Tournament: Emporia | Round: 6 | Opponent: KCKCC ST | Judge: Ashley Denney
K2
Restricting Presidential war powers continues the species war ongoing against the nonhuman other.
Kochi ’9
Tarik Kochi. Sussex Law School. 2009. "Species War: Law, Violence and Animals". Pages 353-369. http://lch.sagepub.com/content/5/3/353.full.pdf-http://lch.sagepub.com/content/5/3/353.full.pdf Dylan

In everyday speech, in the words of the media, politicians, protestors,  
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of  Gesetz which refers more closely to positive or black letter laws.1
 To focus upon the broader category of the Law of war is to put
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suggestion that at the foundation of the Law of war resides species war.

Speciesism kills 50 billion animals per year and guarantees the extinction of the planet
Best 2009 (Steve ~Associate prof of philosophy @ UT El Paso~; The Rise of Critical Animal Studies: Putting Theory into action and Animal Liberation into Higher Education; www.stateofnature.org/?p=5903; kdf)

The crucial problem with MAS is not just the separation of theory from practice,
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many of the so-called "new" abolitionists? ~18~

Your ethical imperative is Political Scholarship and Speech Against the Oppression Of Humanism.
Rather than produce the slaughterhouse of a so-called "radical" and more perfect humanity, vote negative to disrupt and revolutionize your humanist identity
Best No Date ~Steven, Chair of Philosophy at UT-EP, "Animal Rights and the New Enlightenment",www.drstevebest.org/AnimalRightsandtheNewEnlightenment.htm? ~ 

Western society has made rapid moral progress since the 1960s. The student, black
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the structures of power, to shake them until new social arrangements emerge.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: JCCC DW | Judge: JARED FANNING
CAP
Buddhism and Asian spiritualism are critical to new forms of capitalism. It allows us to forget the suffering the system allows, while at the same time it allowing us to participate more fully in capital.
Olson and Worsham 1 (Gary A and Lynn, Gary A. Olson is Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of South Florida at St. Petersburg. Lynn Worsham is Professor of English at the University of South Florida., “Slavoj Zizek: Philosopher, Cultural Critic, and Cyber-Communist”, (http://www.jaconlinejournal.com/archives/vol21.2/olson-zizek.pdf)CD)
This fetishist logic is more and more crucial, even at the religious  leveL For
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symptoms. Today, we've passed from symptom  to the functioning of fetish.  
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Capitalism’s naturalization of the process of subjugation creates social exclusion on a global scale – the ultimate ethico-political responsibility is to challenge the foundations of this system’s organization principles. This makes reaching the Universal impossible.

Zizek and Daly 2004 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek, 14-6)

For Zizek it is imperative that we cut through this Gord¬ian knot of
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the principles of global liberal capitalism. This requires some care and subtlety.
For far too long, Marxism has been bedevilled by an almost fetishistic economism that
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economism can end up reinforcing a de facto economic necessity in respect of contemporary
This is not to endorse any kind of retrograde return to economism. Zizek's point
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political boutiquism that is readily sustained by postmodern forms of consumerism and lifestyle.
Against this Zizek argues for a new universalism whose primary ethical directive is to confront
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the abject Other to that of a 'glitch' in an otherwise sound matrix.
Thus the Alternative: Vote negative to do nothing

Doing nothing is not just sitting and waiting for the moment to attack—it is the only genuine political act--it is an act of abstaining from the depoliticized gameboard of capitalism by refusing to play their game—ultimately withdrawing past the point of commodification

Zizek 2008 (Slavoj, Senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Violence: Big Ideas small books. Picador, pg(s) 213-7, kdf)

Last but not least, the lesson of the intricate rela¬tionship between subjective and systemic
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political act: it forcefully confronts us with the vacuity of today's democracies.
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Tournament: Emporia | Round: Semis | Opponent: KCKCC GM | Judge: Andrew Allsup, Brian Box, and Mark Wonnacott

Fw

A. Interpretation: The affirmative must present and defend the hypothetical implementation of ~plan~ by the United States federal government.

