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Lexington - Round 1Tournament: Lexington | Round: 1 | Opponent: Interlake LM | Judge: Daryl Burch 1The grammar of civil society seeks to ignore and exclude past atrocities. You must hold them accountable. The only ethical act that can be taken in this civil society is that of the Savage or the Slave. This sets the state for all other interrogations and paves the way for ontological suffering.Wilderson III, 2010 (Frank B., Prof of African American studies and drama @ UC Irvine, Red White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms Pg. 1-5) WHEN I WAS a young student at Columbia University in New York there was a The true borders lie in the epistemic location within the state—the border is merely a tool to reinforce deep-seated assumptions about the Mexican stateOrozco-Mendoza 8 (Elva, doctoral student currently concentrating in political theory at UMass, Borderlands Theory: Producing Border Epistemologies with Gloria¶ Anzaldúa, Thesis submitted to the Faculty of¶ Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 4/24/2008) The concept of borders (or frontiers) is precisely the mechanism that Europeans employed The slave ruptures the idea of bare life – acquiescing to the outlayed definition of social death downplays the role of civil society in structuring anti-blackness – positing social death and bare life as synonymous is the linkZiarek 12 (Ewa, University of buffalo Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature. Her teaching includes feminist theory, modernism, continental philosophy, ethics, and critical theory, Bare Life, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/o/ohp/10803281.0001.001/1:11/—impasses-of-the-post-global-theory-in-the-era-of-climate?rgn=div1;view=fulltext) The notion of slavery a substitute for death complicates Agamben’s central thesis that sovereign decision The affirmative obscures the structural position of blackness to retrench the Slave back into the system, and continues to consume the black body – only the alternative alone can solveSexton, summer 2010 (Jared, Director, African American Studies School of Humanities @ UC Irvine, "People-of-Color-Blindness: Notes on the Afterlife of Slavery" Social Text 28.2 Duke University Press) The upshot of this predicament is that obscuring the structural position of the category of Cooperation deepens anti-blackness and coopts the alt to make White supremacy resilient.Wilderson III, 2010 (Frank B., Prof of African American studies and drama @ UC Irvine, Red White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms Pg 29-30) The three structuring positions of the United States (Whites, Indians, Blacks) Coalitional politics undermine the effectiveness of black rage and accepts that the black body is condemned to deathSexton, 2010 (Jared, Director of African American Studies School of Humanities @ UC Irvine, "Proprieties of Coalition: Blacks, Asians, and the Politics of Policing" Critical Sociology 36.1 Sage) In the final analysis, our intellectual efforts founder in case after disastrous case of Civil society’s reliance on white supremacy is the basis for genocide, ontological violence based on the penal system, and the eradication of the non-white other. It outweighs all impacts.Rodriguez, summer 2008 (Dylan, Prof of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside, "Race, Gender, and Immigration in the Globality of the U.S. Prison Regime" The Scholar and Feminist Online http://sfonline.barnard.edu/immigration/print_drodriguez.htm) White supremacist social, economic, and cultural formations organic to the United States— Anti-Blackness is the root cause of all oppression – its impossible to be anti-anything else without being anti-blackSexton, 2010 (Jared, Director of African American Studies School of Humanities @ UC Irvine, "The Curtain of the Sky’: An Introduction" Critical Sociology 36.1) This is why his moments of analytic generalization in the name of global justice contrast The alternative is to refuse the 1ac to death. Each affirmation allows civil society more coherence than the alt alone.Wilderson III 2007 (Frank B. Assistant Professor of African American Studies 26 Drama at UC Irvine, Warfare in the American Homeland-Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy Edit By James Joy, Pg 31-33) Slavery is the great leveler of the black subject’s positionality. The black American subject | 1/20/14 |
