Tournament: tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: Central Oklahoma Botkin-Hamm | Judge: Albiniak
The power of the state commands all and claims legitimacy for all within its domain. The power of the sovereign robs us of our agency and makes true change impossible, because all political discussion is then understood post a preexisting state centered structure we automatically must follow.  Voting Negative is key, we must present a challenge to this imposed discursive pre-condition and an intensive rethinking of how we engage in such political dialogue is needed.

Wadiwel in 02 Dinesh Joesph, “Cows and Sovereignty: Biopower and Animal Life” Borderlands E-Journal Vol.1 #2)
But such a political program has far reaching....
....may be found in the animal life shared by both entities.

Tournament: Njddt | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lindenwood Nave-Wingo | Judge: Short
First, the 1ac’s ballot becomes a single worldview and not that of the people. Forcing us to become trapped by the positivist notions of the banking line.

Paulo Friere, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Chapter 1, educator and director of the Department of Cultural  Extension of Recife University,1970

For the truly humanist educator and the authentic revolutionary...
....Such a program constitutes cultural invasion,11good intentions notwithstanding

And it is from their panoptic approach that we find the controlling mechanism of their role of the ballot which assumes a one zie fits all solution to combating oppression. It is this creation of community from being in common and single paradigm cognition where we commit the community we call upon to the tomb.

Nancy in 1986 (Jean-Luc, The Inoperable Community.  Pg. xxxviii-xli)

Finitude, or the infinite lack of infinite identity, if we can risk ...
.... without community, deprived of our finite existence.

While an embracement of their knowledge is diffidently a good thing the our issue is with the production of the knowledge and attempts of framing the debate round solely around a single worldview marginalizes the diversity of knowledge that comes from the otherized positions in the world.

KINCHELOE 2005(,Joe,professor of education at CUNY graduate center urban education program and at Brooklyn college from the book critical constructivism)
Pg. 9: 

In constructivist theory, different individuals coming from diverse...
....Indeed earth teacher carries a unique disposition with her or him.

This is a criticism of prevailing methods for knowledge production, yes the affirmative might criticize the way in which white, anti-black and patriarchal knowledge production has placed itself over society and controlled our interactions in the world, but they take the process too far by replacing the harms and dominant epistemology of the status quo with the prevailing method of the 1ac.

Joe L. Kincheloe 2008 (the Canada Research Chair in Critical Pedagogy in the Faculty of Education at McGill University. (contact the author at jkincheloe@aol.com )) “Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction” (our copy was printed on acid free paper) P37-38

Critical epistemology understands that knowing in a complex....
.....We can begin to see why knowledge is power..

Reject the affs prevailing brand of knowledge production, which fuels the banking concepts that standardizes our education and actions.

Kincheloe in 2005 (Joe, from the book Critical constructivism pg. 15 Uncovering elitist assumptions in the construction of knowledge)

With this reconstructive imperative in mind one of ....
....lens that portrays (constructs) it as acceptable

Tournament: tournament | Round: 7 | Opponent: Missouri State Bess-Rumbaugh | Judge: Murray
Their use of dark to describe negativity is racist.

Pinkney 2007
Larry- veteran of the Black Panther Party, former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to successfully self-author his civil/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. “Liberals, Racism And The English Language In 21st Century America” November 2007 www.countercurrents.org Accessed 2-23-2014

The maintenance of subordination and control over we Black...
....We can do this because we must…¶ 

The use of the term black swan to describe abnormality is specifically racist

Giblet in 2013 (Rod Giblett is associate professor in the School of Communications and Arts at Edith Cowan University in Australia; “Black Swan Lake: Life of a Wetland”)

Black swans for the people of southern Australia are commonplace....
.... and its leaves in this critical cultural history.

Tournament: tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: Missouri State Miller-Russo | Judge: Bausch
The world is a prison 

Nagel and Nocella 13 (The End of Prisons: Reflections from the DecarcerationMovementedited by Mechthild E. Nagel, Anthony J. Nocella II)

The original working title for this volume....
AND
...trapped within it (American Indians and immigrants).

