Tournament: JMU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Clarion BC | Judge: Paul Mabrey

1NC

FW

A. Interpretation: the aff can only defend advantages based on the consequences of hypothetical enactment of their plan by the USFG. They should win if the topical plan is the best policy option presented. The neg should win if the plan is worse than the status quo or an alternative competitive with the plan.

“The USFG” is the government in Washington D.C. – not individuals
Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2000 http://encarta.msn.com
“The federal government of the United States is centered in Washington DC.”

Our definition excludes action by smaller political groups or individuals.
Black’s Law Dictionary Seventh Edition Ed. Bryan A. Garner (chief) 1999
Federal government 1. A national government that exercises some degree of control over smaller political units that have surrendered some degree of power in exchange for the right to participate in national political matters.

B- Violation – the aff claims advantages independent of the enactment of a plan by the USFG

C- REASONS TO PREFER 1ST-Plan focus – The plan is the starting-point for debate. If they claim advantages in the 1AC which do not stem from the plan, there is no way for us to predict what the content of those advantages will be. Consequently, there is no way for us to generate stable and predictable offense. Without plan focus, they would always leverage an artificial ground advantage—even if there are impact turns to the critiques, we should not have to be prepared to run them against their aff; and, in any case, they will always be better prepared to debate their own unpredictable drivel than we will.
Shively 2000 (Ruth Lessl Shively, Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas AandM, 2000, Political Theory and Partisan Politics, p. 182-3

The point may seem trite, as surely the ambiguists would agree that basic terms
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good arguments. Such agreements are simply implicit in the act of argumentation. 

THIS IS A VOTING ISSUE FOR COMPETITIVE EQUITY. Framework is a prerequisite to debate.
Ruth Lessl Shively, Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas AandM, 2000, Political Theory and Partisan Politics, p. 181-182

The requirements given thus far are primarily negative. The ambiguists must say "no
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. In other words, contestation rests on some basic agreement or harmony. 

DEBATE IS A SITE OF CONTESTATION WITH THE BACKDROP OF COMPETITION. THIS IS A SHARED ACTIVITY WITH SELF-DEVELOPMENT BEING THE HIGHEST PRIORITY. IN ORDER TO DEVELOP IN THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE WE MUST HAVE EQUAL GROUND DISTRIBUTION ON BOTH SIDES. ANNULLING ONE SIDES GROUND DEVOIDS ANY POSSIBILITY OF DEVELOPMENT
Hatab, 2002   Lawrence J. Prospects for a Democratic Agon : Why We Can Still Be Nietzscheans The Journal of Nietzsche Studies - Issue 24, Fall 2002
Nietzsche recognized the political purposes of the agon (KSA 1, p.789
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achievement and self-development, and therefore as an intrinsically social activity. 

DEBATE IS SUPPOSED TO BE HARD. THIS REQUIRES RESISTANCE ON BOTH SIDES TO SPUR FORCE AND ADEQUATE DEVELOPMENT. THE HARDER WE MAKE DEBATE THE BETTER WE WILL BECOME.
Jonathon Yovel. "Gay Science as Law: an outline for a Nietzschean Jurisprudence." Nietzsche and Legal Theory: Half Written Laws. Ed. Peter Goodirch and Mariana Valverde. 2005. Page 14-15

While reactive forces respond to their context and in this way are dictated by them
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the will to cast itself in the world, both natural and social.

DEFENDING WHAT YOU DON’T BELIEVE IN VIA ROLEPLAYING IS A CRITICAL SITE OF EDUCATION. LEARNING TO LIE IS CRITICAL TO SELF AFFIRMATION AS WELL AS LEARNING TRUTH. THEIR DISAVOWAL OF THIS TYPE OF EDUCATION LEADS TO BAD EDUCATION.
Stefan Ramaekers. "Teaching to Lie and Obey: Nietzsche and Education." Journal of Philosophy of Education, 35.2. 2001.
In Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche says about education:33Parents involuntarily make something like
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in this rich sense. In consequence education becomes essentially self-education.

