Contention One is Inherency
Elections assistance is a form of democracy assistance
Mitchell and Phillips 08 (Enhancing Democracy Assistance. Lincoln Mitchell and David Phillips. http://acus.org/files/publication_pdfs/65/Enhancing%20Democracy%20Assistance.pdf January 2008.)
Because support for elections.... and limits of elections.
Contention Two is Genocide
Despite ending Martial Law, the Bahraini government continues to attack its citizens.
The Gaurdian.co.uk 6/11 (Bahrain sees new clashes as martial law lifted. Martin Chulov. 6/1/11. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/01/bahrain-protests-martial-law)
Clashes between demonstrators ... investment and tourism hub.
The conditions in Bahrain mirror that of the genocidal conditions in Sectarian Russia.
The Independent 5/11 (Bahrain Is Trying to Drown the Protests in Shia Blood. Patrick Cockburn.5/15/11 http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/patrick-cockburn-bahrain-is-trying-to-drown-the-protests-in-shia-blood-2284199.html)
"'Let us drown the revolution ...convulsed by sectarian hatred.
The acts in Bahrain are clearly genocide.
Shakespeare 6/11 (an interview with Rodney Shakespeare, the Chairman of the Committee Against Torture in Bahrain by Press TV. “Al Khalifa cannot escape with genocide” http://www.presstv.ir/detail/183960.html June 2011)
The Hague is ... Court in The Hague.
Contention Three is Human Rights
Stopping the protesting will make things worse and what the King is saying, isn’t what hes implementing- have to continue fighting for it.
Colvin 1/12/12 (Mark Colvin- Radio Host for PM by ABC. Bahrainis still demand democracy- and Interview with Matar Ibrahim Mattar. http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2012/s3407001.htm 1/12/12)
BRENDAN TREMBATH: The uprising in Syria ... nobody will stop them.
Citizens can be arrested with no reason.
NPR 8/11/11 (An Update With A Woman Caught In the Middle of Bahrain’s Crackdown. Eyder Peralta. 8/11/11 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/08/11/139554582/an-update-with-a-woman-caught-in-the-middle-of-bahrains-crackdown)
On today's All Things ...based on rule of law.
Risking extinction is justified to protect liberty values – otherwise the only purpose to live is being alive
Henry Shue, Professor of Ethics and Public Life at Princeton University, 1989 (Nuclear Deterrence and Moral Restraint, pg. 64-5)
The issue raises interesting ...would want only life?
Coercion is worse than all other impacts, and must be resisted
Petro 1974
Sylvester Petro, professor of law at Wake Forest, Spring 1974, Toledo Law Review, p480
However, one may ... with undying spirit.
Thus the plan: The United States Federal Government will provide election assistance to Bahrain. (MEPI & Ministry of Justice and Islamic Affairs)
Contention Five is Solvency
USAID coordinated Iraq’s 2006 elections.
USAID 07 (In Depth: Elections Assistance. 4/19/07 http://www.usaid.gov/iraq/accomplishments/elections.html )
According to U.S. ...democracy and human rights.
The U.S.’s success in Iraq encouraged Shiites to protest in Bahrain and The U.S. seeks to accelerate reform through similar means.
Katzman 10 (Bahrain: Reform, Security, and U.S. policy. Kenneth Kaztman. April 26, 2010. Pg. 1-2, 5)
Sunni-Shiite tensions ... Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI).
The opposition and the government need to work together.
Wright 06 (“Generational Change and Elite-driven Reforms in the Kingdom of Bahrain” Steven Wright. Durham Middle East Papers. Sir William Luce Publication Series. June 2006).
The opposition needs ... their attention on.
US needs to work with Bahrain.
Wordpress.com 11 ( Protecting the US-Bahraini Relationship. Oct. 13 2011. http://www.worldpress.org/Mideast/3821.cfm)
Failure by the ... wish to avoid.
Bahrain’s king wanted peaceful solutions- Saudi involvement is what’s killed talks.
Mohammad Farazmand 11(Former Iranian Ambassador to Bahrai. The Arab Spring and the Role of Regional Powers. July 03, 2011. http://www.iranreview.org/content/Documents/The_Arab_Spring_and_the_Role_of_Regional_Powers.htm)
In Bahrain there ... investigation of corruption cases.
Killing the king won’t solve- PM is the problem
Open Democracy 1/19/12 ( Counter-balancing Saudi Arabia: why the US should not abandon Bahrain’s reformists. Open Democracy http://www.opendemocracy.net/hasan-tariq-alhasan/counter-balancing-saudi-arabia-why-us-should-not-abandon-bahrain%E2%80%99s-reformists 1/19/12)
The entry of Saudi .... its quelled uprising.
Contention Five is Framework
Focusing on conflict as a singular event prevents recognition of state-sponsored violence going on every day. Crisis based politics prevents mobilization against structural forms of violence that make the outbreak of war inevitable.
Cuomo 96 (Christine, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati, “War Is Not Just an Event: Reflections on the Significance of Everyday Violence”, Hypatia, Vol. 11, Iss. 4, Fall, Proquest)
Ethical approaches that ... agents of the state.
Focusing on easily visible examples violence ignores the elements of subjective violence. The violence we ignore makes violence permissible at all.
Kappeler, 1995
Susanne Kappeler, Freelance Writer, A History of Violence, 1995, pg 1-2
Violence is recognized ... beings or things.
Focusing on the magnitude of violence fails to account for the means of violent action.
Kappeler, 1995
Susanne Kappeler, Freelance Writer, A History of Violence, 1995, pg 8
This does not mean ...or is not violence.
The ethic of occupation engages a crisis driven ontology which makes resistance to structural violence impossible and assures we remain complicit with militarism
Cuomo, Professor of Philosophy, 1996 Chris, Hypatia 11.4, proquest
Ethical approaches that... agents of the state.
