Fellow at the Constitution Project, and a fellow at the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law; “The DC circuit After BOumediene,” Seton Hall Law Review Volume 41 Issue 4 Symposium: National Security Policy and The Role of Lawyering: Guantanamo and Beyond, Article 12, 1/31/12, pg. 1451-1490 DLP KY There things stood in June 2008, when the AND certiorari in every post-Boumediene Guantánamo case it has thus far been asked to hear.24 Select DC circuit judges have constructed an impossible standard for people indefinitely detained without Supreme Court challenge – until the courts responds, detainees will have no chance Vladeck, Prof Law @ American, 12 Stephen I. Vladeck, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Scholarship at American University Washington College of Law, part of legal team against military tribunals in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Chair-Elect of the Section on Federal Courts of the Association of American Law Schools, the Supreme Court Fellow at the Constitution Project, and a fellow at the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law; “The DC circuit After BOumediene,” Seton Hall Law Review Volume 41 Issue 4 Symposium: National Security Policy and The Role of Lawyering: Guantanamo and Beyond, Article 12, 1/31/12, pg. 1451-1490 DLP KY II. EVIDENTIARY BURDENS AND PRESUMPTIONS As noted above, although the current D.C. Circuit case law governing the scope of the AND denials are at least a tacit acquiescence in the status quo,137 until and unless, as in Al-Bihani, the rest of the D.C. Circuit is motivated to respond.
Plan Plan: The United States Appeals Court for the District of Columbia Circuit should form an en banc review panel to review Al-Bihani v. Obama. The en banc panel should reverse restrictions on habeas access and guarantee habeas review to all people indefinitely detained.
Solvency The D.C. Circuit can rehear the case en banc D.C. Circuit Rules ’11 – Authored by Clerks of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals CIRCUIT RULES of the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS for the DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT, Amended Through December 1, 2011, http://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/home.nsf/Content/VL20-20RPP20-20Circuit20Rules/$FILE/RulesDecember2011LINKSandBOOKMARKScj2013.pdf DLP KY Rule 35. En Banc Determination¶ (a) When Hearing or Rehearing En Banc May Be Ordered. A majority AND uniformity of the court's decisions;¶ (2) the proceeding involves a question of exceptional importance. Habeas ensures review and interrogation of conditions Garrett, Prof Law UV, 12 Brandon L. Garrett, Roy L. and Rosamund Woodruff Morgan Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, “Habeas Corpus and Due Process,” Cornell Law Review, 98 Cornell L. Rev. 47, November, 2012, Lexis, DLP SPR In this Article, I argue that Boumediene can and should provide a theory of the nature and AND not permit doing so. In contrast, in contexts involving prior judicial process, such as a criminal conviction, habeas corpus may offer much less than due process. 48 Habeas is necessary to combat executive avoidance Azmy, Prof Law Seton Hall, 9 Baher Azmy, Professor of Law at Seton Hall Law School, March 11, 2009, Iowa Law Review, Vol. 95, 2010, “Executive Detention, Boumediene, and the New Common Law of Habeas, Seton Hall Public Research Paper no. 135778, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1357788, 447-538 DLP SPR Indeed, though the question was not presented to the Court, perhaps Boumediene itself calls AND statutory context. I will nevertheless proceed by analyzing these questions in a doctrinally distinct manner. 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 AND , one thing is clear: at Guantánamo Bay, as Walt Kelly once observed, "we have met the enemy and he is us." Judicial archaeological excavation is necessary to demystify post-9/11 discourse and construct definitions to govern society Shaub, JD from Northwestern, 11 Johnathan David Shaub, JD Northwestern University School of Law, MA in English from Belmont University, “A Foucauldian Call for the Archaeological Excavation of Discourse in the Post-Boumediene Habeas Litigaton,” Northwestern University Law Review, 105 NW. U.L. Rev. 869, Lexis, DLP SPR Conclusion This Note contends that judges in the Guantanamo habeas cases, and in future cases 4 AND archaeological excavation is "emphatically the province and duty of the judi-cial department." n277 Separating