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9/18/13
CP - Authority PIC
Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 8 | Opponent: Kansas Khatri-Schile | Judge: Murillo The government has power over us but not authority. 1AC language assumes that authority is objective and neutral, which imbues power with social legitimacy. This mobilizes mass atrocities. Hasnas 95 (John, Assistant Professor of Business Ethics, Georgetown University and Senior Research Fellow, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Wisconsin Law Review, “The Myth of the Rule of Law,” January/February, Wis. L. Rev. 199, Lexis-Nexis Universe) This raises an interesting question. ...social control available to the state.
Rejecting discourse of authority is key to stop its expansion. ARIANA BARER 7 (“THE USUAL SUSPECTS: A FEMINIST CRITIAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT PREVENTION”, MA Thesis, B.A., The University of Alberta, https://circle.ubc.ca/bitstream/handle/2429/44296/ubc_2013_spring_barer_ariana.pdf?sequence=1) In turn, these accepted truths ...promoted by legal and media institutions.
11/20/13
CP - Congress
Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 8 | Opponent: Kansas Khatri-Schile | Judge: Murillo Judicialization of political issues makes structural violence and elite takeover inevitable Chorev (Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brown University) 8 (Nitsan, The Judicial Transformation of the State: The Case of U.S. Trade Policy, 1974–2004. Law and Policy, 31: 31–68) Judicialization also effectively entrenches existing order ...industries, to substantiate these arguments.
This depoliticization kills all possibility of change and locks in a neoliberal order Comaroff and Comaroff (Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies at Harvard University; Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago) 6 (John L. and Jean, Introduction to Law and Disorder in the Postcolony, http://13congresoantropologia.uniandes.edu.co/_-documentos/Comarroff_LawDisorderPoscolony.pdf) It is not just self-...the dialectic of law and disorder.
Congress solves the case and ensures that it’s a political issue Rooney 6 (Heather L. Rooney, Drake Law Review, Spring, 2006, 54 Drake L. Rev. 679) As the leading and most ...cooperation both at home and abroad.
11/20/13
CP - Executive Self-Restraint Ex-O
Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 6 | Opponent: UT Dallas Gonzales-Loehr | Judge: Weiner Exos solve – shape the agenda Mayer ‘1 (Kenneth, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D. Yale University, 1988 (Political Science), M.A., M Phil Yale University, 1987 (Political Science), B.A. University of California, San Diego 1982 (Political Science), “Executive Orders and Presidential Power” (2001), 28-29) This theoretical perspective offered by the ...over which they have no control.
Increasing rights for sex offenders is the Third Rail of politics Citizens for Criminal justice Reform 3/24/12 http://www.ccjrnh.org/node/49 A school superintendent once told me ...on this fear-driven issue.
11/20/13
Case - Cyber Defense - UMKC
Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 2 | Opponent: Baylor Boor-Bacon | Judge: Fitzmier No miscalc or accidents—every crisis ever disproves and neither side would launch Quinlan 9 (Michael, Former Permanent Under-Sec. State – UK Ministry of Defense, “Thinking about Nuclear Weapons: Principles, Problems, Prospects”, p. 63-69)
Even if initial nuclear use did not quickly end the fighting, the supposition of … be mistakenly precipitated in this way belongs to science fiction.
Obtaining nuclear weapons necessitates the ability to control them Waltz 81 (Kenneth, “The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: More May Better,” Adelphi Papers, Number 171,http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/waltz1.htm) If the survival of nuclear weapons requires …more of their warheads accidentally strikes another country.
Accidental launch wouldn’t be a huge deal Slocombe 2009 – JD Harvard Law, Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and Senior advisor for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad (Walter B., “De-Alerting: Diagnoses, Prescriptions, and Side-Effects*”, http://www.ewi.info/system/files/Slocombe.pdf, WEA)
Moreover, in recent years, both the US and Russia, …possibility of the accident being perceived as a deliberate attack. De-targeting, therefore, provides a significant protection against technical error.
Obamaand#39;s nuclear agenda focuses on: securing loose …weapons and material can only be overcome by total nuclear disarmament.
Cyber-terrorism is literally impossible. This isn’t WarGames Green 2 – editor of The Washington Monthly (Joshua, 11/11, The Myth of Cyberterrorism, http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0211.green.html) Thereand#39;s just one problem: There is no such thing as cyberterrorism--no … possibility of a high-tech 9/11 scenario in which planes are used as weapons.
In truth, although catastrophic computer attacks are not …what makes terroristsand#39; activity threatening is their intent.
Countries are boosting cooperation and establishing an international center to solve cyber terrorism IHT, 8 (Associated Press, International Herald Tribune, “Countries worldwide need closer cooperation to curb cyber terrorism threat, officials say,” 5-20-2008, http://www.iht.com/bin/printfriendly.php?id=13040821)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: The worldand#39;s countries must …so the idea of this is to reduce the vulnerabilityand#34; of countries.
The high difficulty means they won’t try Harper, 09 – Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute (Jim, Testimony before the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation Committee on Science and Technology United States House of Representatives “Assessing Cybersecurity Activities at NIST and DHS,” 6/25, http://www.cato.org/testimony/ct-jh-20090625.html)
Take cyberterrorism. With communications networks, …importance of preventing the failure of infrastructure, of course.
their impact is threat construction Conway, 05 – School of International Relations, University of St. Andrews (Maura, “The Media and Cyberterrorism: a Study in The Construction of ‘Reality’” Paper presented at the First International Conference on the Information Revolution and the Changing Face of International Relations and Security
What this paper has sought to show is how the cyberterror threat has been amplified …but also information operations, and the integration of these.
