Tournament: Golden gate Opener | Round: 2 | Opponent: Fresno | Judge: Alisha
A. Their construction of race, gender, and dehumanization reinforces the ‘subhuman’ category -- Trying to humanize groups and actions merely push the impacts of the 1AC to whatever is considered Non-human.
Deckha 2k10¶ Maneesha, faculty of law, university of Victoria, “it’s time to abandon the idea of human rights”, the scavenger, dec. 10

The category of the ‘subhuman’ is inherent in global genderized, racialized and economic
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and maintenance of the figure of the subhuman undermines anti-violence agendas. 

B. The Human-Non Human binary causes extinction—it divorces our relationship with the natural world and makes ecocide on a cosmic scale inevitable.
Gottlieb 94 — Roger S. Gottlieb, Professor of Humanities at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Brandeis University, 1994 (“Ethics and Trauma: Levinas, Feminism, and Deep Ecology,” Crosscurrents: A Journal of Religion and Intellectual Life, Summer, Available Online at http://www.crosscurrents.org/feministecology.htm, Accessed 07-26-2011)
Here I will at least begin in agreement with Levinas. As he rejects an
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neither for our selves nor for the other, but for us all. 

C. The Alternative: the judge should vote negative to reject the human/animal divide --
this rejection enables an understanding of the SPECIES-BEING. This is a better form of epistemic disobedience than the affirmative effectively solving case.
HUDSON 2K4
Laura, The Political Animal: Species-Being and Bare Life, mediations journal, http://www.mediationsjournal.org/files/Mediations23_2_04.pdf
We are all equally reduced to mere specimens of human biology, mute and uncomprehending
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exploitation, how are we to envision the future of politics and society?

Tournament: Golden gate Opener | Round: 2 | Opponent: Fresno | Judge: Alisha

1. “Resolved” before a colon reflects a legislative forum

Army Officer School ‘04
 (5-12, “# 12, Punctuation – The Colon and Semicolon”, http://usawocc.army.mil/IMI/wg12.htm)
The colon introduces the following:
A formal resolution, after the word "resolved:"
Resolved: (colon) That this council petition the mayor.

2. “USFG should” means the debate is solely about a policy established by governmental means

Ericson ‘03
(Jon M., Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts – California Polytechnic U., et al., The Debater’s Guide, Third Edition, p. 4)
The Proposition of Policy: Urging Future Action In policy propositions, each topic contains
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compelling reasons for an audience to perform the future action that you propose. 

1.
Unbridled affirmation outside the game space makes research impossible and destroys dialogue in debate
Hanghoj 8
http://static.sdu.dk/mediafiles/Files/Information_til/Studerende_ved_SDU/Din_uddannelse/phd_hum/afhandlinger/2009/ThorkilHanghoej.pdf¶ Thorkild Hanghøj, Copenhagen, 2008 ¶ Since this PhD project began in 2004, the present author has been affiliated with DREAM (Danish¶ Research Centre on Education and Advanced Media Materials), which is located at the Institute of¶ Literature, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. Research visits have¶ taken place at the Centre for Learning, Knowledge, and Interactive Technologies (L-KIT), the¶ Institute of Education at the University of Bristol and the institute formerly known as Learning Lab¶ Denmark at the School of Education, University of Aarhus, where I currently work as an assistant
professor. 

Debate games are often based on pre-designed scenarios that include descriptions of issues to be
debated, educational goals, game goals, roles, rules, time frames etc. In this way, debate games differ from textbooks and everyday classroom instruction as debate scenarios allow teachers and
students to actively imagine, interact and communicate within a domain-specific game space.
However, instead of mystifying debate games as a “magic circle” (Huizinga, 1950), I will try to overcome the epistemological dichotomy between “gaming” and “teaching” that tends to dominate
discussions of educational games. In short, educational gaming is a form of teaching
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game goals. This means that game facilitation requires a balance between focusing too
narrowly on the rules or “facts” of a game (centripetal orientation)
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dialogue as an end in itself” (Wegerif, 2006: 61).