the legal and ethical aspects of due process in public deliberation enables us to challenge the fixivity of national identity and construct a new identity centered on who we want to be Robertson, Prof. Case Western Law, 12 Cassandra Burke Robertson, Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Alabama Law Review 2012, 64 Ala. L. Rev. 225, “Due Process in the American Identity,” Lexis, DLP SPR Due process is a fundamental American value, and it is a value that deserves a role AND fundamental questions of who we are as a nation and who we want to be. Guantanamo is a lens through which courts mediate terrorism discourse – it legitmates the whole scope of executive action and post-9/11 exceptionalism, bolstering racism against Muslims Gathii, Prof Law Albany Law School, 3 James Thuo Gathii, Assistant Professor at Albany Law School, “ARTICLE: TORTURE, EXTRATERRITORIALITY, TERRORISM, AND INTERNATIONAL LAW,” AlbanyLaw Review, 67 Alb. L. Rev. 335, Lexis DLP SPR Federal courts have overwhelmingly declined to entertain suits alleging torture and AND by the discriminatory treatment of Muslims of Arabic and Persian descent, especially after September 11th, 2001
Making visible the operations of biopower causes societal transformation – the plan is a necessary reform to initiate that process Foucault, French Sociologist, 1988 (Michel, “On Criticism” in Michel Foucault: Politics Philosophy Culture Interviews and other writings 1977- 1984) MA
D.E. You mean it will be possible to work with this government? FOUCAULT: We must escape from the dilemma of being either for or against. After all, it AND it will be swamped, digested by modes of behavior and institutions that will always be the same.
10/6/13
1AC Vermont - Semis
Tournament: Vermont | Round: Semis | Opponent: Oklahoma MM | Judge: Vik Keenan, Andrew Geathers, Willie Johnson Poem 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 THEY FIGHT FOR PEACE Peace, they say. AND They talk, they argue, they kill – They fight for peace. Detainees Rachel Martin, from NPR News, interviewed former detainee Omar Deghayes in 2013 Omar Deghayes, interview with Rachel Martin for NPR, “Former Detainee Talks of Desperation in Guantanamo Bay: Transcript,” NPR, http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=181215131, DLP HRVD OMAR DEGHAYES: My name is Omar Deghayes. I'm a lawyer. I graduated from law school here in the AND (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) MURAT KURNAZ, former detainee, told his story in 2012 after being released from Guantanamo Murat Kurnaz, former detainee, NYT, “Notes From a Guantánamo Survivor,” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/notes-from-a-guantanamo-survivor.html?ref=opinionand_r=0 DLP HRVD I LEFT Guantánamo Bay much as I had arrived almost five years earlier — shackled hand-to-waist, AND wonder how it is possible that a democratic government can detain people in intolerable conditions and without a fair trial. The following comes from an ABC NEWS INTERVIEW WITH LAKHDAR BOUMEDIENE, 9 June 8, 2009, Written by Jake Tapper, Karen Travers, and Stephanie Smith, Interview with ABC, “EXCLUSIVE: Recently Released Gitmo Detainee Talks to ABC News,” http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=7778310andpage=1andsinglePage=true DLP HRVD For 7½ years, Lakhdar Boumediene was known simply by a number: "10005." AND thoroughly investigated and, when substantiated, individuals are held accountable for their actions." LAKHDAR BOUMEDIENE continued in a 2012 statement LAKHDAR, “My Guantanamo Nightmare,” 1/7/12, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/my-guantanamo-nightmare.html?_r=1andref=opinion DLP HRVD ON Wednesday, America’s detention camp at Guantánamo Bay will have been open for 10 years. For AND Guantánamo Bay from 2002 to 2009. This essay was translated by Felice Bezri from the Arabic. SAMIR NAJI al HASAN MOQBEL, a prisoner currently held in Guantanamo, said on April 14th of 2013 “Gitmo is Killing me,” 4/14/13, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/opinion/hunger-striking-at-guantanamo-bay.html DLP HRVD ONE man here weighs just 77 pounds. Another, 98. Last thing I knew, I weighed 132, but that was a AND interpreter, to his lawyers at the charity Reprieve in an unclassified telephone call. Advocacy Dan and I advocate that the United States federal government should not indefinitely detain anyone under the President’s executive war powers authority. We will defend banning indefinite detention using statutory and judicial restrictions.