11/20/13
Case - Democracy - UMKC
Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: Semis | Opponent: Northwestern Miles-Vellayappan | Judge: Bricker, Kennedy, Kirk Democracy strong globally, their uniqueness claims are flawed from every angle and there’s no impact anyway. Deudney and Ikenberry 9 (Daniel Deudney, Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University and the author of Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory From the Polis to the Global Village. G. JOHN IKENBERRY is Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University, and the author of After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order After Major Wars, Foreign Affairs Jan/Feb 2009, and#34;The Myth of the Autocratic Revivaland#34;http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/63721/daniel-deudney-and-g-john-ikenberry/the-myth-of-the-autocratic-revival) How compatible are authoritarian political systems ...value of international integration and cooperation.
They defy closure and think that democracy is still contestable – shouldn’t understand democracy as scientifically detached – its methodologically incorrect Bishai and Behnke 7 (Andreas Behnke is a Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading. He is the author of articles in the International Journal of Peace Studies, Millennium and Zeitschrift fu?r Internationale Beziehungen. Linda S. Bishai is Senior Program Officer in the Education Program at the United States Institute of Peace where she focuses on university education in international relations, conflict resolution, human rights and peace studies. She is the author of articles in the Journal of International Relations and Development and Cooperation and Conflict. Before working at the Institute, she was an Assistant Professor at Towson University, where she taught International Relations, International Law, the Use of Force, and Human Rights. “War, violence and the displacement of the political” in The International Political Thought of Carl Schmitt: Terror, liberal war and the crisis of global order, Edited by Louiza Odysseos and Fabio Petito. Routledge 2007. ISBN 0.203.96414.4) Democratic Peace Theory (DPT) ...the liberal ontology of global politics.
11/20/13
Case - Drone Restraint - UMKC
Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 6 | Opponent: UT Dallas Gonzales-Loehr | Judge: Weiner Drones won’t expand beyond Pakistan Anderson 13 – (5/24, Kenneth, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University Member, Task Force on National Security and Law, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University, “The Case for Drones,” Real Clear Politics) The answer is simply that like ..., are a different case altogether.
Not an argument against drones – the tech is there are the US is the best model for its use – Chinese or Russian precedent will be worse. Anderson 13 – (5/24, Kenneth, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University Member, Task Force on National Security and Law, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University, “The Case for Drones,” Real Clear Politics) This critique often leads, however...responsible. Its leaders will be.
No chance of war or aggressive expansion – multiple recent trends make it impossible. Rosecrance and Qingguo 10 – (2010, Jia Qingguo, PhD from Cornell, Professor and Associate Dean of the School of International Studies of Peking University, and Richard Rosecrance, political science professor at Cal and senior fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, former director of the Burkle Center for International Relations at UCLA, Global Asia, 4.4, “Delicately Poised: Are China and the US Heading for Conflict?”, http://www.globalasia.org/l.php?c=e251) Will China and the US Go ...US? The answer is no.
No war over Taiwan – factors have changed since their impact evidence was written. Zhang 11 – (Mar/Apr 2011, Baohui Zhang , Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Asia Pacific Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, and#34;The Security Dilemma in the U.S.-China Military Space Relationship,and#34; jstor) Until May 2008, the Taiwan ...a military conflict was extremely unlikely.
Redefinition means the executive can circumvent the Aff Hemesath 2k (Paul A. Hemesath, J.D./M.S.F.S. Georgetown University Law Center, School of Foreign Service, 2001; B.A. University of California at Los Angeles, 1996, “Whoand#39;s Got the Button? Nuclear War Powers Uncertainty in the Post-Cold War Era,” 88 Geo. L.J. 2473, Georgetown Law Journal, August, 2000) Congressional opposition via the War Powers ...question has thus remained unanswered. n60
11/20/13
Case - Econ Defense - UMKC
Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 2 | Opponent: Baylor Boor-Bacon | Judge: Fitzmier Econ D No impact—last recession proves econ doesn’t determine conflict or instability Barnett 2009 – senior managing director of Enterra Solutions LLC and a contributing editor/online columnist for Esquire magazine, columnist for World Politics Review (8/25, Thomas P.M. “The New Rules: Security Remains Stable Amid Financial Crisis,” World Politics Review, http://www.aprodex.com/the-new-rules~-~-security-remains-stable-amid-financial-crisis-398-bl.aspx, WEA) When the global financial crisis struck roughly a year ago, the blogosphere … fear-mongering to proceed apace. Thatand#39;s what the Internet is for. Growth is not a strong enough predictor of war to matter Blackwill 2009 – former US ambassador to India and US National Security Council Deputy for Iraq, former dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard (Robert D., RAND, “The Geopolitical Consequences of the World Economic Recession—A Caution”, http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/2009/RAND_OP275.pdf, WEA) Did the economic slump lead to strategic … of the historian.” 33 Perhaps the same is occasionally true of pundits. ? The economy is resilient Washington Times 2008 – chief political correspondent for The Washington Times (7/28, Donald Lambro, The Washington Times, and#34;Always darkest before dawnand#34;, lexis, WEA) The doom-and-gloomers are still with us…economyand#39;s long-term prospects.
