Tournament: Grapevine TX | Round: 2 | Opponent: Edmond North LH | Judge: Ruby Blum
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Tournament: Dowling | Round: 3 | Opponent: Niles West AhBr | Judge: Evan Jones
The 1AC was narcocorrido just like GBX.

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Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 1 | Opponent: Iowa Valley HR | Judge: Andrew Arsht
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A diferentes países los
Certifican los gringos
No quieren que exista droga
Pues dicen que es un peligro
¿Díganme quien certifica
A los Estados Unidos?
Para agarrar a los narcos
México a sido derecho.
Los gringos compran la coca
La pagan a cualquier precio.
No quieren que exista droga
Pero se dan privilegios
Different countries are
Certified by the gringos
They do not want drugs there
For they say that is a danger
Tell me who certifies
The United States?
To catch the narcos
Mexico has been straight.
The Americans buy coke
They pay it at any price.
They do not want drugs to exist
But give themselves privileges.

(from “El General” by Los Tigres del Norte, translation in “Criminals and enemies? The Mexican drug trafficker in official discourse and in narcocorridos” by Alejandro Lajous)
The duplicitous US attitude toward drugs is adeptly captured here by Los Tigres del Norte. Foreign supply is a threat, but domestic demand is a lost cause; while little is done to curtail consumption, the centerpiece of US engagement toward Mexico is characterized by militarized surveillance and violent suppression to combat drug trafficking. Any deviance from the status quo is perceived as a threat – the only option is the perpetuation of Calderon’s “war”
Freidersdorf, 13
staff writer at The Atlantic, where he focuses on politics and national affairs (Conor, “Mexico Is Ready to End Failed Drug-War Policies—Why Isnand#39;t the U.S.?,” The Atlantic, 30 April 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/mexico-is-ready-to-end-failed-drug-war-policies-why-isnt-the-us/275410/)//bghs-BI
Did you know that the U.S. …So the carnage continues.
Since its origination in 1970s US domestic policy, the “war on drugs” has proven a failed initiative, yet it endures; the US-Mexico border has developed into an Agambenian space of exception where law is suspended by the sovereign
Parker, 11 – master’s degree in cultural and political studies from Royal Holloway, University of London, written extensively in the academic arena on geopolitics, ‘radical’ politics and protest, and mass media (Lindsay, “The Making of a Space of Exception: the War on Drugs, Agamben, and Ciudad
Juarez,” Cultural Geography, August 2011, http://lindsayparkerdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/the-making-of-a-space-of-exception.pdf)//bghs-BI
The “war on drugs” was introduced ...losing power to drug cartels.
The war metaphor remains dominant in official discourse surrounding drugs, collapsing the distinction between criminal and enemy – peace is impossible until the enemy is annihilated
Lajous, 12 – doctor of Law at Yale, professor and researcher at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica, a Mexican center of research and higher education specialized in social sciences (Alejandro Madrazo, “Criminals and enemies? The Mexican drug trafficker in official discourse and in narcocorridos,” translated by Fernanda Alonso)bghs-BI
III. The criminal and the enemy in the official discourse … (and not only shares his label).11
Politicizing the criminal as the enemy subjects them not to law but unlimited sovereignty, enabling the state to justify sacrifice of the political community and making civil war inevitable
Lajous, 12 – doctor of Law at Yale, professor and researcher at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica, a Mexican center of research and higher education specialized in social sciences (Alejandro Madrazo, “Criminals and enemies? The Mexican drug trafficker in official discourse and in narcocorridos,” translated by Fernanda Alonso)bghs-BI
II. The criminal and the enemy in the political imaginary … no longer a normative system.
The biopolitical determination of the threshold beyond which life ceases to have juridical value creates the category of a “life devoid of value” which spills over to the biological body of every living being and nullifies value to death
Agamben, 98 – professor of philosophy at university of Verona (Giorgio, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, pg. 139-140)
It is not our intention here …  the biological body of every living being.
When the legitimacy and existence of a population is in question, politics become murderous – the entirety of the world is reduced to bare life in an attempt to rid the public sphere of all risk. The only option becomes the extermination of all life
Duarte, 5 – professor of Philosophy at Universidade Federal do Paraná (André, “Biopolitics and the dissemination of violence: the Arendtian critique of the present,” April 2005, http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017andcontext=andre_duarte)//bghs-BI
These historic transformations have … of extending hospitality and solidarity towards others.
Thus,
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement toward Mexico.
“Resolved” means to reduce through mental analysis
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 6
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/resolved)
Resolve:  1.To come to a …to reduce by mental analysis (often fol. by into).
In the face of the hegemonic “war” discourse, an alternative has arisen in the public imaginary: the narcocorrido. Ambivalent but credible, epic but ordinary, it constitutes rebellion against a political system sustained on exceptionalism
Lajous, 12 – doctor of Law at Yale, professor and researcher at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica, a Mexican center of research and higher education specialized in social sciences (Alejandro Madrazo, “Criminals and enemies? The Mexican drug trafficker in official discourse and in narcocorridos,” translated by Fernanda Alonso)bghs-BI
IV. The criminal and the enemy in the saga of the narcocorrido … politicization in official discourse of the war on drugs?
Representations and exposition are the organizing principles behind the debate which we can challenge to alter power
Agamben, 2000 – professor of philosophy at the College International de Philosophie in Paris (Giorgio, Means Without End: Notes on Politics, p. 93-95)
Exposition is the location of politics … jealously watches over its management.
Our affirmation is a form of play that liberates debate from rigid rules and detaches humanity from the sacred
Dragona, 8 – PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Communication and Mass Media at University Of Athens, Freelance media arts curator (Daphne, “WhoDaresToDe-sacraliseTodaySPlay,” Personal Cinema, Page Last Modified 24 April 2008, http://www.personalcinema.org/warport/index.php?n=Main.WhoDaresToDe-sacraliseTodaySPlay?)
Giorgio Agamben considers play … Let’s hope so and wait and see…