11/5/13
1AR - Gonzaga GS
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 5 | Opponent: Gonzaga Gaither-Spraker | Judge: Fitzmier No risk of nuclear terrorism
Francis J. Gavin, Professor of International Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, “Same As It Ever Was: Nuclear Alarmism, Proliferation, and the Cold War,” International Security, Winter 2010, Vol. 34, No. 3, Pages 7-37
NUCLEAR TERRORISM. The possibility of a terrorist nuclear attack on the United States is widely AND , and that popular wisdom on the topic is significantly flawed.”59
10/6/13
1AR - Harvard Round 1
Tournament: Harvard | Round: 1 | Opponent: Wake MQ | Judge: Ana Nikolic Waxman wants Guantanamo shut down and he played a role in their admnistration Worthington, 7 Andy, October 31, 2007, “The Epiphany of Matthew Waxman,” http://www.counterpunch.org/2007/10/31/the-epiphany-of-matthew-waxman/ In a fascinating article for the Washington Post, "The Smart Way To Shut Gitmo Down," Matthew Waxman, a teacher at Columbia Law School, who was deputy assistant secretary of defense for AND dogged insistence that all the detainees there are the ‘worst of the worst’" is also a fantasy.
2AC – Case Political forecasts fail – no more accurate than a monkey throwing darts - 3 outcomes = possibility of more Menand, Pulitzer winner and Prof English @ Harvard, 5 Louis Menand, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer for History and the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Langauge at Harvard, taught at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Princeton, Columbia, and the University of Virginia School of Law; Philip E. Tetlock, cited, is Leonore Annenberg University Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, winner of the Woodrow Wilson Award for best book published on government, politics, or international affairs, and the Robert E. Lane award for best book in political philosophy, both from the American Political Science Association in 2005, awarded the NAS Award for Behavior Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War from the National Academy of Sciences, “EVERYBODY’S AN EXPERT,” The New Yorker, http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/12/05/051205crbo_books1?currentPage=all, DLP NVY “Expert Political Judgment” is not a work of media criticism. Tetlock is a AND more overconfident than their colleagues who eked out existences far from the limelight.”
Illusory correlations between catastrophe and rights dehumanize people – impact is devaluation Norman and Delfin, Co-Editor in Chief and Managing Editor of Politics and Policy, 12 Emma R. Norman, co-editor in Chief of Politics and Policy, international peer-reviewed journal published by the Policy Studies Organization, formerly associate professor at the Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Mexico; Rafael Delfin, researcher in economics at the Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico, and managing editor of Politics and Policy since 2010, “Wizards under Uncertainty: Cognitive Biases, Threat Assessment, and Misjudgments in Policy Making,” June 26, 2012, Politics and Policy Volume 40, Issue 3, page 369-402, DLP NVY Immigration Applying Gilbert's four points to immigration issues highlights a further dimension to the policy implications of cognitive bias AND could be used to decrease the role of cognitive fallibility in policy making.
Non-existent rates of recidivism prove those detained are non-violent Eppinger, Prof. St. Louis Law School, Winter 2013 Monica Eppinger, Assistant Professor, Saint Louis University School of Law and Department of Sociology and Anthropology; J.D., Yale Law School; Ph.D. Anthropology, University of California Berkeley; “Reality Check: Detention in the War on Terror,” Catholic University Law Review, 62 Cath. U.L. Rev. 325, Winter 2013, DLP SPR Second, serious consideration should be given to the low AND analyzed and lessons extracted for future conduct. Low risk of terrorism – limited capabilities, inevitable mistakes, and conservative tactics Michael Levi, fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, January/February, 2008, Stopping Nuclear Terrorism, Foreign Affairs WHEN STRATEGIES for preventing nuclear terrorism rely on silver bullets, less dramatic--but nonetheless crucial--measures are neglected. The search for a AND simply because analysts can dream up ways in which those measures might theoretically be evaded. Kritik 2AC - Cap Permutation is better – opens up to better activist policies and interrogation. They close off activism.
