Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 1 | Opponent: Oklahoma | Judge: Paul Hayes

Text: The United States Supreme Court should rule targeted killing including is unconstitutional in that it fails to meet the imminence standard for constitutional use of defensive force.

Judicial review solves the case – allows the Court to strike down targeting killing

Not a "political question"
McKelvy, Executive Development Editor on the Editorial Board of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 11
(Benjamin, "NOTE: Due Process Rights and the Targeted Killing of Suspected Terrorists: The Unconstitutional Scope of Executive Killing Power," November 2011, 44 Vand. J. Transnat’l L. 1353, accessed via LexisNexis 8-7-13 Bosley)

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 1 | Opponent: Oklahoma | Judge: Paul Hayes

Text: The President of the United States should sign an executive order 

Self-restraint solves the case and signaling

Posner and Vermeule 7
(Eric Posner, The University of Chicago Law School Professor, and Adrian Vermeule, Harvard Law School Professor of Law, 2007, The Credible Executive, 74 U. Chi. L. Rev. 865)

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 1 | Opponent: Oklahoma | Judge: Paul Hayes

North Korea sees the US as strong now

Smith, 13
(Jack A. Smith, Anti War.com, Behind the US-North Korean Bluster, April 04, 2013)
The U.S....from Washington.

Drones, Cyber warfare, and ground troops are staple in the US military. Any restrictions would weaken US perception internationally

Alexander and Stewart, 12
(David Alexander and Phil Stewart, Reuters, New Pentagon strategy stresses Asia, cyber, drones, January 6, 2012)

US weakness provokes North Korea into attacking

Boot, 13
(Max Boot, leading military historian and foreign-policy analyst, Commentary, U.S. Weakness Provokes N. Korea and Iran, February 12, 2013 http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/02/12/u-s-weakness-provokes-n-korea-and-iran-nuclear-test/)

North Korean aggression goes nuclear

Silcocks, 13
(James Silcocks, The Independent, North Korea threatens ’all-out war, a nuclear war’ as it announces it is ’on war footing’ with South, Kim Jong-un warns of ’an all-out war, a nuclear war’, 30 MARCH 2013, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/north-korea-threatens-allout-war-a-nuclear-war-as-it-announces-it-is-on-war-footing-with-south-8554932.html)

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 1 | Opponent: Oklahoma | Judge: Paul Hayes

Obama’s pressuring the GOP with a strong display of Presidential strength and staying on message – the GOP will blink

Dovere, 10/1
(Edward, "Government shutdown: President Obama holds the line." Politico. Politico LLC, 01 Oct 2013. Web. 3 Oct 2013. http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/government-shutdown-president-obama-holds-the-line-97646.html?hp=f3.)

Obama’s hardline on is key—any negotiations ruin the deal and his PC

Yglesias 8/28
(Matthew is the Slates business and economics correspondent and author of The Rent is Too Damn High. "Is Obama Poised to Botch the Next Round of Fiscal Negotiations?." The Slate. The Slate Group, 28 Aug 2013. Web. 20 Sep 2013. http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/08/28/obama_debt_ceiling_negotiations_is_he_poised_to_botch_them.html. SLP)

Fighting to defend his war power will drain Obama’s PC— trading off with rest of agenda—empirics prove

Kriner, 10
(Douglas L. Kriner is assistant professor of political science at Boston University  "After the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War", University of Chicago Press, Dec 1, 2010, page 68-69)

Political capital is finite —- the plan would tradeoff with domestic economic priorities

Moore, 9/10 
(Heidi is Guardian’s US finance and economics editor. 9/10/2013, "Syria: the great distraction; Obama is focused on a conflict abroad, but the fight he should be gearing up for is with Congress on America’s economic security," http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/10/obama-syria-what-about-sequester)

This will destroy the U.S. and global economy

Davidson, 9/10
(Adam is the 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=all26_r=0))

