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CIR Politics DA
Tournament: Vanderbilt | Round: 1 | Opponent: Florida State McMillan-Dunn | Judge: Grace Will Pass-Republicans continue to sign on to reform Leopold 10/30 Leopold is an immigration Attorney/Immigration Reform Advocate, past president and past general counsel, American Immigration Lawyers Association, 10/30 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-leopold/post_5953_b_4175294.html) hm Over the weekend AND country that they are serious about fixing the immigration problem
Plan costs PC—only momentum for immigration, Cyber Terrorism Policies Cause huge Fight Rushe 12 “Ron Paul says Cispa cyberterrorism bill would create 'Big Brother' culture” – TheGuardianNews – April 23rd 2012 by Dominic Rushe - http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/apr/23/ron-paul-cispa-cyberterrorism-billVED presidential candidate Ron Paul has slammed AND groups that have been campaigning against the bill.
Immigration reform is key to innovation and entrepreneurs – largest internal link to the economy Shapiro, Consumer Electronics Association President, 3-27, 2013, (Gary, "Tech Executives: Immigration Reform a Top Priority", Forbes) www.forbes.com/sites/garyshapiro/2013/03/27/tech-executives-immigration-reform-a-top-priority/ 3-27-13 Entrepreneurship is a key component AND our restrictive visa laws send them home
? Leads to great power wars-----diversionary theory and miscalculation Royal 10 Jedediah Royal, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, 2010, “Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises,” in Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213-215 economic decline may increase the likelihood AND and conditions created by economic crises.
12/24/13
Capitalism K
Tournament: Vanderbilt | Round: 4 | Opponent: West Georgia Kelly-Villanueva | Judge: Malsin Civic benefits, educational opportunities, and citizenship are used to sustain sovereignty and capital control. Maira, Associate professor of Asian American studies at UC Davis, 8 Sunaina Maira, , “Flexible Citizenship/Flexible Empire: South Asian Muslim Youth in Post-9/11 America” American Quarterly, Volume 60, Number 3, September 2008, Project Muse state sovereignty allows it to use the logic AND as economic and civic benefits, including the right to vote.
Merely being reactive to US policy lets the war-mongers set the agenda and ingrains capitalism — our strategy must directly fight the state and capitalism, not merely get the government to change its policy. Herod 1 (James, “A Stake, Not a Mistake: On Not Seeing the Enemy”, October, http://www.jamesherod.info/index.php?sec=paperandid=9andprint=yandPHPSESSID=4387a9147ad42723ea101944dd538914) 'peace now' protesters strike a similar stance. AND Given who the government is, who it serves
We control the impact framing – neoliberalism eviscerates human ethics and creates a market-driven morality in which there is no collective meaning and the market assigns arbitrary meaning to human life, crushing freedom. That’s a D-rule. Hamann 9 (Trent Hamann, assistant prof. of philosophy at St. John’s University, “Neoliberalism, Governmentality, and Ethics,” February 2009, Foucault Studies, No. 6, pp. 37-59)
neoliberalism describes wages as income earned AND responsibility for such a life
capitalist structures (corporations, governments, banks, schools, etc.) are not seized AND Otherwise we are doomed to perpetual slavery and possibly even to extinction.
Resisting this reliance on economic evaluation is the ultimate ethical responsibility – the current social order guarantees social exclusion on a global scale means its try-or-die for the negative Zizek and Daly, 2004 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16)
our ethico-political responsibility is to confront AND social existence are founded on exclusion
12/24/13
Complexity K
Tournament: tournament | Round: 4 | Opponent: Wake Forest Brown-Moir | Judge: Martinez Linear construction ignores the complexity which taints predictions—the aff’s linear policy making fails and makes analysis of presidential war power impossible Ghoshray 9 (Dr. Saby.” “False Consciousness and Presidential War Power: Examining the Shadowy Bends of Constitutional Curvature” He specializes in Supreme Court Jurisprudence, International Law, Comparative Constitutionalism, Capital Jurisprudence, and Cyberspace Law, among others. His work has appeared in Albany Law Review, ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law, European Law Journal ERAForum, Toledo Law Review, Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review, Catholic Law Journal, Georgetown International Law Review, Fordham Law Journal, Santa Clara Law Review, and Loyola Law Journal, among others.http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1095andcontext=lawreview 9-20 kjl)
the question of whether every complex scenario …significant change that society goes through
That makes complexity key to decision making on war powers in policy – that demands a neg vote to reject their scholarship OECD 9 (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The mission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. OECD Publishing is one of the world’s largest publishers of books in the fields of economics and public affairs. Global Science Forum “Applications of Complexity Science for Public Policy “http:www.oecd.org/sti/sci-tech/43891980.pdf kjl) complex systems science …influence rather than control.