Krishna, 1993 (Sankara, Summer, Alternatives, p. 400-401)
Chaloupka centers this difference between his own supposedly total critique of all sovereign truths (which he AND widely on the genre of critical international theory and its impact on such an activist politics. Link Their links are a fantasy. Actual movements against neoliberalism require pragmatic issues to organize around, not abstract revolutions. NEG devalues and excludes the subaltern in indefinite detention– impact is Dillon David Harvey, Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 2010 (The Enigma of Capital, and the crises of capitalism 224-228) The co-revolutionary theory laid out earlier would suggest AND and the answers that can be shaped into an anti-capitalist programme. Perm/Alt Total withdrawal from capitalism fails. Targeted, specific changes of the system are the best way of changing it
The response of some critics on the postmodern Left to this AND , precise, finite demands, which can't be met with the same excuse. The radical alternative marginalizes effective change and gets destroyed or co-opted. The “small step” of the affirmative creates a domino effect that disintegrates the system Žižek, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis Prof, EGS, ’98 Slavoj Žižek, “Why Does the Law Need an Obscene Supplement,” in Law and the Postmodern Mind: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Jurisprudence (Carlson and Goodrich, eds.), pp. 91-92 DLP NVY Finally; the point about inherent transgression is not AND not want anything from you, it only bothers you if you yourself acknowledge it and address yourself to it with a demand ... Kritik alone is not net beneficial - it just trains future managers with academic marxism
Lewis, 1992, (Martin, professir@GWU, Green Delusions, p. 169)
A more immediate question is how academic Marxists view their own roles AND the subversive tendencies they may have acquired from their Marxist professors. Their alternative pushes society to align with conservative forces
Lewis, 1992, (Martin, professir@GWU, Green Delusions, p. 170-172)
While an explosive socioeconomic crisis in the near term is AND society fiercely backward, leading it into a truly nightmarish world.
DA China Politics They’re out of date – Li’s main reform, the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, opened Sunday South China Morning Post 10-5 “Cautious start for Shanghai’s free trade zone”, http://www.scmp.com/business/economy/article/1323967/cautious-start-shanghais-free-trade-zone, 10/5/2013 JPW UKY After the big-bang unwrapping, the uncertainty: how free is AND trial, if proven successful, will be replicated in other parts of the country. 3. CCP won’t lashout – Rationality. Wang, 2007, Staff Writer for Harvard International Review Lake, “Why China Cooperates”; Economics of National Security, Vol. 29 (3) - Fall 2007
However, China’s recent military modernization, as exemplified by the anti-satellite AND of these strong economic incentives, Chinese foreign policy will largely remain pragmatic and diplomatic.
Chinese nationalism, moral legitimacy, and strategic containment ensure the CCP will remain stable; economic growth and elections are tertiary Li, February January/February 2013, Eirc Xi Li, Venture Capitalist and Political Scientist in Shanghai, “The Life of the Party,” Foreign Affairs, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138476/eric-x-li/the-life-of-the-party?page=show DLP CEDA BY POPULAR DEMAND Even if critics accept that the Chinese government is adaptable and meritocratic, they still AND . And the party's deeply rooted popular support will allow it the breathing room to grapple with even the toughest problems. 2AC Debt Ceiling Uniqueness Debt resolution is inevitable – even after we default public backlash would spur quick reform
BABINGTON 10/6/2013 (Charles, “How the impasses in Washington might play out”, associated press)AR KY
THE GOVERNMENT DEFAULTS If both parties stick to their promises, default AND ago when the Dow dropped 778 points after the House rejected a bank bailout bill.