11/20/13
Case - Heg Defense - UMKC
Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 2 | Opponent: Baylor Boor-Bacon | Judge: Fitzmier Heg Defense No relationship between US capabilities and peace Fettweis 10 – Professor of national security affairs @ U.S. Naval War College. Christopher J. Fettweis, “Threat and Anxiety in US Foreign Policy,” Survival, Volume 52, Issue 2 April 2010 , pages 59 – 82informaworld One potential explanation for the growth of global peace can be dismissed fairly quickly: US actions do not seem to have contributed much. The limited evidence suggests that there is little reason to believe in the stabilising power of the US hegemon, and that there is no relation between the relative level of American activism and international stability. During the 1990s, the United States cut back on its defence spending fairly substantially. By 1998, the United States was spending $100 billion less on defence in real terms than it had in 1990, a 25 reduction.29 To internationalists, defence hawks and other believers in hegemonic stability, this irresponsible and#39;peace dividendand#39; endangered both national and global security. and#39;No serious analyst of American military capabilitiesand#39;, argued neo-conservatives William Kristol and Robert Kagan in 1996, and#39;doubts that the defense budget has been cut much too far to meet Americaand#39;s responsibilities to itself and to world peaceand#39;.30 And yet the verdict from the 1990s is fairly plain: the world grew more peaceful while the United States cut its forces. No state seemed to believe that its security was endangered by a less-capable US military, or at least none took any action that would suggest such a belief. No militaries were enhanced to address power vacuums; no security dilemmas drove insecurity or arms races; no regional balancing occurred once the stabilis-ing presence of the US military was diminished. The rest of the world acted as if the threat of international war was not a pressing concern, despite the reduction in US military capabilities. Most of all, the United States was no less safe. The incidence and magnitude of global conflict declined while the United States cut its military spending under President Bill Clinton, and kept declining as the George W. Bush administration ramped the spending back up. Complex statistical analysis is unnecessary to reach the conclusion that world peace and US military expenditure are unrelated. No impact to the transition – international order accommodates rising powers Ikenberry 08 professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University (John, The Rise of China and the Future of the West Can the Liberal System Survive?, Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb) Some observers believe that the American era is coming to an end, as the Western-oriented world order is replaced by one increasingly dominated by the East. The historian Niall Ferguson has written that the bloody twentieth century witnessed and#34;the descent of the Westand#34; and and#34;a reorientation of the worldand#34; toward the East. Realists go on to note that as China gets more powerful and the United Statesand#39; position erodes, two things are likely to happen: China will try to use its growing influence to reshape the rules and institutions of the international system to better serve its interests, and other states in the system -- especially the declining hegemon -- will start to see China as a growing security threat. The result of these developments, they predict, will be tension, distrust, and conflict, the typical features of a power transition. In this view, the drama of Chinaand#39;s rise will feature an increasingly powerful China and a declining United States locked in an epic battle over the rules and leadership of the international system. And as the worldand#39;s largest country emerges not from within but outside the established post-World War II international order, it is a drama that will end with the grand ascendance of China and the onset of an Asian-centered world order. That course, however, is not inevitable. The rise of China does not have to trigger a wrenching hegemonic transition. The U.S.-Chinese power transition can be ve
11/20/13
Case - Multilateralism - UMKC
Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: Semis | Opponent: Northwestern Miles-Vellayappan | Judge: Bricker, Kennedy, Kirk Multilateral cooperation fails – states priorities are too diverse Patrick, 10 - Senior Fellow and Director of the Program on International Institutions and Global Governance at the Council on Foreign Relations (Stewart, “Irresponsible Stakeholders? The Difficulty of Integrating Rising Powers,” Foreign Affairs, November/December, proquest) Rivalry among the emerging powers may ...the obvious perpetrator, North Korea.
No impact to hegemonic decline Preble 8/3/2010 (Christopher Preble, director of foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, taught history at St. Cloud State University and Temple University, was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy, Ph.D. in history from Temple University. “U.S. Military Power: Preeminence for What Purpose?” 8/3/10) http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/u-s-military-power-preeminence-for-what-purpose/) Most in Washington still embraces the ...the security of their respective regions.
11/20/13
Case - Narratives Bad
Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 4 | Opponent: Whitman College Anderson-Salathe | Judge: Regnier Empathy fails—masks violence under benevolent motives Delgado, Charles Inglis Thomson Professor of Law, University of Colorado, 1996 84 Calif. L. Rev. 61 and#34;My point exactly,and#34; Rodrigo continued. and#34;Empathy is least …. But you will know better. Is that your general idea?and#34; I asked.
Empathy w. women bad
Empathy fails—a politics of reciprocal feeling only works in a just world Delgado, Charles Inglis Thomson Professor of Law, University of Colorado, 1996 84 Calif. L. Rev. 61 and#34;Empathy would work in a just world, one in which …. and sparks real resistance when it tries to do something - as it does every century or so.and#34;
Narratives should not be the starting point for political debate – they cloud decision-making in unproductive confusion Brown, Professor of Organization Studies at University of Bath, 2006 Andrew D., June, “A Narrative Approach to Collective Identities”, Journal of Management Studies, p. 747-748 Not everyone has found these arguments entirely convincing. It has been …self-improvement that may underpin such language work.
11/20/13
Case - Pakistan Drones - UMKC
Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 6 | Opponent: UT Dallas Gonzales-Loehr | Judge: Weiner Drones key to Pakistan stability Nadim 2012 (Hussain Nadim, visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, August 8, 2012, and#34;How Drones Changed the Game in Pakistan,and#34; National Interest, nationalinterest.org/how-drones-changed-the-game-pakistan-7290) Regardless of what the news agencies ...to burn a few American flags.