1NC 

TEXT : The United States federal government should substantially increase statutory and/or judicial restrictions on the commander-in-chief powers of the President of the United States in one or more of the following areas: targeted killing; indefinite detention; offensive cyber operations; or introducing United States Armed Forces into hostilities,” 

THE COUNTERPLAN COMPETES THROUGH ITS USE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE NET BENEFITS.
SOLVENCY
Locating the affirmative project within the resolutional actor is the only way to overcome their problems with the state.  Only this “act” can avoid the affirmatives “innocent gaze” over the oppression they speak of, and solve for case.
Franks 2002 (Mary Anne, doctoral candidate at Oxford University, UK.  Obscene Undersides: Women and Evil between the Taliban and the United States.  Hypatia 18.1 (2003) 135-156)

Kolhatkar knows the answer as well as Zizek does. "How "effective"
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support of the phantasmatic image of the other. End Page 148
Zizek's criticism of the Western response to the conflict in Kosovo is apt in this
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his victimhood is suddenly transformed into a terrorist, drug runner, etc.

STRATEGY OF THE MASSES SOLVES-IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO ACT AS AN ETHICAL SUBJECT WHEN THE SUPERSTRUCTURES OF POWER HAVE ALWAYS ALREADY CO-OPTED YOUR MOVEMENT. OUR ACT OF POLITICAL SIMULATION BOTH FITS WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK WE’VE SET OUT, AND PROVIDES THE ONLY VIABLE OPTION FOR CHALLENGING WESTERN DOMINANCE-STRATEGY OF THE MASSES SOLVES. 

Baudrillard 1983 (Jean, French  Continental Philosopher)  In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities or The End of the Social and Other Essays.  Pages 30-48

The mass realizes that the paradox of being both an object of simulation (it
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communication by means in favor of another mode of communication. Which one?

NET BENEFITS
Radical opposition to the system affirms its existence.  Opposing discourses allow the system to simulate its own death and delay its collapse.
Baudrillard in 81 Jean, “Simulacra and Simulation” p. 18-19

Conjunction of the system and of its extreme alternative like the two sides of a
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its fundamental nonexistence, of its already seen and of its already dead.
The movement for liberation and emancipation is the expression of modern capital – a world where we ourselves are free-floating capital to be exchanged on the freedom market of modern debate.  The AFF’s demand for a responsible, aligned subject creates an indescribable debt in humanity’s symbolic stock – more violent than the history of capital. The subject position you come to occupy within politics forges a debt to society, once we can’t overcome the powers that be we inevitably lash out at those we attempt to serve 

Baudrillard ’05 (The Intelligence of Evil)

Freedom? A dream! Everyone aspires to it, or at least gives the
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of law. Nore of duty, nor of moral and psychological law. 

TYRANNY OF THE SELF- RATHER THAN RISK INSERTING ONESSELF INTO THE LIBERATORY STRUCTURE ONLY TO BE OPPRESSED BY ONES OWN FAILURE, WE MUST ACCEPT THE STRATEGY OF THE MASSES. THE TYRANNY OF THE SELF THEIR PROJECT ESTABLISHES IS QUALITATIVELY WORSE THAN BEING OPPRESSED BY THE POWERS THAT BE. 

Baudrillard 1993 (Jean, The transparency of evil : essays on extreme phenomena / Jean Baudrillard ; translated by James Benedict.  London : New York : Verso, 1993.  P. 167-168)

At all events, it is better to be controlled by someone else than by oneself.  Better to be oppressed, exploited, persecuted and manipulated by someone other than oneself.
 In this sense the entire movement for liberation and emancipation, inasmuch as it
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, merely because it does not fall within the sphere of his freedom.  
 Exactly the opposite position is the one that has to be stressed, while
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us.  That which is Other, that which we have to seduce.

K Aff Shell
Death and misfortune are inevitable – the joy of life comes in accepting things as they are – plans to save the world only bring more suffering
Slabbert 1 Jos, Taoist teacher and philosopher, “Tao te Ching: How to Deal with Suffering” http://www.taoism.net/theway/suffer.htm
Dealing with loss Express yourself completely, then keep quiet. Be like the forces
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the more we tamper with it, the more damage we will do.

