Tournament: UNLV | Round: 3 | Opponent: Los Rios JL | Judge: Ryan Cheek
The Government of the United States of America should immediately and completely dismantle itself. 

Congressional oversight will never change government policy- a better way to protect the people will be to abolish the state

Burg 13 Christopher Burg Advocate of self-defense online and offline. an anarchist without adjectives, crypto-anarchist discordian“Rules are Meant to be Broken” August 16 2013 https://christopherburg.com/tag/crypto-anarchism/ 

Possibly the least...from Big Brother.

The state leads to extinction 

Purchase, teaches in the department of traditional and modern philosophy at the University of Sydney, 1990
Graham, Anarchist society and its practical realization.

The future of...and nation state. 

Anarchy would instantly cause a mindset shift- people would realize that they are free and would not want government anymore

Holly Jean, Anarchist, Activist, Thinker. May 1968: How The people brought an industrialized nation to a halt, why you haven’t heard about it, and why you should…. May 2005. 

Perhaps this common...things with them. The End

Tournament: UTD | Round: 3 | Opponent: Wyoming Henman and Jones | Judge: Natalie Pennington
Immigration reform will pass ---Lobbyist increasing efforts at passage and Boehner strategically making progress 

National Review 14 online, January 2nd 2014 “Immigration Reform, Haley Barbour Style”  http:www.nationalreview.com/article/367371/immigration-reform-haley-barbour-style-andrew-stiles

When it comes...AND...through the House.

There’s unanimous opposition to the plan in congress

Boardman 5/26 William, Global Research: Centre for Research on Globalization, “America’s “Permanent War”: The “Authorization to Use Military Force” Forever?”, http://www.globalresearch.ca/americas-permanent-war-the-authorization-to-use-military-force-forever/5336452, BJM

In 2001, Authorizing...AND...at the time:

Immigration reform is key to the economy

Metzler 13  (By REBEKAH  State house writer/Staffwriter/ July 29, 2013 / White House: Immigration Reform Helps the Economy http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/07/29/white-house-immigration-reform-helps-the-economy MT

The agriculture industry...AND...jobs in 2045."

Key to US competitiveness

Bush, et al, ’09 7/21/09, Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and former White House Chief of Staff Thomas F. McLarty and Edward Alden, “Nation needs comprehensive, flexible immigration reform,” http://www.ajc.com/opinion/nation-needs-comprehensive-flexible-97393.html

Our immigration system...AND...residency and citizenship.

Economic collapse causes nuclear conflicts

Burrows and Harris 9 Mathew J. Burrows counselor in the National Intelligence Council and Jennifer Harris a member of the NIC’s Long Range Analysis Unit “Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis” The Washington Quarterly 32:2 https://csis.org/files/publication/twq09aprilburrowsharris.pdf

Increased Potential for ...AND...more dog-eat-dog world.

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 6 | Opponent: UNLV CE | Judge: James Stevenson
Civil military relations are stable now-- Congress still decides independently when to goto war, and the military decides HOW to conduct that war 

Michael P. Noonan is the director of the Program on National Security at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Military Leaders Advise, Civilians Decide, US News and World Report. September 13, 2013 http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/world-report/2013/09/13/on-syria-the-military-should-advise-but-civilians-decide

As retired Army...that have served.

High politics invovlement in strategy decisions disrupts civil military relations 

Foster 11 Gregory D. Foster  Gregory D. Foster is a professor at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University, Washington, D.C. He is know as the Go to man for United States Civil-military Relations breifings “Growing Up” Armed Forces Journal 11 http://armedforcesjournal.com/2011/09/7558134/ 

Where civilian subjugation...and strategically counterproductive.

A. Perception of a decline in U.S. military readiness Leads to allied prolif.
 
O'Hanlon  ‘01
(Michael E.-, Sr. Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies @ the Brookings Institution, Defense Policy Choices: For the Bush Administration 2001-05, P. 3, http://brookings.nap.edu/books/0815700792/html/; Jacob)
 
Some observers believe...and political systems.
 