Dialogue is the biggest impact—the process of discussion precedes any truth claim by magnifying the benefits of any discussion
Morson 4
http://www.flt.uae.ac.ma/elhirech/baktine/0521831059.pdf#page=331
Northwestern Professor,  Prof. Morson's work ranges over a variety of areas: literary theory (especially narrative); the history of ideas, both Russian and European; a variety of literary genres (especially satire, utopia, and the novel); and his favorite writers -- Chekhov, Gogol, and, above all, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. He is especially interested in the relation of literature to philosophy. 

a belief in truly dialogic ideological becoming would lead to schools that were quite different. In such schools, the mind would be populated with a complexity of voices and perspectives it had not known,
and the student would learn to think with those voices, to test ideas and experiences against them, and to shape convictions that are innerly persuasive in response. Teachers would not be trying to get students to hold the right opinions but to sense the world from perspectives they would not have
encountered or dismissed out of hand. Students would develop the habit of getting inside
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most important thing. What we must do is keep the conversation going.

Dialogue is critical to affirming any value—shutting down deliberation devolves into totalitarianism and reinscribes oppression
Morson 4
http://www.flt.uae.ac.ma/elhirech/baktine/0521831059.pdf#page=331
Northwestern Professor,  Prof. Morson's work ranges over a variety of areas: literary theory (especially narrative); the history of ideas, both Russian and European; a variety of literary genres (especially satire, utopia, and the novel); and his favorite writers -- Chekhov, Gogol, and, above all, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. He is especially interested in the relation of literature to philosophy.

Bakhtin viewed the whole process of “ideological” (in the sense of ideas
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my course, I remember my dismay at reading Hitler’s Mein Kampf and discovering
that his self-consciousness was precisely that of the rebel speaking in the name
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proceed in much the same way, in an ongoing spiral of intolerance.

Tournament: Golden Gate Opener | Round: 5 | Opponent: Los Rios | Judge: Scott L
Usual Debt Ceiling stuff doesn't matter much now that the government shut downed

Tournament: Golden gate opener | Round: 3 | Opponent: Stanford | Judge: Alison
The affirmative uses the resolution to recreate representations of state-fabricated policies that continuously seeks to reintrench the “arborescent model” of thought.
Massumi 1987’
(Brian Massumi “Translator’s Foreword: Pleasures of Philosophy” from A Thousand Plateaus (pg. xi-xii)
“State philosophy” is another word for the representational thinking that has characterized Western
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erect tree under whose spreading boughs latter-day Platos conduct their class). 

The “arborescent model” recreates all of their impacts by heirarchizing theorems that presume linearity of looking at the world.
Massumi 1987’
(Brian Massumi “Translator’s Foreword: Pleasures of Philosophy” from A Thousand Plateaus (pg. xi-xii)
Arborescent systems are hierarchical systems with centers of signifiance and subjectification, central automata like
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or their outcome: the radicle solution, the structure of Power.14

Alt – Reject the aff in favor of rhizomatic thinking, we need to break ourselves away from the linear thinking that has plagued debate. Only after that, can we really understand how to separate from linearity and heiarchical thought.  
Massumi 1987’
(Brian Massumi “Translator’s Foreword: Pleasures of Philosophy” from A Thousand Plateaus (pg. xi-xii)
Let us summarize the principle characteristics of a rhizome: unlike trees or their roots
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is totally different from the arborescent relation: all manner of “becomings.”

Tournament: Golden gate opener | Round: 3 | Opponent: Stanford | Judge: Alison
Plan Text: The president of the United States should limit targeted killings to individuals who U.S. officials claim are being targeted and end the practice of signature strikes, review its current policy whereby the executive authority for drone strikes is split between the CIA and JSOC, provide information to the public, Congress, and UN special rapporteurs on what procedures exist to prevent harm to civilians, and never conduct non battlefield targeted killings without an accountable human being authorizing the strike 

CP Solves – Executive reform on drone policy will solve all the issues with transparency and solve all their scenarios and targeted strike is needed
Zenko 13 (Micah, Micah Zenko is the Douglas Dillon fellow in the Center for Preventive
Action (CPA) at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is the author or coauthor of three previous Council Special Reports, January 2013, Council on Foreign relations, “Reforming U.S. Drone Strike Policies”, Pg. 25-26, 

In short, a world characterized by the proliferation of armed¶ drones—used
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warfare in¶ response to ground-based antiaircraft fire or aerial combat).

Tournament: Golden Gate Opener | Round: 5 | Opponent: Los Rios | Judge: Scott L
Text: The United States Federal Government should ban all forms of strikes on Syria 

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