Linear policy making creates a false solution preventing the adaptability necessary to respond to global threats Tabara 11 (David. J. Global Systems Dynamics and Policy GSDP is an initiative to develop a research program for the study of global systems, complexity and sustainability in an ongoing dialogue with decision makers. GSDP operates as an open network evolving through workshops, working papers, publications, and open conferences. It aims at consolidating an international community of researchers engaged in dialogues with decision-makers. GSDP operate over a period of three years. GSPD work is broken down into seven work packages that operate in parallel, synchronized by annual conferences and interacting through meetings, documents, and intensive use of ICT. “An emerging research program for Global Systems Science” http://gsdp.eu/fileadmin/images/about/GSDP_1st-year-deliverables.pdfkjl)
The recent financial crisis highlights … comes closest to a definition The alternative is to reject linear thinking in complex adaptive systems in favor of complexity analysis
Reimagining the legal process through complexity is key – it provides a better perspective to respond to the constant changing socio-legal environment Ghoshray 9 (Dr. Saby.” “False Consciousness and Presidential War Power: Examining the Shadowy Bends of Constitutional Curvature” He specializes in Supreme Court Jurisprudence, International Law, Comparative Constitutionalism, Capital Jurisprudence, and Cyberspace Law, among others. His work has appeared in Albany Law Review, ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law, European Law Journal ERAForum, Toledo Law Review, Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review, Catholic Law Journal, Georgetown International Law Review, Fordham Law Journal, Santa Clara Law Review, and Loyola Law Journal, among others.http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1095andcontext=lawreview 9-20 kjl) there is an information barrier … become part of the changing societal structure
2/26/14
Cyber War Advantage Case Arguments
Tournament: Vanderbilt | Round: 6 | Opponent: West Georgia Samuda-Hyman | Judge: Shane No cyber war with China—interdependence checks Austin and Gady 2012 (Greg, professorial fellow at the EastWest Institute and senior visiting fellow in the department of War Studies at King’s College London, and Franz-Stefan, associate and foreign policy analyst at the EastWest Institute, "Cyber Detente Between the united States and China: Shaping the Agenda", http://www.ewi.info/system/files/detente.pdf)
two countries’ economies, AND to make conflict less likely. Uncontrollability of cyber-war is a neg warrant --- means countries won’t use them Thomas P.M. Barnett 13, special assistant for strategic futures in the U.S. Defense Department's Office of Force Transformation from 2001 to 2003, is chief analyst for Wikistrat, March/April 2013, “Think Again: The Pentagon,” Foreign Policy, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/03/04/the_pentagon?page=full
As for cyber serving as a AND have grown increasingly infrequent, Zero impact to cyber arms race --- overwhelming consensus of qualified authors goes neg Colin S. Gray 13, Prof. of International Politics and Strategic Studies @ the University of Reading and External Researcher @ the Strategic Studies Institute @ the U.S. Army War College, April, “Making Strategic Sense of Cyber Power: Why the Sky Is Not Falling,” U.S. Army War College Press, http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB1147.pdf THE SKY IS NOT FALLING¶ AND as too close to absurd to merit much concern.