INTERNATIONAL PRISONS ARE MODELED AFTER DOMESTIC ONES - LOCAL FOCUS KEY
Mumia Abu Jamal in 09 (Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. The USA. City Lights Books. P. 70)

In an entirely different sense than the way....
AND
....or their torturers—the worst of the worst?

AND, VIOLENCE DOESN'T STOP WHEN THESE PRISON GUARDS LEAVE GITMO - THEY COME HOME TO ASSUME OTHER POSITIONS OF POWER AND PERPETUATE MORE VIOLENCE

Mumia Abu-Jamal in 09 (Wars to Come. Transcriped from radio essay available online http://www.prisonradio.org/mumia.htm col. writ. 12/5/09 (c) edited for gendered language changed men to men and women*)

For many, the Obama candidacy represented....
AND
....sometimes return to the land that birthed them.

Tournament: tournament | Round: 7 | Opponent: Missouri State Bess-Rumbaugh | Judge: Murray
First, macro-political fear mongering is replicated with horrible consequences on a geopolitical scale when confronted with the affirmatives impact claims …
The affirmative’s scenarios of catastrophic destruction are merely a thinly veiled attempt to engage in the politics of fear.  It is this fear that leads to authentic disaster; the same fear that beset the colonizer when confronted with the Native; the fear that flowed in the blood of white slave masters, the fear of 9/11 that Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld transformed into the war in Iraq, and lastly here the affirmative feeds into fear that will lead us to continue in a brand of racist politics that lives up to its forefathers.  We are done with fear…it is time to free ourselves from it

Mumia Abu-Jamal in 07 (The Politics of Fear Transcriped from radio essay available online http://www.prisonradio.org/mumia.htm col. writ. 12/23/07
We live, all of us, amidst what has become an almost...

....The corrosive politics of fear continues, as long as politicians ply that set of wares.

Furthermore, fear feeds upon itself until it can only produce chaos and more fear…if we give into this vicious cycle we abandon hope and the chance for real change with it.    

Mumia Abu-Jamal in 06 (FEAR MERCHANTS. Transcriped from radio essay available online http://www.prisonradio.org/mumia.htm Col. Writ. 10/29/06 )  

It is increasingly difficult to watch TV or listen...
....Isn't it time for *real* change?

Finally, don’t believe the hype.  The politics of fear is a tactic well practiced by the privileged and the powerful to line their politics and push their agenda.  Their politics are no different…all of their scenarios for destruction are grossly hyperbolic constructions designed to distract us from an authentic opportunity for liberation.
 
Mumia Abu-Jamal in 08 (The Fear Bomb -- Again!  Transcriped from radio essay available online http://www.prisonradio.org/mumia.htm col. writ. 9/23/08 (c) )  
If Congress has shown us anything, it is that when they are scared, they'll do anything....
.....these new instruments --but don't hold your breath! -(c) '08 maj

Tournament: tournament | Round: 5 | Opponent: Baylor Bacon-Boor | Judge: Stout
Johnson, Allan G. 2004 The Trouble We’re In: Privilege, Power, and Difference. PG 5-6

The ease of not being aware of privilege is an aspect of privilege itself...
AND
...“we shouldn’t have to look at this stuff,” they seem to say, “it isn’t fair.”

Tournament: tournament | Round: 4 | Opponent: Central Oklahoma Vance-Yost | Judge: Chase
Targeted killing is not limited to drones nor is it limited to the international scale – targeted killing of insidious proportions is happening throughout America.
North Omaha sheds light on the forms of structural racism and violence that creates the conditions for seemingly unending circular death.

Cordes, Henry in 2010. (writer for the Omaha world herald.) (http://omaha.com/article/20100221/NEWS01/702219915)

Over a recent span of five days, gunfire rocked northeast Omaha....they knew gunned down in front of them. 

this war is and should be considered as a war against us all.

Mumia Abu Jamal in 2005 (Workers World, The following commentary was played at March 19 anti-war rallies in the United States. Available online: http://www.workers.org/2005/us/mumia-0407/

The war against us all. This war in Iraq isn’t the end........Down with the wars for empire!

