Tournament: NA | Round: 1 | Opponent: NA | Judge: NA

Kentucky

R1 v Army      -- Vagueness
R4 v Michigan  -- T - Restrictions exclude drone courts
R5 v Dartmouth -- Restrictions PIC
R7 v Houston   -- XO + Debt Ptx

JMU

R1 v Vandy -- Case Turns (ILaw Bad)
R4 v GMU   -- Heg DA, Condo Good
R5 v GWU   -- Case Turns (Detention solves terror)

Vanderbilt

R1 v Wake Forest -- Weak Ontology K
R4 BYE
R5 v Wake Forest -- State Good, Framework

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 5 | Opponent: Dartmouth | Judge:
ASpec. They don’t. Voter for agent counter-plan ground which is the core of education on a legal topic and key to check back unpredictable affs. CX doesn’t solve for pre-round prep.

Tournament: Vanderbilt | Round: 5 | Opponent: Wake Forest PePh | Judge: Kristen Porter

Our interpretation is that the aff should affirm some federal government action to restrict one or more of the topical presidential war powers.

"USFG should" means they should defend topical action

Jon M. ERICSON, Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts – California Polytechnic U., et al., 3 ~The Debater’s Guide, Third Edition, p. 4~

The Proposition of Policy: Urging Future Action
In policy propositions, each topic contains certain key elements, although they have slightly
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compelling reasons for an audience to perform the future action that you propose. 

Modest predictability of the resolution is worth potential substantive tradeoff.

Toni M. MASSARO, Professor of Law, University of Florida, 89 ~August, 1989, "Empathy, Legal Storytelling, and the Rule of Law: New Words, Old Wounds?" Michigan Law Review, 87 Mich. L. Rev. 2099, Lexis~

Yet despite their acknowledgment that some ordering and rules are necessary, empathy proponents tend
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this sort of "formalism" provides actually may encourage human relationships.60 

Limiting the discussion to a predictable topic is a pre-requisite to fairness and effective advocacy

Steinberg and Freeley 8—*David L. Steinberg, a lecturer in Communication Studies at the University of Miami, holds a Master's Degree in Communication from The University of Tennessee and has completed significant post-graduate work in Communication Studies, Education, and Human Resource Development from The Pennsylvania State University and from Florida International University.  Austin J. Freeley is a Boston based attorney who focuses on criminal, personal injury and civil rights law February 13, 2008, Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making, Twelfth Edition, Wadsworth Publishing, pg. 43-45
Debate is a means of settling differences, so there must be a difference of
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particular point of difference, which will be outlined in the following discussion.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 5 | Opponent: Dartmouth | Judge:
All plans must have a qualified solvency advocate defending the specific plan action.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 5 | Opponent: Dartmouth | Judge:
US Armed Forces means all components thereof.

DTIC 13
Defense Technical Information Center (The DTIC is the premier repository for research and engineering information for the United States Department of Defense). “WRITING STYLE GUIDE AND PREFERRED USAGE FOR DoD ISSUANCES.” 26 February 2013.
http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/writing/Writing_Style_Guide.pdf

Armed Forces of the United States… and the Coast Guard. 

In means throughout
Words and Phrases, 1964, p. 546
In the Act of 1861 providing that justices of the peace shall have jurisdiction “in” their respective counties to hear and determine all complaints, the word …such counties. Reynolds v. Larkin, 14, p. 114, 117, 10 Colo. 126.

Allowing aff to spec a subset makes the topic virtually limitless.
Military.com no date
Military.com. “U.S. Armed Forces Overview.” No date. http://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/us-military-overview.html

What is the military? In simple terms, the U.S. Armed
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Australia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Japan just to name a few. 

Our interp draws the distinction between “one armed force” and “armed forces.”
UCMJ no date
Uniform Code of Military Justice. “10 USC § 801 - Article 1. Definitions.” Cornell Legal Information Institute.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/801

(2) The Navy, the Marine Corps, … as one armed force.’’’