Lexington - Round 3Tournament: Lexington | Round: 3 | Opponent: Bishop Guertin TS | Judge: Audrey Semple 1The grammar of civil society seeks to ignore and exclude past atrocities. You must hold them accountable. The only ethical act that can be taken in this civil society is that of the Savage or the Slave. This sets the state for all other interrogations and paves the way for ontological suffering.Wilderson III, 2010 (Frank B., Prof of African American studies and drama @ UC Irvine, Red White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms Pg. 1-5) WHEN I WAS a young student at Columbia University in New York there was a Attempts to help native Mexicans permeate US hegemonic discourse. Reject the racial discrimination of the Mexican ChicagoDe Genova 5 (Nicholas, visiting Research Professor in the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies at the University of Amsterdam, "Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and "Illegality" in Mexican Chicago," pages 6-8, MDM) The slave ruptures the idea of bare life – acquiescing to the outlayed definition of social death downplays the role of civil society in structuring anti-blackness – positing social death and bare life as synonymous is the linkZiarek 12 (Ewa, University of buffalo Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature. Her teaching includes feminist theory, modernism, continental philosophy, ethics, and critical theory, Bare Life, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/o/ohp/10803281.0001.001/1:11/—impasses-of-the-post-global-theory-in-the-era-of-climate?rgn=div1;view=fulltext) The notion of slavery a substitute for death complicates Agamben’s central thesis that sovereign decision The affirmative obscures the structural position of blackness to retrench the Slave back into the system, and continues to consume the black body – only the alternative alone can solveSexton, summer 2010 (Jared, Director, African American Studies School of Humanities @ UC Irvine, "People-of-Color-Blindness: Notes on the Afterlife of Slavery" Social Text 28.2 Duke University Press) The upshot of this predicament is that obscuring the structural position of the category of Cooperation deepens anti-blackness and coopts the alt to make White supremacy resilient.Wilderson III, 2010 (Frank B., Prof of African American studies and drama @ UC Irvine, Red White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms Pg 29-30) The three structuring positions of the United States (Whites, Indians, Blacks) Coalitional politics undermine the effectiveness of black rage and accepts that the black body is condemned to deathSexton, 2010 (Jared, Director of African American Studies School of Humanities @ UC Irvine, "Proprieties of Coalition: Blacks, Asians, and the Politics of Policing" Critical Sociology 36.1 Sage) In the final analysis, our intellectual efforts founder in case after disastrous case of Civil society’s reliance on white supremacy is the basis for genocide, ontological violence based on the penal system, and the eradication of the non-white other. It outweighs all impacts.Rodriguez, summer 2008 (Dylan, Prof of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside, "Race, Gender, and Immigration in the Globality of the U.S. Prison Regime" The Scholar and Feminist Online http://sfonline.barnard.edu/immigration/print_drodriguez.htm) White supremacist social, economic, and cultural formations organic to the United States— Anti-Blackness is the root cause of all oppression – its impossible to be anti-anything else without being anti-blackSexton, 2010 (Jared, Director of African American Studies School of Humanities @ UC Irvine, "The Curtain of the Sky’: An Introduction" Critical Sociology 36.1) This is why his moments of analytic generalization in the name of global justice contrast The alternative is to refuse the 1ac to death. Each affirmation allows civil society more coherence than the alt alone.Wilderson III 2007 (Frank B. Assistant Professor of African American Studies 26 Drama at UC Irvine, Warfare in the American Homeland-Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy Edit By James Joy, Pg 31-33) Slavery is the great leveler of the black subject’s positionality. The black American subject | 1/20/14 |
Lexington - Round 5Tournament: Lexington | Round: 5 | Opponent: Capitol Debate EK | Judge: Michael Antonucci 1The grammar of civil society seeks to ignore and exclude past atrocities. You must hold them accountable. The only ethical act that can be taken in this civil society is that of the Savage or the Slave. This sets the state for all other interrogations and paves the way for ontological suffering.Wilderson III, 2010 (Frank B., Prof of African American studies and drama @ UC Irvine, Red White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms Pg. 1-5) WHEN I WAS a young student at Columbia University in New York there was a Attempts to help native Mexicans permeate US hegemonic discourse. Reject the racial discrimination of the Mexican ChicagoDe Genova 5 (Nicholas, visiting Research Professor in the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies at the University of Amsterdam, "Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and "Illegality" in Mexican Chicago," pages 6-8, MDM) The slave ruptures the idea of bare life – acquiescing to the outlayed definition of social death downplays the role of civil society in structuring anti-blackness – positing social death and bare life as synonymous is the linkZiarek 12 (Ewa, University of buffalo Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature. Her teaching includes feminist theory, modernism, continental philosophy, ethics, and critical theory, Bare Life, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/o/ohp/10803281.0001.001/1:11/—impasses-of-the-post-global-theory-in-the-era-of-climate?rgn=div1;view=fulltext) The notion of slavery a substitute for death complicates Agamben’s central thesis that sovereign decision The affirmative obscures the structural position of blackness to retrench the Slave back into the system, and continues to consume the black body – only the alternative alone can solveSexton, summer 2010 (Jared, Director, African American Studies School of Humanities @ UC Irvine, "People-of-Color-Blindness: Notes on the Afterlife of Slavery" Social Text 28.2 Duke University Press) The upshot of this predicament is that obscuring the structural position of the category of Cooperation deepens anti-blackness and coopts the alt to make White supremacy resilient.Wilderson III, 2010 (Frank B., Prof of African American studies and drama @ UC Irvine, Red White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms Pg 29-30) The three structuring positions of the United States (Whites, Indians, Blacks) Coalitional politics undermine the effectiveness of black rage and accepts that the black body is condemned to deathSexton, 2010 (Jared, Director of African American Studies School of Humanities @ UC Irvine, "Proprieties of Coalition: Blacks, Asians, and the Politics of Policing" Critical Sociology 36.1 Sage) In the final analysis, our intellectual efforts founder in case after disastrous case of Civil society’s reliance on white supremacy is the basis for genocide, ontological violence based on the penal system, and the eradication of the non-white other. It outweighs all impacts.Rodriguez, summer 2008 (Dylan, Prof of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside, "Race, Gender, and Immigration in the Globality of the U.S. Prison Regime" The Scholar and Feminist Online http://sfonline.barnard.edu/immigration/print_drodriguez.htm) White supremacist social, economic, and cultural formations organic to the United States— Anti-Blackness is the root cause of all oppression – its impossible to be anti-anything else without being anti-blackSexton, 2010 (Jared, Director of African American Studies School of Humanities @ UC Irvine, "The Curtain of the Sky’: An Introduction" Critical Sociology 36.1) This is why his moments of analytic generalization in the name of global justice contrast The alternative is to refuse the 1ac to death. Each affirmation allows civil society more coherence than the alt alone.Wilderson III 2007 (Frank B. Assistant Professor of African American Studies 26 Drama at UC Irvine, Warfare in the American Homeland-Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy Edit By James Joy, Pg 31-33) Slavery is the great leveler of the black subject’s positionality. The black American subject | 1/20/14 |
UMich - Round 2Tournament: University of Michigan | Round: 2 | Opponent: New Trier WP | Judge: Sean Farris Environment Drilling DADrilling destroys ocean hotspotsGravitz 9—Oceans Advocate for Environment America ~Michael Gravitz, Statement at the Department of Interior Hearing On Offshore Ocean Energy Development in Atlantic City, New Jersey, April 6, 2009, pg. http://tinyurl.com/cxkzanz~~ 3. When deciding whether to approve seismic testing or exploration and production off the 4 independent links - we don’t need to win large spills or even that production occurssNRDC 12 ~Natural Resources Defense Council, "Deep Sea Treasures Protecting the Atlantic Coast’s Ancient Submarine Canyons and Seamounts," March 2012 Out at Sea, But Not Out of¶ Harm’s Way Biodiversity in specific hotspots checks extinction. Key to ag, medicine, and ecosystemsMittermeier ’11 Extinction is the gravest consequence of the biodiversity crisis, since it is¶ irreversible Energy Cooperation CPText: The governments of the United States and Mexico will enter into energy cooperation over oil and gas, electricity transmission, and climate change and renewables.We can do energy cooperation without drillingWood, 3/13/2012 (Duncan, Director of the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, "Growing Potential for U.S.