Doesn’t cause Pakistan instability Byman 13 – (2013, Daniel, Professor in the Security Studies Program at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and a Senior Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, “Why Drones Work,” Foreign Affairs, July/August 2013) A 2012 poll found that 74 ...make the United States more popular.
Collapse won’t escalate Collins and Wohlforth, 4 – *professor of political science at Notre Dame AND professor of government at Dartmouth (Kathleen and William, “Defying ‘Great Game’ Expectations, Strategic Asia 2003-2004, http://www.dartmouth.edu/~govt/docs/15-Central20Asia-press.pdf) While cautious realism must remain the ...and domestic stability in Central Asia.
Pakistan will collapse because of resources Parthemore 2010 – CNAS fellow, director of the National Security Program, grad student at Georgetown’s Security Studies Program (9/16, Christine, Center for a New American Strategy, “CRS: Pakistan’s Resource Issues = Concerning”, http://www.cnas.org/blogs/naturalsecurity/2010/09/crs-pakistan-s-resource-issues-concerning.html, WEA) Environmental stresses, when combined with ...the options available to the government.
Pakistan economy resilient Hussain 6/27/2012 (Maz, focuses on Middle Eastern, South Asian and North American politics and international relations, “Why Pakistan is not a failed state”) The characterization of Pakistan as a ...own interest, despite its shortcomings.
Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 2 | Opponent: Baylor Boor-Bacon | Judge: Fitzmier Jack Beermann, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law, Case Western Reserve University, 1990, 40 Case W. Res. 1053 Professor Redishand#39;s attack on and#34;democracy bashersand#34; is overstated in a way symptomatic of his unwillingness to take sophisticated separation of powers analysis seriously. In place of analysis he offers an apocalyptic vision of unelected judges acting as philosopher kings, repealing legislation such as Title VII or the anti-trust laws. However, the slope is not that slippery. Professor Redish gives no example of anyone who has advocated granting an unlimited veto power over legislation to judges. Political and cultural realities temper judicial activism in much the same way that the President finds it impossible to veto every piece of legislation with which he disagrees. Professor Redish errs here by focusing on logic to the exclusion of reality. Besides, as I noted earlier, interaction between the courts and Congress allows ample opportunity for correction of judicial mistakes and arrogance. Although it is true that under the representational principle Congress ought never be forced to correct the courts except in rare cases of good-faith judicial error, Professor Redish has not demonstrated that an active judicial role in interpreting and applying statutes violates separation of powers.
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 ...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 ...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, and#34;Is a Nuclear War With China Possible?and#34;, www.huntingtonnews.net/14446) The gathering tension between the United ..., and generating chaos and destruction.
11/20/13
DA - Israel
Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 2 | Opponent: Baylor Boor-Bacon | Judge: Fitzmier Israel DA Restricting ability to use force causes Israeli panic Malka 11 Haim Malka is deputy director and senior fellow in the Middle East Program at CSIS and#34;Uncertain Commitment: Israeli Assessments of US Powerand#34; csis.org/files/publication/110613_malka_CapacityResolve_Web.pdf
Ongoing Israeli mistrust of President Obama’s policy …not only ¶ for Israeli decisionmaking but for U.S.
The plan’s perception of non-commitment radicalizes Israeli foreign policy and causes greater self-reliance Malka 11 Haim Malka is deputy director and senior fellow in the Middle East Program at CSIS and#34;Uncertain Commitment: Israeli Assessments of US Powerand#34; csis.org/files/publication/110613_malka_CapacityResolve_Web.pdf
More broadly, U.S. indecision and …for both Israel and the United States.
That ensures miscalc and triggers biological and nuclear war Beres 11 Louis René Beres is a professor of Political Science at Purdue University, an expert on Israeli security matters and the author of 10 major books and several hundred journal articles on international relations and international law. and#34;The unforeseen risks of Palestinian statehoodand#34; 6/9/11www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/the-unforeseen-risks-of-palestinian-statehood-1.382766
In turn, such self-reliance would …with enemy nuclear counterstrikes.
Only trust in US stops Israeli attack on Iran Birnbaum 9/12/13 Ben Birnbaum is a writer living in Israel. The second misconception is that there ...own window of military opportunity closes.
New US rules constrain Israeli OCOs Bob 3/22/13 http://www.jpost.com/Features/Front-Lines/The-cyber-partys-over-307367 Yonah Jeremy Bob is The Jerusalem Postand#39;s legal affairs correspondent. He primarily writes about major Supreme Court decisions, significant criminal trials, constitutional issues and international law matters. Prior to the Post, he worked on hasbara and international security law issues in the IDF Legal Division, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Justice International Law Division. Yonah has been interviewed and provided legal analysis multiple times for both the BBC and Skynews. He is admitted as a lawyer in both the US and Israel and has practiced law for over seven years. Hailing from Baltimore in the US, Yonah graduated with honors from both Columbia University, receiving a BA, and Boston University, receiving a JD, where he focused his studies on international relations and international law. He lives in Modiand#39;in with his wife and two children. If the US and Israel were .../benefit analysis of adversaries’ attacking.