B. Allied prolif leads to Nuclear War

Millot ‘94
(Marc Dean-, Summer, The Washington Quarterly, “Facing the Emerging Reality of Regional Nuclear Adversaries”, Vol. 17 #3, Lexis; Jacob)
 
The lack of...of U.S. policy.

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 6 | Opponent: UNLV CE | Judge: James Stevenson
The aff is doesn't solve and perpetuates capitalism 

Klein 7 Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, fellow at The Nation Institute and author of the international and New York Times bestseller The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. In 2004 her reporting from Iraq for Harper’s Magazine won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism.  Klein is a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics and holds an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws from the University of King’s College. Disaster Capitalism second edition

One of the...battlefields of Iraq.

Capitalism reduces reality to monetary value – this instrumentality precludes ethics and results in inevitable environmental, and civilization's destruction
 
Morgareidge, 98 Professor  Emeritus of Philosophy, (Clayton, Prof of Philosophy at Lewis and Clark College, Why Capitalism is Evil 08/22http:www.lclark.edu/clayton/commentaries/evil.html)
 
To show why...at the table.

Our alternative is to drop out of capitalism and build a new uncapitalist world-vote neg to join our fight- this is the only way to prevent extinction

Herod 4 James Herod author of several books on capitalism and social activist since 1968 Getting Free 2004 http://site.www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/Strate/GetFre/06.htm
 
It is time...their social world.

Tournament: UNT | Round: 5 | Opponent: UNI Shew and Simonson | Judge: Ashley Denney
Counterplan: The USFG should do the plan text with a thought process of contemplative action.

The cause and effect mentality prevents liberation – the alternative of contemplative action is to do things wholeheartedly and that experience ensures liberation

Dainin Katagiri, trained traditionally as a Zen Teacher in LA and Minnesota at different points in his life. Each Moment is the Universe; Zen and the Way of Being Time. 2007 p.  207-212

In Buddhism there...AND...the Ganges River.

The intent of trying to acomplish goals ensures that human liberation is not achieved – its only through acting without goals can liberation be found

David Loy, Professor in the Faculty of International Studies at Bunkyo University, Japan.  A Buddhist History of the West; Studies in Lack. 2002 p.  189-193

The perplexity of ...AND...practical to work in.

Contemplative Action solves the aff but avoids the links to the intent of the affirmative

Ruben L.F. Hahito, is a Dharma successor to Koun Yamada. He is a former Jesuit priest and one of the leaders of the Sanbo Kyodan in the United States. He is founding teacher at the Maria Kannon Zen Center in Dallas, Texas. The Book of MU; essential writings on zen's most important koan. Edited by James Ishmael Ford, a Dharma successor to Houn Jiyu Kennet and John Tarrant. Founding abbot of the Boundless Way Zen school and continues to serve as a senior guiding teacher. Also Edited by Melissa Myozn Blacker, Dharma successor to James Ishmael Ford. Co founder of Boundless Way Zen and serves as senior guiding teacher. 2011 p. 192-193

This does not...AND...here and now. 

Contemplative action is liberation from the ego-I, to affirm with a goal is to ensure the development of the ego-I

Chogyam Trungpa, meditation master, scholar, artist, and founded Naropa University in Boulder Colorado, Shambhala Training and Vajradhatu, an international association of meditation centers. The Sanity We Are Born With; A Buddhist Approach to Pscyhology. 2005 p. 112

CTR: I suppose...AND...source of creativity.

The constant pursuit of grounding the ego “I” self is a never ending quest that causes our suffering that prevents human liberation, and ensures war
 
David Loy, Besl Professor of Religion and Ethics at Xavier University in Cincinnati. Mindful Politics; edited by Melvin McLeod. 2006 p. 45-46
 
What the Buddha...AND...a deluded response.