-Mexico Energy Cooperation" Wilson Center http://wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/wood_energy.pdf) Looking ahead to the next six years of interaction between governments of Mexico and the Security Imperialism KritikClaims of China are based off of a new hegemony – conflict arises from hopes to remain dominantPan 12 (Chengxin is IR @ Australian National University and a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Deakin University, "GETTING EXCITED ABOUT CHINA") Certainly, policy debate often entails some level of emotion. The emotion surrounding White’s The catastrophes of imperialism trump other impactsWilliam Eckhardt, Lentz Peace Research Laboratory of St. Louis, February 1990, Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 27, No. 1, jstor, p. 15-16 Wright looked at the relation between modern civilization and war in somewhat more detail, This debate is a referendum on your role as a citizen—the 1AC demands you answer the hail of a global regime of imperialism—your refusal to participate in this regime rewrites politics—buying into affirmative rationales for the ballot perpetuates the colonization of your mindOrr 2004 (Jackie, Professor of Sociology at Syracuse University, "The Militarization of Inner Space" Critical Sociology 30.2) "~E~very American is a soldier" now, declared George W. Vote negative to reject the affirmative. Our lives are not more valuable than the lives of those suffering the horrors of imperialism. Prioritizing the alternative creates real politics.Butler, professor of rhetoric at Berkeley, 2009 p. 2-4 (Judith, Frames of War) The precarity of life imposes an obligation upon us. We have to ask about Immigration PoliticsObama’s political capital can sway vulnerable GOP members to vote for Immigration ReformSun Sentinel, Editorial Board, 10/28 For those who thought the end of the government shutdown would provide a respite to Obama’s fresh political capital is vital to reignite momentum for immigrationReid Epstein 10/17/13, writer at Politico, "Obama’s latest push features a familiar strategy," http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/barack-obama-latest-push-features-familiar-strategy-98512.html Mexico Energy Cooperation causes controversial amendment attempts and political fights on unrelated issuesCFR Senior Staff Oversight Report, 12 (Committee Foreign Relations Oversight Study, Senator Richard G. Lugar, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, requested senior professional staff members to review opportunities for enhanced U.S.-Mexico engagement on oil and gas issues including the U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Agreement, which requires Congressional action to take effect. As part of that review, members of Senator Lugar’s staff traveled to Mexico City in October 2012 to meet with then President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto’s transition team and leaders from the Mexican Congress, PEMEX, the Msexican energy regulator Comision Nacional de Hidrocarburos, U.S. industry, academic specialists, and U.S. officials at Embassy Mexico City.\1\ This report contains their public findings and Recommendations, 12/21, http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CPRT-112SPRT77567/html/CPRT-112SPRT77567.htm) The Transboundary Agreement (TBA) provides a bilateral basis upon which both countries can Increasing green cards generates an effective base of IT experts- solves cybersecurityMcLarty 9 (Thomas F. III, President – McLarty Associates and Former White House Chief of Staff and Task Force Co-Chair, "U.S. Immigration Policy: Report of a CFR-Sponsored Independent Task Force", 7-8, http://www.cfr.org/ publication/19759/us_immigration_policy.html) We have seen Cyberterrorism will cause accidental launch that triggers the Dead Hand and nuclear warFritz 9 (Jason, BS – St. Cloud, "Hacking Nuclear Command | 1/20/14 |
UMich Round Robin - Round 3Tournament: UMich Round Robin | Round: 3 | Opponent: Pace LS | Judge: Dustin Myers-Levy Democracy DAUnilaterally cooperating with Cuba destroys the credibility of all Latin American democracy—-causes authoritarian backslidingCastañeda 8 - Jorge G. Castañeda, professor at New York University and fellow at the New America Foundation, was Mexico’s foreign minister from 2000 to 2003, September-October 2008, "Morning in Latin America," Foreign Affairs, Vol. 87, No. 5 Latin America key to global democracy – especially the Middle EastGrandin 11 (Greg, professor of history at NYU, PhD from Yale, finalist in the Pulitzer Prize for History, former consultant with the Historical Clarification Commission, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, "Obama Holds Up Latin America as a Model for the Middle East—If Only," 3/22, http://www.thenation.com/blog/159380/obama-holds-latin-america-model-middle-east) US Democracy