Tournament: Lexington | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lakeland LK | Judge: Austin Layton
Juarez State of Exception 1AC

Since the 70s, the “war on drugs” has proven a failed initiative, yet it endures; economic engagement with Mexico has only expanded the trafficking problem the US has crusaded against. Intertwined with the economics of the drug war is a fundamental shift in the way that sovereignty operates on the US-Mexico border.
Parker, 11 – master’s degree in cultural and political studies from Royal Holloway, University of London, written extensively in the academic arena on geopolitics, ‘radical’ politics and protest, and mass media (Lindsay, “The Making of a Space of Exception: the War on Drugs, Agamben, and Ciudad
Juarez,” Cultural Geography, August 2011, http://lindsayparkerdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/the-making-of-a-space-of-exception.pdf)//bghs-BI
The “war on drugs” … power to drug cartels.

Legal approaches have failed – cartels have subverted governmental sovereignty in Juarez as sovereignty has been transferred to the drug underworld
Parker, 11 – master’s degree in cultural and political studies from Royal Holloway, University of London, written extensively in the academic arena on geopolitics, ‘radical’ politics and protest, and mass media (Lindsay, “The Making of a Space of Exception: the War on Drugs, Agamben, and Ciudad
Juarez,” Cultural Geography, August 2011, http://lindsayparkerdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/the-making-of-a-space-of-exception.pdf)//bghs-BI
Recalling Agamben’s paradox … and profits swell (Naim 2005).

This transfer of sovereignty constitutes Juarez as a space of exception. Citizens’ juridical value is suspended by both cartels and state military forces, as these categories become one in the same – rule and exception become indistinguishable, which is the enabling condition for violence
Parker, 11 – master’s degree in cultural and political studies from Royal Holloway, University of London, written extensively in the academic arena on geopolitics, ‘radical’ politics and protest, and mass media (Lindsay, “The Making of a Space of Exception: the War on Drugs, Agamben, and Ciudad
Juarez,” Cultural Geography, August 2011, http://lindsayparkerdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/the-making-of-a-space-of-exception.pdf)//bghs-BI
This analysis of … a state of emergency. 

The biopolitical determination of the threshold beyond which life ceases to have juridical value creates the category of a “life devoid of value” which spills over to the biological body of every living being and nullifies value to death
Agamben, 98 – professor of philosophy at university of Verona (Giorgio, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, pg. 139-140)
It is not our … every living being. 

The impact is the sovereign’s ability to exploit fundamental flaws in the legal system and continue the global biopolitical war – the ballot should side with the global countermovement against such violence – refuse the line
Gulli, 13  - professor of history, philosophy, and political science at Kingsborough College in New York, (Bruno, “For the critique of sovereignty and violence,” http://academia.edu/2527260/For_the_Critique_of_Sovereignty_and_Violence, pg. 1)
We live in … and police brutality¶ 

Interrogation of Juarez as a space of exception is valuable in its ability to foster understanding the operation and implication of such categories
Parker, 11 – master’s degree in cultural and political studies from Royal Holloway, University of London, written extensively in the academic arena on geopolitics, ‘radical’ politics and protest, and mass media (Lindsay, “The Making of a Space of Exception: the War on Drugs, Agamben, and Ciudad
Juarez,” Cultural Geography, August 2011, http://lindsayparkerdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/the-making-of-a-space-of-exception.pdf)//bghs-BI
All countries have … restoral of order.