Link No reason district court decision costs Obama political capital or involves congress Courts shield Whittington 5 Keith E., Cromwell Professor of Politics – Princeton University, ““Interpose Your Friendly Hand”: Political Supports for the Exercise of Judicial Review by the United States Supreme Court”, American Political Science Review, 99(4), November, p. 585, 591-592 DLP KY There are some issues that politicians cannot easily handle. For individual legislators AND also prevent legislative action that political leaders want taken, as illustrated in the following case. Plan’s bipartisan---previous proposals prove support Nick Sibilla 12, "Bipartisan effort to ban indefinite detention, amend the NDAA", May 18, www.constitutioncampaign.org/blog/?p=7479#.UjHhXz8uhuk Democrats and Tea Party Republicans are advocating a new proposal to ban AND (D-CO) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) have introduced a similar bill in the Senate. Guantanamo debate inevitable in the fall Obsburn 9/11 (C. Dixon Obsburn Law and Security ProgramTwelve Years Later: 9/11 Demands Justice, Not GTMO http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/2013/09/11/twelve-years-later-911-demands-justice-not-gtmo/) DLP KY Congress has taken note. The Senate is set to debate AND factors that may convince Members of Congress that it is finally time to close Guantanamo Gitmo fatigue means no one cares Greenhouse, Pulitzer winning journalist, 12 Linda Greenhouse, won 1998 Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of the Supreme Court, Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph M. Goldstein Senior Fellow at Yale Law School, former NYT Supreme Court journalist for 40 years; New York Times Opinionator, “Gitmo Fatigue at the Supreme Court.” http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/gitmo-fatigue-at-the-supreme-court/#h, DLP KY Is the Supreme Court finally finished with Guantánamo? It’s beginning to AND possibility on the blackboard, one student finally proposed: “Maybe they’re just sick of Gitmo.” Imapct Debt ceiling doesn’t collapse the economy---empirics Michael Tanner 11, National Review, “No Surrender on Debt Ceiling”, Jan 19, http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/257433/no-surrender-debt-ceiling-michael-tanner Of course the Obama administration is already warning of Armageddon if Congress AND will take 60 cents out of every dollar produced in this country. Our economy will not long survive government spending at those levels. Err aff---their authors exaggerate Tom Raum 11, AP, “Record $14 trillion-plus debt weighs on Congress”, Jan 15, http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_17108333?source=rssandnclick_check=1 Democrats have use doomsday rhetoric about a looming AND . But at some point, it will catch up," and raising the debt limit will become an imperative, he suggested. Markets discredit rhetoric Peter Lefkin 13, Senior Vice President of Government and External Affairs for Allianz of North America, “Round 2 of the Debt-Ceiling Debate,” Allianz Global, 5/21, http://us.allianzgi.com/Commentary/MarketInsights/Pages/5QuestionswithPeterLefkin.aspx Expect more brinkmanship from Democrats and Republicans. AND list includes comprehensive tax reform, entitlement reform and construction of the Keystone oil pipeline.
10/6/13
2AC - Harvard Round 1
Tournament: Harvard | Round: 1 | Opponent: Wake MQ | Judge: Ana Nikolic Case O/V 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 Jumah al Dossari, a thirty-three –year-old Bahraini national, is the father of a young daughter. He has been held at AND Of this soul which has suffered at the hands of the “protectors of peace.” Poetry acts as a way for detainees to affirm teir lives in the face of destruction, engaging in the processes of breathing that keep us collectively from extinction; use your ballot to transcend your immediate interests and act against their imprisonement Dorfman, 7 “Where the Bureid Flame Burns,” “Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak” Marc Flakoff, Flagg Miller, Ariel Dorfman. 2007. Pg. 67-72 DLP HRVD Three decades ago. when I was living in exile and my country, Chile, was being devastated by a dictatorship. I met a woman AND in¬famous detention center at Guantanamo Bay, will be the bitter poems they have written against loneliness and death.
