Tournament: Any | Round: 1 | Opponent: All | Judge: Whoever
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Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Berkeley MS | Judge: Joe Koehle
The plan’s deployment of legal reform does not limit sovereign power, but rather reinforces the power of exception which legitimizes abuses in the first place
Kohn 6 Margaret, assistant professor of political science at the University of Florida-Gainesville, “Bare Life and the Limits of the Law,” Theory and Event 9.2 (2006): Project Muse  myost
6. At this point it should be clear that Agamben would be deeply skeptical
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the law, in effect, both produces and legitimizes marginality and exclusion.

The construction of security threats are not based in material reality, and instead are a move to sacrifice the Other while enabling a permanent state of emergency
Muller 9 Benjamin J., Associate Professor of Political Science at King’s University College of the University of Western Ontario in Canada, “(Dis)qualified bodies,” Securitizations of Citizenship, ed. Peter Nyers, p. 79-82  myost
Particularly since the events of 11 September 2001 and subsequent ‘wars on terror’,
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, creates the conditions of possibility for introducing biometric technologies into contemporary citizenship.

The AFF’s depoliticization of law is symptomatic of a nihilism that deprives life of all meaning
Mills 4 Catherine, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, “Contingency, Responsibility and the Law: A Response,” borderlands e-journal 3.1 (2004): http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol3no1_2004/mills_contingency.htm  myost
8. It is precisely this recognition that underpins Giorgio Agamben’s critique of the increasing
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that separates the messianic from our time. (Agamben 1999:164)

The alternative is the whatever being. Refusing all forms of political identity is the only way to break law’s hold over life.
Caldwell 4 Anne, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisville, “Bio-Sovereignty and the Emergence of Humanity,” Theory and Event 7.2 (2004): Project Muse  myost
VI. Whatever Being: Life Beyond Sovereignty 48. Can we imagine another form
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calls up and depends upon the life caught within sovereignty: homo sacer.

Tournament: Districts | Round: 1 | Opponent: UTSA MP | Judge: Ashley Denney
The Indian serves as the ontological prior through which the 1AC manifests itself—they naturalize settler hegemony
Byrd 11 Jodi A., Associate Professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism, 2011, p. xxvii-xxviii  myost
There is more than one way to frame the concerns of The Transit of Empire
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States, the Indian is the original enemy combatant who cannot be grieved.

The freedom that the AFF pursues relegates indigenous peoples to a state of social death wherein violence is mandated and agency is impossible
Byrd 11 Jodi A., Associate Professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism, 2011, p. xxiv-xxv  myost
As civil rights, queer rights, and other rights struggles have often cathected liberal
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they are the transit through which the dialectic of subject and object occurs.

The alternative is to forefront indigeneity. A mnemonic reading of the crimes of settler society is necessary to denaturalize the logic of Manifest Destiny.
Byrd 11 Jodi A., Associate Professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism, 2011, p. xii-xiv  myost
This book, then, is a journey of sorts, its method mnemonic as
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and we remember what happened the last time the world was flat.4

The role of your ballot for this round is to vote for the team which best activates a decolonial methodology. Only an indigenous-centric account of imperialism can account for the multiple oppressions of settler democracy.
Byrd 11 Jodi A., Associate Professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism, 2011, p. xxxiv-xxxv  myost
If anything, bringing indigenous and tribal voices to the fore within postcolonial theory may
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work and research questions reflect the best of our governance and diplomatic traditions.

Tournament: Districts | Round: 1 | Opponent: UTSA MP | Judge: Ashley Denney
Borderlands methodology is the death-knell of resistance to colonialism—Anzaldua erases an indigenous political subjectivity
Saldaña-Portillo 1 Josefina, Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU, “Who’s the Indian in Aztlán? Re-Writing Mestizaje, Indianism, and Chicanismo from the Lacandón,” The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader, ed. Ileana Rodriguez, p. 414-415  myost
In this passage Anzaldua’s borderlands promises to unsettle the conventional usage of mestizaje for Chicanos
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made evident in this passage is the rarefication of indigenous peoples as past.

The AFF ultimately reaffirms settler forms of knowledge production and fluid identity that eradicate ongoing Native struggles
Saldaña-Portillo 1 Josefina, Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU, “Who’s the Indian in Aztlán? Re-Writing Mestizaje, Indianism, and Chicanismo from the Lacandón,” The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader, ed. Ileana Rodriguez, p. 415-416  myost
Of course, this is mestizaje with a feminist, queer twist. In a
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erasure of contemporary indigenous subjectivity and practices on both sides of the border.

Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 1 | Opponent: Mary Washington MP | Judge: Matt Munday
Natives are the prisoners that remain after the guards have left – the AFF’s belief that legal remedies can resolve racists detention is misguided.

Mani 9 (Wowitan Yuha (American Name - David Swallow, Jr.) Tetoh Lakota of the Wa Naweg’a Band and lives on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, “The Black Hills Are Everything!”, http://www.russellmeansfreedom.com/tag/prisoner-of-war-camp-344/, Vance)
The Black Hills used to be occupied by the Crow Tribe.  That was way
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holy and sacred. Ho he’cetu yelo, I have spoken these words.

Tournament: All | Round: 1 | Opponent: Anyone | Judge:
The aff’s myopic focus technical solutions to climate change trades off with other environmental concerns—only alt can solve the root cause
Crist 7 Eileen, Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies in the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Virginia Tech, “Beyond the Climate Crisis: A Critique of Climate Change Discourse” Telos 141 Winter 2007  myost
While the dangers of climate change are real, I argue that there are even
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to—will barely address—the ongoing destruction of life on Earth.

The AFF’s cognitive tradeoff makes biodiversity loss inevitable—bigger internal link to environmental collapse
Crist 7 Eileen, Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies in the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Virginia Tech, “Beyond the Climate Crisis: A Critique of Climate Change Discourse” Telos 141 Winter 2007  myost
The diminishment of life’s richness began with the exodus of hunters and gatherers from Africa
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ongoing, and climate-change-independent wounding of life on Earth.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 3 | Opponent: UNLV JS | Judge: Phillip DiPiazza
The aff must provide justification for human existence
WISEMAN 1999 Taking a bite out of and#39;humanityand#39;, On Cannibalism in the Pax Americana, Jetlagged News, ACC 2-23-09, http://www.jetlaggednews.com/number/02-10.31.1999/03.html, 

Idealists may view this attitude with contempt and see it as an abrogation of some
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even compassions of all kinds. But none of these are universally transferable.

VOTE NEGATIVE. IF THERE IS NO INHERENT REASON TO SAFEGUARD HUMAN LIFE THEN THERE IS NO REASON TO DO THE AFF. AND YOU VOTE NEGATIVE ON PRESUMPTION

Tournament: All | Round: 1 | Opponent: Anyone | Judge:
Deterrence allows debates about nuclear weapons to become depoliticized—leaving us overwhelmed by fear
Fishel in 2008 (Stefanie Dept of Political Science @ John Hopkins, "Nuclear Collective Memories, Hidden Histories, and Remembering the Future", Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA Online, kdf)
Historically, nuclear debates in the United States have centered on the “unspeakability”
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the capability to act out total destruction through the power inside the atom.

Tournament: All | Round: 1 | Opponent: Anyone | Judge:
The nuclear war that will never come is a political tool that whitewashes objective violence that occurs in the status quo. We should learn to love the bomb to shatter this ideology.
Chaloupka 1992 (William, Professor emeritus of political science at Colorado State, Knowing Nukes, Pg. 131-138, Vance)

It is true that there have been attempts to conjure the end of the world
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told that nuclear war is unthinkable, that it is impossible to contemplate.
But, Derrida argues, nukes are far from "unspeakable." Derrida's breakthrough¶
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varieties, in which specific sets of facts and objects have been privileged.
Nuclear war not only is not a fact, it can never be a fact
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we know it" —language and discourse—have been¶ undermined.

Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 1 | Opponent: Mary Washington MP | Judge: Matt Munday
We are not the form of Self-D their evidence assumes—indigenous decolonization is not separatism, but rather restorative justice
Grande 7 Sandy, Associate Professor of Education at Connecticut College, “Red Lake Woebegone: Pedagogy, Decolonization, and the Critical Project,” Critical Pedagogy: Where Are We Now?, eds. Peter McLaren and Joe L. Kincheloe, p 331
Within this context, it is important that indigenous sovereignty not be viewed as a
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Indians resolve for themselves a comfortable modern identity" (p. 266).

Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 1 | Opponent: Mary Washington MP | Judge: Matt Munday
The education in round and the weighing of the aff out of round represent the doubling ability of the aff reflects the colonialist nature of active forgetting – the position we occupy is static and any interpretation of debate that is fluid reflects the violent ideology that allows the oppressor to play the oppressed ensuring the continuation of genocide. Also proves perm can’t solve.
Moreton-Robinson 3 Aileen, Faculty of Education at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, “I Still Call Australia Home: Indigenous Belonging and Place in a White Postcolonizing Society,” Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration, eds. Sara Ahmed, Claudia Castaneda, Anne-Marie Fortier, Mimi Sheller, 2003, p 30-31  myost

Against this and other representations of Australia as postcolonial, I argue that it is
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Churchill (1994; 1995) but under-theorized within postcolonial theory.

Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 1 | Opponent: Mary Washington MP | Judge: Matt Munday
The AFF’s equivocation of oppressions is a colonial move designed to absolve one’s self of complicity with settlerism—the logical endpoint of the AFF is redistribution of oppression
Tuck and Yang 12 Eve, SUNY-New Paltz, and K. Wayne, UC-San Diego, “Decolonization is not a metaphor,” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society 1.1 (2012): 1-40, http://decolonization.org/index.php/des/article/view/18630/15554  myost
A more nuanced move to innocence is the homogenizing of various experiences of oppression as
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are cryptic about Indigenous land rights in spaces inhabited by people of color.

Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 1 | Opponent: Mary Washington MP | Judge: Matt Munday
The normative adoption of governing institutions has already failed the Lakota and subjugated ethics to the legal system. Instead of empty legal tactics, we encourage an ethical education.
Deloria 93 (Philip Deloria, Yale University, “Review of Black Hills/White Justice: The Sioux Nation Versus the United States, 1775 to the Present by Edward Lazarus”, Great Plains Research 3:1 (February 1993), pp. 127-128, Vance)
For observers following the Sioux Nation's legal and legislative struggles over Black Hills land claims
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maintained throughout the book and contributing to the cultural distinctions it has revealed.

Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 1 | Opponent: Mary Washington MP | Judge: Matt Munday
Reconciliation is another link – it becomes the mask that is used to justify more racist actions by the state.
Wakeham 2012 (Pauline associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario; Reconciling "Terror": Managing Indigenous Resistance in the Age of Apology; The American Indian Quarterly  Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2012; kdf)
If recent years have witnessed the rise of a worldwide phenomenon of reconciliation and apology
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content and framed as obstacles to national healing and threats to national security.

Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 1 | Opponent: Mary Washington MP | Judge: Matt Munday
Genocidal assaults on indigenous populations set the foundation for serial policy failure in imperialist campaigns abroad—risks extinction
Street 4 Paul, writes on imperialism, racism, and thought control for ZNet, “Those Who Deny the Crimes of the Past,” 11 March 2004, http://www.zcommunications.org/those-who-deny-the-crimes-of-the-past-by-paul-street  myost
It is especially important to appreciate the significance of the vicious, often explicitly genocidal
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roamed by an immeasurably more civilized people than those who came to destroy.

Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 1 | Opponent: Mary Washington MP | Judge: Matt Munday
The AFF’s sympathetic call for deployment of federal power masks an underlying evil intrinsic in colonialist violence. Instead we should be in antagonism with the mass killer that is the US.
Churchill 96 Ward, native prodigy, From a Native Son: Selected Essays in Indigenism, 1985-1995, isbn: 0896085538, pg. 14-16
The Specter of Hannibal Lecter At this juncture, the entire planet is locked,
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us, about who it is with whom we now share our room.

Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 1 | Opponent: Mary Washington MP | Judge: Matt Munday
The alternative is a decolonial pedagogy which situates land return as our first political priority.
Malott 8 Curry, faculty member in Professional and Secondary Education at West Chester University, A Call to Action: An Introduction to Education, Philosophy, and Native North America, p. 88-91  myost
While the similarities between a Marxist and an Indigenous dialectical (relational) study of
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-Columbian North America and the historical development of the two in context.

Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 1 | Opponent: Mary Washington MP | Judge: Matt Munday
Native rights are a pre-req to immigrants
Byrd 11 Jodi A., Associate Professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism, 2011, p 201-203  myost
The introduction of Orientalism into the context of the Americas and the construction of “
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, and sexuality in order to create the common within the global.52

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 5 | Opponent: Kansas BiCa | Judge: Kaitlyn Haynal
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The silence is strategic – the AFF’s discussion of international treaties rests on a crucial omission – the history of the United States is one of continued violations of its treaties with Native American tribes. They fail to consider Native America because doing so would force a confrontation with a colonial history that undermines their ostensibly progressive agenda. America’s very existence is contingent upon a continuing legacy of colonization and genocide.
Churchill 96 Ward, professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1990 to 2007, From a Native Son: Selected Essays in Indigenism, 1985-1995, p 520-525  myost
I’ll debunk some of this nonsense in a moment, but first I want to
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, sexist, classist, homophobic, militaristic order on non-Indians.