Economic Decline causes war

Friedberg and Schoenfeld 8
~Aaron, Prof. Politics. And IR @ Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School and Visiting Scholar @ Witherspoon Institute, and Gabriel, Senior Editor of Commentary and Wall Street Journal, "The Dangers of a Diminished America", 10-28,http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122455074012352571.html~~

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 1 | Opponent: Oklahoma | Judge: Paul Hayes

THE AFFIRMATIVE IS A FUNDAMENTAL MISREADING OF POLITICS AND THE REPRODUCTION OF SOCIAL RELATIONS.  THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS THE ’BIOPOLITICAL STATE’ THAT SEEKS TO MANAGE AND CONTROL POPULATIONS FOR THE SAKE OF POWER.  THE STATE AND CAPITAL MOVE HAND IN GLOVE—ONE CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT THE OTHER.  ONLY A TOTAL DISTANCE FROM THE MODERN STATE CAN ALLOW FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF CAPITAL.  OTHERWISE WHAT IS PUSHED OUT THE DOOR ONLY COMES BACK IN THROUGH THE WINDOW

Meszaros 95
~Istavan, Prof. Emeritus at Sussex, Beyond Capital: Towards a Theory of Transition~P. 65

FURTHER MORE, THE ABSENCE OF STRUCTURAL HISTORICISM IS NO MERE OVERSIGHT, NOR IS IT ENOUGH TO SIMPLY MENTION ECONOMICS IN A FEW OF YOUR CARDS— THE RELIANCE OF INDENTY-BASED POLITICS IS NOT AN ACCIDENTAL INSTANCE OF IGNORING CLASS.  THE DEMAND ARISES OUT OF THE CRISIS OF LIBERALISM—SUCH POLITICS PARTICULARIZES THE OPPRESSIONS OF CAPITALISM TO THE POINT THAT THE UNIVERSAL SYSTEM IS NATURALIZED.  ATTAINING WHITE, MALE BOURGEOISSE PRIVILEGE BECOMES THE BENCH-MARK OF POLITICAL SUCCESS, RE-ENTRENCHING THE VERY FOUNDATION OF THE SYSTEM

BROWN 93
~Wendy, Professor and Genius, "Wounded Attachments", Political Theory, Aug~

NEXT, THE REDUCTION OF CLASS TO A NEUTRAL LEVEL AMONG A LONG LIST OF OTHER OPPRESSIONS SUCH AS RACE AND GENDER, DESTROYS THE EMANCIPATORY POTENTIAL OF CLASS TO REACH ACROSS ALL LINES OF INDENTITY AND FORGE POLITICAL ACTION.  CLASS MUST BE RECOGNIZED AS QUALITATIVELY MORE IMPORTANT—OTHERWISE THE SYSTEM IS ABLE TO SATISFY DEMANDS ON GROUNDS OF FORMAL EQUALITY, DESTROYING ATTEMPTS TO OVERCOME CAPITALIST OPPRESSION*

gimenez 2001
~Martha, Prof. Of Sociology at CU Boulder, "Marxism and Class, Gender and Race", Race Gender and Class, Vol. 8, p. online~

FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF STRUCTURAL KRITIK, THERE CAN BE NO SUCH THING AS ’MAKING THINGS BETTER’— THEIR MODEL OF POLITICS, NO MATTER HOW SUBVERSIVE OR CONSERVATIVE, ALL FUNDAMENTALLY EXAGERATE THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FORMAL INSTITUTION OF POLITICS AND POWER, IGNORING THE WAYS SUCH A SYSTEM CREATES KNOWLEDGE—ONLY A MARXIST SHIFT TO KRITIK THE STRUCTURE AND CREATE MASS SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS WILL OVERCOME THIS FAILURE OF POLITICS

HARNECKER 2000
~Marta, Dir of MEPLA, Links, p. online: http://www.dsp.org.au/links/back/issue16/harnecker.html ~

