Contention One is Harms

Bahrain lacks freedom of the press—the February movement for freedom was followed by a brutal security crackdown, censorship, military occupation, and suspension of the Bahraini constitution in favor of emergency law—journalists and social networkers in Bahrain are being arrested and suppressed

Bahrain Center for Human Rights, May 3rd, 2011 “Journalists in Bahrain: The Murder of Free Speech and the Siege of Freedom” http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/en/node/ [km]

Since the 14th of February 2011, Bahrain has seen  … population that does not exceed 570 thousand people.

Companies are selling Bahrain govt the technology to repress internet access and monitor dissidents—without any assistance, repression and human rights abuses will continue

PRI 08-29-11 “Monitoring technology used to suppress dissent” http://www.pri.org/stories/science/technology-inspires-protest-government-repression5634.html [km]

Throughout the recent protests in the … technology once it has its hands on it."

Technology controls are used to monitor and crush dissent—creates push-button autocracy in Bahrain

Bloomberg Markets Magazine 08-22-11 “Torture in Bahrain Becomes Routine With Help From Nokia Siemens” http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-22/torture-in-bahrain-becomes-routine-with-help-from-nokia-siemens-networking.html
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In the hands of autocrats, the surveillance  … people familiar with the installations. 

Monitoring technology is destroying rebel strength in Bahrain—they are in a digital arms race against security forces—the market propels oppression for profit

Bloomberg Markets Magazine 08-22-11 “Torture in Bahrain Becomes Routine With Help From Nokia Siemens” http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-22/torture-in-bahrain-becomes-routine-with-help-from-nokia-siemens-networking.html
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Monitoring technology is among  … across the mostly privately held industry. 

 
Bahrain uses monitoring to torture rebels

Bloomberg Markets Magazine 08-22-11 “Torture in Bahrain Becomes Routine With Help From Nokia Siemens” http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-22/torture-in-bahrain-becomes-routine-with-help-from-nokia-siemens-networking.html [km]

In Bahrain, officials routinely … their lawyers and family members. 

Torture is beyond evil:
Subpoint A – uses the body as a tool of power and interrogation – ethical imperative against it

Scarry, Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, 87
(Elaine, The Body in Pain, 1987)

The position of the person, … an unfurling of world maps.   

Subpoint B – Torture uses the body and mind as vessels to capture and control consciousness in a totality of pain – horrible beyond imagination

Scarry, Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, 87
(Elaine, The Body in Pain, 1987) 

A fifth dimension of physical … of the prisoner's pain.
 

The U.S. is investigating the possibility that our military aid is being used by Bahraini security forces to crush popular uprisings and commit these atrocities—unfortunately, in the status quo, zero percent of our foreign assistance to Bahrain is earmarked for human rights or democracy assistance—this is largely responsible for the problem

The National Defense Magazine 03-16-11 “Bahrain Crisis: Is U.S. Military Assistance Hindering Democracy?” http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/lists/posts/post.aspx?ID=349 [km]

The increasingly violent crackdown … is home to the Navy's 5th Fleet.

The US needs to stop sitting on the fence—firm commitment to the opposition groups in Bahrain is key to sending a strong signal of US support

Dorsey ‘11
[James M. Dorsey, formerly of The Wall Street Journal, senior fellow at Nanyang Technological University’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 28 July, 2011, US fence straddling fuels anti-Americanism in Syria and Bahrain, Al Arabiya News, http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/07/28/159828.html] (M Leap)

US reluctance to wholeheartedly call … on the right side of history.

Thus the plan

The United States Federal Government should substantially increase its support for shadow internet and circumvention technologies used by opposition groups in Bahrain.

Ask questions and we’ll clarify.

Contention Two Is Solvency

U.S. tech support is key—we are leading the global effort to deploy shadow internet and mobile phone systems—supporting opposition groups solves government monitoring, opens free lines of communication, and helps undermine repressive government practices

Glanz and Markoff ’11 (JAMES GLANZ, Ph.D. in astrophysical sciences from Princeton University and Baghdad bureau chief for NYT, and JOHN MARKOFF, senior writer for the New York Times, June 12, 2011, “U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors,” New York Times Reprints, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/world/12internet.html? pagewanted=4&_r=1&hp) [m leap]

The Obama administration is … communicate,” Mr. Meinrath added.

Deploying suitcase Internet works, it’s practical to implement and easy to use—creates a decentralized mesh network that makes government control nearly impossible

Glanz and Markoff ’11 (JAMES GLANZ, Ph.D. in astrophysical sciences from Princeton University, and JOHN MARKOFF, senior writer for the New York Times, June 12, 2011, “U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors,” New York Times Reprints, Online) [m leap]

The Invisible Web. In an anonymous … “pictograms” in the how-to manual.

These unofficial lines of internet communication are key for protestors to use circumvention technology and social networks

Glanz and Markoff ’11 (JAMES GLANZ, Ph.D. in astrophysical sciences from Princeton University, and JOHN MARKOFF, senior writer for the New York Times, June 12, 2011, “U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors,” New York Times Reprints, Online) [m leap]

Creating simple lines … out of the country.”

Use of the internet and social media to support protest unifies organic leaderless movements and spills throughout the region and the world—causes non-violent popular uprisings

Niman 11 (Michael, professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Buffalo State College, “Getting a Grip: Revolution in the Age of Facebook,” Art Voice, 10(7), http://artvoice.com/issues/v10n7/getting_a_grip) [m leap]

And the virus keeps spreading … people around the world.