To act in a meditative mode called contemplative action means that it is not the results of the action that matters and provide us with human liberation but the simple act of acting
 
Ruhen L. F. Hahito, resident teacher at Maria Kannon Zen Center in Dallas, Texas and teacher at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. Hooked; Buddhist Writings on Greed, Desire, and the Urge to Consume. edited by Stephanie Kaza. 2005 p. 42-43

Let me illustrate...AND...fullness of being. 

Reps arguments apply to the aff but not contemplative action --- Small actions matter – Each of our small actions contribute to a set of actions, speech, and thought that the whole world posses – Each action creates a new collective karma – 

Dainin Katagiri, trained traditionally as a Zen Teacher in LA and Minnesota at different points in his life. Each Moment is the Universe; Zen and the Way of Being Time. 2007 p.  182-185

The law of...AND...our peace work.

Tournament: UCO | Round: 2 | Opponent: UT Dallas GP | Judge: Eric Robinson
Blaire gives her interdependency statement:

For over 6 years of my life I thought the Air Force was going to be my career. I could have potentially been one of those troops sent into a hostile territory right now. It was not by choice that I am not doing either of those currently. What I have experienced during my time in the Air Force was regardless of how many memos are sent out, regardless of how many briefings we went to on the subject, women were still treated as lesser. Any woman with any type of authority was already labeled a bitch just because they were of higher status and had the ability to command. We, as women, were told time and time again that we had the same ability as any man to be in command, that we would be respected when that time came, that the military was not the same military our parents and grandparents knew of. However, this is a perfect example of cognitive dissonance when it comes to male dominance. Males still dominated regardless of status, women were seen as lesser. We had a female wing commander this year that was already labeled wing bitch before she even accepted her position. The military is an incredibly hostile environment for any women to enter as long as there is still ignorance towards women with any type of superiority. The same applies for debate. Every round that I enter, it seems to be a hostile territory and women are the troops being sent in. It may not be the same as the military, we are not trying to trivialize our troops, but women are still being placed into a hostile environment. In a court of law, that is the definition of sexual harrassment: being placed in a hostile environment. We are the ones who voices are being shot down. Like the military, women in debate are told that we have the same voice as any man. Haha. What a joke. No, the hostilities are being called a bitch in round under the breath of a fellow competitor, of rarely seeing a women judge or opponent, being cut off, or talked over  repeatedly during cross-ex. There are shots fired at us when we are told to calm down for simply answering a question while the males are being commended for their valor in this combat zone. Similar to women in the military, we try to demand the respect we deserve, yet our voices are being treated as a meer annoyance. We know the odds are stacked against us, yet we still go into these hostile situations hoping and praying that the change will take hold this time around. This is not a community united. Until we all see each other through a light of interdependency, the power of masculine ideology, this country was founded upon, will continue to flourish. There will be no restriction of power until we change our personal politics. The suffering of any group must be felt from one to another, we are all of one larger population and we will only thrive when everyone’s emotions are felt as our own. We are one with each other and everyone’s story is important. Without allowing, acknowledging, and promoting one’s unique voice, we will never see this debate community become one. The rammifications of interdependency should be that little actions contribute to the community as a whole. Debate should be about about how well we differ from each through plans and advocacy statements. Policies wouldn't end, but instead be about which policy best embraces reconciliation and embracing contributory virtuosity, how what makes us different makes us united.

