Tournament: HoFlo | Round: 1 | Opponent: Northside ER | Judge: Christian Palacios

1NC

AML causes drug cartels to finance elsewhere

Masciandaro et al. 7 ~Donato, Professor of Economics @ Bocconi University, El?d Takáts monitors emerging markets focusing on Central and Eastern Europe. He earned his PhD in financial economics at Princeton University in 2006, and Brigitte Unger is Professor of Public Sector Economics at the Utrecht School of Economics.   Black Finance: The Economics of Money Laundering, Google Books, Page 223, 2007~
In money-laundering enforcement marginal deterrence should be equated between different transfer forms,
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. Hence, excessively strong but insufficiently broad enforcement might miss its target.

Specifically, they’ll finance through the Balkans

Nielsen 12 ~Nikolaj, writer @ euobserver.com, news website  "Mexican drug cartels penetrate southern Europe", 9/11/12, http://euobserver.com/justice/118141-http://euobserver.com/justice/118141)~~
One of Mexico’s largest and most dangerous drug cartels has expanded its activities throughout the
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talking to their suppliers in Mexico, in South America," said Nichols.

That causes Balkan instability

Rom 10 ~Sheila Master’s degree International Conflict and Security @ U of Kent Brussels
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illicit goods, including weapons, and transit for terrorists and their recruiters. 

Balkan instability specifically escalates -~— causes global great power war

Paris 02 ~Rolan Paris, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at University of Colorado, "Kosovo and the Metaphor War," Volume 117, Political Science Quarterly, 2002, Proquest~
At this early stage in the Kosovo crisis, Clinton’s language was still somewhat coded
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the smoldering fire in the Balkan powderkeg, before it is too late.

Tournament: HoFlo | Round: 3 | Opponent: Groves CP | Judge: Dunno

1NC Shell

The aff commodifies suffering in exchange for your ballot in the debate economy—playing a game where we move scenarios of suffering around like chess pieces for our own personal enjoyment is the most unethical form of intellectual imperialism
Baudrillard 94 – ~Jean, "The Illusion of the End" p. 66-71~
We have long denounced the capitalistic, economic exploitation of the poverty of the ’other
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demographic catastrophe, a veritable epidemic which we deplore each day in pictures.
Their engagement in the trauma market allows them to take lives hostage, operating through a process of emotional blackmail that ultimately loses the Other in simulation, an abolishment worse than death
Baudrillard 92 – ~Jean, The Illusion of the End~}
In the case of the Romanian revolution, it was the faking of the dead
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.  All that remains of it are the traces on a monitoring screen.

Tournament: HoFlo | Round: 1 | Opponent: Northside ER | Judge: Christian Palacios

1NC

The United States Federal Government should pass Senate bill 1465, the Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act, and Senate bill 1731, the Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Counterfeiting Act.

Law Enforcement Assistance makes it harder to start shell corporations – these are key parts of the money laundering regime

Feinstein 13 ~ senior United States Senator,  "The Buck Stop Here: Improving U.S. Anti-Money Laundering Practices", US Caucus on International Narcotics Control, April 2013, http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve/?File_id=311e974a-feb6-48e6-b302-0769f16185ee-http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve/?File_id=311e974a-feb6-48e6-b302-0769f16185ee~~crk
In the 112th Congress, Senators Carl Levin (D-MI) and Charles
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of the Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act in the 113th Congress.

The Combating Money Laundering Act solves AML - here’s a bunch of provisions why

Feinstein 13 ~ senior United States Senator,  "The Buck Stop Here: Improving U.S. Anti-Money Laundering Practices", US Caucus on International Narcotics Control, April 2013, http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve/?File_id=311e974a-feb6-48e6-b302-0769f16185ee-http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve/?File_id=311e974a-feb6-48e6-b302-0769f16185ee~~crk
In the 112" Congress. Senators Charles Grassley (R-lA) and
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charging each transaction as a separate violation if it elects to do so.

Tournament: HoFlo | Round: 3 | Opponent: Groves CP | Judge: Dunno

The call to an imaginarily "ethical" force is the essence of ontological violence. It is impossible to escape the monism of violence – every action we take negates future possibilities, and their claim to solve imperialism and suffering is demonstrative of this. Only the use of violence to destroy ethics from within can serve as a deconstruction point for ethics. Their claim to invoke ethics is the knowability that allows the murder of the Other in the first place.

Jeffrey HANSON – Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Boston College - Ph.D from Fordham, 19 October 2005, "Returning (to) the gift of death: violence and history in Derrida and Levinas"
As Hent de Vries, who also has read "Violence and Metaphysics" together
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the hope of a critique of violence that would stave off the worst.

Infinite ethics rely on three concepts – responsibility, that the self is always already in debt to the other; faith, that ethics is a prior question; and the gift, that the self is in a position to give to the other in the first place. These posit the self as Abraham – simultaneously the life taker and life giver. Vote negative to laugh at their telos and break down their discourse of ethical action to reveal the secret violence they harbor.

Jeffrey HANSON – Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Boston College - Ph.D from Fordham, 19 October 2005, "Returning (to) the gift of death: violence and history in Derrida and Levinas"

It is against this backdrop we should read The Gift of Death, where these
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scarred landscape of European history, wherein both Levinas and Kierkegaard ?gure prominently.

Tournament: Maine East | Round: 4 | Opponent: Niles North HB | Judge: Sharmeen Khan

1NC

Counterplan Text: The United States federal government should amend Title 22 of US Code (22 U.S.C. 6065) so that a transition government in Cuba is defined as a government that is taking appropriate steps to restitute and/or compensate United States citizens for property taken by the Cuban government, as outlined in the following addendum. The United States federal government should offer to negotiate a Bilateral Investment Treaty with Cuba that includes a Step-Down Restitution Policy.

A Bilateral Investment Treaty as a mechanism for compensation helps Cuba meet the only condition that is keeping the embargo in place

Mowry, Senior Counsel Xerox Corporation, 1999 (David, "Lifting the Embargo against Cuba Using Vietnam as a Model: A Policy Paper for Modernity" Brooklyn Journal of International Law, 25 Brooklyn J. Int’l L. 229, lexis)
The obstacles that prevent a President from lifting the embargo against Cuba arbitrarily would appear
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S. Government would not be liable for any losses.   ~*262~ 

The current embargo holds Cuba responsible for compensation for property taken during the Castro revolution – lifting the embargo and normalizing relations makes the US legally responsible for that compensation under the Takings Clause – that causes lawsuits against the federal government that collapses an effective transition and turns every Cuba advantage

Smagula 95, Associate with Totti, Rodriguez Diaz 26 Fuentes, (John, Fall, "Redirecting Focus: Justifying the U.S. Embargo Against Cuba and Resolving the Stalemate" 1995 North Carolina Journal of International Law 26 Commercial Regulation, 21 N.C.J. Int’l L. 26 Com. Reg. 66, lexis)
B. Full Compensation as an Inflexible Standard In extreme cases, full compensation may
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cast a cloud over any progress in U.S.-Cuban relations.