Be it resolved: the United States Federal Government should substantially reform

the provision of mental health services to the chronically mentally ill.

Taylor Brewer
Purdue University
pg. 1
HARMS

1. HARM 1-COMMUNISM IS A MENTAL DISEASE

1. Muehlenberg, 2009 (Bill Muehlenberg, Fred Schwartz, RIP, Christian Today
Australia, January 30th, 2009, http://au.christiantoday.com/article/fred-schwarz-rip/5234.htm)
1. “Communism is a disease: “Communism has already killed
many millions of people and proposes to kill many millions more.
Therefore, by definition, it is a disease. It is a threefold disease. It is a disease of the
body, because it kills; it is a disease of the mind, because it is associated with
systemized delusions not susceptible to rational argument; and it is a
disease of the spirit, because it denies God, materializes man, robs him of spirit and soul, and, in the
last analysis, even of the mind itself, and reduces him [an individual] to the level of
a beast of the field.”
2. “But, critics will complain, what about the good of Communism? ‘In
rebuttal I explained that a pathologist is a specialist in the characteristics of a disease, not health, and
thata mixture of good and evil is often more deadly than an undiluted
evil.’”

2) HARM 2-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES EXIST

A) Rosenburg, 2007 (Matt Rosenburg, Communist Countries, About.com, 2007,
http://geography.about.com/od/lists/tp/communistcountries.htm)
•“Mao Zedong took control over China in 1949 and proclaimed
China as the People's Republic of China, a communist country.
China has remained consistently communist since 1949
although economic reforms have been in place for several
years. China has been called "Red China" due to the
communist party's control over the country.”
• “A revolution in 1959 led to the taking over of the Cuban
government by Fidel Castro. By 1961, Cuba became a fully
communist country and developed close ties to the Soviet
Union.”
• “Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, became
a communist country in 1975 following a revolution that was
supported by Vietnam and the Soviet Union.”
• “Korea, which was captured by Japan in World War II, was
divided following the war into a Soviet north and American
south. Despite being led by the USSR beginning in 1945, North
Korea did not become a communist country until 1948.”
1. “Vietnam was partitioned at a 1954 conference that
followed the First Indochina War. While the partition was supposed to
be temporary, North Vietnam became communist and supported by
the Soviet Union while South Vietnam was democratic and supported
by the United States. Following two decades of war, the two parts of
Vietnam were unified and in 1976, Vietnam as a unified country
became a communist country.”
Be it resolved: the United States Federal Government should substantially reform
the provision of mental health services to the chronically mentally ill.
Taylor Brewer
Purdue University
pg. 2
 Be it resolved: the United States Federal Government should substantially reform
the provision of mental health services to the chronically mentally ill.
Taylor Brewer
Purdue University
pg. 3
INHERENCY

2) INHERENCY 1-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES DO NOT HAVE

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
A) Reporters Without Borders, 2011 (Reporters Without Borders,
Press Freedom Index 2010, rsf.org, 2011, http://en.rsf.org/press-
freedom-index-2010,1034.html)
• According to the Reporters Without Borders’ 2010 Press
Freedom Index, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, the People’s Republic
of China, and Vietnam ranked 166th, 168th, 177th, 171st, and
165th worldwide, respectively.
Be it resolved: the United States Federal Government should substantially reform
the provision of mental health services to the chronically mentally ill.
Taylor Brewer
Purdue University
pg. 4

PLAN

○ MANDATES-
A The CIA will infiltrate all mass-media outlets in Cuba,
Laos, North Korea, the People’s Republic of China, and
Vietnam to place subliminal messages in television
programs, radio broadcasts, newspaper and magazine
articles, movies, and music that will prime the
Communist populous for a democratic revolution.
B Militants will be placed into the countries and secretly
backed by the United States to spark democratic
revolutions after populous is sufficiently primed.
C Once new democratic states are in place, the United
States recognizes them and begins diplomatic
relations and economic support through USAID and
will remove any special restrictions on the previously
mentioned countries.
D Funding through a 5% tax on cigarettes on top of
current taxes for subliminal messaging. Funding
through the Department of Defense for military action
in target countries.
E Enforcement through normal means