Similar, the government and our country have not taken others' emotions into account or allowed their voices to be heard. In 2002, Osama bin Laden wrote a letter to the United States. In it, he outlines the reasons why there is a war between Islam and America, and what can be done to stop it. He does not sound like some irrational, evil creature who felt hatred out of nowhere. And while Tabi and I do not condone violence and death,bin Laden felt like his choices were justified. Here are some of his words: “These tragedies and calamities are only a few examples of your oppression and aggression against us. It is commanded by our religion and intellect that the oppressed have a right to return the aggression. Do not await anything from us but Jihad, resistance and revenge. Is it in any way rational to expect that after America has attacked us for more than half a century, that we will then leave her to live in security and peace?” He continues.... “You may then dispute that all the above does not justify aggression against civilians, for crimes they did not commit and offenses in which they did not partake: This argument contradicts your continuous repetition that America is the land of freedom, and its leaders in this world. Therefore, the American people are the ones who choose their government by way of their own free will; a choice which stems from their agreement to its policies. Thus the American people have chosen, consented to, and affirmed their support for the Israeli oppression of the Palestinians, the occupation and usurpation of their land, and its continuous killing, torture, punishment and expulsion of the Palestinians. The American people have the ability and choice to refuse the policies of their Government and even to change it if they want.” This is not the first time that individuals have pointed out the fact that our blind acceptance to the government's actions and how we individually relate to others is problematic. Nhat Hahn discusses this in his 2006 book “Mindful Politics.” That  we have ignored that the ideas behind us as individuals can change the minds of our leaders, our governments. 

The question remains: What do we do from here? We believe and will affirm that when creating a culture and community of debaters we must regonize each and every individual act is interdependent and creates a culture that is unwelcome for some. This exact negligence of interdependency that occurs in American policy making when we falsely accuse Al Qaeda of hatting us for our freedeoms and not regonize the interrelated ways that the entire war on terror emerged.
We affirm promoting diversity through contributory virtuosity, this relies on the idea that identity is coarising. We should see perpectives and views as building a new social ethic.  Hershock's The ex of parenting shows how contributory vertuocity works. As a parent, there is no perfect handbook for every child, no checksheet that will tell exactly how one goes about parenting. Instead we can draw on our own experiences and of those around us for direction. 

Conflict of interest are inevitable, but when we enter a space of contributory vertuosity, it ensures for a more peaceful different way of dealing with problems.
 
Sulak Sivaraksa,granted the Right Livelihood Award, also known as Alternative Nobel Prize. co-founded the Asian Cultural Forum on Development and the International Network of Engaged Buddhists. Conflict, Culture, Change: Engaged Buddhism in a Globalizing World. 2005 p. 3-4
 
Peacemaking, Peace-Building, and Peacekeeping
AND
with compassion and understanding.

If our debate community, and our government, continue an approach absent of contibutory vertuosity In regards to decision making and how we interact with people, racism and oppression will continue. McPhail explains how this absence occurred through Allan Bloom's book,  A Closing of an American Mind,  shows how in which arguments against bloom, upheld the same system of negative difference which prevented contributory virtuosity.

Mark Lawrence McPhail, Associate Professor of Communications in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah. Zen in the Art of Rhetoric; An Inquiry Into Cohereence. 1996 p. 48-63

Reviewer Martha Nussbaum
AND
and psychological transformation.

Alternative: Vote neg to embrace interdependency and contributory virtuosity within the debate community and politics. 

Referenced Cards:

The government presented an evil, a threat that must be dealt with. Our individual response has been to ignore our personal responsibility in the enemy creation process because we ignore that we are the government and the government is us.

Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Master, poet, Founder of the Engaged Buddhist movement. Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Martin Luther King Jr. Mindful Politics; edited by Melvin McLeod. 2006 p. 39-41
 
Many people think
AND
do with peace.

The Buddhist oreintation promotes diversity –  by engaging difference nondualsitically, being in the moment and engaging in infinite play ensures true diversity 

Peter D. Hershock, Director of the Asian Studies Development Program at the East- West Center in Honolulu. Valuing Diversity; Buddhist Reflection on Realizing a More Equitable Global Future. 2012 p. 257-264

Thus far, I
AND
were capable of’ (Bailey 1992, 11)

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 6 | Opponent: UNLV CE | Judge: James Stevenson
The Secretary of Defense will issue Directive-Type memorandum indicating that drone strikes for the use of targeted killings will no longer be allowed by  individuals within the department of defense.