OCO key to reassure Israel on Iran Gross 7/14/13 http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/07/new-cyberwar-victims-american-business Michael Joseph Gross (born 1970) is an American author and journalist. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, where he covers topics including politics, technology, and national security. He has also written extensively for publications such as The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and GQ. Gross is the author of the book Starstruck: When a Fan Gets Close to Fame, published in 2006 by Bloomsbury Publishing. Gross attended Williams College, and later studied at Princeton Theological Seminary. After graduating, he wrote speeches for Massachusetts Governor William Weld.1 When the history of cyber-...the key battles fought so far.
Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 2 | Opponent: Baylor Boor-Bacon | Judge: Fitzmier Pres Powers Brink is now—Obamas consultation on Syria puts presidential powers in question. Jones, 08/31, and#34; Mother Obama Calls for Military Strikes Against Syria -- But Only if Congress Agrees,and#34; http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/obama-syria-strike-congressional-approval With these remarks—the president took no questions—… the fundamental question of who is responsible for waging acts of war within a democracy.
Restrictions undermine presidential power. Turner 12 Robert F. Turner, University of Virginia Law Professor, 2012, and#34;The WPR at 40: Still an Unconstitutional, Unnecessary and Unwise Fraud that Contributed Directly to the 9/11 Attacksand#34; 45 Case W. Res. J. Intand#39;l L. 109, p. 130-1 Congress clearly had the right to refuse to appropriate …by the people through the Constitution. I personally believe this statute to be unconstitutional. Extinction. South China Morning Post 2K (“Position of Weakness” 12-11-00, p. L/N) A weak president with an unclear mandate is …States to use its power deftly and decisively.
11/20/13
DA - Terrorism
Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 6 | Opponent: UT Dallas Gonzales-Loehr | Judge: Weiner Signature strikes are key – take out the support structure for diffuse terror networks – operation tempo makes recovery impossible – their evidence is biased by a false hierarchical organizational model. Mudd 13 – (5/24, Philip, former senior official at the CIA and the FBI, now director of global risk at SouthernSun Asset Management, “Fear Factor,” Foreign Policy) The impact of armed drones during ...faster than the groups can recover.
Terrorist attack leads to global nuclear war with Russia and China Ayson 10 (Robert, Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand @ The Victoria University of Wellington, July 2010, “After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Vol. 33 Issue 7) But these two nuclear worlds—...itself unable or unwilling to provide.
11/20/13
DA Politics - CR
Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 6 | Opponent: UT Dallas Gonzales-Loehr | Judge: Weiner CR DA Continuing resolution will pass now -~-- Capital is key, top of the docket Reuters 9-11 (and#34;Delay in Syria vote frees Obama to shift to hefty domestic agendaand#34 Putting off a decision on military strikes on Syria allows …. from the one he faced a few weeks ago,and#34; Bennett said.
Plan unpopular – threats create sustained, universal public support for drones Merolla et al 5/28/13 (Jennifer, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Policy, Claremont Graduate University, co-authored by Kerstin Fisk, Jennifer Merolla, Jennifer Ramos, and Elizabeth Zechmeister, “Terrorism threat elevates public support for drones,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-merolla-phd/public-opinion-drones_b_3340280.html)
Our own research on this topic …. do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
readiness – causes extinction Robert Kagan, Senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund, August and September 2007 (End of Dreams, Return of History, Policy Review, http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/8552512.htm) The jostling for status and influence ...from its positions of regional dominance.
It'll pass -~-- negotiations have momentum Lewis 9-14 (Charles,- writer for the Connecticut Post "Congressional delegation cites 'fringe' for potential shutdown") WASHINGTON -- Members of Connecticut's all...lessons to be learned from that."
Budget will pass -~-- but it's close AFP 9-12 ("Congress bickers as US government shutdown looms") The debate over how to fund ...the group's chairman Steve Scalise said.
Current fights won't derail it Brooks 9-14 (David,- Politics writer for the NYT, reporter and later op-ed editor for The Wall Street Journal;3 a senior editor at The Weekly Standard from its inception; a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthly; and as a commentator on National Public Radio. He is now a columnist for The New York Times and commentator on PBS NewsHour http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/09/14/david_brooks_warns_about_the_rise_of_ted_cruz-ism.html) JUDY WOODRUFF: All right, ...John Boehner's life even more difficult.
Tea Party can't sink a deal -~-- moderates are key Bernstein 9-10 (Jonathan,- politicial scientist who contributes to The Plum Line and PostPartisan. He also writes columns for Salon and The American Prospect and posts at his own blog http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/09/10/dont-be-fooled-on-budget-negotiations) Don't be fooled on budget negotiations ...the Republican position through the House.
Laundry list of impacts including the economy NSN and#39;11 (4-7 The National Security Network (NSN) was founded in June 2006 to revitalize America’s national security policy, bringing cohesion and strategic focus to the progressive national security community and#34;The Consequences of a Shutdownand#34; http://archives.nsnetwork.org/node/1959) There will be real national security consequences … over the story.and#34; The Cable, 4/5/11. Sebastian Mallaby, 4/6/11. Nicholas Kristof, 4/6/11. Robert Gates via NY Times, 4/6/11
11/20/13
DA Politics - Drones Links
Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 6 | Opponent: UT Dallas Gonzales-Loehr | Judge: Weiner Regardless of the drone issue restraining Obama saps capital Kurtzer et al, 11 (Daniel, US Ambassador, Princeton Policy Workshop The 2010 Princeton Policy Workshop is composed of twelve graduate students at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Department of History. Working under the direction of Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer, former U.S. ambassador to Egypt and Israel, the group examined the history and challenges of four case studies in the Middle East and then traveled to the region to gather relevant and diverse perspectives regarding U.S. foreign policy. The group developed recommendations to guide the Obama administration’s future decision making toward Syria and Hamas. In December 2010, the group presented its recommendations to the U.S. State Department’s Under Secretary for Political Affairs William J. Burns. Over the course of this process, the group consulted over 70 current and former officials, diplomats, scholars, and civil society leaders in Syria, Israel, the West Bank and the United States, as well as representatives from the United Nations, the European Union, and other international stakeholders. This policy workshop report represents the conclusion of the 2010 Policy Workshop. Recommendations were reached by consensus among the participating students, January, http://wws.princeton.edu/research/pwreports_fy10/WWS591d.pdf) In his first address to ....S. House of Representatives.