This relationship towards Native America is not harmless; colonization endangers any context for an ethical relationship to the planet and places us on the path of collective suicide – expanding the limits of knowledge is necessary for any ethical relationship to the planet.
Friedberg 0 Lilian, bilingual published author and political activist with a master's degree in the humanities from the University of Chicago and a doctoral candidate in Germanic Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, “Dare to Compare: Americanizing the Holocaust,” American Indian Quarterly 24.3 (Summer 2000): 353-380, project muse
Giorgio Agamben has argued against the use of the term Holocaust as a descriptor for
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echoes and rings true for the three million survivors of the American Holocaust.

The alternative is to embrace a decolonial pedagogy as a first priority. In order for liberation to occur, we must start with the decolonizing of our own minds. Our call to return the land jumpstarts resistance—any form of social change is impossible in a world in which we allow for the colonization of Natives to continue.
Churchill 96 Ward, professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1990 to 2007, From a Native Son: Selected Essays in Indigenism, 1985-1995, p 84-89  myost
The question which inevitably arises with regard to indigenous land claims, especially in the
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“impossible realism.” Isn’t it time we all worked on attaining it?

Role of the ballot: this space is an opportunity to deploy Red Pedagogy, a praxis which foregrounds Native intellectualism. Red Pedagogy allows us to create a decolonized space. Vote for the team which best activates indigenous political agency.
Grande 8 Sandy, Associate Professor of Education at Connecticut College, “Red Pedagogy: The Un-Methodology,” Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies, eds. Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln, and Linda Tuhiwai Smith, p 249-250
From the standpoint of Red pedagogy, the primary lesson in all of this is
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soul of America, so too does the more hopeful spirit of indigeneity.

Tournament: All | Round: 1 | Opponent: Anyone | Judge:
The demand for habeas corpus plays into the hands of sovereign power
Neal 9 (Andrew, wrote a book with Michael Dillon, “Exceptionalism and the Politics of Counter-Terrorism:  Liberty, Security and the War on Terror”, Pg. 83-84, Vance)
Agamben takes this radical crisis of rights and extends the analysis in terms of biopolitics
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life at precisely the moment when man’s liberty was meant to be guaranteed.

Tournament: All | Round: 1 | Opponent: Anyone | Judge:
The liberal order saves lives selectively—millions die from AIDs and starvation while mass interventions are justified if American interests are threatened. The result is overwhelming violence without limit
Badiou 04 (Alain, FRAGMENTS OF A PUBLIC DIARY ON THE AMERICAN WAR AGAINST IRAQ Vol. 8, No. 3 Summer 2004, pp. 223-238, kdf)

In fact, the United States is an imperialist power without an empire, a
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of the idea – an empty one, besides  – of American comfort.

Tournament: All | Round: 1 | Opponent: Anyone | Judge:
The call for international law turns the case—invites colonial intervention and violence in the name of combating rights-denying savages
Mutua 1 Makau, Dean of the University at Buffalo Law School, “Savages, Victims, and Saviors: The Metaphor of Human Rights,” Harvard International Law Journal 42.1 (Winter 2001): 201-245  myost
The impulses to conquer, colonize, save, exploit, and civilize non-
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of international politics, and a bone of continuing contention among superpowers.144

Tournament: All | Round: 1 | Opponent: Anyone | Judge:
Their description of South Asian conflict is not neutral but a reflection of historical processes and identity formations—the AFF’s threat construction reproduces an ideology of danger which necessitates violence
Das 10 Runa, University of Minnesota, “State, Identity and Representations of Nuclear (In)Securities in India and Pakistan,” Journal of Asian and African Studies 45.2 (2010): 146-169  myost

Campbell in his work Writing Security (1992) undertakes an analysis of how the
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to shape India’s identity, (in)security, and nuclear policies.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 3 | Opponent: UNLV JS | Judge: Phillip DiPiazza
THE RHETORIC OF NUCLEAR WINTER TREATS HUMANS AS STERILE STATISTICS THAT ONLY COUNT INSOFAR AS THEY ARE ALIVE OR DEAD – WE MUST REJECT NUCLEAR WINTER DISCOURSE
Howard Veregin (Ph.D., UC-Santa Barbara, Assistant Professor of Geography @ Kent State) February 1994
 “The Science of Dystopia: A Retrospective on Nuclear Winter Modeling” Professional Geographer, 46(1) p. 10-18, loghry