We cite the official source for military terms. Prereq to policy discussion.
DTIC 13
Defense Technical Information Center (The DTIC is the premier repository for research and engineering information for the United States Department of Defense). Joint Publication 1-02, Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 8 November 2010 (As Amended Through 16 July 2013). http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/new_pubs/jp1_02.pdf

1. Scope The Joint Publication 1-02, Department of Defense Dictionary of
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   (CJCSI) 5705.01, Standardization of Military and Associated Terminology.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 7 | Opponent: Houston | Judge: Quigley
AF refers to troops, not weapons systems.
Lorber 13 – Eric Lorber, J.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Ph.D Candidate, Duke University Department of Political Science. January 2013, "Executive Warmaking Authority and Offensive Cyber Operations: Can Existing Legislation Successfully Constrain Presidential Power?" University of Pennsylvania Journal of Contsitutional Law, 15 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 961, lexis nexis
As is evident from a textual analysis, n177 an examination of the legislative history
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is highly unlikely - such operations will not trigger the War Powers Resolution.

Tournament: JMU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Vanderbilt BM | Judge: Woodruff
Restrictions are prohibitions, not supervision.
Jean Schiedler-Brown 12, Attorney, Jean Schiedler-Brown and Associates, Appellant Brief of Randall Kinchloe v. States Dept of Health, Washington,  The Court of Appeals of the State of Washington, Division 1, http://www.courts.wa.gov/content/Briefs/A01/68642920Appellant20Randall20Kincheloe27s.pdf

3. The ordinary definition of the term "restrictions" also does not include
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some supervision conditions, but he did not agree to restrict his license.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 5 | Opponent: Dartmouth | Judge:
A. Aff must increase more than one restriction.
it's plural, yo

Tournament: JMU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Vanderbilt BM | Judge: Woodruff
Counter-plan: The United States Congress should establish a court for ex post judicial review of targeted killings.

CP solves the case.
Blum and Heymann 10 (Gabriella, Assistant Professor of Law – Harvard Law School, and Philip, Professor of Law – Harvard Law School, “Law and Policy of Targeted Killing,” Harvard National Security Journal, 1 Harv. Nat'l Sec. J. 145, Lexis)

As we have shown, targeted killings may be justified even without declaring an all
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as well as the human rights guarantees that governments owe their own citizens.

Tournament: JMU | Round: 4 | Opponent: GMU BW | Judge:
Text: The executive branch should reform Guantanamo to bring detention standards and conditions closer in line with acceptable practices.

Closing GTMO causes terrorism.
Jack Goldsmith 9, Henry L. Shattuck Professor at Harvard Law School, 2/4/09, “Long-Term Terrorist Detention and Our National Security Court,” http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2009/2/0920detention20goldsmith/0209_detention_goldsmith.pdf
These three concerns challenge the detention
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authorities that reflect that change makes sense. 

Terror goes nuclear and turns the case.
Vladimir Z. Dvorkin 12 Major General (retired), doctor of technical sciences, professor, and senior fellow at the Center for International Security of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  The Center participates in the working group of the U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism, 9/21/12, "What Can Destroy Strategic Stability: Nuclear Terrorism is a Real Threat," belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/22333/what_can_destroy_strategic_stability.html
Hundreds of scientific papers and reports have been published on
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of these threats and develop a strategy to combat them.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 5 | Opponent: Dartmouth | Judge:
Text: The United States Federal Government will remove all actual and de facto restrictions on introducing womyn into hostilities, including revising fitness requirements in a manner inclusive of womyn and actively recruiting womyn into the harmed forces.
You should reject arbitrary bureaucratic restrictions like the plan. It creates an unaccountable and inefficient government.
Weinberger No Date
Joshua Weinbarger (Electrical Engineering graduate of dual-degree Master's program with interest in speech and language processing, artificial intelligence, and robotics. Experience in speech and language processing, in experimental design and setup, algorithm development and implementation, data acquisition and analysis, statistics). “On Utilitarian Government.” No Date. http://tparis23.tripod.com/government.html

A broader reason for a right to privacy and a corollary to this right is
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, decreasing the greatest happiness.  Thus governments should be limited in scope.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 5 | Opponent: Dartmouth | Judge:
The Executive branch of the United States federal government should restrict the president from excluding women from forces introduced into hostilities and implement this through self-binding mechanisms including, but not limited to independent commissions to review and ensure compliance with the order and transparency measures that gives journalists access to White House decisionmaking.