Obama will defend current drone policy Merolla et al 5/28/13 (Jennifer, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Policy, Claremont Graduate University, co-authored by Kerstin Fisk, Jennifer Merolla, Jennifer Ramos, and Elizabeth Zechmeister, “Terrorism threat elevates public support for drones,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-merolla-phd/public-opinion-drones_b_3340280.html) This past week the Obama ...result of some of these strikes.
A loss now tanks budget deal - unites the GOP and causes them to overplay their hand VOA News 9-13 ("Obama’s Syria Quandary") Seizing on ...looking ahead to the next election.
Obama inevitably gets draw in Elahe Izadi, National Journal, 8/29/12, Former Sen. Trent Lott, Ex-Rep. Jim Davis Bemoan Partisanship on Energy Issues, www.nationaljournal.com/2012-election/former-members-bemoan-partisanship-on-energy-issues-20120829 In a climate where everything ...there.… The middle is gone.”
And they’re key to Obama’s political capital Military Times 2k9 (“The politically savvy Defense Secretary Robert Gates” pg online @ lexisnexisau) The Obama White House used substantial ...for the uncertainties of unconventional warfare.
As the Obama administration launched … a difficult battle for approval of military strikes. Plan disrupts inertia and saps capital Kurtzer et al, 11 (Daniel, US Ambassador, Princeton Policy Workshop The 2010 Princeton Policy Workshop is composed of twelve graduate students at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Department of History. Working under the direction of Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer, former U.S. ambassador to Egypt and Israel, the group examined the history and challenges of four case studies in the Middle East and then traveled to the region to gather relevant and diverse perspectives regarding U.S. foreign policy. The group developed recommendations to guide the Obama administration’s future decision making toward Syria and Hamas. In December 2010, the group presented its recommendations to the U.S. State Department’s Under Secretary for Political Affairs William J. Burns. Over the course of this process, the group consulted over 70 current and former officials, diplomats, scholars, and civil society leaders in Syria, Israel, the West Bank and the United States, as well as representatives from the United Nations, the European Union, and other international stakeholders. This policy workshop report represents the conclusion of the 2010 Policy Workshop. Recommendations were reached by consensus among the participating students, January, http://wws.princeton.edu/research/pwreports_fy10/WWS591d.pdf)
But despite likely support from Pelosi and some other influential …and other have asked.” Strikes solve regional war and terrorism. HADLEY 9-10 (Stephen J. Hadley was national security adviser in the George W. Bush administration, Column: A Military Strike Against Syria Is Crucial to Deterring Iran, Valley News, http://www.vnews.com/home/8432360-95/column) Enforcing the red line against chemical weapons use is not the …the Syrian regime’s military advantage. .
11/20/13
K - Abolition Indefinite Detention
Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 8 | Opponent: Kansas Khatri-Schile | Judge: Murillo Abolition K Their attempt to change the conditions of detained bodies creates silence around the American carceral regime and obscures it as the heart of America itself Whitmer 6 (BENJAMIN WHITMER University of Colorado, Boulder, and#34;Torture Chambers and Rape Roomsand#34;: What Abu Ghraib Can Tell Us about the American Carceral System, The New Centennial Review, Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 2006, pp. 171-194 (Article))
It is not only legislation and institutional reprisal ….. all evidence stands to the contrary.
Focus on detention in the war on terror erases the everyday violence of the American carceral machine Veeren 12 (Elspeth Van Veeren is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in International Relations at the University of Sussex, and#39;Clean War, Invisible War, Liberal War: The Clean and Dirty Politics of Guantánamoand#39;, Chapter in Democracies at War, http://academia.edu/1990191/Clean_War_Invisible_War_Liberal_War)
In that sense, Guanta?namo, defined as exceptional, also ….. of so much (often invisible) violence.37
the Aff simply works to shore up the crumbling myth of US moral virtue that enables endless war, global structural violence and simply shifts the prison to the global scale McCulloch (Professor of Criminology at Monash University, Melbourne) 10 (Jude, From garrison state to garrison planet: state terror, the War on Terror and the rise of a global carceral complex, Contemporary State Terrorism Theory and practice, 196-213)
In the same way that neoliberalism and punitive penal ….. the entire globe: a move from garrison state to garrison planet.
Our alternative is that the judge should embrace abolition as a pedagogical method.
The Aff’s gesture towards reform merely locks in genocide management as the new center of debate and makes extinction inevitable – their liberal pragmatic blackmail is especially absurd in the context of the debate classroom where the debate should be judged on competing visions of liberatory social formations Rodríguez 10 (Dylan, The Disorientation of the Teaching Act: Abolition as Pedagogical Position, Radical Teacher, Number 88, Summer 2010, MUSE)
I have had little trouble “convincing” most students—across distinctions of race….. is signi icantly dependent on our willing- ness to embrace this form of pedagogical audacity.
