Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: Octas | Opponent: Dowling SL | Judge: Haley-Hill, Maloney, Newton
Section 211 was smuggled into US legislation by the most dangerous Multinational: Bacardi – they’ve sabotaged Caribbean rum and alcohol and control US foreign policy to further corporate aims
Williams 5 (Ian, UN correspondent @ The Nation, 11/22/5, http://www.thenation.com/article/secret-history-rum#) JPG
Rum has always tended ... political positions.
Bacardi’s history of supporting secret wars, assassination plots, and harsh sanctions prove its neoliberal tendencies
Campbell 2 (Duncan, author for the Guardian and LA Times, “Bacardi accused of Campaign to Oust Castro,” http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/aug/15/cuba.duncancampbell, 8/14/02, arh)
The Bacardi rum ... according to Calvo Ospina.
And thus the Plan: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase its Economic Engagement with Cuba by repealing Section 211 of the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations act of 1998.
Bacardi exemplifies how the state uses multinationals for clandestine operations
Petras 2 (James, Prof. Political Ethics, U of Binghamton, in Bacardi, The Hidden War p. i.)
This is the story of the ... pursue clandestine activities.
The “importance” of the private sector because of government interaction enables companies to now permeate economic, social and political institutions, public opinion, and the state -- its control is functionally inevitable in the Status Quo
Ugalde 96 (Francisco Valdés, Ph.D in Political Science at National Autonomous University of Mexico, “The Private Sector and Political Regime Change in Mexico,” NEOLIBERALISM REVISITED – Economic Restructuring and Mexico's Political Future, edited by Gerardo Otero, Westview Press, pg 139-40)SG
Further insight into the civic strategy ... , public opinion, and the state.
Pastoral Power is totalitarian –it homogenizes the individual into a preconceived mold of what is right and commodifies existence while masking it as a governmentality
Nygri 12 (Katarina, lecturer and prof at the University of Middle Sweden, “The Pastoral Power of Technology. Rethinking Alienation in a Digital Culture.” Page 511. http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/viewFile/388/375, arh)
Foucault’s concept of pastoral ... We must perform this way (see for example: Rose 1996).
Pastoral Power enables corporations to dominate individual, subordinating them – corporate totalitarianism makes the human body one of subsistence and manipulation
Lemm 09 (Vanessa, PhD in Philosophy from the New School of Social Research, http://www.biopolitica.cl/docs/Lemm_Biological_Threshold_Modern_Politics.pdf, pg. 3-5, arh)
Foucault’s notion of ... sake of others11.
The proliferation of corporate power makes extinction inevitable – runaway multinationals guarantee a planet in crisis
Robinson 8 (William I. Robinson, professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, “Latin America and Global Capitalism: A Critical Globalization Perspective” pg. xii-xiii)
The truth, as Hegel ... that integrate theory and practice.
Contention Three – Corporations
Bacardi shows how corporations can control U.S. policy – the status quo enables further corporate domination
Petras 2 (James, Prof. Political Ethics, U of Binghamton, in Bacardi, The Hidden War p. i.)
By focusing on the role of Bacardi in the formation of the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) ... US legislators and contributed to the financing of President Clinton's
The Status Quo mindset of expansionism guarantees global war, dehumanization and exploitation – the only option is a shift from the current system
Robinson 6 William I. Robinson, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA, http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/robinson/Assets/pdf/beyond_imperialism.pdf jb
Theories of a “new imperialism... ” literature that has appeared since 2001.4
The current mentality pushes towards a fascist militarized society that eradicates civil rights and wages international wars
Giroux 5 Henry A., The Terror of Neoliberalism: Rethinking the Significance of Cultural Politics College Literature 32.1 (2005) 1-19, Project Muse
Neoliberal ideology, on the one hand... , security, and productiveness.
The Status Quo perpetuates the ‘kill to save’ mentality, ensuring the genocidal destruction of humanity
Santos 03 Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Collective Suicide?,Issue #63, April 2003, Bad Subjects.com http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2003/63/santos.html/view?searchterm=Santos,
According to Franz Hinkelammert, the ... war, of thousands of innocent civilians.
This makes all life disposable – those not deemed valuable to corporations are subject to the policy crafted by the elites of the system
Giroux 8 Henry, PROF. OF CULTURAL STUDIES AND COMMUNICATION AT MCMASTER UNIVERSITY, “Beyond the biopolitics of disposability: rethinking neoliberalism in the New Gilded Age” Social Identities, September, 2008, CMR
Needless to say, invoking ... inaction and the atrophy of democratic politics.
Contention Four – Solvency
We should not accept the status quo’s inevitability – concessions assures equality is trashed in favor of expansion of the economy, national security and global power
Brown 3 (Wendy, professor of political theory at Berkeley, Theory and Event 7:1 project muse)
Still, if we are slipping from liberalism... , an expanding economy, national security, and global power.
Our recognition of pastoral power is essential – only through our rejection can we pave the way for future rejection of corporate totalitarianism
Fender ’10 (L., writer for the Continuum Library of Educational Thought, “Michel Focault, Vol 22, Richard Baily, Series Ed, London: Continuum Press., wordpress quotes the article by Fender http://educationmuseum.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/michel-foucault-modalities-of-power/ arh)
Foucault used the metaphor of... relations of power and leadership.
211 demonstrates Bacardi’s goal of controlling Cuba part of globalization– a repeal of 211 removes Bacardi’s power, and rejects the ideology ingrained in the status quo
Gjelton 08 (Tom, National Public Radio correspondent, Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba, p.345)
In fact, its promotion... Cuba would be just another battlefield.
A rejection of the status quo’s ideals is essential to destroying the “economy of individuals” enacted by corporations that subjugates its workers as means to profit
Golob, Podnar, and Lah 9 Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, (Ursa, Klement, Marko, “Social economy and social responsibility: Alternatives to global anarchy of neoliberalism?”International Journal of Social Economics Emerald Group Publishing Found on ABI Inform)
The essence of social economy ... stakeholders (Table I Figure omitted. See Article Image.).
Our rejection is key to rejection of the entire system of corporate control – simple rejections of modernism are essential in its upset
Korten 99 (David C, an American economist, author, and former Professor of the Harvard Business School, “The Post Corporate World.” Berrett Koehler Publishers, San Francisco CA, pp. 215-216, arh)
Cultural Creatives have a strong commitment ... living and elevating the importance of the feminine.
State action is key to reject private governance – that makes the repeal of 211 so important
Korten 99 (David C, an American economist, author, and former Professor of the Harvard Business School, “The Post Corporate World.” Berrett Koehler Publishers, San Francisco CA, pp.207, arh)
The goals of stakeholder ownership and individual responsibility affirm the values of conservatives. The emphasis on one person, one vote democracy ... latent political constituency.