Therefore the alternative is to challenges targeted killing in proximity to the debate space. 

Our alternative is an attempt to refocus the debate on targeted killing and the creation of disposable bodies on how we relate and interact with those violences as a means to better understand how we prop up the powerstructure. This is a necessary reversal of the invisibility of domestic targeted killing that speaks to the larger problem of targeted killing that occurs on the other side of the world. 

(Mumia abu jamal 1998 (A quiet and deadly violence) http://www.mumia.nl/tccdmaj/quietdv.htm

It has often been observed that America is a truly...great and terrible violence passes away with them.

Tournament: Httpwwwweberdebatecomvalbrowningcollegerrhtm | Round: 2 | Opponent: Gonzaga Skoog-Newton | Judge: Munday
(The struggle for form: a conversation between Nick Carbo and M. Evelina Galang.(Panel Discussion) Article from: MELUS | March 22, 2004 | Davis, Rocio G.)

I grew up in Manila in the seventies...
...where there was more homogeneity among the students.

Allen Gabarro explains:
Gaborro 2002 (,Allen, TO SPEAK WITH A CULTURAL VOICE Published in PAWA's anthology Reflections: Readings for the Young and Old,)

That venerated scribe of Philippine history and culture...
....but manipulative utilization of cultural representation.

And it is the American white hegemonic knowledge production that created the exporting of Filipino culture away to the unknown realms of society from both those within the country itself and those whom immigrated to the US aswell. If we weren't clear enough it is not a foreigners job to create educational liberation for us.

Gaborro 2002 (,Allen, TO SPEAK WITH A CULTURAL VOICE Published in PAWA's anthology Reflections: Readings for the Young and Old,)

Cultures are not easily given to even the most unassuming of representations....
....it begets: “Imperialism is the export of identity.”

This assimilates the Filipino identity

Gaborro 2002 (,Allen, TO SPEAK WITH A CULTURAL VOICE Published in PAWA's anthology Reflections: Readings for the Young and Old,)

A variety of respected postcolonial studies have leveled ....
....the Filipino diaspora in the United States.

THE ROLE OF THE BALLOT IS TO VOTE FOR WHO BEST PERFORMATIVELY AND METHODOLOGICALLY REPRESENTS.

Our alternative is “TO TAKE BACK THE “PSYCHIC TERRITORY”’ to force into the realms of Academia specifically in debate and this year’s resolution a process of discovering the Filipino Identity

Gaborro 2002 (,Allen, TO SPEAK WITH A CULTURAL VOICE Published in PAWA's anthology Reflections: Readings for the Young and Old,)

But colonial cultural representations serve their creators’...
....that stubbornly promote the course of cultural pre-eminence and ethnocentric triumphalism.

Finally voting negative isn’t just to affirm the ideas of the Filipino author but it is the the role of the judge is to provide testemony and bare witness as an acknowledgement of the day to day struggles stemming from “colonial dispossession” created by the militant hegemonic forces of both society and academia, forgoing a position that takes into account the violent imperial mindset that must be done away with if we can ever find coping or liberation from that which oppresses my Asian identity.

Gaborro 2002 (,Allen, TO SPEAK WITH A CULTURAL VOICE Published in PAWA's anthology Reflections: Readings for the Young and Old,)

These symptoms of what San Juan Jr. calls “colonial dispossession,” are the obstacles that Filipino American writers find themselves up against...
...their own words what it truly means to be a Filipino American

Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 8 | Opponent: Iowa Shearer-Long | Judge: Watts
The State ain't here

Warner, Ede Jr. 02 (Director of the Malcolm X Debate Society at University of Louisville " GO HOMERS, MAKEOVERS OR TAKEOVERS? A PRIVILEGE ANALYSIS OF DEBATE AS A GAMING SIMULATION"

Although many teams are beginning to reject this...
...and interested in speaking to those issues.

Who decides who or what a terrorists? White men. 

