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CSULA 1NFA-LD 2009-2010

Cargo Scanning Neg

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Neg Strat.......................................................................................................................................2

Neg Strat ......................................................................................................................................... 2

**********Front Line********** ............................................................................................... 3

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@ Solvency...................................................................................................................................4

@ Solvency ...................................................................................................................................... 4

@ Trade Wars (Kato)...................................................................................................................5

@ Trade Wars (Kato) .................................................................................................................... 5

@ Relations..................................................................................................................................8

@ Relations ..................................................................................................................................... 8

**********Off Case********** ...................................................................................................9

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Topicality....................................................................................................................................10

Topicality ...................................................................................................................................... 10


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Neg Strat

On Case:

I am so glad I am done, this is my last frontline for the camp affs! Compared to the other 1ACs

this is probably the worst case they have in the amp ev

@ Solvency This is a bogus argument, just make them argue it back and enjoy the time trade

off.

@ Trade Wars They said nuclear which means you say game over. The Kato argument is justthat simple, they made the argument that a nuclear war will happen and that ignores the nuclear

war against Indigenous people happening all around us!

@ Relations I really dont got nothing on this one it is a shitty Advantage. The pieces of the

puzzle are forced so with a little bit of poking it will fall apart.

Off Case:

Normal stuff here, but you have a lot of choices. Go for T, K, and DA for this one. Run em all

and run em well. Be careful with running Kato and Cap bad. If the Aff knows whats up theycan make your life difficult for having 2 alternatives.

Topicality Running the T on domestic is a dead give-away. Even the counter interp says it has

to be owned by the US, it does no favors for them. This is a slam dunk and most judges will voteon it for being non-domestic.

Kritik this is obviously all about capitalism so cap bad is back again. I find the state link to

be most compelling myself but we dont have anything specific yet.

Disadvantages You can run either Politics or Reverse Spending. Either of these arguments willwork. I have a more specific link on the Politics DA then I do on the reverse spending DA but

you could probably get some good concessions out of them in CX for the Reverse Spending.

Rebuttal:

You should be going for the T in rebuttal for about 1 minute of the 6 minutes.

You should be going for Kato for about 3 minutes of the 6

You should be going for either the DA or Cap bad for about 2 minutes of the 6


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**********Front Line**********


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@ Solvency

1) SQO will only affect small ports that already have made other arrangements

Bruce Barnard, writer for the Journal of Commerce. July 28, 2009.EU Slams Container SecurityIntuitive. http://www.joc.com/node/412610. CG, Meadows.

The CSI screening and related additional U.S. customs routines are causing significant

additional costs and delays to shipments of European machinery and electrical

equipment to the United States, according to the 2009 report."This burden is so

severe that a number of small European engineering companies have decided not to

export to the U.S. any longer," the report says.

2) The Das happen 1st the relations will not improve because the plan wouldnt go into

effect until 2012 anyways!


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@ Trade Wars (Kato)

Link Their framing of a global nuclear war that ends in extinction delocalizes nuclear

war and ignores the fact that nuclear catastrophe is a local event for the Indigenous

populations of the world.

Kato, Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii, 1993(Masahide "Nuclear Globalism: Traversing Rockets, Satellites, and Nuclear War via the Strategic Gaze," Alternatives: Global, Local, Political.

Pages 350-352, MAG)

Nuclear criticism finds the likelihood of extinction as the most fundamental aspcct

of nuclear catastrophe. The complex problematics involved in nuclear catastrophe

are thus reduced to the single possible instant of extinction. The task of nuclear critics is clearlydesignated by Schell as coming to grips with the one and only final instant: human extinction- whose likelihood we are chiefly

interested in finding out about. Deconstructionists, on the other hand, take a detour in their efforts to theologize extinction. Jacques

Derrida, for example, solidified the prevailing mode of representation by constituting extinction as a fatal absence: Unlike the otherwars, which have all been preceded by wars of more or less the same type in human memory (and gunpowder did not mark a radical

break in this respect), nuclear war has no precedent. It has never occurred, itself; it is a non-event. The explosion of American bombs in

