Tournament: UMKC | Round: 3 | Opponent: Wyoming FW | Judge:
Wikileaks cables prove Brazil regularly takes diplomatic positions that reject overly aggressive terrorism policies—they’d say yes
Smith 2010 (CNN Contributor, WikiLeaks: Brazil tried to distance itself from U.S. war on terrorhttp://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/11/29/us.brazil.wikileaks/index.html)
In a series of documents dated between 2005 and 2009...terrorist groups such as Hamas, Hizballah or the FARC (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) as terrorist groups -- the former two being considered by Brazil as legitimate political parties." Another issue was Brazil's sluggish ratification of anti-terrorism and anti-money laundering legislation that was prepared months earlier.
Consultation is critical to enhancing the US/Brazil relationship—even modest initiatives like the CP can have a profound effect of building trust and cooperation.
Hakim 2011 (Peter, President of the Inter-American Dialogue, Foreign Service Journal, “Brazil and the US—Remaking a Relationship, http://www.thedialogue.org/page.cfm?pageID=32andpubID=2679)
Still, even when bilateral relations have become strained in recent years, the two countries have never been adversaries. Rather, they have almost always sought to moderate and defuse their disputes, and have been willing to tolerate considerable disagreement. Building and sustaining a constructive relationship, however, may ....enormous impact on a whole host of international environmental challenges. Brasilia can take much of the credit for one of the few achievements of the December 2009 Copenhagen climate change talks:
Everything ends, no one is immortal – the affirmative’s resentment of insecurity drives them to attempt and order a safer world
Der Derrian 98 James, Watson Institute research professor of international studies at Brown University, “The Values of Security: Hobbes, Marx, Nietzsche, and Baudrillard”, JSTOR
Nietzsche transvalues both Hobbes's and Marx's interpretations of security through a genealogy of modes of being. His method is not to uncover some deep meaning or value for security, but to destabilize ...Morality and religion belong altogether to the psychology of error : in every single case, cause and effect are confused; or truth is confused with the effects of believing something to be true; or a state of consciousness is confused with its causes." 41
The affirmative’s obsession with perfection is life-negating – suffering is inevitable and the eternal struggle against it destroys all value to life
Kain, professor of philosophy at Santa Clara, 2007 Philip J., “Nietzsche, Eternal Recurrence, and the Horror of Existence,” Journal of Nietzsche Studies 33 (2007), 49-63
Why is it best never to have been born? Because all we can expect as human beings is to suffer. Yet, still, this is not precisely the problem...The very nature of things, the very essence of existence, means suffering. Moreover, it means meaningless suffering—suffering for no reason at all. That cannot be changed—it can only be concealed.
Alternative - The alternative is to embrace the tragedy of the status quo. – only by embracing the inevitability of extinction can we affirm the vibrancy of life
Joanne Faulkner, University of New South Wales, 2008 The Journal of Nietzsche Studies Spring/Autumn
We could envisage a style of subjectivity responsive to the innocence of becoming in terms of Nietzsche’s remarks ....as we are free, we participate in a complex web of interactions through which our agency is bounded and context dependent.
FISA court does not restrict presence at all – it just a rubberstamp
Greenwald 2013
(“The bad joke called 'the FISA court' shows how a 'drone court' would work” ¶ Glenn Greenwald¶ theguardian.com, Friday 3 May 2013 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/03/fisa-court-rubber-stamp-drones)kk
In the mid-1970s, an investigation by the US Senate, conducted by...How anyone could look at the Fisa court and want to replicate its behavior in the context of presidential executions is really mystifying.
CIR will pass—growing momentum but its fragile
Cap Times 7/3
“Congress should get serious about immigration reform”http:host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/editorial/congress-should-get-serious-about-immigration-reform/article_5dae2cf5-93b4-5aff-af20-862a40a41d7f.html mtc
Prominent Republicans, including the party’s 2008 presidential.....¶ The same goes for Congressman Paul Ryan, R-Janesville, who along with Rubio has been an outspoken backer of reform.
Overloading the agenda undermines political capital
Walsh 12
Kenneth T. Walsh, 12/20/2012 (staff writer, “Setting Clear Priorities Will Be Key for Obama,”http:www.usnews.com/news/blogs/Ken-Walshs-Washington/2012/12/20/setting-clear-priorities-will-be-key-for-obama, Accessed 4/25/2013, rwg)
Obama may be capable of juggling ....face major setbacks that would limit his power and credibility for the remainder of his presidency.
Money talks- the drone industry is booming, lobbyists are pushing legislation and making fat campaign contributions- this means the plan would be extremely unpopular with key members of the House
Stone 12
(Andrea, 5-12-12, Andrea Stone is senior national correspondent for The Huffington Post. She comes from AOL News, where she was senior Washington correspondent. Before joining AOL in September 2009, she spent nearly 24 years at USA TODAY, “Drone Lobbying Ramps Up Among Industry Manufacturers, Developers”, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/28/drone-lobbying-companies_n_1546263.html, JKS)
WASHINGTON -- It may be years before unmanned aircraft are common in the sky, but …. recent study by the Teal Group, an aviation and defense consulting firm, estimated that global spending on unmanned aircraft will almost double over the next decade, from $5.9 billion annually to $11.3 billion. Most of that growth will be in the U.S. “