No impact to cyberwar - it's all hype - it's technically impossible and won't escalate Rid 12 (Thomas, PhD, Reader in War Studies @ King's College London, Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations in the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins, "Think Again: Cyberwar," March/April, Foreign Policy, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/02/27/cyberwar?page=0,0,
Time for a reality check: Cyberwar is
AND it's time for everyone to take a deep breath.
At worst the impact will be contained Rid 12 (Thomas, PhD, Reader in War Studies @ King's College London, Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations in the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins, "Think Again: Cyberwar," March/April, Foreign Policy, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/02/27/cyberwar?page=0,0,
"Cyberweapons Can Create Massive Collateral AND collateral damage doesn't hold up.
Secrecy means Congress would be ineffective—no solvency Stephen Dycus—1AC Author—10, Professor, Vermont Law School, 8/11/10, “Congress’s Role in Cyber Warfare,” http://jnslp.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/11_Dycus.pdf The National Security Act of AND , any reporting might be delayed indefinitely.37
Restricted detention leads to increased drone use Chesney 11 (Robert, Charles I. Francis Professor in Law, University of Texas School of Law, “ARTICLE: WHO MAY BE HELD? MILITARY DETENTION THROUGH THE HABEAS LENS”, Boston College Law Review, 52 B.C. L. Rev 769, Lexis) detention itself is not the only system …shadow of this balloon-squeezing phenomenon.
Increased drone use sets a precedent that causes South China Sea conflict Roberts 13 (Kristen, News Editor at National Journal, “When the Whole World Has Drones”, 3/22/13, http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/when-the-whole-world-has-drones-20130321) And that’s a NATO ally seeking the capability to conduct missions that would run afoul of U.S. interests Beijing says it considered a strike … communities have set an adequate evidentiary bar
Extinction Wittner 11 (Lawrence S., Emeritus Professor of History at the State University of New York/Albany, Wittner is the author of eight books, the editor or co-editor of another four, and the author of over 250 published articles and book reviews. From 1984 to 1987, he edited Peace and Change, a journal of peace research., 11/28/2011, "Is a Nuclear War With China Possible?", www.huntingtonnews.net/14446) the U.S. government recently challenged China’s … bring on a “nuclear winter”
2/26/14
Prolif Advantage Case Arguments
Tournament: Vanderbilt | Round: 1 | Opponent: Florida State McMillan-Dunn | Judge: Grace Prolif will be slow Kenneth Waltz, Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, v1 n1, Winter/Spring 2K, http://www.ciaonet.org/olj/gjia/gjia_winspr00f.html, accessed 8/11/02
twenty–five countries are in a position to make AND one or two states per decade gradually develop nuclear weapons.
Obama called for a “world without nuclear weapons.” AND other than to use them for deterrent purposes.
Alt cause- North Korea and Iran Feith and Shulsky 9 (Douglas Feith, former under secretary of defense for policy, and Shulsky, former Defense Department official who dealt with arms control issues; both fellows @ Hudson Institute, 8/3/2009, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204313604574328430978849134.html#mod=rss_opinion_main Mr. Obama here is mixing AND pose to international peace.
12/24/13
Security K
Tournament: Vanderbilt | Round: 6 | Opponent: West Georgia Samuda-Hyman | Judge: Shane The aff doesn’t provide real reform – continued crisis discourse allows a re-expansion of executive authority Scheuerman 12 -- Professor of Political Science and West European Studies at Indiana University (William E., Summer 2012, "Emergencies, Executive Power, and the Uncertain Future of US Presidential Democracy," Law and Social Inquiry 37(3), EBSCO)
the US model increasingly seems to overlap AND easy constitutional or political-institutional fix.
US hegemony maps the world as a source of danger and insecurity. These representations function performatively – they produce the world that they claim to describe. Campbell et al. 7 David, Professor of Cultural and Political Geography at Durham University, Luiza Bialasiewicz, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway University of London, Stuart Elden, Professor in the Department of Geography at Durham University, Stephen Graham, Professor of Human Geography in the Department of Geography at Durham University, Alex Jeffrey, Lecturer in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University, Alison J. Williams, Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the International Boundaries Research Unit of the Geography Department at Durham University, Political Geography 26, “Performing security: The imaginative geographies of current US strategy,” p. 409-411
strategic performances a different articulation of America’s AND these strategies, in essence, produce the effect they name.