Moral judgments are flawed. Reject the affirmative assumptions while embracing the inaction of wuwei. Only this solves the problems of humanity.
Kirkland 98 Russell Kirkland, Associate Professor of Religion (and Asian Studies), “"Responsible Non-Action" In a Natural World: Perspectives from the Nei-Yeh, Chuang-Tzu, and Tao-Te Ching,” 1998, University of Georgia, http://kirkland.myweb.uga.edu/rk/pdf/pubs/ECO.pdf

Why It Is Wrong to Resent Unexpected Changes In Chuang-tzu 18, we
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takes the morally responsible course of simply accepting the new state of things.

Wuwei will carry us through life.
Kirkland 96 Russell Kirkland, Associate Professor of Religion (and Asian Studies), “The Book of the Way,” 24-29, http://kirkland.myweb.uga.edu/rk/pdf/pubs/DAODE.pdf

The Teachings of the Daode jing The focus of the Daode jing is something called
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most powerful force in existence, and nothing can thwart its unceasing operation.

Poverty Shell

Debt Ceiling will pass
NY Times 10/10 “No Quick Deal, but Offer by GOP on Debt Shifts the Tone” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/11/us/politics/debt-limit-debate.html

In statements afterward that struck the most positive tone in weeks of acrimony, House
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The bad news is they’ve only extended the debt ceiling for six weeks.”¶ 

Plan kills Obama’s agenda
KRINER 10 Assistant professor of political science at Boston University Douglas L. Kriner, “After the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War”, page 276-77

One of the mechanisms by which congressional opposition influences presidential cost-benefit calculations is
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the military costs it would have to pay to achieve its objectives militarily.
By contrast. measuring the domestic political costs of congressional opposition, while still difficult
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opposition to the war in Iraq appears to have had the predicted effect.  

Losing authority would embolden the GOP on the debt ceiling fight
SEEKING ALPHA 9 – 10 – 13 “Syria Could Upend Debt Ceiling Fight” http://seekingalpha.com/article/1684082-syria-could-upend-debt-ceiling-fight

Unless President Obama can totally change a reluctant public's perception of another Middle-Eastern
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, a rebuff from the House is a 67-75 probability.
I reach this probability by looking within the whip count. I assume the 164
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the breakdown, the chance of House passage is about one in four.
While a failure in the House would put action against Syria in limbo, I
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setting us up for a showdown that will rival 2011's debt ceiling fight.
I currently believe the two sides will pass a short-term continuing resolution to
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be even worse, which will send equities lower by upwards of 10.
Investors must be prepared for this "black swan" event.  Looking back to
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U.S. obligations unless another last minute deal can be struck.

Not passing Debt Ceiling would kill global economy
The Daily Telegraph 10/11 National Edition¶ US debt ceiling fears overshadow IMF and World Bank meetings¶ BYLINE: Philip Aldrick Lexis Nexis ES

FAILURE to raise the US debt ceiling will do "serious damage" to both
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super-safe US Treasury bills. China has branded the political stalemate 'pitiful'

2NC

Framework- K Aff

1) Only spiritual change can solve true discrimination.
Slabbert 1 Jos, Taoist teacher and philosopher, “Tao te Ching: How to Deal with Suffering” http://www.taoism.net/theway/suffer.htm

Discrimination  When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When
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with beauty and meaning. It is more powerful than any political program.

AT: You Link to the K

1.Voting neg doesn’t require passing judgment only action is attached to achieving desired ends.  Inaction is the natural result of emptying yourself of thought and living in the present moment.  You are voting neg to avoid action not against the aff.  Simply choose not to endorse their call to action.  Presumption theory and the Tao agree.
Kirkland 98 Russell Kirkland, Associate Professor of Religion (and Asian Studies), “"Responsible Non-Action" In a Natural World: Perspectives from the Nei-Yeh, Chuang-Tzu, and Tao-Te Ching,” 1998, University of Georgia, http://kirkland.myweb.uga.edu/rk/pdf/pubs/ECO.pdf

But doesn't the Tao te ching enjoin the reader to somehow do something to correct
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with the beneficent activity of the benign natural force called "the Tao."

AT: PERM
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The 1AC’s rationalist attempt to anticipate the effects of foreign policy will fail.  Emptying oneself of being is a prerequisite to true understanding.
Pettman 5—Ralph Pettman, Professor in the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington, 2005 (“Taoism And The Concept Of Global Security,” International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Volume 5, Number 1, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via Oxford Journals Online, p. 72-75)

How does moving onto Taoist ground, and immersing ourselves in Taoist experience, play
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something we might need to know if we are to understand global security.