1945 ended a classical, conventional war; it did not set off a nuclear war. The terrifying reality of the nuclear conflict can only be thesignified referent, never the real referent (present or past) of a discourse or text. At least today apparently. By representing

the possible extinction as the single most important problematic of nuclear

catastrophe (posing it as either a threat or a symbolic void), nuclear criticism disqualifies the entire

history of nuclear violence, the real of nuclear war is designated by nuclear critics

as a rehearsal (Derrik De Kerkhove) or preparation (Firth) for what they reserve as the authentic

catastrophe. The history of nuclear violence offers, at best, a reality effect to the

imagery of extinction. Schell summarized the discursive position of nuclear critics very succinctly, stating that

nuclear catastrophe should not be conceptualized in the context of direct slaughter

of hundreds of millions of people by the local effects. Thus the elimination of the

history of nuclear violence by nuclear critics stems from the process of discursive

delocalization of nuclear violence. Their primary focus is not local catastrophe, butdelocalized, unlocatbale, global catastrophe. The elevation of the discursive vantage point deployed in

nuclear criticism through which extinction is conceptualized parallels that of the point of the strategic gaze: nuclear criticism

raises the notion of nuclear catastrophe to the absolute point from which the fiction

of extinction is configured. Herein, the configuration of the globe and the conceptualization of extinction revealtheir interconnection via the absolutization of the strategic gaze.,.


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Impact Anti-nuke activists have perpetuated the strict definition of nuclear war that has

allowed the war against the Indigenous people to be labeled as anything but what it is- full-

out extermination.

P/C Kato 93, Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii, 1993(Masahide "Nuclear Globalism: Traversing Rockets, Satellites, and Nuclear War via the Strategic Gaze," Alternatives: Global, Local, Political.Page 349 & 350, MAG)

Reflecting the historical context mentioned above, in which nuclear critique gained unprecedented popularity, one can say that

nuclear criticism has been shaped and structured by the logic of superpower rivalry.

The superpower rivalry has distracted our attention from the ongoing process of

oppression/violence along the North-South axis. After all the superpower functioned complementarily insolidifying the power of the North over the South. Therefore, nuclear criticism has successfully mystified the North-south axis as much

as the superpower rivalry. Just as the faade of superpower rivalry (or interimperial rivalry in general for that

matter) gave legitimation to the strategy of global domination of capital, nuclear

criticism has successfully legitimated the destruction of periphery through nuclear

violence. What is significant here is to locate the discourse in a proper context, that is, the late capitalist problematic. To do so, weneed to shift our focus back to the questions of strategy and technology discussed earlier. Let us recall our discussion on the genealogyof global discourse. The formation of global discourse has been a discursive expression of the formation of technological interfaces

among rockets, cameras, and media furnished by the strategy of late capitalism. In a similar vein, nuclear criticism, whoseepistemological basis lies in the exchange of nuclear ballistic missiles between

superpowers, emerged from yet another technostrategic interface. Significantly, the camera onthe rocket was replaced by the nuclear warhead, which gave birth to the first Inter Continental ballistic Missile in the late 1950s both in

the United States and the former Soviet Union. Thus, the discourse of nuclear criticism is a product of

technostrategic interfaces among rocket, satellite, camera, photo image, and nuclear

warhead. I net decipher the discourse of global capitalism (globalism) interwoven throughout nuclear criticism by linking thetechnostrategic interface to the formation of discourse.


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Alternative The alternative is to reject the Aff and its forms of technosubjectivity in order

to overcome the dominating nature of our social movements

P/C Kato 93 Masahide Kato, 1993, Nuclear Globalism: Traversing Rockets, Satellites, and Nuclear War via the Strategic Gaze,Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii, p. 339

The dialectic (if it can be still called such) should be conceived in terms of resistance to and possibly destruction of global space, time,perception, and discourse for the possibility of reinventing space. The nuclear warfare against the Fourth World and Indigenous Peoplesshould be viewed in this context. It is not their expendability or exclusion from the division of labor; rather it is their spatial-temporal

construction that drives transnational capital/state to resort to pure destruction. In other I words, what has been actually

under attack by the nuclear state/capital are certain political claims(couched in the

discourse of "sovereignty") advanced by the Fourth World and Indigenous Peoples

for maintaining or recreating space against the global integration of capital .55 The question

now becomes: Can there be a productive link between the struggles of the Fourth World

and Indigenous Peoples against the exterminating regime of nuclear capital/state, and