promotion key to stop terrorism and Middle East instabilityHamid and Brooke 10 (Shadi, director of research for the Brookings Doha Center and a fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings, and Steven, researcher at the Nixon Center in Washington, DC, Promoting Democracy to Stop Terror, Revisited, 2/1/10, http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/5285-http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/5285) Promoting democratic reform, this time not just with rhetoric but with action, should Middle East Instability goes nuclearSteinbach 2, professor of University of Michigan, ~John, "Israeli weapons of mass destruction: a threat to peace", March 03, http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/mat0036.htm-http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/mat0036.htm~~ Multilateralism CPText: Congress should unanimously pass legislation that-Pays all current and future United States dues to the United Nations-Provides political and financial support for a UN Rapid Reaction Force and UN Civilian Police, but prohibits participation by US active duty personnel at current end strength levelDues and Peacekeeping key to multilatSarah B. Sewall, Program Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Peacekeeping, 2002 (Multilateralism and United States Foreign Policy – Edited by Stewart Patrick) p. 216-7 Few nations expect (or perhaps, at bottom, want) the United States Afro-Pessimism KritikThe grammar of civil society seeks to ignore and exclude past atrocities. You must hold them accountable. The only ethical act that can be taken in this civil society is that of the Savage or the Slave. This sets the state for all other interrogations and paves the way for ontological suffering.Wilderson III, 2010 (Frank B., Prof of African American studies and drama @ UC Irvine, Red White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms Pg. 1-5) WHEN I WAS a young student at Columbia University in New York there was a Civil society’s reliance on white supremacy is the basis for genocide, ontological violence based on the penal system, and the eradication of the non-white other. It outweighs all impacts.Rodriguez, summer 2008 (Dylan, Prof of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside, "Race, Gender, and Immigration in the Globality of the U.S. Prison Regime" The Scholar and Feminist Online http://sfonline.barnard.edu/immigration/print_drodriguez.htm) White supremacist social, economic, and cultural formations organic to the United States— The alternative is to refuse the 1ac to death. Each affirmation allows civil society more coherence than the alt alone.Wilderson III 2007 (Frank B. Assistant Professor of African American Studies 26 Drama at UC Irvine, Warfare in the American Homeland-Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy Edit By James Joy, Pg 31-33) Slavery is the great leveler of the black subject’s positionality. The black American subject Appeasement DANo AppeasementHaven 6/21/13 (Paul, Associated Prices, NY Times, "Cuba, US try talking, but face many obstacles", http://www.timesherald.com/article/20130621/NEWS05/130629930/cuba-us-try-talking-but-face-many-obstacles~~23full_story-http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/item_Oul9gWKYCFsACA0D6IVpvL) To be sure, there is still far more that separates the long-time The plan appeases Cuba through economic engagement which causes aggressionRuben 11 (Jennifer, Washington Post, 10/18/2011, Obama’s Cuba appeasement, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/obamas-cuba-appeasement/2011/03/29/gIQAjuL2tL_blog.html-http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/obamas-cuba-appeasement/2011/03/29/gIQAjuL2tL_blog.html) The administration’s conduct is all the more galling given the behavior of the Castro regime Appeasement causes global aggression and multiple scenarios for conflict.Chapin and Hanson, 12/7/2009 (Bernard - interviewer and Victor Davis - Martin and Illie Anderson senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Change, weakness, disaster, p. http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/change-weakness-disaster-obama-answers-from-victor-davis-hanson/) BC: Are we currently sending a message of weakness to our foes and allies | 10/30/13 |
