EMAILS!!

It's Saturday morning and I only received one case. I know it's early in the weekend, but it's pretty down to the wire, tournament-wise, and I really did want to get them Friday night. I want to give your cases attention, but that takes time, too. If you send me your case Sunday night, don't ask me Monday morning if I worked on it.

Please send me an email, even if it's blank, so I can make an address list (why I don't have them already is a long story). I've found some pretty excellent information, and I've been brainstorming some CX areas.

Finally, I think the log-in username might be have to be my personal email address. Hm. Well, if so, it's maclymont@gmail.com. Password is the same as I gave you.

For God's sake, check out those links, especially the idebate.org stuff.

Links

Here are some links to useful evidence sites, and contention ideas. The first two are pages from the same site, but very, very useful. There may be a way to hyperlink these, but I don't feel like figuring it out right now. Just copy & paste them into the address bar, I guess.

http://www.idebate.org/debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=330

http://wiki.idebate.org/index.php/Debate:Plea_bargaining_in_the_US

http://www.truthinjustice.org/bargaining.htm

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/plea/

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0091-4169(198623)77%3A3%3C949%3ATPBC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X

http://www.losthorizons.com/comment/archives/plea_bargains_and_the_law.htm

http://books.google.com/books?id=HO6aELtLWgAC&pg=PA300&lpg=PA300&dq=controversy+plea+bargaining&source=web&ots=oPbfMfgeHn&sig=4kQrtsiFPVUD7_O2a_455VxsD-k#PPR11,M1

http://books.google.com/books?id=RzsrQmeomvwC&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99&dq=controversy+plea+bargaining&source=web&ots=eAUrtjhLwN&sig=pRhz3tnq1IUZBKfhjBh-HH315E4#PPA40,M1

Emailing cases

If you can email me your case tonight or tomorrow morning I would be able to look at it during B-block, while they take a test. That would make my life easier this weekend.

Our Very Own LD Blog

Okay, here's a site to post thoughts, links, contentions, etc. Remember as you get started to think in terms of a specific type of justice - whether justice is about the ends, or if the means of achieving matter. I'd reccomend a value of justice, just because it's straight-forward. Also, we have volumes of material on philosophical support for ideas of Justice, on both sides of the issue.

Some other Aff ones might be:
Social Contract - by not provided justice to certain citizens, the system breaches the soc. contract
Equality - similarly, it gives justice to some, by denying others


Neg:
Utilitarianism - Yes, individual's may lose out, but the testimony can create much greater good

- Mr. Clements