Damien Neg

Round # 1

Vs Team: Highland (UT)

Judge: Orion Smith


Case Args:


Disease:
1. No solvency - can't distrubute, no infrastructure.
2. Lack of accountability means no broad results.
3. US shouldn't takke the leadership on global health.
4. Foreign aid causes conflict for control of resources.
5. African civil wars go nuclear - Deutsch.
6. Aid leads to war with China.
7. à Nuke war
8. Disease won't lead to extinction.
9. No impact - diseases will be destroyed too quickly to spread.
10. Alt. causes to disease.
11. Threats of diease declining
12. Threats of disease declining.
13. Humans adapt

Solvency:
1. No infrastructure, aid doesn’t get where its supposed to go.
  1. Aid facilitates corrupt governments.
  2. Gov/Gov aid ineffective – corruption.

Off Case Args:


Politics – Waterboarding:
  1. In an attempt to undermine prez power, dems are trying to pass a ban on waterboarding, but Bush will veto.
Chatanooga Times Fre Press, 12-27, “Dems endanger war on terror”

  1. Dems lack votes to override the veto
AOL news 12-14, “Veto Threat for Wtaerboarding Ban” “The House…from attack”

  1. Plan is bipartisan
  2. Strong Prez Powers Prevent extinction – Joe Paul, 1998, California Law Review “whatever the complexity…the free world”

Counterplan:

The US congress and the president should sign legislation repealing the agricultural act of 1949 and the agricultural adjustment act of 1938. The US congress should pass and the prez should sign legislation enacting a “buyout” and elimination of agricultural production subsidies, quotas, and tariffs found in the 2002 farm security and rural investment act or any future “farm bills.”

We solve cas e- massively increases global income and soft power, also prevents the collapse of global free trade which solves poverty.
Clyde Prestowitz, 2003, Yale Global

(Run Again Round 3)
Round 3

The United States Congress should pass and the President should sign legislation repealing the Agricultural Act of 1949 and the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938. The United States Congress should pass and the President should sign legislation enacting a “buyout” and elimination of agricultural production subsidies, quotas, and tariffs found in the 002 Farm Security and Rural Investment Act or any future ”farm bills.”

The counterplan gives farmers cover while we eliminate subsidies and insulates the U.S. from future WTO complaints
James, 2007 (Sallie, “Freeing the Farm: A Farm Bill for All Americans,” tTrade Policy Analysis, Number 34, http://www.freetrade.org/files/pubs/pas/tpa-034.pdf)//
To address the need…future challenges by other WTO members.

And, We solve the case. It massively increases global income and soft power. It also prevents the collapse of global trade which is critical to alleviating global poverty.
Prestowitz, 2003 ( Clyde, “Bold Action Can Still Save Doha Round,” Yale Global, http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=2472)//
Acting alone without regard…into the global trading system



Colonialism K:

Somaliland DA:

A. Current US Policy reguses to recognize an independent Somaliland and sends no aid to the area.
The East African, 12-10, “Somalia; Recognize Somaliland”

B. Assistance sends a message of recognition, Smantha Gibson, 1999

C. Recognition destabilizes Somaliland and destroys US diplomatic stance, opening a pandora’s box of secession movements
Asian trubune 12-17

D. Conflict à Nuke War

Budget/Aid Tradeoff DA:

Block Strategy:

Counter-plan (and add-ons), Somaliland DA, Case, Predictions

2nr Strategy:


Counterplan and Predictions

Team Name Neg Damien
Round # 5
Vs Team: Pace
Judge: Aimi Hamraie


Case Args:
AIDS prevention programs fail to solve AIDS
AIDS impacts exaggerated and empirically denied
Alt causes to AIDS
They don’t treat military personnel
Foreign aid ---> China will go to war with the US


Condoms Bad:
Prison Rape
Gang Rape
False Confidence --> AIDS
Condoms kill the environment
Disease Focus Trade-off

Off Case Args:

Colonialism K w/o an alt
Vagueness: Don’t specify what their program does
Water Boarding DA
Farm Subsidies CP
Budget Trade-off DA

A. Aid to latin america is stable now, but on the chopping block
Andrew Oppenheimer 2k7
“Reducing U.S. aid an unwise move,” The Salt lake Tribune, lexis

“What an outrage!....to foreign countries, mostly in Latin America”

B. 2008 Budget is tight
Tobias 2k7
“Similarly, when we split up our resources into too....influenza into the base budget”

C. A reduction in aid would cede influnce to Chavez, causing Latin American instability
Oppenheimer 2k6

“You don’t have to be a genius to figure out why...and it would be a lousy deal for U.S. taxpayers.”

D. Chavez’s Marxist agenda guarantees poverty.
Max Manwaring, October 2k5
“Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, Bolivarian Socialism, and Asymetric Warfare,”

“at the same time, president...endanger global security, peace, and prosperity. “


Diplomatic Capital DA

A. Uniqueness: Bush is leading a push to pressure kenya into a gov’t settlement over the recent election.

VOA News 1/2/08, “US in Diplomatic Push to End Kenya Violence”

“The Bush administration is trying not to take sides in the....it has banned the gathering for security reasons.”

B. Plan trades off w/ U.S. diplomatic efforts- Dip Cap is finite
Terry Anderson and J. Bishop Grewell
perc.org

“greater international environmental regulation can increase international...securing vital resources, and ensuring access to foreign economies”


C. Settlement key to African stability
Africa News 1-3-08, “Kenya; Africa Action calls for U.S. Leadership to support Democracy”

“In light of the serious human rights violations...votes and the lifting of all restrictions on independent media.”


D. African Instability causes disease spread, prolif, terrorism, and nuke war.

The African Studies Centre et al December 2k3
“Failed and Collapsed States in the International System,”
globalpolicy.org

“In the malign scenario of global developments...faced with direct attacks on their national security.”



Block Strategy:

Condoms Bad
Disease Focus Trade-off
Water Boarding
Farm CP



2nr Strategy:

Condoms Bad
Disease Focus Trade-off
Water Boarding
Farm CP