Tournament: Sprague | Round: 1 | Opponent: Westview | Judge: Liz Fetherson
Bolender, Scholar at Council on Hemispheric Affairs, 13
~Keith, 4-22-13, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, "The Terrorist List, and Terrorism as Practiced Against Cuba," http://www.coha.org/22355/, accessed 6-25-13, YGS~
On an emotional level, Havana has long drawn attention to the double standard that
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relations. It is time for Cuba to be taken off the list.
2nd, One of the official justifications used for keeping Cuba on the list is a small number of fugitives from the US living on the island: the classification of individuals like Assata Shakur as "terrorists" demonstrates that the label isn’t about describing a particular strategy- it can be attached to anyone who dissents against the status quo.
Pangburn, Editor of Death and Taxes, 2013
~DJ Pangburn, Editor, Death and Taxes Mag, and contributor at VICE, May 2013, VICE, "After Assata Shakur, We Don’t Know What a Terrorist Is Anymore" , http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/calling-assata-shakur-a-terrorist-is-a-terrible-idea-http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/calling-assata-shakur-a-terrorist-is-a-terrible-idea, accessed 6-25-13, Fontana~
And so we turn again to Assata Shakur.¶ As a former Black Panther,
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from Thomas Paine to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson–"terrorists"? Absolutely.
Jackson, Deputy Director at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, 06
~Richard, December 18-20, in Michael Innes, (ed) Denial of Sanctuary: Understanding Terrorist Safe Havens (Praeger Security International), "The State and Terrorist Sanctuaries: A Critical Analysis", http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/handle/2160/1948/BISA-Paper-2006-Jackson-Final.pdf?sequence=1-http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/handle/2160/1948/BISA-Paper-2006-Jackson-Final.pdf?sequence=1, accessed 6/25/13, VJ~
Political Bias A related problem for the "terrorist sanctuaries? discourse is that it
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academic analysis therefore, it may serve a number of distinctly ideological purposes.
Bolender, Scholar at Council on Hemispheric Affairs, 13
~Keith, 4-22-13, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, "The Terrorist List, and Terrorism as Practiced Against Cuba," http://www.coha.org/22355/, accessed 6-25-13, YGS~
Of all the components to the United States hostile strategy against Cuba, nothing raises
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from the comprehensive embargo the United States has imposed since the early 1960s.
Kauzlarich, professor of sociology @ Southern Illinois, et al, 01
~David, Rick A. Matthews, Ohio University, William J. Miller, professor @ Carthage College, 2001, Critical Criminology, "Toward A Victimology of State Crime", http://jthomasniu.org/class/781/Assigs/kauzvictimology.pdf-http://jthomasniu.org/class/781/Assigs/kauzvictimology.pdf, accessed 7-1-13, GSK~
Propositions about the victimology of state crime can be developed from this review to help
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conditions that account for the persistence of institutional harms caused by its agencies.
Jackson et al 10
~Richard, Senior Researcher @ Centre for the Study of Radicalization and Contemporary Political
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state or insurgent terrorism, including in the ongoing global war on terrorism.
Jackson, Deputy Director at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, 09
~Richard, March 18th, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Volume 1 Issue 3, "The ghosts of state terror: knowledge, politics and terrorism studies", p 385-356, accessed 6/27/13, VJ~
In contrast to first-order critique, second-order critique involves the adoption of a critical standpoint
outside of the discourse. In this case, based on an understanding of discourse
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number of distinctly political purposes and has several important ideological consequences for society.