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Their belief in WoT detention as the exception is precisely the white logic that makes the carceral apparatus possible. Dillon (PhD in American Studies at Minnesota, now an Assistant Professor of Queer Studies at Hampshire College) 13 (Stephen, Fugitive Life: Race, Gender, and the Rise of the Neoliberal-Carceral State, A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/153053/1/Dillon_umn_0130E_13833.pdf)
The arguments advanced by Butler and Agamben have not gone ….. why and how Guantánamo can exist.
The impact to this is serial movement failure Rodríguez 9 (Dylan, The Terms of Engagement: Warfare, White Locality, and Abolition, 2010 36: 151 Crit Sociol, MUSE)
In so many ways, the US progressive/left ….. antiracist, and antiviolence organizing.
You should refuse their pragmatic blackmail about alternative. We’ve granted that the Aff gets to imagine a massive shift in state politics, their denial of our political imagination outside the liberal form is the epistemology of the Supermax
Rodri?guez 10 (Dylan, The Disorientation of the Teaching Act: Abolition as Pedagogical Position, Radical Teacher 88 (Summer 2010): 7-19,80.)
The (Pedagogical) Necessity of the Impossible A compulsory deferral of abolitionist pedagogical possibilities composes ….. that makes liberationist dreams unspeakable.
Second, Any risk of a link means the perm can’t solve Davis 5 (Angela, Abolition Democracy, p. 60-61)
Yes, and even if we are morally opposed to torture, even if we think we are ….. racist, but rather to insist on the power—then and now—of ideologies of racial inferiority.
You should adopt an ethic of incommensurability – a refusal of any combination of t
11/20/13
K - Militarism
Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 4 | Opponent: Whitman College Anderson-Salathe | Judge: Regnier disabling- it misidentifies the enemy and presumes a democracy that doesn’t exist. The state will never actualize base withdrawal because it wouldn’t advance its imperialist interests Herod 2001 James, “A Stake, Not a Mistake: On Not Seeing the Enemy”, October, http://www.jamesherod.info/index.php?sec=paperandid=9 So although it is important to ...containment and eventually restriction of freedom.
This makes them complicit in the everyday policing and warfare that goes on daily in the United States – their very conception of “war powers” makes it impossible for them to solve Rodriguez ‘8 (Dylan Rodríguez is Professor and Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside, where he began his teaching career in 2001. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned two B.A. degrees and a Concentration degree from Cornell University. He was nationally recognized by Diverse magazine as one of its Emerging Scholars of 2006, and has been a Ford Foundation Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow, Abolition Now! P. 93-100) We are collectively witnessing, surviving...ofUS based progressive organizing has undertaken.
The Aff represents a Settler move to innocence – their activism is an attempt to cleanse the Settler body while erasing the without dealing with the fundamentally unethical ground upon which they stand Tuck and Yang (State University of New York at New Paltz; University of California, San Diego) 12 (Eve and K. Wayne, Decolonization is not a metaphor, Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society Vol. 1, No. 1, 2012, pp. 1-40)
There is a long and bumbled ...and by brown and Black people.
It turns case – state violence has shifted to a multicultural white supremacy, where progressive black audiences applaud Obama’s calls for more cops and law-and-order. It is impossible to protest violence abroad while in alliance with the state’s vast architecture of war- Rodriguez ‘9 (Dylan Rodríguez is Professor and Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside, where he began his teaching career in 2001. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned two B.A. degrees and a Concentration degree from Cornell University. He was nationally recognized by Diverse magazine as one of its Emerging Scholars of 2006, and has been a Ford Foundation Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow, “The Terms of Engagement: Warfare, White Locality, and Abolition,” Critical Sociology 36(1) 151-173, 2009, P. SageDN) Domestic warfare has thus become both ..., and low-intensity genocide?
The alternative is pedagogy of radical dis-identification with the state. This opens up space for new forms of resistance to militarism Rodriguez ‘8 (Dylan Rodríguez is Professor and Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside, where he began his teaching career in 2001. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned two B.A. degrees and a Concentration degree from Cornell University. He was nationally recognized by Diverse magazine as one of its Emerging Scholars of 2006, and has been a Ford Foundation Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow, Abolition Now! P. 93-100DN) Our historical moment suggests the need ...attack aborted or drowned in blood.”
This act represents a revolution in values that is the only way to solve the Aff. Military deployments are just a symptom of the larger problem of militarism. Only a reconcepulization of how society is formed and functions allows for a rupture of the racist militarist impulses that are the root causes of the Aff harms Matthew Matt Birkhold December 10, 2007 (Matt Birkhold is a Brooklyn based independent scholar and educator. His work appears regularly in Wiretap and he has also written for The Nation and Mother Jones. He is founder of Political Education Outreach Collective and editor of the forthcoming National Hip Hop Political Convention publication, Elements, PhD candidate at SUNY Bingham
11/20/13
K - Schmitt
Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 2 | Opponent: Baylor Boor-Bacon | Judge: Fitzmier K Way they define terror = depolitical threat that construes nonpolitical options as the only possible way to deal with terrorism De Benoist 7 (Alain, editor of the two French academic journals Krisis and Nouvelle Ecole , and the author of more than fifty books about political philosophy, sociology and the history of ideas. He has translated articles by Carl Schmitt into French and has published the first full bibliography of Schmitt’s works, Carl Schmitt: Bibliographie seiner Schriften und Korrespondenzen (2003). “Global terrorism and the state of permanent exception The significance of Carl Schmitt’s thought today” in The International Political Thought of Carl Schmitt: Terror, liberal war and the crisis of global order, Edited by Louiza Odysseos and Fabio Petito. Routledge 2007. ISBN 0.203.96414.4)
This conclusion has been shared by many …with security, which itself is only a veiled form of permanent terror (2001).
causes limitless war and discrimination Strong 95 (Tracy B., Distinguished Professor of Political Science @ UCSD, Ph.D. Harvard University, 1968. “Dimensions of the New Debate Around Carl Schmitt,” (Introduction to the reissuing of) Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political (U. Chicago Press, 1995))
The other, more dangerous …with no outcome except an end to politics and the elimination of all difference.