Solvency -. DOD can issue Memorandums that turn into directives that function as policy documents for the United States Military

Washington Headquarters Services 2013. "What Are the DoD Issuances?" What Are the DoD Issuances? N.p., 5 Aug. 2013. Web. 05 Aug. 2013. http://biotech.law.lsu.edu/blaw/dodd/general.html

A DOD DIRECTIVE-TYPE MEMORANDUM...Headquarters Services (WHS).

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 3 | Opponent: Los Rios JL | Judge: Ryan Cheek
Their reduction of war to the entities and particularities of the aff abstracts war, preventing contextualized responses to structural violence

Cuomo 96 (Chris J. Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, and Director of the Institute for Women's Studies at the Univerity of Georgia, “War Is Not Just an Event: Reflections on the Significance of Everyday Violence”, Published in Hypatia 11.4 nb, pp. 31-48) CH

But the abstraction...male or female. (Peach 1994. 166)

This neglect of people represents a lack of importance -- this is typical of a relationship to emotional trauma makes 1ac impacts inevtable and ensures structural violence

Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D., Ph.D. is a Founding Faculty Member and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles; a Founding Faculty Member at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York City; and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. 'Empathic Civilization' in an Age of Trauma, Huffington Post. February 23, 2010 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-d-stolorow/empathic-civilization-in_b_470095.html

In my work...see the light. 

Structural violence is the biggest impact in the debate: it is systemic, it outweighs nuclear war and it is the root cause of all other forms of violence

Gilligan, (Dept. of Psych. @ Harvard Med and Dir. of the Center for the Study of Violence) 1996
James, Violence: Our Deadly Epidemic and its Causes p. 191-196

You cannot work...cause to effect.

The Alternative is to reject un empathetic action to relearn empathy. 

We must act with empathy in every instance to ensure an empathetic civilization 

Richard Restak is the author of 20 books on the human brain, former president of the American Neuropsychiatric Association, and clinical professor of Neurology at George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington DC. 'Empathic Civilization': Our Brains Were Built For Feeling Each Other's Pain, Huffington Post. February 15, 2010 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-restak/empathic-civilization-our_b_460845.html

In our culture...an "Empathic Civilization". 

And unless there is a leap of faith that embraces the empathetic decision calculus, extinction will result 

Jeremy Rifkin is the author of 'The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis,' published by Tarcher Penguin in January 2010. Mr. Rifkin has been an advisor to the European Union since 2002. In that capacity, he is the principle architect of the Third Industrial Revolution long-term economic sustainability plan to address the triple challenge of the global economic crisis, energy security, and climate change. 'The Empathic Civilization': Rethinking Human Nature in the Biosphere Era, Huffington Post. January 11, 2010 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeremy-rifkin/the-empathic-civilization_b_416589.html. 

Neither the world's...expand through history?

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 2 | Opponent: LACC DJ | Judge: Travis Cochran
Tabi: breathe in and out, slowly. Calm your body for what it about to take place. The chair in front of you is for your inner demons that you will meet with today. 

Blaire: My process will be completed in 5 steps. My first step is finding my demon. I must decide what demon I need to work with, the one that is draining my energy and persistently disturbing me. The bigger the demon, the larger release of protective energy in the end. 

Tabi: What is the demon you have chosen?

Blaire: The demon I have chosen to work with today is evil, the evil demon. 

Tabi: Now, you must located the demon within yourself. 

Blaire: I have located my demon. It is located at the base of my neck and down through the upper part of my back. 

Tabi: You must observe your demon and begin to explore it so in the next step, begin to personify it. 

Blaire: My demon’s color is that of dark matter, or key. It has no shape, it appears a thick, thick smoky screen-like mist. It is ragingly hot and smells absolutely wretched. 

Tabi: Onto step 2, You must fully personify the demon. 