Key to US-Latin American relations
Lopez-Levy 12 – PhD Candidate at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies of the University of Denver
Arturo, “The Latin American Gorilla,” Foreign Policy in Focus, http://www.fpif.org/articles/the_latin_american_gorilla
Few political acts would have a greater effect on U.S.-Latin American relations….. remittances, investment, and the voting preferences of expatriates from those countries.
Latin American relations solve warming
Lowenthal 9 - professor of international relations at the University of Southern California
Abraham F. Lowenthal, a nonresident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, president emeritus of the Pacific Council on International Policy, and the founding director of the Inter-American Dialogue. “The Obama Administration and Latin America: Will the Promising Start Be Sustained?”. NUEVA SOCIEDAD NRO. 222. July-August 2009. http://www.nuso.org/upload/articulos/3617_2.pdf
Apart from the scheduling coincidence that the Fifth Summit of the Americas was already on the calendar, the main reason for the Obama administration’s early engagement with Latin America…. cannot be solved or even managed effectively without close and sustained cooperation from many countries of the Americas.

COUNTABLE OFTEN PLURAL a rule, action, or situation that limits or controls someone or something ... or controlling someone or something
The restriction of press freedom is seen as an abuse of human rights.

The discourse of “Terrorism” represents opposite binaries portraying the “terrorists” as the enemy of the West.
Jackson 07-(Richard, Ph.D in conflict resolution, 2007, Government and Opposition, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 394–426, “Constructing Enemies: ‘Islamic Terrorism’ in Political and Academic Discourse)
The discourse is first and foremost founded on….. as well as position them as the enemy of Western societies.

The aff prescribes an otherizing discourse that serves to relegitimate our position of power- this seeks to affirm our rationality while assuming the non-western world is driven by irrational impulses
Gusterson ‘99
Gusterson, Hugh. “Nuclear Weapons and the Other in Western Imagination” Cultural Anthropology, 14.1. Feb 1999. http://www.jstor.org/stable/656531 accessed august 17, 2009.

Thus in Western discourse nuclear weapons are represented…. another variant of contemporary orientalist ideology is also to be found in U.S. national security discourse.

Tournament: Baby jo Memorial | Round: 2 | Opponent: UCO HF | Judge:
Wikileaks cables prove Brazil regularly takes diplomatic positions that reject overly aggressive terrorism policies—they’d say yes

Smith 2010 (CNN Contributor, WikiLeaks: Brazil tried to distance itself from U.S. war on terror http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/11/29/us.brazil.wikileaks/index.html)

In a series of documents dated between 2005 and 2009...terrorist groups such as Hamas, Hizballah or the FARC (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) as terrorist groups -- the former two being considered by Brazil as legitimate political parties." Another issue was Brazil's sluggish ratification of anti-terrorism and anti-money laundering legislation that was prepared months earlier.

Consultation is critical to enhancing the US/Brazil relationship—even modest initiatives like the CP can have a profound effect of building trust and cooperation.
Hakim 2011 (Peter, President of the Inter-American Dialogue, Foreign Service Journal, “Brazil and the US—Remaking a Relationship, http://www.thedialogue.org/page.cfm?pageID=32andpubID=2679)

Still, even when bilateral relations have become strained in recent years, the two countries have never been adversaries. Rather, they have almost always sought to moderate and defuse their disputes, and have been willing to tolerate considerable disagreement. Building and sustaining a constructive relationship, however, may ....enormous impact on a whole host of international environmental challenges. Brasilia can take much of the credit for one of the few achievements of the December 2009 Copenhagen climate change talks: 

Everything ends, no one is immortal – the affirmative’s resentment of insecurity drives them to attempt and order a safer world
Der Derrian 98 James, Watson Institute research professor of international studies at Brown University, “The Values of Security: Hobbes, Marx, Nietzsche, and Baudrillard”, JSTOR
Nietzsche transvalues both Hobbes's and Marx's interpretations of security through a genealogy of modes of being. His method is not to uncover some deep meaning or value for security, but to destabilize ...Morality and religion belong altogether to the psychology of error : in every single case, cause and effect are confused; or truth is confused with the effects of believing something to be true; or a state of consciousness is confused with its causes." 41

