Tournament: Damus Hollywood Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: St vincent de paul | Judge: Gene Chien
1AC
Contention 1 is inherency-
US calls Cuba state sponsor of terrorism despite having committed worse acts against the Cuban people
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/
On an ... the list.
Plan
The United States federal government should remove Cuba from the State Department list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Contention two is Harms
Keeping Cuba on the list stifles political dissent, as in the case of Assada Shakur.
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
And ...–“terrorists”? Absolutely.
The List is both over and under inclusive and is used justify acts of violence as ‘anti-terrorism.’
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
Political Bias... ideological purposes.
The terror List causes economic terrorism.
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/
Of all ... early 1960s.
Economic terrorism is the biggest impact. Nuclear war will not happen because you sign the ballot. But the continuation of suffering and ignorance towards the issue can continue..
Abu-Jamal 98 (Mumia, award winning Pennsylvania journalist, quotes James Gilligan, Professor at Harvard/NYU, “A quiet and deadly violence”, http://www.flashpoints.net/mQuietDeadlyViolence.html)
The deadliest ...away with them.
Contention 3 state terrorism/cts/structural violence
Conventional Terror Studies limits the discussion of state-sponsored-terror.
Jackson, Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Radicalization and Contemporary Political Violence, 7
Richard, March 3, 2007, International Studies Association, “Terrorism Studies and the Politics of State Power,”http:cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/handle/2160/1951/ISA-2007-Paper-CTS-Jackson2.pdf?sequence=1
Both past ... error or misjudgement.
This direct violence against the Cuban people is a form of institutionalized racism and structural inequality but is concealed by the status quo definition of terrorism and excuses in the name of national security.
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
Propositions about ... non-state actors.
Jackson et al 10
Richard, Senior Researcher @ Centre for the Study of Radicalization and Contemporary Political Violence and Reader in Politics @ Aberystwyth University, Eamon Murphy is Professor of History and International Relations at Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia, and Scott Poynting is Professor in Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University, “Contemporary State Terrorism: Theory and Practice, p. 1
By all accounts, ... ongoing global war on terrorism.
Contention 4 is solvency
Removing Cuba from the State Terror List would remedy…
Sweig and Bustamente, Sr Fellow, Latin America Studies@ CFR and Ph.D. candidate, Latin American history-Yale University, 2013 (Julia and Michael; “Cuba After Communism,” Foreign Affairs. Jul/Aug 2013, Vol. 92 Issue 4, p101-114;
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=trueanddb=aphandAN=88213870andsite=ehost-liveandscope=site Date accessed 7/13/13)
As the migration... as a result.
The US is key to end hypocrisy- it has been the world's greatest terrorist and sponsor of terror.
Herman and Peterson, American economist and media analyst, Peterson attended UC Berkley, received a B.A. and M.A. in linguistics, alien language and culture consultant for Defiance, president of Language Creation Society, 2001 (Edward S., David, Who Terrorizes Whom?, Centre for Research on Globalisation, 18 October 2001, date accessed: July 26, 2013, http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/HER110A.html)
One of the marks ... repressive regimes."
Only CTS can truly achieve a broad conception of emancipation.
Jackson, Reader in international politics at University of Wales. Founding editor of routledge journal, Critical Studies on Terrorism and the convenor of the BISA Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group, 2007 (Richard, Terrorism Studies and the Politics of State Power, Paper prepared for International Studies Association, 28 Feb. – 3 March, 2007, date accessed: July 26, 2013)
Ethical Commitments ... raised by counter-terrorism policy.
Expert terrorism disourse is state and media motivated, leading to corrupted information reaching the public. Experts can’t share opinions that diverge from the ‘norm’ if they want publication.
Miller and Mills 9, Department of Geography and Sociology, University of Strathcylde, (David and Tom, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Critical Studies on Terrorism Vol. 2, No. 3, December 2009, 414–437, 27 August 2009, Date accessed 7/23/13)
So much ...the mark.
Terror Studies are under-researched—interrogate the neg author’s truth claims
Jackson et al 09, BSc Hons, AFBPsS, CSci, CPsych, PhD, Programme Director for Terrorism Studies at the University of East London, (Andrew, Chapter 2 Contemporary terrorism studies; Issues in research, Critical Terrorism Studies; A new research agenda, 2009, Date accessed- 7/26/13)
The major... 2005 and 2007.
Utilitarian calculus makes decisionmaking impossible—justifies the worst atrocities in a framework of “necro-economics”
Weizman 11 (Eyal, Prof of visual and spatial cultures @ Goldsmiths, U of London, The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza, p. 8-10)UM
The theological origins ... outright extinction.
Policy predictions fail—disregard the neg’s causal link chains
Tetlock and Gardner 11 (Dan* and Philip, Prof of organizational behavior @ the Haas Business School @ UC-Berkeley* and columnist and senior writer, 7/11/11, Overcoming Our Aversion to Acknowledging Our Ignorance, http://www.cato-unbound.org/2011/07/11/dan-gardner-philip-tetlock/overcoming-our-aversion-acknowledging-our-ignorance)//EM
The editors... the same.
No war—economic interdependence and deterrence
Deudney and Ikenberry 9 (Daniel and G. John, MA and PhD in Political Science, Professor, Political Science, Johns Hopkins University; PhD, Professor, International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, January/February 2009, The Myth of the Autocratic Revival: Why Liberal Democracy Will Prevail, Foreign Affairs Vol 88, Issue 1)Hensel
This bleak outlook... revivalists acknowledge.