Including self-binding mechanisms ensures effective constraints and executive credibility
Posner and Vermeule, 6 -~-- *Prof of Law at U Chicago, AND  Prof of Law at Harvard (9/19/2006, Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule, “The Credible Executive,” http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=931501))

IV. Executive Signaling: Law and Mechanisms¶ We suggest that the executive’s credibility
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. Bush discovered when he broke his clear pledge not to raise taxes.

Tournament: JMU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Vanderbilt BM | Judge: Woodruff
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)
The convergence thesis describes one manner in which law might respond to the cross-
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substantive grounds for detention takes place through the lens of habeas corpus litigation.
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
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lead somebody to be subject for an engagement by the United States government.”
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 gathering tension between the United States and China is clear enough. Disturbed by
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nuclear explosions would blot out the sun and bring on a “nuclear winter

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 5 | Opponent: Dartmouth | Judge:
Presidential war power expansion is inevitable – legal restrictions are temporary and unenforceable in the long term
Posner and Vermeule, 10 - *professor of law at the University of Chicago AND professor of law at Harvard (Eric and Adrian, The Executive Unbound, p. 41-45)

Liberal legalists, following Madison, describe Congress as the deliberative institution par
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to restrict the president’s power to seize property in times of crisis.57
Restraints kill crisis response and flexibility
Posner and Vermeule, 7 – *Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School AND professor at Harvard Law School (Eric and Adrian, Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts p. 170)

A requirement of ex post statutory authorization thus seems more plausible than the ex ante
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abuse is a cost that Congress and voters have been willing to bear.

Speed is key to solve terror and rogue states
Yoo 12 John, professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, “War Powers Belong to the President,” http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/war_powers_belong_to_the_president

This time, President Obama has the Constitution about right. His exercise of war
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time to introduce sweeping, untested changes in the way we make war.

Extinction
Johnson, Forbes contributor and Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, 2013
(Paul, “A Lesson For Rogue States”, 5-8, http://www.forbes.com/sites/currentevents/2013/05/08/a-lesson-for-rogue-states/)
Although we live in a violent world, where an internal conflict such as the
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an eventual and monumental disaster that could be the end of us all.

Tournament: Vanderbilt | Round: 1 | Opponent: Wake Forest CrHa | Judge: Edmund Zagorin

Will pass

Greg Sargent 10-30 (Washington Post). "Immigration reform is definitely undead." October 30 2013. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/10/30/immigration-reform-is-definitely-undead/

We now have three House Republicans who have signed on to the House Dem comprehensive
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possibly get us to conference. Yes, immigration reform remains decidedly undead. 

The plan drains political capital and derails CIR

Shane, Ohio State law school chair 2011
(Peter, "ARTICLE: The Obama Administration and the Prospects for a Democratic Presidency in a Post-9/11 World", 56 N.Y.L. Sch. L. Rev. 27, lexis, ldg)
The second is politics. With the country still grappling with the effects of a
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that Republicans seemed happier to live with under George W. Bush. n109

CIR key to the economy.

India Times 4-27 
India Times. "US immigration bill: How will it help IT professionals." 27 April 2013. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/outsourcing/US-immigration-bill-How-will-it-help-IT-professionals/articleshow/19752728.cms
WASHINGTON: Key authors of the comprehensive US immigration reform bill reached out to the
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, it’s obviously important for our economy," the top Republican Senator said. 