The usage of narratives in a political space creates a moment of radical disruption that creates a community of resistance against social injustice James, Chair Africana Studies at Williams, 7 James Chair of Africana Studies at Williams College 2007 (Joy, "Violations," Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy, p. xi-xii) DLP HRVD There is a question of “voice” or “voices” here, perhaps this contestation over literacy legitimacy is an issue of familiarity and validation, of comfort AND ? Perhaps instruction from political prisoners valued by conservatives would be useful. AT: Do Nothing We respond to the call for justice from detainees at Guantanamo, reconstituting our subjectivity in solidarity alongside them and others challenging Ng?g? wa Thiong’o, Comp Lit and Performance Studies Prof, NYU, ’86 Decolonizing the Mind (1994 ed.) pp. 106-8 But the search for new directions in language, literature, theatre, poetry, fiction, and scholarly studies in Africa is part-and AND saw sleeping not to dream but dreaming to change the world.
Some degree of choice on our part is inevitable. We are constrained by the inaccessibility of ourselves from detainees because of the detention and logistical barriers and time constraints on our speeches.
TIsm The standards of evidence demonstrated in these narratives should draw into greater question the evidence used to detain people in Afghanistan – if this is what preventative detention looks like, how can interrogative be any worse? Recividism is non-existent Belhadi, Lawyer at Justice Project Pakistan, 9/5 Omran Belhadi, Casework Lawyer at Justice Project Pakistan. Edited by Sarah Belal, Director of Justice Prject Pakistan Edited by Isabel Buchanan, casework lawyer at Justice Project Pakistan Justice Project Pakistan is a legal action charity providing pro bono legal representation to prisoners in Pakistan. Established in December 2009 and based in Lahore, 2009. “Closing Bagram, the Other Guantanamo: Repatriating Pakistani Citizens from US Detention in Afghanistan.” Page 5-62. A report crafted based on extensive interviews with detainees, former detainees, and the families of detainees. 2013. 2013, http://www.jpp.org.pk/bagram/closing-bagram-the-other-guantanamo/ DLP HRVD U.S. concerns that repatriated detainees may engage in hostilities against the United States in the future—termed “re- AND accuracy of U.S. threat assessments and fuelling politicized narratives in the U.S. public and Congress that unnecessarily and unjustly prolong detention.174 Low risk of terrorism – limited capabilities, inevitable mistakes, and conservative tactics Levi, 8 Michael Levi, fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, January/February, 2008, Stopping Nuclear Terrorism, Foreign Affairs WHEN STRATEGIES for preventing nuclear terrorism rely on silver bullets, less dramatic--but nonetheless crucial--measures AND that target the most obvious terrorist tactics should not be dismissed simply because analysts can dream up ways in which those measures might theoretically be evaded. K’s Wildersom AHMED ERRACHIDI, former detainee, 11 9/16 ,Excerpt from A Handful of Walnuts, http://uruknet.de/?p=m81499andhd=andsize=1andl=e DLP HRVD An excerpt from A Handful of Walnuts by Ahmed Errachidi Steel surrounded and captivated me. There was no horizon, no life and nothing to see. So I began to fly out of the cell AND and wondered how their milk could be such a brilliant white even though the grass they ate was green. Thoughts were not restricted, even though hands and feet were shackled. ERRACHIDI challenges the NEG’s value to life claims and calls into question their social origin. He was able to find meaning and joy in imaginative escape from the steel confines of hellish detention at Guantanamo. This demonstrates that the NEG’s claims come from a view from nowhere – it shouldn’t guide our actions Assault on humanity TURN: Ethical Humanism. Viewing the “self” in relation to the “other” accepts post-humanist insight while enabling an ethics and politics of becoming human Davies, English Prof, Birmingham, ’97 Tony Davies, Humanism, pp. 132-133 ROC The Jewish philosopher Emanuel Lévinas has written of the possibility of an ‘humanisme de I'autre homme’ a concept and AND humanity of Prospero is defined - conferred, conditioned - by 132-133 Caliban; and the implications for both are political no less than philosophical.