Mumia Abu-Jamal in 08 (Of Terrorist Lists and Listers. Transcriped from radio essay available online http://www.prisonradio.org/mumia.htmcol.  writ. 7/5/08 (c))  

With the news that Nelson Mandela, former ....
listed (until a few days ago) by the U.S. government, as terrorists? 

Fasching and deChant in 01 (Darrell and Dell, Prof. of Religious Studies @ University of SouthFlorida, Prof. of Religious Studies @ USF, Comparative Religious Ethics: A Narrative Approach, Pg.  42-43)

Interpreting our own historical situation....
is acting through me, so I am not personally responsible."

As outsiders you must begin your counter-hegemonic strategy from the perspective of the oppressed in order to challenge your own involvement with oppression.

Brent R.Henze 2000 “Who Says Who Says?: The Epistemological Grounds for Agency in Liberatory Political Projects.” Found in Reclaiming Identity: Realist theory and the predicament of postmodernism. Edited by Paula Moya and Michael Hames-Garcia

Though I argue against efforts to speak for those
.....as a systemic yet particular effect of power.

Structural violence is omnipresent, ongoing, and invisible, and thus normalized and woven into the fabric of society. We must prioritize it in order to solve.

Mumia Abu-Jamal 1998“A QUIET AND DEADLY VIOLENCE,” 9/19/98, http://www.mumia.nl/TCCDMAJ/quietdv.htm

It has often been observed that America is a truly violent nation, as shown by the thousands of cases.......
Such systems must pass away, so that their great and terrible violence passes away with them.

Tournament: tournament | Round: 5 | Opponent: Kansas State Scott-Stidham | Judge: Samuels
(Brian explains his proximity to targeted killing through lived experience)

The role of the ballot for this debate is to determine who best performatively and methodologically challenges targeted killing in the proximity of the debate space

Targeted killing is ongoing - we must centralize structural violence because it has immense social, physical, and psychological implications

Mumia Abu Jamal indicates –

Mumia Abu-Jamal 1998“A QUIET AND DEADLY VIOLENCE,” 9/19/98, http://www.mumia.nl/TCCDMAJ/quietdv.htm

It has often been observed that America is a truly violent nation, as shown by....
....pass away, so that their great and terrible violence passes away with them. 

Our performance is opposed to the omnipresence of targeted killing as a means to create counter-hegemonic politics. Their narrow view inevitably fails for people of color

CHRIS J. CUOMO is assistant professor of philosophy and women’s studies at the University of Cincinnati. She teaches courses in ethics, feminist philosophy, social and political philosophy, environmental ethics, and lesbian and gay studies, fall 1996

Theory that does not investigate or even notice...
...institutions and other militaristic agents of the state.

Their use of fiat encourages students to be passive and leads to the glorification of doing absolutely nothing - makes us feel better while black and brown bodies continue to experience violence

Mitchell, Gordon. 1995. (portion taken from essay: Reflexive Fiat: Incorporating the Outward Activist Turn Into Contest Strategy, pages 1-2.)

Most mainstream conceptions of fiat contain a common...
...politically regressive dynamic into the academic debate process.

Their method of politics is part and parcel of traditional debate protocols which assume the debate space is neutral and assumes debaters are neutral subjects who can take on positions regardless of their ethical implications.That leads to racist policy-making

Spanos in 4 (William V., available online cross-x.com urlhttp://www.cross-x.com/vb/showthread.php?t=945110andhigh)

Dear Joe MIller, Yes, the statement...
...down into the historical arena where positions make a difference.