"Resolved" proves the framework for the resolution is to enact a policy.
Words and Phrases 64 Permanent Edition

Definition of the word "resolve," given by Webster is "to express an opinion or determination by resolution or vote; as ’it was resolved by the legislature;" It is of similar force to the word "enact," which is defined by Bouvier as meaning "to establish by law". 

The USFG is the government in Washington D.C.
Encarta 2k http://encarta.msn.com====
 "The federal government of the United States is centered in Washington DC"

B. Violation –  aff

C. Vote neg

1. Topicality – they don’t defend the resolution, which is a voting issue for competitive equity and jurisdictional integrity

2. Fairness – their framework allows infinite non-falsifiable, unpredictable, totalizing, and personal claims – impossible to be neg

3. Switch-side debate – spending every round theorizing about your K is unproductive – you cannot know your argument is true unless you consider both sides of it

4. No offense – you can read this arg when you’re negative – to win this round, they have to prove why reading this aff and not being topical is good

5. Topicality before advocacy – vote negative to say that you think they are not topical, not that you don’t believe in their project

This is an a priori issue
Shively, 2k (Assistant Prof Political Science at Texas A26M, Ruth Lessl, Partisan Politics and Political Theory, p. 181-2)

The requirements given thus far are primarily negative. The ambiguists must say "no
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. In other words, contestation rests on some basic agreement or harmony.

Limits are key – infinite political theories exist, artificial limits are key

Lutz 2k (Donald S. Professor of Polisci at Houston, Political Theory and Partisan Politics p. 39-40)
Aristotle notes in the Politics that political theory simultaneously proceeds at three levels—discourse
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and clarity it lends to an analysis and comparison of ac¬tual political systems.

FW: evaluated in Competing interps.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: JCCC DW | Judge: JARED FANNING
Race
Failure to address ongoing anti-Black racism is genocidal
Vargas 11 Jao H. Costa, Teaches black diaspora studies at University of Texas, “The lack Diaspora as Genocide: Brazil and the United States- A Supranational Geography of Death and Its Alternatives,” in State of White Supremacy: Racism, Governance, and the United States, ed by Jung, Vargas, and Bonilla-Silva, mmm/uco pp. 266
White supremacy and anti-Black racism are genocidal. Complementing their most obvious, final manifestations, white supremacy and anti-Black racism also work through silence, inaction, and ignorance. White supremacy and anti-Black racism happen because of what we and others do as well as what we and others don't do. Consequently, silence, inaction, and ignorance are as genocidal as the most overt racist acts and thoughts.
Blackness is a condition of ontological death – a vocabulary to describe this loss doesn’t exist – the only way to break out of this structure is a complete destruction of civil society and the epistemological foundations it rests on.
Wilderson No Date Frank, Ass. Prof of African American Studies UC-Irvine “Afro Pessimism” http://uc-ipc.com/members/2008/06/23/afro-pessimism/ liam

Afro-Pessimism theorizes Blackness as a position of accumulation and fungibility (Saidiya Hartman
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the centrality of Black captivity to the stability and coherence of civil society.

Vote negative to engage in an unflinching structural analysis of the ontological position of Blackness—the very possibility of ethics and freedom resides in a rejection of the affirmative’s ratification of democracy, the state and civil society.  Resisting the lure of anti-blackness through a genealogy of history’s constitutive void is the starting point for imagining a new world.
Kokontis 2011 (Kate, PhD in Performance Studies from UC-Berkeley, “Performative Returns and the Rememory of History: genealogy and performativity in the American racial state,” Dissertation available on Proquest)

On one hand, she addresses the literal politics that the theological narratives espouse.
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for reinvention and reconstruction that emerge when faced with profound absence and loss.
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