BFJR+Alisa+&+Lev

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2A: Lev Asimow (lev.asimow@gmail.com) 2N: Alisa Yang (alisayang5@gmail.com)

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Contention One—The Advantage
====**The United States travel ban against Cuba is an unconstitutional violation of the fundamental right to international travel—this justifies tyranny and the destruction of other key freedoms—repeal would solve**====

Our government has ... down Mr. Reagan’s wall.
 * Crumpacker 5** (Tom Crumpacker, lawyer, M.A. in Latin American studies at Georgetown University, "A Constitutional Right to Travel to Cuba", 1/17/5, www.counterpunch.org/2005/01/15/a-constitutional-right-to-travel-to-cuba/ //kdh)

**These restrictions are inhumane and violate international law—they’re a prerequisite to the possibility of government repression**
IV. Freedom of Movement ... their inhumane travel policies.
 * Wilkinson and Manuel 5** (Daniel Wilkinson, managing director of the Americas division at Human Rights Watch, expert on Latin America, authored reports on human rights issues in Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, the United States, and Venezuela, graduate of Yale Law School, Anne Manuel, research director at Americas Watch, "Families Torn Apart The High Cost of U.S. and Cuban Travel Restrictions", Human Rights Watch, October 2005, Vol. 17, No. 5 (B), www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/cuba1005.pdf //kdh)

**The impact is the death of democratic politics—this legitimates an era of disposability in which lives have no value and the government can justify eugenics and violence**
The new culture of ... vibrant democratic state.
 * Giroux 10** (Henry, Professor of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, previous professors at BU, Miami U, and Penn State “Memories of Hope in the Age of Disposability”, published 9/28/2010, [] [SG])

**Only the aff solves—the freedom to travel internationally is a vital aspect of egalitarian democracy and serves as a bulwark against all other injustices**
Woods 96 (Jeanne, Professor of Law at University of Loyola New Orleans, “Travel that Talks: Toward First Amendment Protection for Freedom of Movement”, George Washington Law Review, Vol. 65, No. 301, 1996, Accessed via Nexus, [SG]) Free movement by ... economic embargo laws.

**Solvency isn’t a question—there’s a moral obligation to act against injustice even when our words won’t have an effect**
Filice 90 (Carlo, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York, Geneseo, Human Rights Quarterly, August, Vol. 12, No. 3. pp. 397-414, “On the Obligation to Keep Informed about Distant Atrocities,” JStore) Objection 111: Help only those ... focus to parochial matters.

**It’s try or die to reform institutions and ensure human rights—eternal struggle against inequality is the ultimate expression of freedom**
**Simmons 99** (William Paul, Professor of Political Science at ASU, “The Third: Levinas' theoretical move from an-archical ethics to the realm of justice and politics,” Philosophy & Social Criticism November 1, 1999 vol. 25 no. 6, http://theology.co.kr/wwwb/data/levinas/1-levinas.pdf [SG]) Vigilance against violence ... morally ideal state

**Nuclear miscalculation and genocide are inevitable absent our ethic—must hedge against technocratic models of decisionmaking**
These technological barbarians, ... must be subordinated.
 * Fasching** **93** (Darrell J., Professor of Religious Studies at University of South Florida, The Ethical Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima, Pp. 232-233)


 * That’s a unique impact—nuclear war is structurally impossible **

Tepperman 9 Deputy Editor of Newsweek, Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, now Managing Editor of Foreign Affairs, holds a B.A. in English Literature from Yale University, an M.A. in Jurisprudence from Oxford University, and an LL.M. in International Law from New York University (Jonathan, "Why Obama Should Learn to Love the Bomb," 8/28/09, [])//AM These efforts are all ... same safe conclusion.

**We must constantly question normative existence—absolute truth is an impossibility and only this model can ensure productive investigation and decisionmaking**
The dimension of transcendence ... further fruitful questions.
 * Fasching 93** (Darrell J., Professor of Religious Studies at University of South Florida, The Ethical Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima, Pp. 216-218)

** Our ethics-focused political method solves violence, exploitation, and ecological destruction—only rejecting the empirical validations behind particular policies can ensure agency **
Burke 7 (Anthony, Professor of Politics and International Relations in the University of New South Wales, “Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence, and Reason”, Theory and Event, vol. 10.2) My argument here, whilst ... existence, security and action.