Representations and exposition are the organizing principles behind the debate which we can challenge to alter power
Agamben, 2000 – professor of philosophy at the College International de Philosophie in Paris (Giorgio, Means Without End: Notes on Politics, p. 93-95)
Exposition is the … over its management.

Theoretical thinking concerning security problematizes militarized practices like the “war on drugs” – it constitutes reality
Bilgin, 5 – Professor of IR, Bikent University, Regional Security In The Middle East A Critical Perspective, Page 7
From a critical … theory and practice.

Our affirmation is a form of play that liberates debate from rigid rules and detaches humanity from the sacred
Dragona, 8 – PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Communication and Mass Media at University Of Athens, Freelance media arts curator (Daphne, “WhoDaresToDe-sacraliseTodaySPlay,” Personal Cinema, Page Last Modified 24 April 2008, http://www.personalcinema.org/warport/index.php?n=Main.WhoDaresToDe-sacraliseTodaySPlay?)
Giorgio Agamben considers … and wait and see…

Refuse attempts to reform the legal system and doom it to its own nihilistic destruction—we must refuse all conceptual apparatuses of capture
Prozorov 10. Sergei Prozorov, professor of political and economic studies at the University of Helsinki, “Why Giorgio Agamben is an optimist,” Philosophy Social Criticism 2010 36: pg. 1065
In a later work, …in the following section.¶

Tournament: Lexington | Round: 3 | Opponent: Pine Crest BR | Judge: Aubrey Semple
Same as Round 1

Tournament: Lexington | Round: 5 | Opponent: Acorn AR | Judge: Emma Thompson
Same as Round 1

Tournament: New Trier | Round: 1 | Opponent: University DK | Judge: Zach Pogany

Plan:

The United States Federal Government should lift all import restrictions on sugar cane ethanol produced in Cuba and facilitate growth of a Cuban sugar cane ethanol sector through foreign direct investment.

Oil Dependence

Plan’s key to supplement corn ethanol – most effective method to reduce oil dependence – superior efficiency, emissions, cost, potential, convenience to oil – other alternatives don’t solve
Matthews and Steglich, 11

 (Robert B. Matthews, J/D/, C.P.A., M. Acctg., is assistant professor of business administration at Sam Houston State University.  He received an undergraduate degree in mathematics and economics, and a master’s degree in accounting, from Rice University, and a law degree from the University of Houston Law Center.  Prior to joining the faculty at SHSU, he spent 35 years as a financial and legal consultant to numerous clients, primarily in the energy industry. Eric Steglich received his M.B.A. from Sam Houston State University.  This paper is derived from, and an expansion of, a paper he prepared while a graduate student at SHSU, “A Tale of Two Countries: What The United States Can Learn From Brazil About Reducing Dependence On Foreign Oil,” http://conferences.cluteonline.com/index.php/IAC/2011NO/paper/viewFile/306/314, August 2011)
Note that the USA produces ... against oil price spikes.

Economy

2008 proves high oil prices discourage consumer spending and cause inflation – cheap alt energy is key to prevent global economic collapse and promote growth
Rubin, 12

 (Jeff Rubin is a Canadian economist and author. He is a former chief economist at CIBC World Markets. Rubin had worked at CIBC World Markets and its predecessors since 1988, and served as chief economist from 1992 to 2009, “How High Oil Prices Will Permanently Cap Economic Growth,” http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-23/how-high-oil-prices-will-permanently-cap-economic-growth.html, Sep 23, 2012)
For most of the last century ... we can’t afford the cost. 

Sugar cane ethanol solves – extremely efficient
Newsweek, 7

 (Newsweek, “Sugar Rush,”  http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2007/04/15/sugar-rush.html, April 15, 2007)
He won't be the last ... protect our environment."

Economic collapse causes nuclear war
Merlini 11

 (Cesare Merlini, BA in humanities, holds a diploma for industrial engineering, nonresident Senior Fellow at the Center on the United States at the Brookings Institute, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Italian Institute of International Affairs, President of the Italian Institute of International Affairs, founder and former Executive-Vice-Chairman of the Council for the United States and Italy, former co-editor of Global-FP, an Italian magazine associated with Foreign Affairs, former member of the Trilateral Commission, member of the Board of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, previously held the chair of Nuclear Technologies at the Polytechnic University of Turin, nuclear scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, expert on transatlantic relations, European integration, nuclear non-proliferation, and the impact of change in society on international relations, 2011, “A Post-Secular World?”, published in Survival volume 53 number 2, page 117, http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/articles/2011/04_international_relations_merlini/04_international_relations_merlini.pdf)
Two neatly opposed scenarios ... rising influence and power.