Blaire: My demon is HUGE. It is a menator, a huge, full-grown man with a bull face and horns, with feet like hooves. The demon has course, key, bull-like hair. It has red, beady eyes that seem out of place. Bellowing smoke from his snout with every exhale. He is also carrying an ax. There is blood dripping from the ax. The ground seems to creak from his weight. Around him is a swirling smoke. He seems to be VERY, very angry. He makes me feel like I am very small, and like I did something to piss him off, yet I have no idea what I did to set him off. He makes me feel so insecure. Now, upon second glance, he seems to be wearing a devilish grin.

Tabi: Now, out-loud, ask him three questions: What do you want from me? What do you need from me? How will you feel if you get what you need?
Blaire: What do you want from me? What do you need from me? How will you feel if you get what you need?

Tabi: Now, immediately change places with the demon, becoming the demon. Seeing the world through his eyes. Now, step 3, becoming the demon to understand what he needs.

Blaire: I can see myself sitting in-front of me, I am now the demon.

Tabi: find what the demon is seeking. 

Blaire: What I want from you is power over you. What I need from you is all of your respect. When my need is met, I will feel achievement. 

Tabi: Now onto step 4, feed your demon and meet the ally. 

Tabi: Dissolve into the nectar the demon desires. How are you dissolving?
Blaire: I am dissolving from the head and shoulders down, like I’m melting into the ground. The ground, seems to keep me pooled in this aqueous state, creating it’s own chalice for the nectar to sit.

Tabi: How is the demon accepting it? 

Blaire: It’s like when you’re in the ocean and lake and the waves are crashing into you. It’s like he’s taking it in in a way which looks like he is submerging himself, only to come up again and again. 

Tabi: Is your demon changing in any way? 

Blaire: Yeah. He’s starting to shrink, but at the same time disappear. He’s becoming transluscent, and slowly fading into nothingness.

Tabi: Now, In place of the demon, meet ally to replace him. What ally do you see?

Blaire: My ally is so serene and calming. She’s a gorgeous little girl. Her dirty blonde hair is done up in messy and lopsided pigtails. She also has large and comforting bright blue eyes. She is grinning at me, like she knows something I do not. Oh, and the best part. She accompinied by a grey, hound dog. The dog looks as rugged and dazzling as a stallion.

Tabi: Ask your ally these questions: How will you help me? How will you protect me? What do you pledge to me? How can I gain access to you?

Blaire: How will you help me? How will you protect me? What do you pledge to me? How can I gain access to you?

Tabi: Now switch places and become the ally. Personifying the ally in order to answer these questions.

Blaire: I will help you by making you realize that you are not alone and that you do have worth. I will protect you by never letting you go and never letting anything or anyone hurt you again. I pledge I will always, ALWAYS be there for you. You can gain access to me by thinking about me whenever you’re in a state of worry or anxiety. 

Tabi: Now on to the fifth and final step. This is the most important. Allow yourself to bask in the nothingness that is this moment. How do you feel?

Blaire: I feel weird, but in an exposed sort of way. As if the worries that I had are no more, and that no one can hurt me. I feel safe. I feel incredibly calm and chill, kind of like floating. Not so much in a water sort of way, but almost levitating. Almost like, I’m really, really, high. 

What you have just witnessed is an example of how one goes about feeding your demons. Which according to the boen tradition, is called choed meditation

 
This process of Feeding your demons dissolves the sense of self and has been empirically proven to help deal with problems in life preventing problems from being invisible and dictating our actions
 
Tsultrim Allione, one of the first American women to be ordained in the Tibetan tradtion. Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict. 2008 p 4-7
 
Because I myself...normal psycho­therapy ends. 

And, When one does not feed their demons and take special care of them it results in collective demons that cause racism, genocide, war, and terrorism – the individual needs to be the focus of feeding our demons because we are all cells of the collective demon
 
Tsultrim Allione, one of the first American women to be ordained in the Tibetan tradtion. Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict. 2008 p 250-253
 
Looking at the...all beings benefit.