UMich Round Robin - Round 5Tournament: UMich Round Robin | Round: 5 | Opponent: Groves OR | Judge: Shunta Jordan 1The grammar of civil society seeks to ignore and exclude past atrocities. You must hold them accountable. The only ethical act that can be taken in this civil society is that of the Savage or the Slave. This sets the state for all other interrogations and paves the way for ontological suffering.Wilderson III, 2010 (Frank B., Prof of African American studies and drama @ UC Irvine, Red White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms Pg. 1-5) WHEN I WAS a young student at Columbia University in New York there was a Poetry binds to a politico-ethical grammar of deliberation and power structuresKeith ’92 (M, Queen Mary and Westfield College, U of London, ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D: SOCIETY AND SPACE, v10, p. 559-560) Obscures Violence LinkSexton, summer 2010 (Jared, Director, African American Studies School of Humanities @ UC Irvine, "People-of-Color-Blindness: Notes on the Afterlife of Slavery" Social Text 28.2 Duke University Press) The upshot of this predicament is that obscuring the structural position of the category of Butler focuses on the "human" which reify’s the binary that the black body is non-humanScheuller 2009 (Mahani, Professor of English at the University of Florida, "Decolonizing Global Theories Today" in Interventions 11.2) Poetry and narratives exist within a grammar that that black body doesn’t have access too because of their object status in society.Wilderson 2010 (Frank B. Red White and Black 320-322) Embracing Black people’s agency as subjects of civil society (i.e., as Civil society’s reliance on white supremacy is the basis for genocide, ontological violence based on the penal system, and the eradication of the non-white other. It outweighs all impacts.Rodriguez, summer 2008 (Dylan, Prof of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside, "Race, Gender, and Immigration in the Globality of the U.S. Prison Regime" The Scholar and Feminist Online http://sfonline.barnard.edu/immigration/print_drodriguez.htm) White supremacist social, economic, and cultural formations organic to the United States— Anti-Blackness is the root cause – turns case – only reason countries go to war is through the view that the other is lesserSexton, 2010 (Jared, Director of African American Studies School of Humanities @ UC Irvine, "The Curtain of the Sky’: An Introduction" Critical Sociology 36.1) This is why his moments of analytic generalization in the name of global justice contrast Black body is ontologically deadPak, 2012 (Yumi , " Philosophy PhD Outside Relationality: Autobiographical Deformations and the Literary Lineage of Afro-Pessimism in 20th and 21st Century African American Literature." Dissertation Proquest) The cosmic hobo, the figure of blackness, seeks "a place and time The aff solves the spectacle of white supremacy not the root cause – they mask the more subtle forms which allow white supremacy to continue.Martinot and Sexton 2003(Steve, Adjunct Professor San Francisco State University and Jared, Director of African American Studies School of Humanities @ UC Irvine, "The Avant-Garde of White Supremacy" Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 9:2) Examples cannot represent the spectrum of contemporary white supremacy from the subtle (e. The alternative is to refuse the 1ac to death. Each affirmation allows civil society more coherence than the alt alone.Wilderson III 2007 (Frank B. Assistant Professor of African American Studies 26 Drama at UC Irvine, Warfare in the American Homeland-Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy Edit By James Joy, Pg 31-33) Slavery is the great leveler of the black subject’s positionality. The black American subject Negation is the only ethical actMarriott, 2007 (David, Professor of History @ UC Santa Cruz, Haunted Life: Visual Culture and Black Modernity Pg 237-240) In Fanon it may be that the imperative of decolonization becomes an ethical law— | 10/31/13 |
UMich Round Robin - Round 6Tournament: UMich Round Robin | Round: 6 | Opponent: New Trier BK | Judge: Ryan Nierman Drilling Environment DADrilling destroys ocean hotspotsGravitz 9—Oceans Advocate for Environment America ~Michael Gravitz, Statement at the Department of Interior Hearing On Offshore Ocean Energy Development in Atlantic City, New Jersey, April 6, 2009, pg. http://tinyurl.com/cxkzanz~~ 3. When deciding whether to approve seismic testing or exploration and production off the 4 independent links - we don’t need to win large spills or even that production occurs- auditory disruption prevents multiple vital functions Out at Sea, But Not Out of¶ Harm’s Way ExtinctionMittermeier ’11 Extinction is the gravest consequence of the biodiversity crisis, since it is¶ irreversible Energy Cooperation CPText: The governments of the United States and Mexico will enter into energy cooperation over oil and gas, electricity transmission, and climate change and renewables.We can do energy cooperation without drillingWood, 3/13/2012 (Duncan, Director of the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, "Growing Potential for U.S.