Tournament: tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: Central Oklahoma Botkin-Hamm | Judge: Denney
Mumia Abu-Jamal in 08 (When Courts Go Wrong Transcriped from radio essay available online http://www.prisonradio.org/mumia.htm col. writ. 4/5/08 (c) '08)

We're often surprised when courts get it wrong, but why?...
AND
...When people organize, they make change. (c) '08 maj

Tournament: KCKCC | Round: Semis | Opponent: Kansas Wefald-Harris | Judge: Fifelski, Samuels, Stone
We begin with a mirror…but not just any mirror.  This mirror does not reflect things as they appear at first glance, but reflects things as they are.  Much like Freud’s reflection in the mirrored glass of a train car, the image is not one of beauty and virility but instead one of decline, decay, and ultimately violence.  Like Freud the affirmative will be tricked by the eye…they will not see themselves in the mirror but rather be disgusted by the images that stare them in the face.  Rational society is built upon this fundamental misapprehension: the denial of the dark underbelly of our existence.  We turn away from polite society in an attempt to see humanity and our politics for what they are…we turn to Vincent Van Gogh in an attempt not to resist the darkness present just under the surface of reality, but rather to plunge into it.  It is this destructive moment of chaos that certifies our mortality and turns to a life stripped from all utopianism and finds consolation in it…even in our madness, our violence, our joy, and ultimately our death.  

Bataille in 1987 (Georges, Visions of Excess: Selected Essays 1927-1939.  Translated by Alan Stoekl. Pg. 61-72)

The Annales medicao-psychologiques presents the following facts on the subject of “Gaston F…. stupidly aborted.  It leaves along with the tongue of Anaxarcus of Abdera, bit off and spat blood in the face of the tyrant Nicoreaon, and with the tongue of a zeno of Elea spat in the face of Demylos. . .both of these philosophers have been subjected to atrocious tortures, the first crushed while still alive in a mortar. 

And, our project of sacrificial doubling marks the boundary where the coherence of political criticism breaks down.  We confront rational existence with its opposite in the form of avant-garde literature in order to enact a sacrificial death of the 1AC.  This death should not be viewed as an execution but rather as a self-mutilation.  This process of auto-mutilation or self-destruction creates in its wake a subversiveness that denies the will to positivist utopianism present in the 1AC placing us in the center of a struggle between productive political action and the inescapable negativity that prefigures all of our associations with the world.  You can’t learn this shit in school…only debate provides us with the space to deny the law of the land by reading the very texts that our law makers would have burned…

Stoekl in 1986 (Alan, Politics, Writing, and Mutilation: The Cases of Bataille, Blanchot, Roussel, Leiris, and Ponge. Pg. xi-xix)

It has become a commonplace of criticism to argue that…inescapable as well.)

This process of struggle and continual sacrifice denies the statement of a political system that sees itself as morally superior in any way.  The denial of the double nature of our existence, of the inherent negativity present in all things forces the affirmative to suture over the wounds created by our auto-mutilation proposing a position that is violently innocent.  This process of moral superiority and denial of negativity leads to fascism.  Only the process of continual auto-destruction staves off this fate.

Stoekl in 1986 (Alan, Politics, Writing, and Mutilation: The Cases of Bataille, Blanchot, Roussel, Leiris, and Ponge. Pg. 130-1)

We have examined texts of this sort in this book, and our method of reading owes much to (and perverts much of) Marin's method in Utopiques. It is degenerate avant-garde…out of the text. 

Finally, we return to Bataille.  Van Gogh is not just some Dutch painter who cut off his ear, but rather a person who reached the boiling point where the proposed stability of the world explodes rousing us from sleep putting us into contact with the very chaos that makes life worth living. 

Bataille and Michelson in 86 (Van Gogh as Prometheus Author(s): Georges and Annette Source: October, Vol. 36, Georges Bataille: Writings on Laughter, Sacrifice, Nietzsche, Un- Knowing (Spring, 19), pp. 58-60 Published by: The MIT Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/778550)

Vincent Van Gogh belongs not to art history… to flame, and only thereby to power.

Tournament: Httpwwwweberdebatecomvalbrowningcollegerrhtm | Round: 2 | Opponent: Gonzaga Skoog-Newton | Judge: Munday
Akhila 2012 (Why words matter: Victim v. Survivor Posted on March 13, 2012 http://akhilak.com/blog/2012/03/13/why-words-matter-victim-v-survivor/ )

I am of a firm belief that we should use the term “survivor”...
...moving forward with their lives and healing from the trauma.