Tournament: UTD | Round: 7 | Opponent: MoState Hackett and Parsian | Judge: Alex Bonnet
Heg will inevitably collapse – attempting to hold on makes the decline worse

Pape 2009 (Robert A. Pape, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, “The Empire Falls”, The National Interest, June 28, http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=20484)
 
Clearly, major shifts...AND...realistic foreign commitments.
 
Heg doesn’t solve war – US lacks influence it used to have to influence conflicts

Mastanduno 2009 (Michael, Professor of Government at Dartmouth, World Politics 61, No. 1, Ebsco,)
 
During the cold...AND...its own way.
 
US hegemony policy is deeply rooted in patriarchal, racist, and militarist assumptions, resulting in dehumanization, murder, and sexual assault.

Kirk in 2008
(Gwyn, Women for Genuine Security, “Gender and U.S. Bases in Asia-Pacific” March 14 http://www.fpif.org/articles/gender_and_us_bases_in_asia-pacific)

Militarism is a...AND...the feminized role.

Their hegemonic imposition of an American global system culminates in threat construction, generating enemies and ensuring endless conflicts and war where none existed previously
 
Lipschutz in 1995
(Ronnie, Professor of Politics at UC Santa Cruz, On Security, 15-16)
 
Consider, then, the...AND...undermines the ability.
 
The Belief that US leadership prevents conflict is rooted in American Exceptionalism – This Rhetoric is used as a mask for American Imperialism.  The end result is anyone who displays resistance to American Leadership will be forced to conform or be terminated
 
Deborah Madsen, 1998, American Exceptionalism, PG. 143-144
 
The conflict between...AND...for us all.
 
Your US Hegemony peace theory entrenches a myth of US Exceptionalism – Justifies an endless cycle of violence and securitization

Joseph Fallon, 2001 “the dangerous myth of American exceptionalism”, https://www.vdare.com/fallon/exceptionalism.htm, October 2001

Americans, on the...AND...Ignorance is Strength.”

Tournament: UTD | Round: 2 | Opponent: K-State McMillin-Beckman and Ramirez | Judge: Ashley Morgan
In 2012 George Zimmerman was arrested for Killing a young, black teenager named Trayvon Martin.  The trial lasted several months, but the outcome was highly predictable.  The defense was able to convince the jury that the homicide was justified as a result of laws permitting killing in the event of self-defense.  Despite the fact that teenager was armed with some skittles and a drink, George Zimmerman was following the teenager in the dark, and the gun used to kill the teen was that of Zimmerman's, the murder was deemed a justifiable homicide.  Zimmerman was found not guilty and released.

Despite all the media coverage, all the protests, all the sensationalized journalism, the heart of the conflict was rooted in the fear of difference and a legal system that is willing to create rules for justifiable killing in the face of that fear. 

The affirmative uses similar legal standards under the guise of transparency, credibility, legitimacy to perpetuate a system of legalized killing of difference.  Our link is not one of omission, but the conscious construction of legal standards that gloss over fear of difference and elevate justifiability as the standard for violence. 

The INC legitimizes the violence of the law---codifying status-quo policy sanitizes expanding state violence---their appeal to juridical legitimation results in malleable legal conventions that are ultimately meaningless

John Morrissey 11, Lecturer in Political and Cultural Geography, National University of Ireland, Galway; has held visiting research fellowships at University College Cork, City University of New York, Virginia Tech and the University of Cambridge. Liberal Lawfare and Biopolitics: US Juridical Warfare in the War on Terror, Geopolitics, Volume 16, Issue 2, 2011

Nearly two centuries...AND...the International Criminal Court”.90

The affirmatives spatialization of law fails to recognize that the state of emergency has become permanent and all-encompassing---the 1ac is a tool of liberal lawfare used to sanitize expansive violence

John Morrissey 11, Lecturer in Political and Cultural Geography, National University of Ireland, Galway; has held visiting research fellowships at University College Cork, City University of New York, Virginia Tech and the University of Cambridge. Liberal Lawfare and Biopolitics: US Juridical Warfare in the War on Terror, Geopolitics, Volume 16, Issue 2, 2011

Security, not liberty...AND...age of securitization.