-Mexico Energy Cooperation" Wilson Center http://wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/wood_energy.pdf) Looking ahead to the next six years of interaction between governments of Mexico and the Security Imperialism KArguments about Russian expansionism are remnants of a Cold War ideology to justify US dominanceSakwa 2008 (Richard, Professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent, ’New Cold War’ or twenty years’ crisis? Russia and international politics, International Affairs 84: 2 (2008) 241–267, http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/files/11102_84_2sakwa.pdf) The catastrophes of imperialism trump other impactsWilliam Eckhardt, Lentz Peace Research Laboratory of St. Louis, February 1990, Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 27, No. 1, jstor, p. 15-16 Wright looked at the relation between modern civilization and war in somewhat more detail, This debate is a referendum on your role as a citizen—the 1AC demands you answer the hail of a global regime of imperialism—your refusal to participate in this regime rewrites politics—buying into affirmative rationales for the ballot perpetuates the colonization of your mindOrr 2004 (Jackie, Professor of Sociology at Syracuse University, "The Militarization of Inner Space" Critical Sociology 30.2) "~E~very American is a soldier" now, declared George W. Vote negative to reject the affirmative. Our lives are not more valuable than the lives of those suffering the horrors of imperialism. Prioritizing the alternative creates real politics.Butler, professor of rhetoric at Berkeley, 2009 p. 2-4 (Judith, Frames of War) The precarity of life imposes an obligation upon us. We have to ask about PoliticsObama’s political capital can sway vulnerable GOP members to vote for Immigration ReformSun Sentinel, Editorial Board, 10/28 For those who thought the end of the government shutdown would provide a respite to Obama’s fresh political capital is vital to reignite momentum for immigrationReid Epstein 10/17/13, writer at Politico, "Obama’s latest push features a familiar strategy," http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/barack-obama-latest-push-features-familiar-strategy-98512.html Mexico Energy Cooperation causes controversial amendment attempts and political fights on unrelated issuesCFR Senior Staff Oversight Report, 12 (Committee Foreign Relations Oversight Study, Senator Richard G. Lugar, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, requested senior professional staff members to review opportunities for enhanced U.S.-Mexico engagement on oil and gas issues including the U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Agreement, which requires Congressional action to take effect. As part of that review, members of Senator Lugar’s staff traveled to Mexico City in October 2012 to meet with then President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto’s transition team and leaders from the Mexican Congress, PEMEX, the Mexican energy regulator Comision Nacional de Hidrocarburos, U.S. industry, academic specialists, and U.S. officials at Embassy Mexico City.\1\ This report contains their public findings and Recommendations, 12/21, http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CPRT-112SPRT77567/html/CPRT-112SPRT77567.htm) The Transboundary Agreement (TBA) provides a bilateral basis upon which both countries can CIR’s critical to economic growth—-multiple internalsKlein 13 Ezra is a columnist for The Washington Post. "To Fix the U.S. Economy, Fix Immigration," 1/29, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-29/to-fix-the-u-s-economy-fix-immigration.html US economic decline makes global nuclear war likelyO’Hanlon and Lieberthal 12 Michael O’Hanlon, Ph.D., is a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, specializing in defense and foreign policy issues. Kenneth Lieberthal, Ph.D., is a senior fellow in Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development at Brookings. "The real national security threat: America’s debt," July 3, LA Times Op-Ed, http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/03/opinion/la-oe-ohanlon-fiscal-reform-20120703 | 10/31/13 |