The impact is global nuclear war

Freidberg and Schonfeld, 8 —- *Professor of Politics and IR at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School, AND senior editor of Commentary and a visiting scholar at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton (10/21/2008, Aaron and Gabriel, "The Dangers of a Diminished America", Wall Street Journal, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122455074012352571.html?mod=googlenews_wsj)

With the global financial system in serious trouble, is America’s geostrategic dominance likely to
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disastrous effects of disengagement and the stiff price tag of continued American leadership.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 5 | Opponent: Dartmouth | Judge:
Boehner will cave now on Debt Ceiling
Peter Grier 10/4/13
(Grier has reported from Washington since 1979. Prior to his present position, he was the Monitor's chief diplomatic writer. He has also served as Pentagon correspondent, and general assignment writer, handling such topics as the environment, campaign finance, regulatory agencies, and government intelligence. His journalism career began in 1977 at the Birmingham (Michigan) Eccentric. He was educated at Principia College and has done graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He reported on-scene from the Soviet Union during the Cold War and Iraq during the first Gulf War. He is co-winner of the Society of Professional Journalists National Reporting Award and was twice a finalist for the Livingston Award. )
(http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/Decoder-Wire/2013/1004/Has-John-Boehner-surrendered-on-debt-ceiling)

There are numerous press reports Friday that Speaker John Boehner has told some Republican House
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eliminate Obamacare, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Internal Revenue Service.

Blocking presidential initiatives emboldens republicans; Boehner won’t cave
Tradearabia 9/6/13
(http://www.tradearabia.com/news/REAL_242351.html)

It seems that everyone in Washington is talking about it except President Barack Obama:
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the determining factor . ... Obviously, I want the president to succeed."

Failure to pass debt ceiling will destroy the U.S. and global economy
Davidson, 9/10 (Adam - co-founder of NPR’s “Planet Money” 9/10/2013, “Our Debt to Society,” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/magazine/our-debt-to-society.html?pagewanted=alland_r=0))

This is the definition of a deficit, and it illustrates why the government needs
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free asset more risky, the entire global economy becomes riskier and costlier. 

Extinction
Freidberg and Schonfeld, 8 -~-- *Professor of Politics and IR at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School, AND senior editor of Commentary and a visiting scholar at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton (10/21/2008, Aaron and Gabriel, “The Dangers of a Diminished America”, Wall Street Journal, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122455074012352571.html?mod=googlenews_wsj)

With the global financial system in serious trouble, is America's geostrategic dominance likely to
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disastrous effects of disengagement and the stiff price tag of continued American leadership.

Tournament: JMU | Round: 4 | Opponent: GMU BW | Judge:
Courts are declining to rule on the military now
Bazzle, J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, ‘12
Timothy, “SHUTTING THE COURTHOUSE DOORS:¶ INVOKING THE STATE SECRETS PRIVILEGE TO THWART¶ JUDICIAL REVIEW IN THE AGE OF TERROR”, Civil Rights Law Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1, 2012,

The war on terror has led to an increased use of the state secrets¶
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allege a credible claim of government wrongdoing retain¶ their due process rights.
Habeas rulings open the door to thousands of habeas claims, killing readiness.
Jacob, 12
(Greg Jacob, partner at O’Melveny and Myers in Washington, October 1, 2012, “Detention Policies: What Role for Judicial Review?,” ABA Review, http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/detention_policies_what_role_for_judicial_review/)
More than a decade into the war on terror, no federal court has seriously
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causing substantial disruption to military operations. Maqaleh puts such fears to rest.
JRev kills military readiness
Chensey 9
(Robert M. is a Professor at University of Texas School of Law, NATIONAL SECURITY FACT DEFERENCE, VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW, 17 September 2009, http://www.virginialawreview.org/content/pdfs/95/1361.pdf, pg. 1426-1428)