Nuclear issues continue to be relevant to the scientific arena as well. Since well
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and individual creativity are subverted to the needs of the mainstream scientific paradigm.
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OUR COUNTER ADVOCACY IS THE ENTIRE AFF MINUS THE NUCLEAR WINTER ARGUMENTS – WE SHOULD JUST ADMIT THAT OUR MOTIVATION FOR CLAIMING NUCLEAR WAR IMPACTS IS THAT NUCLEAR WAR IS THE MOST HORRIBLE THING IMAGINABLE– THE COUNTERPLAN SOLVES THE WHOLE AFF AND AVOIDS DEHUMANIZATION
Howard Veregin (Ph.D., UC-Santa Barbara, Assistant Professor of Geography @ Kent State) February 1994
“The Science of Dystopia: A Retrospective on Nuclear Winter Modeling” Professional Geographer, 46(1) p. 10-18, loghry

As a product of modernist scientific endeavor, nuclear winter modeling is posited on the
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, and its role in purveying specialized knowledge for public and political bodies.

Tournament: All | Round: 1 | Opponent: Anyone | Judge:
A) Their view of China is driven by racist colonial desire not objective knowledge.
Pan 2012 (Chengxin, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Deakin University, Australia, Knowledge, Desire and Power in Global Politics, Western Representations of China’s Rise Pg 15-16, Vance)

Yet objective certainty, however desirable or precisely because it is desirable, is an
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) fears and fantasies accompanying the Western modern desire and self-imagination.

B) This is an independent reason to vote negativve
LIU 2005
(Henry C.K., Pres. Investment Group, Asia Times, Aug 20, “Trade wars can lead to shooting wars,”
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/GH20Dj01.html)

The fear of China by the US dates back to almost two centuries of racial
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trends of socio-economic Darwinism now need to be stopped by war.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Berkeley MS | Judge: Joe Koehle
Text: All detainees held indefinitely by the United States government should be released to a location of their choosing.
CP solves the entirety of the AFF
Chelala and Garro 6 Cesar, international public health consultant, and Alejandro, professor of Comparative Law at Columbia University, “Guantanamo’s Ethical, Medical Challenges,” 29 March 2006, http://old.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=13114  myost
NEW YORK: The United Nations recommendation that the United States should release all detainees
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consistently stated that force feeding of hunger strikers violates standards of medical ethics.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Berkeley MS | Judge: Joe Koehle
Interp- Restriction means ban
City of Northglenn 11 CHAPTER 11 CITY OF NORTHGLENN ZONING ORDINANCE ARTICLE 5 RULES OF CONSTRUCTION – DEFINITIONS http://www.northglenn.org/municode/ch11/content_11-5.html, mmm/uco
Section 11-5-3. Restrictions. As used in this Chapter 11 of the Municipal Code,
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structure or thing shall be authorized by any permit or license.

Violation- Plan on limits power does not ban it.
A. Voter-
Limits- millions of tinkering affs are possible, only total ban provides a clear limit on the topic
Ground- small limits on presidential power make the topic bidirectional and kill the heart of the topic.

T should be evaluated under competing interpretations.

Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 1 | Opponent: Mary Washington MP | Judge: Matt Munday
Judicial restrictions must be targeted at the effects Presidential War Power
Texas Supreme Court 1993 (EX PARTE: REVEREND KEITH TUCCI; EX PARTE: RANDALL TERRY; EX PARTE: PATRICK MAHONEY; EX PARTE: WENDY WRIGHT; EX PARTE: FLIP BENHAM; EX PARTE: JOSEPH SLOVENIC; EX PARTE: BOB JEWITT¶ No. D-2809, No. D-2819, No. D-2820, No. D-2821, No. D-2822, No. D-2823, No. D-2824¶ SUPREME COURT OF TEXAS¶ 859 S.W.2d 1; 1993 Tex. LEXIS 100; 36 Tex. Sup. J. 1154¶ June 30, 1993, Delivered, Lexis, Vance)

Consistent with this jurisprudence and the history of our state constitution, this court announced
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represents the least restrictive means to prevent that harmful effect." Id

Violation – the aff restricts how the War Powers are interpreted, not an effect of the War Powers Authority.
RTP:

Limits – impossible to predict restricting the War Power Authority by the Supreme Court, because Article II of the Constitution outlines the President as Commander-in-Chief

Education – focusing on the effects of the War Powers allows us to explore a wider literature base, than focusing on the war powers alone.
Voter for fairness and education. Evaluate through competing interpretations.