K2 Point to advocacy = strategy, not outcome. K talks about strategy. This = one possible strat that can be done The AFF makes counter-demands upon the state, reversing biopolitical power relations Campbell 98 (David, Intl Politics, Newcastle, “Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity,” pg. 204-205) The political possibilities enabled by this permanent provocation of power and freedom can be specified in more detail by AND deconstruction of politics; rather, it establishes as political the very terms through which identity is articulated.”
10/26/13
Harvard - Round 5 - Changed Advocacy Statement
Tournament: Harvard | Round: 5 | Opponent: Central Florida Johnson-Tobey | Judge: Henry Dan and I advocate that the United States federal government should not indefinitely detain anyone under the President’s executive war powers authority. We will defend whatever combination of statutory and judicial restrictions that can achieve this outcome.
11/5/13
Initial Advocacy Statement
Tournament: Vermont | Round: Semis | Opponent: Oklahoma MM | Judge: Vik Keenan, Andrew Geathers, Willie Johnson Dan and I advocate that the United States federal government should not indefinitely detain anyone under the President’s executive war powers authority. We will defend whatever combination of statutory and judicial restrictions that can achieve this outcome.
11/5/13
Wake 1AC Pre-Tournament
Tournament: Wake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Unknown | Judge: 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 THEY FIGHT FOR PEACE Peace, they say. AND They talk, they argue, they kill – They fight for peace. Detainees Rachel Martin, from NPR News, interviewed former detainee Omar Deghayes in 2013 Omar Deghayes, interview with Rachel Martin for NPR, “Former Detainee Talks of Desperation in Guantanamo Bay: Transcript,” NPR, http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=181215131, DLP HRVD OMAR DEGHAYES: My name is Omar Deghayes. I'm a lawyer. I graduated from law school here in the AND (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) MURAT KURNAZ, former detainee, told his story in 2012 after being released from Guantanamo Murat Kurnaz, former detainee, NYT, “Notes From a Guantánamo Survivor,” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/notes-from-a-guantanamo-survivor.html?ref=opinionand_r=0 DLP HRVD I LEFT Guantánamo Bay much as I had arrived almost five years earlier — shackled hand-to-waist, AND wonder how it is possible that a democratic government can detain people in intolerable conditions and without a fair trial. The following comes from an ABC NEWS INTERVIEW WITH LAKHDAR BOUMEDIENE, 9 June 8, 2009, Written by Jake Tapper, Karen Travers, and Stephanie Smith, Interview with ABC, “EXCLUSIVE: Recently Released Gitmo Detainee Talks to ABC News,” http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=7778310andpage=1andsinglePage=true DLP HRVD For 7½ years, Lakhdar Boumediene was known simply by a number: "10005." AND thoroughly investigated and, when substantiated, individuals are held accountable for their actions." LAKHDAR BOUMEDIENE continued in a 2012 statement LAKHDAR, “My Guantanamo Nightmare,” 1/7/12, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/my-guantanamo-nightmare.html?_r=1andref=opinion DLP HRVD ON Wednesday, America’s detention camp at Guantánamo Bay will have been open for 10 years. For AND Guantánamo Bay from 2002 to 2009. This essay was translated by Felice Bezri from the Arabic. SAMIR NAJI al HASAN MOQBEL, a prisoner currently held in Guantanamo, said on April 14th of 2013 “Gitmo is Killing me,” 4/14/13, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/opinion/hunger-striking-at-guantanamo-bay.html DLP HRVD ONE man here weighs just 77 pounds. Another, 98. Last thing I knew, I weighed 132, but that was a AND interpreter, to his lawyers at the charity Reprieve in an unclassified telephone call.
Dan and I advocate that the United States federal government should not indefinitely detain anyone under the President’s executive war powers authority. We will defend whatever combination of statutory and judicial restrictions that can achieve this outcome.