The Affirmative reserves the right to clarify the intent of

the plan.
 Be it resolved: the United States Federal Government should substantially reform
the provision of mental health services to the chronically mentally ill.
Taylor Brewer
Purdue University
pg. 5

SOLVENCY

1) SOLVENCY 1-SUBLIMINAL MESSAGING IS EFFECTIVE

AND LASTING
A) Murphy, 1993 (Sheila T. Murphy, R. B. Zajonc, Affect, cognition, and awareness:
Affective priming with optimal and suboptimal stimulus exposures, Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, Vol 64(5), pg, 723-739, May 1993, http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?
fa=buy.optionToBuy&id=1993-32157-001)
• “The affective primacy hypothesis (R. B. Zajonc, 1980) asserts that
positive and negative affective reactions can be evoked with
minimal stimulus input and virtually no cognitive processing.
This hypothesis was tested by comparing the effects of
affective and cognitive priming under extremely brief
(suboptimal) and longer (optimal) exposure durations. At
suboptimal exposures only affective primes produced
significant shifts in Ss' judgments of novel stimuli. Results
suggest that when affect is elicited outside of conscious
awareness, it is diffuse and nonspecific, and its origin and
address are not accessible. Having minimal cognitive
participation, such gross and nonspecific affective reactions
can therefore be diffused or displaced onto unrelated stimuli.
At optimal exposures this pattern of results was reversed such
that only cognitive primes produced significant shifts in
judgments. Together, these results support the affective
primacy hypothesis.”

2) SOLVENCY 2-MILITARY INTERVENTION IS EFFECTIVE

A) Taffet, 2007 (Max F. Taffet, Going Bananas: the CIA in the Cold War, March 8th, 2007,
http://docs.google.com/viewer?
a=v&q=cache:qpbQkGGoab8J:www.maxtaffet.com/folio/writing/files/MaxTaffet_Monkeys.doc+
CIA+intervention+effectiveness&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESh-KWQ-
YCbBNppEpx22JJodxvVa434oOV8AcGvd3qTJQybGy_PAQMRTpfhtDsZit8G1o48_hyqj13NBKM0PL
Hv4_Eem_QHaClNj80V2Z3SHwgeOAOA25B5ZsuVAnNJI5a-
yDO0y&sig=AHIEtbSaMO3LYj9TOvF2WrZ3J1h-5WqdVQ)
• “The facts that are confirmed are President Eisenhower
provided arms and planes to Arma’ s National Liberation
Forces; followed by extensive CIA fake radio reports on the
success of the National Liberation Forces incursion. The fake
broadcast successfully served to demoralize Arbenz’ s armed
forces, which in the days after the boarder was first crossed
refused to follow orders and thus force Arbenz’ s resignation.
Other roles the CIA served were the jamming of Arbenz radio
reports to the civilian population and the decoding of Arbenz’ s
field commander’ s broadcasts to Armas, thus giving the
National Liberation Forces a strategic edge. In the end the
Be it resolved: the United States Federal Government should substantially reform
the provision of mental health services to the chronically mentally ill.
Taylor Brewer
Purdue University
pg. 6
coup was a quick, successful, and cost effective solution for
the United States costing less than $10 million. An additional
positive result from the United States perspective was Armas
returned of over half a million acres of United Fruit Company
land.”
 Be it resolved: the United States Federal Government should substantially reform
the provision of mental health services to the chronically mentally ill.
Taylor Brewer
Purdue University
pg. 7

ADVANTAGES

1. ADVANTAGE 1-WORLD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. LINK-DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES HAVE BETTER

ECONOMIES
1. Hunkar, 2009 (David Hunkar, Economic Growth Differences: Democratic vs. Non-
Democratic, seekingalpha.com, August 16th, 2009, http://seekingalpha.com/article/156309-economic-
growth-differences-democratic-vs-non-democratic-countries)
1. “Democratic countries have higher economic growth
than non-democratic countries.”