The affirmative’s obsession with perfection is life-negating – suffering is inevitable and the eternal struggle against it destroys all value to life
Kain, professor of philosophy at Santa Clara, 2007 Philip J., “Nietzsche, Eternal Recurrence, and the Horror of Existence,” Journal of Nietzsche Studies 33 (2007), 49-63
Why is it best never to have been born? Because all we can expect as human beings is to suffer. Yet, still, this is not precisely the problem...The very nature of things, the very essence of existence, means suffering. Moreover, it means meaningless suffering—suffering for no reason at all. That cannot be changed—it can only be concealed. 

Alternative - The alternative is to embrace the tragedy of the status quo. – only by embracing the inevitability of extinction can we affirm the vibrancy of life
Joanne Faulkner, University of New South Wales, 2008 The Journal of Nietzsche Studies Spring/Autumn
We could envisage a style of subjectivity responsive to the innocence of becoming in terms of Nietzsche’s remarks ....as we are free, we participate in a complex web of interactions through which our agency is bounded and context dependent.

FISA court does not restrict presence at all – it just a rubberstamp
Greenwald 2013
(“The bad joke called 'the FISA court' shows how a 'drone court' would work” ¶ Glenn Greenwald¶ theguardian.com, Friday 3 May 2013 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/03/fisa-court-rubber-stamp-drones)kk
In the mid-1970s, an investigation by the US Senate, conducted by...How anyone could look at the Fisa court and want to replicate its behavior in the context of presidential executions is really mystifying.
CIR will pass—growing momentum but its fragile
Cap Times 7/3
“Congress should get serious about immigration reform” http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/editorial/congress-should-get-serious-about-immigration-reform/article_5dae2cf5-93b4-5aff-af20-862a40a41d7f.html mtc
Prominent Republicans, including the party’s 2008 presidential.....¶ The same goes for Congressman Paul Ryan, R-Janesville, who along with Rubio has been an outspoken backer of reform.

Overloading the agenda undermines political capital
Walsh 12
Kenneth T. Walsh, 12/20/2012 (staff writer, “Setting Clear Priorities Will Be Key for Obama,” http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/Ken-Walshs-Washington/2012/12/20/setting-clear-priorities-will-be-key-for-obama, Accessed 4/25/2013, rwg)
Obama may be capable of juggling ....face major setbacks that would limit his power and credibility for the remainder of his presidency.

Lifting H1-B visa cap increases science diplomacy:
Pickering et al, 10 (THOMAS R. president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science “Science diplomacy aids conflict reduction” http://www.signonsandiego /news/2010/feb/20/science-diplomacy-aids-conflict-reduction/)
The U.S. government already has 43 bilateral umbrella science and technology agreement...often become informal goodwill ambassadors for America overseas.

Entry restrictions undermine science diplomacy
Dickson 10
David Dickson, 2010 (Director, SciDev.Net).  June 28, 2010.  “Science in diplomacy: “On tap but not on top””  Accessed Sept 11, 2010 at http://scidevnet.wordpress /category/science-diplomacy-conference-2010/
Europe’s framework programme of research programmes was quoted as a successful...challenge for diplomats was seen as helping to find ways to ease the burdens of such restrictions.

Science diplomacy solves the environment, resource wars, disease, prolif, terrorism and CBWs
Federoff ‘8
(Nina, 4/2, Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State and the Administrator of USAID, Testimony Before the House Science Subcommittee on Research and Science Education, http://legislative.nasa.gov/hearings/4-2-0820Fedoroff.pdf)
The welfare and stability of countries and regions in many parts of the globe require a concerted effort ...increase global partnerships, and create sustainability.

Bioweapons represent the single greatest risk of extinction
Ochs 02
Richard Ochs, BS in Natural Resource Management from Rutgers University, with honors, 2002 BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS MUST BE IMMEDIATELY ABOLISHED, http://www.freefromterror.net/other_articles/abolish.html
Of all the weapons of mass destruction, the genetically engineered biological weapons, many without ...? HUMAN EXTINCTION IS NOW POSSIBLE.

“restrictions” on is a plural and countable noun – plan effects a single restriction, which is sub-topical.
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/american/restriction

COUNTABLE OFTEN PLURAL a rule, action, or situation that limits or controls someone or something ... or controlling someone or something
The restriction of press freedom is seen as an abuse of human rights.