The impact is militarism

Smith 2 – prof of phil @ U of South Florida
(Thomas, International Studies Quarterly 46, The New Law of War: Legitimizing Hi-Tech and Infrastructural Violence)

The role of...AND...will be dim indeed.

Our alternative is to refuse the discursive trap of the 1ac---resistance to machinic frameworks of law and security can reinvigorate agency and space for the political

Anthony Burke 2, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Alternatives 27

It is perhaps...AND...possibilities might be.

This mindset is important – our consciousness of war guarantees endless violence that ensures planetary destruction and structural violence

Lawrence 9 (Grant, “Military Industrial "War" Consciousness Responsible for Economic and Social Collapse,” OEN—OpEdNews, March 27)

As a presidential...AND...consciousness is creating.

Tournament: UTD | Round: 7 | Opponent: MoState Hackett and Parsian | Judge: Alex Bonnet
Impact is just hype - Chance of a non-state actor Acquiring a nuclear weapon  one is 1 in 3.5 billion

Schneidmiller in 2009 (Chris, Experts Debate Threat of Nuclear, Biological Terrorism, 13 January 2009, http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20090113_7105.php)

WASHINGTON -- There is...AND...to 3 1/2 million.

Terrorists don’t have the technical know-how or resources for nuclear weapons

Umana 11 – Felipe Umana is a contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus, from the Institute for Policy Studies. August 17, 2011, "Loose Nukes: Real Threat?" http://www.fpif.org/articles/loose_nukes_real_threat

Actors seeking to...AND...contain the material.

Their Representation of terrorism is a false threat construction which leads to conflict which results in more deaths than the original terror attack

Schneidmiller in 2009 (Chris, Experts Debate Threat of Nuclear, Biological Terrorism, 13 January 2009, http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20090113_7105.php)

Fear of an "extremely...AND...the original event.

The threat of international terrorism is hyperinflated as a means of increasing biopower.

Der Derian 95 (James, Director of the Global Security Program and Research Professor of International Studies at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, “Arms, Hostages, and the Importance of Shredding in Earnest: Reading the National Security Culture (II),” Facts, Factoids, and the Factotum of Terrorism, Duke University Press, JSTOR, AD: 7/28/09) FH

Why  is  this...AND...as  principled policy. 

The label of terrorist stifles any non-conflict solution while paving the way for state-sanctioned violence. 

Kapitan in 2004
Thomas, In Terrorism: The Philosophical Issues, I. Primoratz ed.  Palgrave (2004): pp. 175-19.
http://www.niu.edu/phil/~kapitan/Terrorism20in20the20Arab-Israeli20conflict.pdf

The ‘terrorist’ label...AND...state-sanctioned violence.

Terrorist discourse perpetuates conflict and prevents effective solutions

Kapitan in 2003
Tomis, The ‘Terrorism of Terrorism’ In James Sterba, ed., Terrorism and International Justice (Oxford, 2003), 47-66.http://www.niu.edu/phil/~kapitan/The20Terrorism20of20'Terrorism'.pdf

Language moulds thought...AND...discourse of today.25

Reps are important  - Academic debate is a unique site in which policy prescriptions must be justified based on accurate and productive representations.  The arguments made by the affirmative  cannot be divorced from the representations embedded in those arguments.

Michaela Guerin Hackner, M.A. Candidate, April 26, 2004, “Shaping International Development Discourse: The Embeddedness of Economic Theory and Policy Reform,” online, http://www3.georgetown.edu/grad/cct/academics/ theses/MichaelaHackner.pdf

Participants can potentially...AND...vocabulary might emerge