2. IMPACT-CHINESE ECONOMY IMPROVES WORLD

ECONOMY
1. Starmass International, 2006 (Starmass International, China Contribution
to Global Economy, DREAM CO, 2006,
http://www.starmass.com/china_review/global_economy/contribution_global_economy.htm)
1. “According to the statistics released by the World Bank,
China has made the largest contribution to the growth rate worldwide,
over 13% on the average, since China joined the WTO [World Trade
Organization] in 2001. Now, China's economy ranks at the fourth
largest in the world in terms of gross domestic product (GDP) at
current exchange rates. In 2005, China contributed 14.3% to the world
economy growth as the second largest country to contribute the world
economy growth after USA.”

3. IMPACT-GLOBAL ECONOMIC SUCCESS PREVENTS

GLOBAL NUCLEAR WAR
1. Caldwell, 2003 (Joseph George Caldwell, PhD, The End of the World, and the
New World Order, March 6, 2003, www.foundation.bw/TheEndOfTheWorld.htm)
1. It would appear that global nuclear war will happen very
soon, for two main reasons, alluded to above. First, human poverty and misery are
increasing at an incredible rate. There are now three billion more
desperately poor people on the planet than there were just forty years
ago. Despite decades of industrial development, the number of wretchedly poor people continues
to soar. The pressure for war mounts as the population explodes. Second, war is motivated by
resource scarcity -- the desire of one group to acquire the land, water, energy, or other resources
With each passing year, crowding and misery
possessed by another.
increase, raising the motivation for war to higher levels.
Be it resolved: the United States Federal Government should substantially reform
the provision of mental health services to the chronically mentally ill.
Taylor Brewer
Purdue University
pg. 8

2. ADVANTAGE 2-US RELATIONS WITH CUBA

A) LINK-OBAMA SUPPORTS LIFTING EMBARGO FOR A

DEMOCRATIC CUBA
• Lowe, 2010 (Alison Lowe, US embargo ‘will be lifted if Cuba allows more freedoms,
THE TRIBUNE, July 27th, 2010,
http://www.tribune242.com/news/07272010_alcuba_news_pg3)
○ “One of the Obama administration’s top foreign policy
experts says the economic embargo the United States
imposes on Cuba will be lifted if the country’s government
allows more freedoms – but this should not worry the Bahamas.”
○ “Echoing other Obama officials, Dr Valenzuela said that he expects that the
embargo could be totally lifted if the Cuban government
‘liberalises’.”

B) IMPACT-ECONOMIC BENEFIT
• Pepper, 2009 (Margot Pepper, The Costs of the Embargo, Dollarsandsense.org, 2009,
http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2009/0309pepper.html)
○ “These percentages might be even higher if the U.S. public were aware that the
blockade is actually costing them [the U.S. public] more than
the Cubans, something that is finally beginning to dawn on
the U.S. business community. Representatives of a dozen
leading U.S. business organizations, including the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce, signed a letter in December urging
Barack Obama to scrap the embargo. The letter pegs the
cost to the U.S. economy at $1.2 billion per year. The CPF’s
estimates are much higher: up to $4.84 billion annually in
lost sales and exports. The Cuban government estimates
the loss to Cuba at about $685 million annually. Thus the
blockade costs the United States up to $4.155 billion more a
year than it costs Cuba.”

C) IMPACT-HEALTH BENEFIT
• Pepper, 2009 (Margot Pepper, The Costs of the Embargo, Dollarsandsense.org, 2009,
http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2009/0309pepper.html)
○ “Beyond the economic costs, the blockade has deprived
U.S. citizens of Cuba’s medical breakthroughs. Cuba has
developed the first meningitis B vaccine; treatments for the
eye disease retinitis pigmentosa; and a preservative for un-
refrigerated milk.”