Umich - Round 7Tournament: University of Michigan | Round: 7 | Opponent: Lane Tech WK | Judge: Lane Bearden Meet Conditions CPText: The government of Cuba should start to meet the conditions necessary for the embargo to be lifted.The CP results in lifting the embargoPC 12 (pro-con.org, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity Archived in 2012 and 2008 by the Library of Congress for having "materials of historical importance to the Congress and to the American people" and Won the "Top 25 Free Reference Websites of 2011" award from a division of the American Library Association along with TED, Google, and Wikileaks and Honored in the US Congressional Record on July 6, 2011 by Congressman Rob Andrews (D-NJ) who said our "unbiased and truthful presentation makes a tremendous contribution to the political system." And Earned status as a "Valued Partner" and "Partner in Trust" by Guidestar in 2009 and Used by 11 governments (Australia, Egypt, European Union, Israel, New Zealand, Northern Marianas, Palestinian Territories, Philippines, South Africa, United Kingdom and United States) including 22 US states and seven federal agencies, Should the United States Maintain Its Embargo against Cuba?, http://cuba-embargo.procon.org/, from data cited has to be at least from 2012) The United States should maintain the Cuba embargo because Cuba has not met the conditions Immigration PoliticsObama’s political capital can sway vulnerable GOP members to vote for Immigration ReformSun Sentinel, Editorial Board, 10/28 For those who thought the end of the government shutdown would provide a respite to Obama’s fresh political capital is vital to reignite momentum for immigrationReid Epstein 10/17/13, writer at Politico, "Obama’s latest push features a familiar strategy," http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/barack-obama-latest-push-features-familiar-strategy-98512.html Plan costs capitalAho 13 (Matthew Aho, Inter-American Dialogue’s Latin America Advisor, What Does Obama’s Second Term Hold for U.S.-Cuba Relations?, http://www.cubastudygroup.org/index.cfm/newsroom?ContentRecord_id=2c202b27-1916-4509-b1b7-00d7ed8f4914, 1/23/13) Aside from easing some travel Increasing green cards generates an effective base of IT experts- solves cybersecurityMcLarty 9 (Thomas F. III, President – McLarty Associates and Former White House Chief of Staff and Task Force Co-Chair, "U.S. Immigration Policy: Report of a CFR-Sponsored Independent Task Force", 7-8, http://www.cfr.org/ publication/19759/us_immigration_policy.html) We have seen, Cyberterrorism will cause accidental launch that triggers the Dead Hand and nuclear warFritz 9 (Jason, BS – St. Cloud, "Hacking Nuclear Command Democracy DAUnilaterally cooperating with Cuba destroys the credibility of all Latin American democracy—-causes authoritarian backslidingCastañeda 8 - Jorge G. Castañeda, professor at New York University and fellow at the New America Foundation, was Mexico’s foreign minister from 2000 to 2003, September-October 2008, "Morning in Latin America," Foreign Affairs, Vol. 87, No. 5 Latin America key to global democracy – especially the Middle EastGrandin 11 (Greg, professor of history at NYU, PhD from Yale, finalist in the Pulitzer Prize for History, former consultant with the Historical Clarification Commission, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, "Obama Holds Up Latin America as a Model for the Middle East—If Only," 3/22, http://www.thenation.com/blog/159380/obama-holds-latin-america-model-middle-east) US Democracy promotion key to stop terrorism and Middle East instabilityHamid and Brooke 10 (Shadi, director of research for the Brookings Doha Center and a fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings, and Steven, researcher at the Nixon Center in Washington, DC, Promoting Democracy to Stop Terror, Revisited, 2/1/10, http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/5285) Promoting democratic reform, this time not just with rhetoric but with action, should Middle East Instability goes nuclearSteinbach 2, professor of University of Michigan, ~John, "Israeli weapons of mass destruction: a threat to peace", March 03, http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/mat0036.htm~~ Appeasement DANo Cuban Appeasement in the squo – laundry list of obstaclesHaven 13 (Paul, Associated Prices, NY Times, "Cuba, US try talking, but face many obstacles", http://www.timesherald.com/article/20130621/NEWS05/130629930/cuba-us-try-talking-but-face-many-obstacles~~23full_story) To be sure, there is still far more that separates the long-time The plan appeases Cuba through economic engagement which causes aggressionRuben 11 (Jennifer, Washington Post, 10/18/2011, Obama’s Cuba appeasement, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/obamas-cuba-appeasement/2011/03/29/gIQAjuL2tL_blog.html) The administration’s conduct is all the more galling given the behavior of the Castro regime Appeasement causes global aggression and multiple scenarios for conflict.Chapin and Hanson, 12/7/2009 (Bernard - interviewer and Victor Davis - Martin and Illie Anderson senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Change, weakness, disaster, p. http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/change-weakness-disaster-obama-answers-from-victor-davis-hanson/) BC: Are we currently sending a message of weakness to our foes and allies | 1/20/14 |
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