Economic collapse predictions create self-fulfilling prophecies Mckendrick 12 (Joe, Independent analyst who tracks the impact of information technology on management and markets, author of the SOA Manifesto, written for Forbes, ZDNet and Database Trends and Applications, 9/18/12, “Are economic downturns self-fulfilling prophecies,” http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/business-brains/are-economic-downturns-self-fulfilling-prophecies/26329)
markets are psychology, and an atmosphere of AND self-fulfilling prophecy, actually translating into job losses.
Reject their Chinese threat doctrine – relies on a false epistemology that ignores history and justifies US aggression Chen 12 -- Senior Professor, Law School, Xiamen University, People’s Republic of China; Chairman, Chinese Society of International Economic Law, 1993–2011; International Arbitrator, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) under the Washington Convention, since 1993 (An, 2012, "On the Source, Essence of “Yellow Peril” Doctrine and Its Latest Hegemony “Variant” – the “China Threat” Doctrine: From the Perspective of Historical Mainstream of Sino-Foreign Economic Interactions and Their Inherent Jurisprudential Principles," http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/docserver/22119000/13/1/22119000_013_01_S01_text.pdf?expires=1359819574andid=idandaccname=guestandchecksum=F52EBADF2C41BB3C4ABD9774E2A182EA) “China Threat Doctrine” by certain Americans is AND prepared for invasive activities and aggressions against China.
Enframing of security makes macro-political violence inevitable Burke 7 – Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations in the University of New South Wales (Anthony, Theory and Event, Volume 10, Issue 2, 2007, “Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence and Reason,” Project MUSE)
'existential' and 'rationalist' discourses of war-making AND This would seem to hinge upon 'questioning'
Reject the affirmative’s security discourse – this untimely intervention is the only chance for a counter-discourse Calkivik 10 – PhD in Poli Sci @ Univ Minnesota (Emine Asli, 10/2010, "DISMANTLING SECURITY," PhD dissertation submitted to Univ Minnesota for Raymond Duvall, http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/99479/1/Calkivik_umn_0130E_11576.pdf)
the suggestion to dismantle security was itself deemed AND taking apart the architecture of security.
12/24/13
T Restriction Prohibition
Tournament: Vanderbilt | Round: 6 | Opponent: West Georgia Samuda-Hyman | Judge: Shane Interpretation – Statutory restrictions must directly prohibit activities currently under the president’s war powers authority – this excludes regulation or oversight
Tournament: tournament | Round: 4 | Opponent: Wake Forest Brown-Moir | Judge: Martinez TPA will pass but it will be tough Reuters, 2-12 (“Second top Democrat opposes U.S. fast-track trade bill.” February 12, 2014. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/13/us-trade-pelosi-idUSBREA1B2E520140213 Accessed: 2/16/14 RJS) negotiations started on both … all three eventually passed Congress in 2011
The White House is making a major push…“The White House carries the weight on this,” one senior House aide said.
Obama pledged to continue targeted killing – plan would be a flip flop Cole, 2013 (Juan. Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. “Obama: US will Continue its Targeted Killing with Drones (Woods).” May 24, 2013. http://www.juancole.com/2013/05/continue-targeted-killing.html Accessed: 8/11/13)
Barack Obama has made it clear … civilian deaths were sometimes a necessary risk.
Free trade prevents multiple scenarios for world war and WMD Terrorism Panzner 2008 Michael, faculty at the New York Institute of Finance, 25-year veteran of the global stock, bond, and currency markets who has worked in New York and London for HSBC, Soros Funds, ABN Amro, Dresdner Bank, and JPMorgan Chase “Financial Armageddon: Protect Your Future from Economic Collapse,” pg. 136-138 protectionist legislation …a new world war.