These leaderless, rhizomic, and ever changing social movements solve—our plan does not attempt to organize this process, but rather to create new connections and hidden networks—only this Deleuzean approach can create new solutions to oppression

Khan ’11 Muhammad Saad Khan, he is a research student at the Department of Philosophy of University of Karachi, he holds a masters degree in economics and has written for The Daily Times (Pakistan) and Express News (Pakistan), July 5 2011, Organic Dimensions of the "Arab Spring" http://www.politicalaffairs.net/organic-dimensions-of-the-arab-spring/ [m leap]

The protests in the Middle … must beware of the rhizome. 

Control of the Internet is essential to the Monarchy’s attempt to suppress political opposition—access to the internet and freedom of use allows individuals to create their own media and break the monopoly of information supplied by the government—makes control and oppression impossible—draws international attention to torture—prefer the specificity of our evidence to the situation in Bahrain.

Desmukh ‘10 (Fahad , Karachi-based journalist and former Bahraini blogger, “The Internet in Bahrain: breaking the monopoly of information,” Foreign Policy, 9/21, http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/09/21/bahrain_government_vs_the_internet) [m leap]

When there is breaking news … threat it poses to them. 

2AC EU CP

U.S. is key to influence Bahrain—sends a key international signal

Sahar Aziz and Abdullah Musalem July 2011
(Sahar Aziz is a legal fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, an associate professor of law at Texas Wesleyan University School of Law (fall 2011), and has served as a senior policy advisor at the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.) (Abdullah Musalem holds degrees in sociology as well as Middle Eastern language and cultures. Mr. Musalem grew up in Bahrain, where he has conducted social research, and has been a frequent visitor to the county over the past decade) ”Citizens, Not Subjects: Debunking the Sectarian Narrative of Bahrain’s Pro-Democracy Movement” http://www.humansecuritygateway.com/documents/ISPU_CitizensNotSubjects.pdf

Notwithstanding this intervention…  members in detention.

U.S. is better at democracy assistance
Richard Youngs October 2006 (Director of the democratisation programme at the Fundación para las Relaciones
Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE) in Madrid, and lecturer at the University of Warwick.) Europe’s flawed approach to
Arab democracy

European attempts to … should develop a new

Death Frontline/Answers to Disads

Life doesn’t perish along with the body, each individual consciousness is merely part of a greater a-subjective current of consciousness—fearing death ties us to the prison of our body, blinds us to our imprisonment.  

Mark ‘98 (John, Gilles Deleuze: Vitalism and Multiplicity, p. 29-33)

It's organisms that die, … his development of vitalism.

Current science disproves Cartesian dualism and organic materialism i.e. the idea that there is the world outside our body and then the world inside our mind which is contained in our body. Rather, consciousness escapes the destruction of the body and mind—call for this evidence its warranted and definitive on the issue.

Lanza, – Robert Lanza. MD, is considered one of the leading cell scientists in the world. He is currently Chief Scientific Officer at Advanced Cell Technology, and a professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and Berman 2k9 Bob Berman is an author and the most widely read astronomer in the world, he is director of the Storm King Observatory in Cornwall, New York, and of the Overlook Observatory in Woodstock, New York, he is an adjunct professor of astronomy at Marymount Manhattan College. Biocentrism. 2009. p. 33-37 [m leap]

Many of the later chapters will use … to grasp with logic alone.

Life can’t be destroyed.  Our perception of death is merely severing the connection between the physical body and the energy in the multiverse. Energy cannot be destroyed, only transformed.

Lanza 2010 (Robert Lanza is considered one of the leading scientists in the world. He is currently Chief Scientific Officer at Advanced Cell Technology, and a professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. "Does Death Exist?: Life Is Forever, Says Theory" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/does-death-exist-life-is_b_410306.html)

In the cartoon, Bugs Bunny swallows …  we only experience them piece by piece. 

Aff: Wayne St LM

Round #   Tournament:

vs: Baylor CM

Judge:

Plan Text

1ac Advantages:

2ac Offense: concede all k’s – death good

1ar/2ar Strategy: death is good

2ar Strategy

Aff: Wayne LM

Round 7   Tournament:

vs: Baylor CM

Judge:

Plan Text: same

1ac Advantages: Torture bad

2ac Offense: condo bad, death good

1ar Strategy: death good

2ar Strategy: death good

Aff: WSU LM

Round #3   Tournament: Wake

vs: K State

Judge: Richard Tews

Plan Text

“Same”

1ac Advantages

Torture

2ac Offense

Death Good

Link Turn VTL

1ar Strategy

Death Good

Epistemology L/T

2ar Strategy

Same as 1AR

Aff:Wayne State LM

Round # 1

Tournament: Shirley

VS: Stanford HT

Judge: Brett Farmer

Plan Text

The USFG should substantially increase its support for shadow internet and circumvention technologies used by opposition groups in Bahrain.

1ac Advantages

Torturing/US cred

Solvency

2ac Offense

Death good answers to DA

International Fiat Bad

Condo Bad

Torture Advantage

1ar Strategy

International Fiat Bad

Death good

2ar Strategy

Death good

Cap K answers 

Fascist control of speech is the birth of violence. We learn to desire through transcendent signs that inscribe our organs into the socius.

Deleuze and Guattari 1983 (Gilles and Felix, Anti-Oedipus, page 144-145) [m leap]

The primitive territorial machine codes flows... , and gives him a memory of the spoken word.

The best strategy is to deterritorialize and create lines of flight – this allows us to decode desire from the mapping of surveillance and control in the status quo – you should affirm subjectivity, becoming, and immanent desire.

Biehl and Locke, ‘10 – *João Biehl, Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University; **Peter Locke, Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton’s Center for Health (Deleuze and the Anthropology of Becoming, Current Anthropology, Vol. 51, No. 3, June 2010, JSTOR)

According to Deleuze, desire—via ...  connectedness called “camaraderie.”