NEXT, THE DETERMINISM OF CAPITAL IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INSTRUMENTALIZATION OF ALL LIFE—IT IS THIS LOGIC THAT MOBILIZES AND ALLOWS FOR THE 1AC’S SCENARIOS IN THE FIRST PLACE

dyer-witherford 99
~Nick, Prof at U. of Western Ontario, Cyber Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High Technology Capitalism ~

FINALLY, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN ETHICAL ACTION THAT STANDS OUTSIDE OF POLITICS—YOUR ETHICAL DEMAND TO COME PRIOR TO THE STRUCTURAL NEGATION OF CAPITAL IS THE LARGEST VIOLATION OF ETHICS

Meszaros 95
~Istavan, Prof. Emeritus at Sussex, Beyond Capital: Towards a Theory of Transition~p. 409-10

Vote Negative to validate and adopt the method of structural/historical criticism that is the 1NC.

THIS IS NOT THE ALTERNATIVE, BUT IN TRUTH THE ONLY OPTION— METHOD IS THE FOREMOST POLITICAL QUESTION BECAUSE ONE MUST UNDERSTAND THE EXISTING SOCIAL TOTALITY BEFORE ONE CAN ACT ON IT—GROUNDING THE SITES OF POLITICAL CONTESTATION ON KNOWLEDGE OUTSIDE OF LABOR AND SURPLUS VALUE MERELY SERVE TO HUMANIZE CAPITAL AND PREVENT A TRANSITION TO A SOCIETY BEYOND OPPRESSION

tumino 2001
~Stephen, Prof English at Pitt, ""What is Orthodox Marxism and Why it Matters Now More than Ever", Red Critique, p. online~

AND NEXT, RESISTANCE TO CAPITAL MUST BE A TOTAL NEGATION OF THE SYSTEM FROM OUT-SIDE OF GOVERNMENT—WHILE SOME INSIDE POLITICAL GAINS ARE POSSIBLE, THEY ARE TRUMPED BY THE ABILITY OF THE SYSTEM TO USE REFORMS TO RESTABILIZE CAPITAL AND MARGINALIZE LABOR AS A SOCIAL ALTERNATIVE

Meszaros 95
~Istavan, Prof. Emeritus at Sussex, Beyond Capital: Towards a Theory of Transition~p. 738

FINALLY, METHODOLOGY IS THE FOREMOST POINT OF DEPARTURE TO ANY POLITICAL QUERY.  YOU SHOULD EVALUATE EPISTEMOLOGY FIRST BECAUSE THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT PROBLEMS DETERMINES HOW YOU RESPOND TO THEM AND THE CONSEQUENCES THEY ENGENDER

        
Smith ’96
~Steve, Professor of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, "Positivism and Beyond," International theory: Positivism and beyond, New York: Cambridge University Press, 12-1 3~

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 1 | Opponent: Oklahoma | Judge: Paul Hayes

The 1AC is a manifestation of the ego, creating The Eeyore Effect: negativity to a degree that disillusions the individual from believing they are powerless. This creates more negativity and recreates the same impacts

Hoff 92 (Benjamin, University of Oregon, B.A. in Asian Art at The Evergreen State College, The Te of Piglet, Penguin Group Publishers, pg. 55-58,1992)

The Ego is the root cause of all suffering and forms of oppression, only by embracing the Te can we return to harmony that existed thousands of years ago

Hoff 92 (Benjamin, University of Oregon, B.A. in Asian Art at The Evergreen State College, The Te of Piglet, Penguin Group Publishers, pg. 13-16,1992) ====The alternative is to become like Piglet, embracing the Very Small Animal inside us and rejecting the Ego. The Alt allows us to become closer to the Age of Perfect Virtue, solving all impacts====
Hoff 92 (Benjamin, University of Oregon, B.A. in Asian Art at The Evergreen State College, The Te of Piglet, Penguin Group Publishers, pg. 19-21,1992)