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Cargo Scanning Neg
Cargo Scanning Neg .................................................................................................................... 1
Neg Strat ...................................................................................................................................... 2
**********Front Line********** .............................................................................................. 3
@ Solvency.................................................................................................................................. 4
@ Trade Wars (Kato) .................................................................................................................. 5
@ Relations ................................................................................................................................. 8
**********Off Case**********.................................................................................................. 9
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 just
that 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 don’t 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 what’s up they
can 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 vote
on 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 don’t have anything specific yet.
Disadvantages – You can run either Politics or Reverse Spending. Either of these arguments will
work. 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 Security
Intuitive. 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 wouldn’t 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 clearly
designated 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 other
wars, 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 the
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, but
delocalized, 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” reveal
signified referent, never the real referent (present or past) of a discourse or text. At least today apparently.”
their 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- fullout 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 in
solidifying 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 façade of superpower rivalry (or interimperial rivalry in general for that
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, we
matter) gave
need to shift our focus back to the questions of strategy and technology discussed earlier. Let us recall our discussion on the genealogy
of 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, whose
epistemological basis lies in the exchange of nuclear ballistic missiles between
superpowers, emerged from yet another technostrategic interface. Significantly, the camera on
the 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 the
technostrategic 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 Peoples
should 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 of
the 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 don’t 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
webster.com/dictionary/domestic
Online Dictionary. Retrieved June 26, 2009, from http://www.merriam-
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 doesn’t meet this definition because it effects it is only other country’s 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 to
predict 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 aren’t topical they lose
2) Fairness/Ground - Debate must be fair to win, if the aff isn’t topical they should lose. Ground
is the fundamental impact to all theory arguments, if ground isn’t a voter you’ll 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 Screening
Unlikely to Get Past Congress.” <http://www.hstoday.us/content/view/39/111/> ].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 terrorist
threats 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 with
criminal 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
It’s 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 allied
charge and was sentenced to three years' probation last July.
Western intelligence services and law enforcement are monitoring suspected stolen cars and questionable used car rings in the United
States and Europe believed to have terrorist ties who are shipping these cars in cargo containers to the Middle East, where they are
To the die-hard
security-minded, there’s no disputing that total cargo screening is what’s in order.
suspected of being used as car bombs, especially in Iraq, according to a variety of intelligence sources.
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