2/26/14
Terror DA
Tournament: tournament | Round: 4 | Opponent: Wake Forest Brown-Moir | Judge: Martinez Obama’s recent actions have strengthened Al Queda , Al-Queda is emerging now as one of the most powerful players PAUL MIRENGOFF. Jan 5, 2014 (“SURPRISE: U.S. WEAKNESS STRENGTHENS AL QAEDA”. Power Line. Mirengoff graduated from Dartmouth College in 1971, and from Stanford Law School in 1974. He formerly practiced law in Washington D.C. as a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/01/surpise-u-s-weakens-strengthens-al-qaeda.php Accessed: 1/17/2014 smc)
Under President Obama, the U.S. has … abject retreat enables them to run rampant.
Terrorism results in extinction Ayson 2010 (Robert Ayson, Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington,“After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Volume 33, Issue 7, July,) some sort of terrorist attack,… This might not help the chances of nuclear restraint.
Obama has reaffirmed the primacy of the executive AND as a political move, not a legal one.
Statutory restrictions on Presidential War Powers makes warfighting impossible John Yoo 8/30/13, Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law @ UC-Berkeley Law, visiting scholar @ the American Enterprise Institute, former Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Law @ the University of Trento, served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Council at the U.S. Department of Justice between 2001 and 2003, received his J.D. from Yale and his undergraduate degree from Harvard, “Like it or not, Constitution allows Obama to strike Syria without Congressional approval,” Fox News, http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/08/30/constitution-allows-obama-to-strike-syria-without-congressional-approval/we do not endorse the ableist language used in this card, but have left it in to preserve the author’s intent. we apologize for the author’s inappropriate use of the word “paralyze”
Presidents should conduct war, he wrote, because they AND to introduce sweeping, untested changes in the way we make war.
Encroaches upon presidential power Newton 2012 Michael A. Newton, 2012, Professor of the Practice of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School, Inadvertent Implications of the War Powers Resolution, CASE WESTERN RESERVE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW•VOL. 45•2012, http://law.case.edu/journals/JIL/Documents/45CaseWResJIntlL1and2.pdf, uwyoamp
The history of heated political and legal AND The War Powers Resolution fails in the first
Strong executive key to solve climate change-lack of congressional action prevents solvency in the squo and executive negotiating power key to check environmental and economic collapse Wold 2012 Chris Wold, Professor of Law and Director, International Environmental Law Project (IELP), 2012, Lewis and Clark Law School, 2012, CASE WESTERN RESERVE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW•VOL. 45•2012, uwyoamp
Obama wrote, “As the world’s largest AND that will be needed to deliver sufficient climate change
Studies show warming is human caused and will cause extinction Ahmed 2010 (Nafeez Ahmed, Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development, professor of International Relations and globalization at Brunel University and the University of Sussex, Spring/Summer 2010, “Globalizing Insecurity: The Convergence of Interdependent Ecological, Energy, and Economic Crises,” Spotlight on Security, Volume 5, Issue 2, online) the most notorious indicator AND a situation endangering the survival of all life on earth.xi
12/24/13
XO CP
Tournament: Vanderbilt | Round: 1 | Opponent: Florida State McMillan-Dunn | Judge: Grace Text: The President will issue an executive order requiring a substantially increase in restrictions on offensive cyber operations by developing policy and oversight for their implementation and use that includes increased transparency and confidence-building measures as well as restrictions on the use of automated response systems and the performance of inherently governmental activities by privately contracted individuals or firms in related operations.
Executive orders are fast and build political capital Krause and Cohen 97 George + David, Professors of Political Science @ South Carolina, “Presidential Use of Executive Orders” American Politics Quarterly, Vol 25 No 4, October 1997, Sage Journals Online Executive orders are another weapon AND more favorable to the White House
Solves the Aff – Executive orders create are better suited for addressing cyber operations Brecher 12 “Cyberattacks and the Covert Action Statute: Toward a Domestic Legal Framework for Offensive Cyberoperations” by Aaron P. Brecher (J.D. Candidate, May 2013, University of Michigan Law School), December 2012 – Michigan Law Review NNF the federal government should adopt the AND it would facilitate cooperation among executive agencies.