First World environmentalist and antinuclear social movements? This link is crucial

and urgent for a subversion of the global regime of capital/state. Nevertheless, we have not yet seen

effective alliances due to the blockage that lies between these social movements." The

blockage, as I have shown in this article, is produced primarily by the perception and discourse ofthe social movements in the North, which are rooted in technosubjectivity. The

possibility of alliances, therefore, depends on how much First World environmentalist and antinuclear

movements can overcome their globalist technosubjectivity, whose spatio-temporality

stands in diametrical opposition to the struggles of the Fourth World and Indigenous

Peoples. In other words, it is crucial for the former to shatter their image-based politics and

come face to face with the "real" of the latter.


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@ Relations

1) There is no clear impact story, when will Russia attack? How? We dont know and

neither does the aff. Reject this advantage for not having a clear story and prefer my DAs


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**********Off Case**********


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Topicality

A: Interpretation

domestic. (2009). In Merriam-Webster OnlineDictionary. Retrieved June26, 2009, from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/domestic

Domestic - of, relating to, or originating within a country and especially one's own country

this origin is of the United States and therefore should be pertaining to the US.

B: Violation

1) 1AC doesnt meet this definition because it effects it is only other countrys transportation

infrastructure not domestic

2) Prefer my definition based on these standards

C: Standards

1) Predictability The aff forces the negative to debate cases that are not topical with no way topredict what case they could run.

2) Brightline - the objective of every definition is to minimize confusion; a Brightline is the

ultimate topicality standard.

D: Voters

This is an A priori subject comes before case

1) Rules The NFA-LD rules say that topicality is a voting issue, if they arent topical they lose

2) Fairness/Ground - Debate must be fair to win, if the aff isnt topical they should lose. Groundis the fundamental impact to all theory arguments, if ground isnt a voter youll never have

anything to vote on.


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Plan would increase Organized Crime in America!

Anthony L. Kimery, Online Edito/Senior Reporter and HSTToday eNewsletter

Editor,Homland Security Insight & Analysis, March 25, 2007. [100 Percent Air, Ship Cargo ScreeningUnlikely to Get Past Congress. ].FI

Meanwhile, however, a new report from Ottawa on Canada's seaports states nationwide

problems with organized crime, inadequate container screening, the lack of police and terroristthreats pose dangerously mounting security risks. The Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defense report stated that

seaports are exploited by organized crime to move contraband in and out of Canada,

particularly illicit drugs. Historically, the country's largest container ports of Vancouver, Montreal and Halifax have

caused the greatest concern, simply because of the vast quantities of commercial cargo they handle. Moreover, the report said, all

Canadian ports that receive international traffic are vulnerable to exploitation by

organized crime." The report further states that border officials inspect only a small percentage of shipping containers;security perimeters are porous; security forces are understaffed and ill-prepared to deal with organized crime and terrorism; there are

training delays; boats could be used for terrorist attacks; and intelligence officers are needed in foreign ports. Ports, organized crime

and cargo containers? A person named last week in a New York Daily News investigation of New York City school bus drivers withcriminal records is Frank Fat Frank Esposito, who told the News he worked for a cargo container company in Brooklyn. A 2005

federal indictment against Esposito identified him as an associate of the Bonanno crime family. He pleaded guilty to a book-making

charge and was sentenced to three years' probation last July. Its no secret among law enforcement and

intelligence officials that there has long been an involvement by organized crime in

cargo container businesses and port-side loading and unloading. As authorities told HSToday for

its January cover story, Dangerous Cargo, Southeast Asian and Russian crime cartels some with ties to

terrorist organizations have infiltrated the cargo container business in a big way . US and alliedWestern intelligence services and law enforcement are monitoring suspected stolen cars and questionable used car rings in the UnitedStates and Europe believed to have terrorist ties who are shipping these cars in cargo containers to the Middle East, where they are

suspected of being used as car bombs, especially in Iraq, according to a variety of intelligence sources. To the die-hard

security-minded, theres no disputing that total cargo screening is whats in order .


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