**Our affirmation of political hope is key to reinvigorate democracy—only educating and advocating for liberty can strike back against the politics of disposability**
The working-class neighborhood ... their democratic convictions.
 * Giroux 10** – Professor of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, previous professors at BU, Miami U, and Penn State (Henry, “Memories of Hope in the Age of Disposability”, published 9/28/2010, accessed online 7/2, http://archive.truthout.org/memories-hope-age-disposability63631)//BZ

**Prioritize ethical strategies that ensure liberty, equality, AND human dignity—primacy of any one over the others is a precondition for violent exclusion**
Baer 9 (Susanne, Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, “Dignity Liberty, Equality: A Fundamental Rights Triangle of Constitutionalism”, the University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 59, No. 4 (Fall, 2009), JSTORE [SG]) Most constitutions contain ... in all directions

**Only the aff solves—when their kritiks prioritize any one value over another they make possible political violence**
In legal scholarship, there ... these traditions contain.
 * Baer 9** (Susanne, Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, “Dignity Liberty, Equality: A Fundamental Rights Triangle of Constitutionalism”, the University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 59, No. 4 (Fall, 2009), JSTORE [SG])

** Utopian ethics and a rejection of utilitarian realism is key to preserve human dignity—the alternative is genocide and nuclear conflict because the ends will always justify the means **
Fasching 93 (Darrell, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida, The Ethical Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima) Utopians seem to offer ... it is passing away" (1 Corinthians 7:30-31).


 * Utilitarian calculus makes decisionmaking impossible—justifies the worst atrocities in a framework of “necro-economics” **

Weizman 11 (Eyal Weizman, professor of visual and spatial cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, 2011, “The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza,” pp 8-10) The theological origins of ... grounded in this impossibility .17

**Concern solely with survival justifies a “tyranny of survival” in which all other rights, including the right to life, can be freely violated**
Callahan 73 (Daniel, Co-Founder and former director of The Hastings Institute, PhD in philosophy from Harvard University, “The Tyranny of Survival”, p 91-93) The value of survival could ... succeeded in not doing so.

**Consequentialism is dehumanizing**
Kokoski 12 holds a BA in philosophy from McMaster University in Hamilton (Paul Kokoski “The Bad Fruit of Consequentialism” 4/11/12 [] The so-called goal of ... and those of religious faith.

**Intervening actors check their impacts—can’t be responsible for events beyond our direct control**
Gewirth 83 (Alan, philosopher, Human Rights: Essays on Justification and Applications, p 230-231) A third distinction is ... price of the rights of blacks.

**Only a focus on reforming the law can actualize ethics—ignoring EITHER the state OR ethics independently legitimates totalitarianism**
**Simmons 99** (William Paul, Professor of Political Science at ASU, “The Third: Levinas' theoretical move from an-archical ethics to the realm of justice and politics,” Philosophy & Social Criticism November 1, 1999 vol. 25 no. 6, [], [SG]) We should also say ... Levinas calls for the liberal state.

**The state is inevitable—that means we’re obliged to make it ethical since the alternative is the destruction of the Other**
Simmons 99 (William Paul, Professor of Political Science at ASU, “The Third: Levinas' theoretical move from an-archical ethics to the realm of justice and politics,” Philosophy & Social Criticism November 1, 1999 vol. 25 no. 6, http://theology.co.kr/wwwb/data/levinas/1-levinas.pdf [SG]) Since ‘it is impossible ... what it wants to secure.

**Policy predictions fail—disregard the neg’s causal link chains**
Tetlock and Gardner 11 professor of organizational behavior at the Haas Business School at the University of California-Berkeley and columnist and senior writer (Dan Gardner and Philip Tetlock, 7/11/11, “Overcoming Our Aversion to Acknowledging Our Ignorance”, http://www.cato-unbound.org/2011/07/11/dan-gardner-philip-tetlock/overcoming-our-aversion-acknowledging-our-ignorance)//EM The editors may regret ... predicted more of the same.

**No war—economic interdependence and deterrence**
This bleak outlook is ... the autocratic revivalists acknowledge. = = =NEGATIVE=
 * Deudney and Ikenberry 9** (Daniel and G. John, MA and PhD in Political Science, Professor, Political Science, Johns Hopkins University; PhD, Professor, International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, January/February 2009, “The Myth of the Autocratic Revival: Why Liberal Democracy Will Prevail,” Foreign Affairs Volume 88, Issue 1, ProQuest, Hensel)


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