Tournament: Baby Jo Memorial | Round: 1 | Opponent: Trinity DR | Judge: Sam Haley-Hill

T – restrictions

A. INTERP AND VIOLATION:

~"restrictions" on~ is a plural and countable noun – plan effects a single restriction, which is sub-topical.

http://www.**macmillandictionary**.com/dictionary/american/restriction

~COUNTABLE~ ~OFTEN PLURAL~ a rule, action, or situation that
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The restriction of press freedom is seen as an abuse of human rights.

B. VOTE NEG:

1. Jurisdiction – grammar delineates the scope of the ballot – T is a rule and outweighs everything – hasty generalizations do not suffice

2. Neg ground – PICs with topic lit are hardwired into the resolution – our standard is also key to neg ’link uniqueness’

3. Aff limits – abstract treatment of plural nouns cannot preserve a concrete cap on total plans, only count-ability begets a stable case list and aff mechanisms

Voter for fairness and education – evaluate T in a competing interpretations - most objective framework

DA

Immigration reform is still able to pass- Goodlatte agrees and CIR comes before Syria, Obamacare, and the debt debate

Sarlin 9/10
(Benjy, 9-10-13, political reports at MSNBC, "GOP rep expects October immigration reform vote", http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/09/10/hope-for-immigration-reform-lives-gop-rep-hopes-for-october-votes/, JKS)
Republican Congressman Bob Goodlatte, chair of the House Judiciary Committee overseeing immigration, said
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or citizenship or whether they would get a special way," he said.

Funding cyber operations is a national defense priority according to the 2014 budget

Reed 13
(John, 4-10-13, John Reed is a national security reporter for Foreign Policy. He comes to FP after editing Military.com’s publication Defense Tech and working as the associate editor of DoDBuzz. Between 2007 and 2010, he covered major trends in military aviation and the defense industry around the world for Defense News and Inside the Air Force, "DOD Requests 244.7 billion to help fund offensive cyber teams", "http://killerapps.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/04/10/dod_cyber_budget_request_increased_to_47_billion_to_help_fund_offensive_cyber_teams, JKS)
Despite a climate of what defense officials love to describe as "fiscal uncertainty,"
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Research Projects Agency under the oversight of the Department’s Test Resource Management Center.

PC key to CIR—Obama renewing his push

AFP 6/12
Agence Press France, "US immigration bill advances in Senate, clears first hurdle" ~http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-06-12/news/39925853_1_border-security-landmark-immigration-bill-democratic-senator-chuck-schumer~~
WASHINGTON: Bolstered by support from President Barack Obama, a landmark immigration bill passed
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the effort and jeopardize the party’s political future by alienating millions of voters.

CIR key to LA relations

Meacham 13—CSIS America Program Director
(Carl "U.S. Immigration Reform: Good for the Americas?," June 13, 2013, http://csis.org/publication/us-immigration-reform-good-americas-0, accessed 7/2/13) MB
Comprehensive immigration reform would be positively received among Latin American citizens and governments, especially
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recognizes the region’s and its people’s importance in our own prosperity moving forward.

Latin American relations solve warming

Lowenthal 9 - professor of international relations at the University of Southern California
Abraham F. Lowenthal, a nonresident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, president emeritus of the Pacific Council on International Policy, and the founding director of the Inter-American Dialogue. "The Obama Administration and Latin America: Will the Promising Start Be Sustained?". NUEVA SOCIEDAD NRO. 222. July-August 2009. http://www.nuso.org/upload/articulos/3617_2.pdf
Apart from the scheduling coincidence that the Fifth Summit of the Americas was already on
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managed effectively without close and sustained cooperation from many countries of the Americas.

WARMING CAUSES EXTINCTION – (ANSWERS ALL YOUR DEFENSE)

Deibel 7 – Terry L. Deibel, Professor of National Strategy at the National War College, 2007, Foreign Affairs Strategy: Logic for American Statecraft, p. 387-389
Finally, there is one major existential threat to American security (as well as
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States, but potentially to the continued existence of life on this planet.

CP

Text: Prior to implementation, the United States federal government will enter into binding consultation with the government of Brazil, proposing that The United States congress should ban the authorization of preemptive strikes by the president and will implement the agreed upon policies of consultation. We’ll clarify.

Observation one: CP is mutually exclusive with the affirmative—any permutation severs the certainty, immediacy, and unalterability of plan action, irreparably damaging competitive equity. It also proves that the affirmative is not resolved, making them nontopical and outside of the judges jurisdiction.

Observation Two: Brazil Says Yes

Brazil’s president is a former Marxist—she doesn’t want the US to prosecute a heavy-handed war on terror

Gosztola 2010 (Kevin, The Brazil Cables: US Upset Brazil Puts Interests of Activists Ahead of Counterterrorism
http://my.firedoglake.com/kgosztola/2010/12/03/the-brazilian-cables-us-upset-brazil-puts-interests-of-activists-ahead-of-counterterrorism/, JK)
Throughout the Brazilian cables, there is a deep contempt for Brazil’s handling of terrorism
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legal system and make it easier to wage a "war on terror."

Observation Three: Relations

Consultation is critical to enhancing the US/Brazil relationship—even modest initiatives like the CP can have a profound effect of building trust and cooperation.

Hakim 2011 (Peter, President of the Inter-American Dialogue, Foreign Service Journal, "Brazil and the US—Remaking a Relationship, http://www.thedialogue.org/page.cfm?pageID=3226pubID=2679)

Still, even when bilateral relations have become strained in recent years, the two
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there is consensus in Washington on U.S. climate change policy. 

K Orientalism

LINK: Depictions of the Iranian nuclear bomb threat replicate Orientalism

Izadi and Saghaye-Biria ’07
2007, Foad Izadi (doctoral student in communication) and Hakimeh Saghaye-Biria (master’s student in mass communication @ Louisiana State University), Journal of Communication Inquiry, Vol 31, No 2

This study supports Karim (2000) and McAlister’s (2001) findings that,
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other European nuclear powers shows the limits of media criticism  of official policies. 

The nuclear pandora’s box has already been opened — the only way to avoid the racism inherent in global nuclear politics is to allow all states to arm

Gusterson ’99
Hugh Gusterson, 1999, "Weapons and the Other in the Western Imagination" Cultural Anthropology pp. 111-143 http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/656531.pdf

The second position, participation, is based on Kenneth Waltz’s argument that all countries
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to shift the balance of power in their client relationships with the superpowers.

The impact is perpetual war — racist dichotomies create Otherization that normalizes us to violence – war becomes inevitable on all levels of society

Mendieta ’02
Eduardo Mendieta, 2002, "To Make Live and to Let Die – Foucault and Racism

This is where racism intervenes, not from without, exogenously, but from within
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of the living, then these threat and foes are biological in nature.