AT: Extinction/Death Bad

1. Calls to save humanity are based on a flawed fear of death and a misunderstanding of the continuous nature of the universe.
   Kirkland 98 Russell Kirkland, Associate Professor of Religion (and Asian Studies), “"Responsible Non-Action" In a Natural World: Perspectives from the Nei-Yeh, Chuang-Tzu, and Tao-Te Ching,” 1998, University of Georgia, http://kirkland.myweb.uga.edu/rk/pdf/pubs/ECO.pdf

But by this definition, the natural order, which we are enjoined to respect
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without fuss to the immaterial state from which he or she originally emerged.

AT PERM DO BOTH 

1. The perm still links the K. It’s interventionism at its worst. Embracing the K means embracing self-restraint.
   Kirkland 98 Russell Kirkland, Associate Professor of Religion (and Asian Studies), “"Responsible Non-Action" In a Natural World: Perspectives from the Nei-Yeh, Chuang-Tzu, and Tao-Te Ching,” 1998, University of Georgia, http://kirkland.myweb.uga.edu/rk/pdf/pubs/ECO.pdf

But doesn't the Tao te ching enjoin the reader to somehow do something to correct
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with the beneficent activity of the benign natural force called "the Tao."

2. The permutation either fails or severs out of ‘should’- Severence is a voting issue- creates time skew and destroys the negatives ability to have any sort of K or CP, reason to reject the team.

AT: Action Good

1) We must accept what both the joy and the suffering we are given.
Lao Tzu, 300 B.C.(translated by S. Mitchell record keeper of the Zhou dynasty, Tao Te Ching, chapter 16, as translated by Stephen Mitchell, http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/taote-v3.html#16)

Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch
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whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready.

2) This is true of suffering --- taking action for desired end spurs more suffering and prohibits understanding of the Tao.
Slabbert 1 Jos, Taoist teacher and philosopher, “Tao te Ching: How to Deal with Suffering” http://www.taoism.net/theway/suffer.htm

Action Practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place.  (Chapter
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-action a way of leading people to the way of the Tao.

1NR

Society is defined by its outsiders – it’s impossible to have an identity without an other.  Their attempt to bring the excluded into the center of society destroys the other and makes all of society the outsider, collapsing the entire social realm.
Baudrillard in 81 Jean, “Simulacra and Simulation” p. 143-147

Thus the remainder refers to much more than a clear division in two localized terms
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that is to say in the figure of the remainder and its double? 

Speaking out and raising awareness is playing into the hands of the system they criticize, because it is intended to maximize speech without creating change.  Instead, we need to engage the system through passive resistance, not active opposition.
Baudrillard in 81 Jean, “Simulacra and Simulation” p. 84-86
With one caution.  We are face to face with this system in a double
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imperative today is precisely the overproduction and regeneration of meaning and of speech.

The idea of the state vanishing through revolution and people refusing to accept it is just a pipe-dream – it doesn’t fit the modern era.  Rather, the state will implode through overrregulation, like a system with too much feedback – the plan’s action is a step in this direction.
Baudrillard in 81 Jean, “Simulacra and Simulation” p. 70-72

Beaubourg cannot even burn, everything is foreseen. Fire, explosion, destruction are
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we know it, as radiation and indefinite energy potential, is abolished.

A/T PERM
The perm is literally impossible – radical thought and belief in the illusion of the real cannot be combined with an objective interpretation of the world.  Claiming they go together is a dangerous illusion that destroys both.
Baudrillard in 95 Jean, April 19, "Radical Thought"

In any case, the two orders of thought are irreconcilable. They each follow
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where the messenger is mistaken for the message, and thus already sacrificed. 

Any critical argument that is combined with reality is immediately robbed of its critical potential – the events are infinitely adaptable, and cynically morph to support any theory that might challenge them, which destroys the effectiveness of the theory.  To be effective, the criticism must remain on the margin.
Baudrillard in 95 Jean, April 19, "Radical Thought"

More subtly, reality also gets its revenge from those who challenge it by,
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things. Interpretation is then merely a retro figure for an unpredictable event.