[CX-L] UTNIF 2005

[Kellie Clancy]

Just to let everyone know, the 2005 UTNIF still has some openings!  This 
summer we promise that EVERY student will receive AT LEAST four affirmatives 
and full negative strategies against these affirmatives on the FIRST DAY!  
Here’s just a taste of what our staff is working on:

Visit our web site at: http://www.utdebatecamp.com/

STARTER-PACK AFFIRMATIVES, WITH 2AC BLOCKS AND CASE EXTENSIONS:

• Extraordinary Rendition

Right now, the United States flagrantly abuses international legal standards 
through the standard practice of shipping suspected terrorists to aircraft 
carriers in the middle of the ocean, or to nations like Saudi Arabia.  
Anyone lucky enough to receive one of these all-expense paid trips can also 
expect the following amenities:

- Interrogation (The repeated whipping of hands with two-inch-thick 
electrical cables)
- Grave-esque living quarters (underground cells)
- “Mishandling” of holy artifacts
- Human Rights abuses

This is a violation of the basic civil right protecting civilians from 
detention without charge.  It must be stopped.

Advantages: International Law Credibility, U.S. Soft Power, Battlefield 
Intelligence, Human Rights

• Racial Profiling

It happens.  In clear violation of both 4th and 14th amendment 
constitutional protections, individuals are often stopped and searched 
without any probable cause… unless, of course, you consider somebody’s race 
to be probable cause to assume that that person is a criminal.

This affirmative issues the following challenges:
	- What is it about race that justifies excessive police action?
	- What are the historical, structural conditions for racism?
	- How are these conditions produced and sustained through law enforcement?
	- What possible avenues for resistance to these conditions can we hope to 
find in the law?

This is a critical affirmative, chock full of long, pithy cards and immense 
historical analysis.  After only a week in its company, your entire 
perspective on the history of race politics and race policing in America 
will change.

• “Big Stickin” Guantanamo Bay

The Guantanamo Aff will have "big-stick" leadership and War on Terror 
advantages stemming from
international backlash against the United States' mistreatment of uncharged 
detainees at the Guantanamo
Bay facility in Cuba. By having the President issue an Executive Order 
declaring that the detention of
prisoners without charge violates the Geneva Convention, the United States 
will be able to gain
support from countries in the Middle East and Europe that are currently 
reluctant to provide intelligence
and basing capabilities to the U.S. The impacts are a spillover of declining 
U.S. leadership in foreign
policy (Khalizhad anyone?) and nuclear/biological/chemical terrorism.


STARTER PACK NEGATIVES, WITH 2NC BLOCKS AND EVIDENCE EXTENSIONS

• U.S. Hegemony and Hard Power (includes arguments surrounding imperial 
overstretch, isolationism, unilateralism and the Bush agenda).  What could 
be more relevant, given current U.S. foreign policy interests?

• Courts Counterplan with activism and politics and roll-back net benefits.  
Judicial appointments are the most explosive events to hit Congress since 
the Clinton impeachment, and the courts are sure to occupy much of your time 
throughout the year. Against the Guantanamo Bay affirmative, our 
starter-pack will include a counterplan to have the Supreme Court enforce 
the plan with net-benefits claiming that presidential action increases 
diplomatic capital which will be spent on other bad foreign policies such as 
the push for a Palestinian state.

• Castro DA.  Against the Guantanamo Bay affirmative, there will be a 
case-specific disadvantage arguing that the plan is a concession to Cuba 
which leads to increasing Castro's influence in South America and a 
subsequent backlash against U.S. influence.

• Case debate!  Solvency turns for international law, battlefield 
intelligence, the War on Terror and human rights.  Learn the crucial ins and 
outs of deep, technical case debates, improve your speaker points overnight, 
and understand the topic through and through.

• Critical Race Kritik.  We will explore a counter-memory of race politics 
in America, opposing the call to redeem the very institutions responsible 
for the long-term sustainability of racism.  Redemption is a myth, and anger 
is a gift.  Revolution is the only solution.  It all rhymes.

• And more!  We are working hard to produce the most comprehensive, 
high-quality and entertaining selection of starter pack evidence anywhere in 
the nation.  You will surely take advantage of these arguments and more all 
year long.