Second, boosting economic competitiveness bolsters hegemony and solves war
Khalilzad 11

 – Bush’s ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the UN and former director policy planning at the DOD (Zalmay, “The Economy and National Security”, National Review, 2-8-11, http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/259024/economy-and-national-security-zalmay-khalilzad)
Today, economic and fiscal trends ... dangerous era of multi-polarity.

Primacy is the mega-impact
Brooks, Ikenberry and Wohlforth ‘13

Stephen Brooks, Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, John Ikenberry, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, John Wohlforth, Daniel Webster Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, Jan/Feb 2013, Foreign Affairs, Lean Forward, EBSCO
Of course, even if it is true ... results could well be disastrous.

U.S. pursuit of heg is locked-in
Zach Dorfman 12

, assistant editor of Ethics and International Affairs, the journal of the Carnegie Council, and co-editor of the Montreal Review, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Isolationism”, May 18, http://dissentmagazine.org/online.php?id=605
The rise of China ... security state appears here to stay.

Iran

Iran sanctions are insufficient – they’re close to WMDs
Katzmann

 7/26 (Dr. Kenneth Katzmann has served in government and the private sector as an analyst in Persian Gulf affairs, with special emphasis on Iran and Iraq. In his current position, Dr. Katzman analyzes U.S. policy and legislation on the Persian Gulf region for members of Congress and their staffs. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from New York University, CRS Report – “Iran Sanctions”, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RS20871.pdf, July 26, 2013)
There is a consensus ... ballistic missile arsenal.”

Dependence stops the U.S. from imposing essential sanctions on Iran – they leverage their oil production
Hannah, 12

 (John Hannah is a contributor to Foreign Policy's Shadow Government blog and a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, “Energy insecurity: How oil dependence undermines America's effort to stop the Iranian bomb,” http://shadow.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/10/12/ energy_insecurity_how_oil_dependence_undermines_america_s_effort_to_stop_the_irania, October 12, 2012)
Concerns about oil prices ... for at least a generation.

Iran prolif would destabilize the Middle East leading to a war that entangles every major power – the world is uniquely vulnerable to threats posed by prolif now
Heisbourg 12

—chairman of the council of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (Francois, 3/4/12, “NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION – LOOKING BACK, THINKING AHEAD: HOW BAD WOULD THE FURTHER SPREAD OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS BE?,” http://www.npolicy.org/article_file/Nuclear_Proliferation_-_Looking_Back_Thinking_Ahead_How_Bad_Would_the_Further_Spread_of_Nuclear_Weapons_Be.pdf, RBatra)
Demand is currently focusing ... devastating nuclear exchange.

Contention Two – Brazilian Ecosystems

Cuban ethanol solves Cerrado Destruction – displaces expansion into Brazilian ecosystems and avoids land conversion concerns
Specht ‘12

(Jonathan – Legal Advisor, Pearlmaker Holsteins, Inc. B.A., Louisiana State University, 2009; J.D.,¶ Washington University in St. Louis 2012. “Raising Cane: Cuban Sugarcane Ethanol’s Economic and Environmental Effects on the United States” – ExpressO – http://environs.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/36/2/specht.pdf)
B. Environmental Effects of ... ethanol should be encouraged.

Cerrado’s key to global biod – biggest hotspot and important for medical breakthroughs. It’s also a strong carbon sink – extensive underground biomass
Vitali ‘11

(Isabella Vitali – Senior Policy Officer, WWF-UK.“Soya and the Cerrado: Brazil’s forgotten jewel – http://assets.wwf.org.uk/downloads/soya_and_the_cerrado.pdf)

Loss of the Cerrado ... of carbon per hectare.

Warming is anthropogenic. We need strong carbon sinks
Hu ‘9

(et al – all authors listed. JIA HU = Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder. DAVID J. P. MOORE = Department of Geography, King’s College London. SEANP.BURNS = National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). RUSSELL K . MONSON – Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder. “Longer growing seasons lead to less carbon sequestration by a subalpine forest” – Global Change Biology; http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/people/burns/files/gcb10_hu_growingseason.pdf)
Human activities, such as ... terrestrial ecosystems.

Warming leads to extinction. Obstructs currents and resulting bacteria produce tons of toxic H2S – annihilates the ozone layer
Ward, 10

(Peter, PhD, professor of Biology and Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington, paleontologist and NASA astrobiologist, Fellow at the California Academy of Sciences, The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World Without Ice Caps, June 29, 2010)
In the rest of this chapter ... called the conveyor currents.

Tournament: New Trier | Round: 4 | Opponent: Traverse City Central CC | Judge: Jack Caporal
It's pretty similar to the 1AC from Round 1 but there are some updates - view them  in the open source.

Tournament: New Trier | Round: 6 | Opponent: HoFlo LG | Judge: Ernie Rose
Same 1AC as round 4. Refer to the open source.