The Alternative is to reject the universalism of the affirmative and embrace the legitimacy of enmity
This leads to a more stable international system – war is never-ending without the alternative Odysseos 7 (Louiza, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Sussex. She is the author of The Subject of Coexistence: Otherness in International Relations (2007), as well as articles in European Journal of Political Theory , Review of International Studies and Millennium . She co-edited Gendering the International (2002) and a Special Focus on the ‘International Theory of Carl Schmitt’ of the Leiden Journal of International Law (2006). “Crossing the line? Carl Schmitt on the ‘spaceless universalism’ of cosmopolitanism and the War on Terror” in The International Political Thought of Carl Schmitt: Terror, liberal war and the crisis of global order, Edited by Louiza Odysseos and Fabio Petito. Routledge 2007. ISBN 0.203.96414.4)
The first relationship arises from their joint location … who has to be fought until there is no more resistance.
Their defense of human rights is specifically tied to strategic concern- that opens up human rights to substantial manipulation and opportunism. The only way to resolve hypocritical selective defenses of human rights is to directly challenge authoritarian leadership, even if it threatens our strategic interests. Mutua 2 Makau, SUNY Distinguished Professor @ Buffalo Law, TERRORISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS: POWER, CULTURE, AND SUBORDINATION, pg 1-12 This paper argues that the reassertion ...legal order, including human rights.
And this is a practice in realism-as-dominance- it invokes sloppy realpolitik and constructs visions of a violent other to bring third world countries under the aegis of “civilized” American human rights. These human rights can be discarded the instant they threaten US interests- this necessitates constant anxiety about our international relationships, which means inevitable ruptures that flip the case. Hoover, 2k11 (Joe, Fellow in the International Relations Dept at the LSE, “Egypt and the Failure of Realism”, Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies, Issue 4) Recent upheavals in Tunisia, Egypt...or realise its own analytical failings.
Thus the alterantive is to reject the linkage of human rights and democracy with strategy Hoover, 2k11 (Joe, Fellow in the International Relations Dept at the LSE, “Egypt and the Failure of Realism”, Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies, Issue 4) At its base the utopian impulse ...not realism, but moral incompetence.
Even if it is not effective at changing policy, it eliminates our complicity in violence and creates an alternative vision of the world that is the only social transformation that occurs in a debate Hasso ‘11 Frances Hasso, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, International Comparative Studies and Sociology at Duke, 9/6/2011, “Arab Spring: An Interview with Frances Hasso on Revolutions in the Middle East,” http://www.thisweekinsociology.com/?p=84 These events have obvious international significance ..., institutional, and political lives.
Forget the aff- questioning knowledge production before assuming the validity of their strategic games is necessary to effectively challenge their IR- they lead to blackmail Bleiker 01 (Roland, Associate Professor – University of Queensland, The Zen of International Relations, “Forget IR Theory,” p. 37-9) Stories, so we are told ...-prone practice of world politics.
Turns heg – Refusing to reduce the world to a set of geopolitical strategies is a pre-requisite to less dangerous policymaking- Lifton ‘3, (Robert Jay, Visiting Professor of Psychiatry @ Harvard Medical School, Superpower Syndrome, pgs. 190-192) To renounce the claim to total ...and humane management of its decline.
This escalates to extinction- be suspicious of their impacts because they’re tainted by confirmation bias Chernus 6 Ira Chernus, Professor of Religious Studies and Co-director of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at the University of Colorado-Boulder, 2006, “Monsters to Destroy: The Neoconservative War on Terror and Sin” The end of the cold war ...the structures of national security still
11/20/13
T - Signature Strikes
Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 4 | Opponent: Whitman College Anderson-Salathe | Judge: Regnier 1NC T-No SS
“targeted killing” does not include signature strikes Murphy and Radsan 09 – (2009, Richard, ATandT Professor of Law, Texas Tech University School of Law, and Afsheen John, Professor, William Mitchell College of Law, general counsel at the CIA, 2002-2004, “DUE PROCESS AND TARGETED KILLING OF TERRORISTS,” Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 31:2, google scholar)
“Targeted killing” is extra-judicial, ……has continued into the Obama Administration.
We must begin with …more difficult for the government to mislead the public.
11/20/13
T - War Powers Authority
Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: Semis | Opponent: Northwestern Miles-Vellayappan | Judge: Bricker, Kennedy, Kirk Interpretation: The Aff limits authority over all indefinite detention, not just indefinite detention codified by War Powers.
Meyers 08 – (2008, Peter Alexander, PhD in political theory, professor of American Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, Visiting Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, “CIVIC WAR and THE CORRUPTION OF THE CITIZEN,”p. 97-8) I have urged the Citizen to ...shapes the position of the Citizen.
