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Bipartisan support for Disease Surveillance – Vocal Support
Porter ’05 (Charlene Porter, Washington File Staff Writer -- State Department Documents and Publications -- December 8, 2005 – lexis)
Bipartisan support … at a minimum, double this amount."
Bipartisanship on unrelated issues is key to Bush’s agenda.
John C. Fortier, Research Associate and Political Scientist at the American Enterprise Institute, 5/1/03
It does not make sense for Bush to … but he could accomplish more.
Polls prove Public supports spending on disease prevention and bioterrorism defense
PR Newswire 2-5-07 (“Cuts Proposed in the President's Budget to Disease Prevention and Bioterrorism Preparedness Programs Jeopardize the Health of Americans, TFAH Warns,” l/n)
"The increased …spending levels.
Turn – Obama and Clinton
Support Disease Surveillance – Avian Flu
St. Louis Post-Dispatch ‘05 (Missouri -- November 6, 2005 – lexis)
Growing up … response to an inevitable threat.
Key to the Agenda
The Australian ‘07 (Australia -- February 13, 2007 – lexis)
The carefully …in Washington.
International Bird Flu Surveillance is an Olive Branch – National Security
Anderson, 06 (Jamie, Bachelor of Arts in International Studies at Boston College “The Looming Threat of an Avian Flu Pandemic: Concepts of Human Security,” May, http://dissertations.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1169&context=ashonors)
In contrast to viewing vaccines as … that it could wait another year.
International Surveillance is a win for Bush – Vocal support for fighting Bird Flu
President Bush, 11/1//05
President Outlines Pandemic Influenza Preparations and Response, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/11/20051101-1.html
The first part of our strategy … to detect and contain outbreaks.
CDC disease surveillance kills political capital – budget cuts prove
Winfield, 07 (Gwyn, CBRNe World, “Threat Watch,” March http://www.cbrneworld.com/news_03_07.html)
CDC’s disease surveillance system, BioSense, … in the US too
CDC funding is a loss for Bush – cuts in recent budget
PR Newswire 2-5-07 (“Cuts Proposed in the President's Budget to Disease Prevention and Bioterrorism Preparedness Programs Jeopardize the Health of Americans, TFAH Warns,” l/n)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Trust for America's Health (TFAH) today expressed … in FY 2005.
Meadows (All Teams) – Negative
African Reps K
The american relationship to africa is defined by images. Saturated by representations of conflict, disease, and permanent afliction of catastrophe, policymakers can’t help but solidify the dehumanizing frame for intervention these images demand
WALLACE – PHD STUDENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT OXFORD -- 2005
[JAMIE, “AMERICAN PERCEPTIONS OF AFRICA BASED ON MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS”, http://www.hollerafrica.com/showArticle.php?artId=101&catId=1]
When we think of Africa, images of … in the world (Ebo 1992:17).
Sadistic images are entertainment for the west – trauma becomes commodified for capitalist ends and affirms sentiments of superiority over the african other, desensitizing viewers to atrocity – the question of representation is critical to policy.
KLEINMAN AND KLEINMAN – PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY AND MEDICAL ANTHRO AT HARVARD – 1996
[ARTHUR AND JOAN, THE APPEAL OF EXPERIENCE, DAEDALUS, WINTER]
This may seem too … they become iatrogenic.
Images Of African Catastrophe Castigates Africans To A Permanent Global Underclass -- Defined As Harbingers Of Their Ever-Present Demise, Africans Become The Objects Of A Genocidal Process Of Dehumanization Grounded In History’s Most Extreme Atrocities
SANKORE – EDITOR OF INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF JOURNALISTS – AFRICA AND COORDINATOR – FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND ASSOCIATED RIGHTS IN AFRICA -- 2005
[ROTIMI, “THE PITFALLS AND CONSEQUENCES OF DEVELOPMENT 'PORNOGRAPHY'”, HTTP://WWW.BOND.ORG.UK/NETWORKER/2005/APRIL05/OPINION.HTM]
Increasingly graphic depictions of poverty … to allow their people to freely define their future.
Our alternative’s to shortcircuit this cycle of pessimistic disaster imaging of africa. Telling a new story of africa, severed from the model of prejudicial portrayal, is crucial to disconnect american policymaking from the mechanisms of colonialism.
MEZZANA – SOCIOLOGIST AND RESERARCHER – CERFE GROUP AFRICAN RESEARCH – 2005 [DANIELE, “A CANCEROUS IMAGE”, http://www.africansocieties.org/n4/eng/Dossier.htm]
The literature reported in this … qualified information on the African reality.
Disease Securitization Kritik
The affirmative’s depiction of viral apocalypse homogenizes the entire African continent as the dark infected unknowable other—sanctions prejudicial and exclusionary practices
Schell ’97 – Ph.D. Candidate in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University [Heather, outburst! a chilling true story about emerging-virus narratives and pandemic social change, configurations 5.1 (1997)]
Although I like the implications of Haraway's … kill is ipso facto a competitor.
These hyperbolic representations of a global pandemic blind us to other widespread public health problems – obsession with narratives of super-germs cause indifference to common but more deadly diseases
Tomes '2 – professor of history at stony brook university [Nancy, , American Literary History 14.4 (2002) 625-652, epidemic entertainments: disease and popular culture in early-twentieth-century america, muse]
Over the last 20 years … not syphilis and hepatitis C?
Impact is genocide – racialized quest to annihilate the diseased in the name of purifying the body politic sanctions eugenic violence that is at the root of all conflict
Elden 2 (Boundary 2 29.2)
“the reverse side is the power…so many men to be killed.”
Our alternative is to refuse the metaphor of disease as a threat to the body politic –the permeability of the virus signifier allows reconsideration of disease within different identify contexts and emergence of new metaphors
Thomas 2 (“It came from outer space” http://etd02.lnx390.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-0607102-185008/)
“It is the virus’s permeability as a signifier…seize its utopian potential.”
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