Tournament: All | Round: 1 | Opponent: Anyone | Judge:
The NEG’s appeal to neutrality and universal friendship is a fig leaf to cover more sophisticated modes of exclusion – the attempt to “close the gap” between friend and enemy externalizes violence, turning the aff
Rasch 3 William, Professor of Germanic Studies at Indiana University, “Human Rights as Geopolitics: Carl Schmitt and the Legal Form of American Supremacy,” Cultural Critique 54 (Spring 2003): 120-147  myost
Yes, this passage attests to the antiliberal prejudices of an unregenerate Eurocentric conservative with
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unregenerate barbarian could fail to recognize the irrefutable benefits of the liberal order.
The reproduction of an external, ideological enemy permits absolute annihilation—their politics strips the other of its otherness and guarantees total war—this violence outweighs their turns because drawing lines limits violence to contained agonism
Odysseos 4 Louiza, Department of Politics and International Studies and Faculty of Law and Social Sciences at the University of London, “Carl Schmitt and Martin Heidegger on the Line(s) of Cosmopolitanism and the War on Terror,” Conference on the International Political thought of Carl Schmitt, p. 18-21  myost
The second criticism has to do with the imposition of particular kind of monism:
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war on terror and its relation to the discourse of humanity and cosmopolitanism.

Tournament: All | Round: 1 | Opponent: Anyone | Judge:
Framing warming in terms of extinction fails – cedes power to climate deniers and creates a disincentive to change
Gross and Gilles 12 Mathew Barrett, Director of Internet Communications for Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign and MS from University of Montana, and Mel, Director of Sol Kula Healing, both authors of The Last Myth: What the Rise of Apocalyptic Thinking Tells Us About America, “How Apocalyptic Thinking Prevents Us from Taking Political Action,” 23 Apr 2012, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/04/how-apocalyptic-thinking-prevents-us-from-taking-political-action/255758/  myost
For example, annual climate-related disasters such as droughts, storms, and
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about a future apocalypse, scientists tell us that the trend is accelerating.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 3 | Opponent: UNLV JS | Judge: Phillip DiPiazza
The promise of another, better world is not new, but a continuation of the Socratic delusion which understands this world—the only world we have—as flawed and forever in need of correction. This requires the extirpation and hatred of all those unpredictable and irreducible parts of existence which make life worth living.
Saurette 96 Paul, School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa in Canada, “‘I Mistrust all Systematizers and Avoid Them’: Nietzsche, Arendt and the Crisis of the Will to Order in International Relations Theory,” Millennium: Journal of International Studies 25.1 (1996): 1-28  myost
According to Nietzsche, the philosophical foundation of a society is the set of ideas
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transformation, the Will to Order becomes the fundamental philosophical principle of modernity.
Their predictions and rush to secure the world produces bureaucratic bungling that creates error replication—the solutions we prescribe make the problems worse
Der Derian 5 James, Director of the Global Security Program and Research Professor of International Studies at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, “National Security: An Accident Waiting to Happen,” Harvard International Review 27.3 (Fall 2005): 82-83  myost
It often takes a catastrophe to reveal the illusory beliefs we continue to harbor in
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systems that defy national management; in other words, “planned disasters.”
The AFF’s naïve aversion to death is the ultimate form of nihilism, ensuring a valueless existence—rather than seeking to escape death, we should ask first what makes life worth living
Owen and Ridley 0 David, Head of the Division of Politics and International Relations and Professor of Social and Political Philosophy at the University of Southampton in England, and Aaron, Head of Research in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Southampton, “Dramatis Personae: Nietzsche, Culture, and Human Types,” Why Nietzsche Still? Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics, ed. Alan D. Schrift, p. 149-151  myost
The modern condition offers both a threat and a promise. Nietzsche argues that the
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ridiculous and contemptible—that makes his destruction desirableand#34; (BGE 225).
The alternative is to embrace insecurity.
True peace emerges not from state machinations, but only from within. Rather than the life-denying ressentiment which characterizes security politics, we encourage a politics of life-affirmation.
Nietzsche 1880 Friedrich, philosophizes with a hammer, “Aphorism #284,” The Wanderer and His Shadow, 1880, trans. Helen Zimmern, 1908, http://www.davemckay.co.uk/philosophy/nietzsche/nietzsche.php?name=nietzsche.1878.humanalltoohuman.zimmern.12  myost
The means to real peace.— No government admits any more that it keeps an
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indeed you know, comes from a cloud—and from up high.