Advocates of deference at times also emphasize the collateral ¶ consequences that non-deferential
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¶ substitutes for evidence that must be withheld on secrecy ¶ grounds.222
Military readiness is the lynchpin of US hegemony
Donnelly 3
(Thomas, resident fellow at AEI, The Underpinnings of the Bush Doctrine, February 1, http://www.aei.org/article/foreign-and-defense-policy/the-underpinnings-of-the-bush-doctrine/)

The preservation of today's Pax Americana rests upon both actual military strength and the perception
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in part on a logic of preemption that underlies the logic of primacy.
Decline causes extinction
Brzezinski 2012 Zbigniew K. Brzezinski (CSIS counselor and trustee and cochairs the CSIS Advisory Board. He is also the Robert E. Osgood Professor of American Foreign Policy at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, in Washington, D.C. He is cochair of the American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Atlantic Council. He is a former chairman of the American-Ukrainian Advisory Committee. He was a member of the Policy Planning Council of the Department of State from 1966 to 1968; chairman of the Humphrey Foreign Policy Task Force in the 1968 presidential campaign; director of the Trilateral Commission from 1973 to 1976; and principal foreign policy adviser to Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential campaign. From 1977 to 1981, Dr. Brzezinski was national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter. In 1981, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his role in the normalization of U.S.-China relations and for his contributions to the human rights and national security policies of the United States. He was also a member of the President’s Chemical Warfare Commission (1985), the National Security Council–Defense Department Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy (1987–1988), and the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (1987–1989). In 1988, he was cochairman of the Bush National Security Advisory Task Force, and in 2004, he was cochairman of a Council on Foreign Relations task force that issued the report Iran: Time for a New Approach. Dr. Brzezinski received a B.A. and M.A. from McGill University (1949, 1950) and Ph.D. from Harvard University (1953). He was a member of the faculties of Columbia University (1960–1989) and Harvard University (1953–1960). Dr. Brzezinski holds honorary degrees from Georgetown University, Williams College, Fordham University, College of the Holy Cross, Alliance College, the Catholic University of Lublin, Warsaw University, and Vilnius University. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards) February 2012 “After America” http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/03/after_america?page=0,0

For if America falters, the world is unlikely to be dominated by a single
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policy -- or start bracing itself for a dangerous slide into global turmoil.

Tournament: Vanderbilt | Round: 5 | Opponent: Wake Forest PePh | Judge: Kristen Porter

K

Interpassivity

The Affirmative engages in interpassivity, projecting themselves onto those who are not represented in the debate space, but spatially and intelligibly divorced from this academic practice.  This interpassivity is a condition of possibility for further genocide.

Žižek 98. Slavoj Žižek, The Interpassive Subject, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris: Traverses, 198, http://www.egs.edu/faculty/slavoj-zizek/articles/the-interpassive-subject/

Is the Western liberal academic’s obsession with the suffering in Bosnia not the outstanding recent
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their Yugo-nostalgic attitude was dismissed as a proto-Fascist nationalist.

Intersubjectivity make us avatars without control of our humyn faculties

jagodzinski 7. jan jagodzinski ~University of Alberta~, Videogame Cybersubjects: Questioning the Myths of Violence and Identification (Implications for Educational Technologies ), 53.1 The Alberta Journal of Educational Research (Spring 2007), 52

There is something quite sinister in all this participatory action that has consequences for educational
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supplement to enhance the body’s involvement through the various tonal vibrations of sound.

The impact is mass murder

jagodzinski 7. jan jagodzinski ~University of Alberta~, Videogame Cybersubjects: Questioning the Myths of Violence and Identification (Implications for Educational Technologies ), 53.1 The Alberta Journal of Educational Research (Spring 2007), 57-58

No doubt the most spectacular account of violent videogames has been their implication in school
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Psychotic serial killers are another matter, which we need not discuss here.

The alternative is a withdrawal from the aggressive passivity of the Affirmative

Žižek  5. Slavoj Žižek ~Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic~, The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom, Lacan.com, 2005, http://www.egs.edu/faculty/slavoj-zizek/articles/the-obscenity-of-human-rights-violence-as-symptom/

There is, however, another way in which Balibar’s plea for renouncing violence can
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, for an act that will effectively change the coordinates of the constellation.

Tournament: Vanderbilt | Round: 1 | Opponent: Wake Forest CrHa | Judge: Edmund Zagorin

The affirmative images of annihilation create a pure war mentality, creating the underlying conditions for war

Mark Borg, Spring 2003. Graduate of the William Alanson White Institute’s psychoanalytic certification program and continues his candidacy in their organizational dynamics program. "Psychoanalytic Pure War: Interactions with the Post-Apocalyptic Unconscious," Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society 8.1, Project Muse.

Virilio and Lotringer gave the name "pure war" to the psychological condition that
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Avenue in a bus after her session with me, exemplifies this task. 

The impact is limitless macro-political violence

Burke 7 – Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations in the University of New South Wales (Anthony, Theory 26 Event, Volume 10, Issue 2, 2007, "Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence and Reason," Project MUSE)

This essay develops a theory about the causes of war — and thus aims to
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to end the global rule of insecurity and violence? Will our thought?

The alternative is to reject the aff. Only resistance to security logic can generate genuine political thought

Neocleous 8 – Mark Neocleous, Prof. of Government @ Brunel, 2008 ~Critique of Security, 185-6~
The only way out of such a dilemma, to escape the fetish, is
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it requires us to be brave enough to return the gift."’

Tournament: Vanderbilt | Round: 1 | Opponent: Wake Forest CrHa | Judge: Edmund Zagorin

Their Portrayal Of The World And Call For Political Action Rests On Unchallenged Strong Ontologies, Forgetting The Indeterminacy That Is The Hallmark Of Modern Politics

White, 2000:
(Sustaining Affirmation: The Strengths Of Weak Ontology In Political Theory. Stephen K. White, Professor Of Politics At The University Of Virginia. 2000)

Strong are those ontologies that claim to show us "the way the world is
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Weak ontology finds the costs of such strategies to outweigh the claimed benefits.

The impact of their strong ontology is unending violence to the other

Gaonkar 26 Topper 05. Dilip Gaonkar ~Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern  University~ 26 Keith Topper ~Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Political Science at Northwestern University~, Afterword: Notes on the Bearable Lightness of Being, The Hedgehog Review, Summer 2005, 100

4 White does not conceal the fact that the idea of "finitude" has
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for, all cultures and identities that do not correspond with our own. 

The alternative is to reject the strong ontological framework of the affirmative.  Instead we favor a weak ontology that recognizes our contingency and seeks to restore our agency as ethico-political actors in a complex world.  Absent our weak ontological framework, the Affirmative leads to nothing but violence.

Howe 06. Louis E. Howe ~University of West Georgia~, Enchantment, Weak ontologies, and Administrative Ethics, 38.4 Administration 26 Society, September 2006, 427-428

In this section, I will further explicate the notion of weak ontology. Although
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the term ontology itself with the term ontopolitcal interpretation (p. 1).

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 5 | Opponent: Dartmouth | Judge:
Their use of the term womyn with an E reinscribes gendered hierarchies.
Gibbon 1999 (Margaret, Professor at the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University, “Feminist Perspectives on Language, Pg. 39-40, LV)
During the 1970s and early 1980s, feminists began voluntarily to alter language to reflect
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diminutive, etc.) to a core term viewed as unmarked or neutral. 

This is a gateway issue. You have a duty to reject gendered language. If they win their discourse is acceptable, then you can evaluate the rest of the case.
Goueffic 96 (Goueffic, Louise. Author, BA graduate studies in France. Breaking the patriarchal code. Pg. 13-14 : 1996. MR.)
Couched within words are presuppositions about gender, that is many taken-for-
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difficult or impractical, or that it interferes with our freedom of speech.