1AC - War on Debate 1NC - Cap K PIC'ed out of "community" 2NR - Cap K
Wake
3
Opponent: Liberty AB | Judge: Michael Davis
1AC - Consult Pak about drone strikes 1NC - T-restrict flex DA farm bill ban drones (no cards) Law K 2NR - Flex DA
Wake
5
Opponent: UNT CS | Judge: Malcom Gordon
1AC - Hauntology 1NC - Cap K framework Terror DA 2NR - Cap
Wake
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Opponent: Liberty BM | Judge: Alex Mcvey
1AC - Consult Pak about drone strikes 1NC - T-restrict flex DA farm bill ban drones (no cards) Law K 2NR - Flex DA
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AUMF DA
Tournament: ESU | Round: 1 | Opponent: KU HW | Judge: Fifelski AUMF strong now – Congress supports a broad interpretation Rosa Brooks 3/14/13 (New America Foundation Schwartz senior fellow at Georgetown University law, served as a counselor to the U.S. defense undersecretary for policy from 2009 to 2011 and previously served as a senior advisor at the U.S. State Department, "Mission Creep in the War on Terror," Foreign Policy, www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/03/14/mission_creep_in_the_war_on_terror)
"When you're not near the girl you love, love the girl you're near AND in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, which used virtually identical language.
There's a big story by Greg Miller in the Washington Post on how the Obama AND is simply an "affirmation" or "reaffirmation" of the AUMF.
Decreasing AUMF authorizations snowballs – causes judicial rollback of the AUMF Beau Barnes 12 (J.D. Candidate, Boston University School of Law, “Reauthorizing the ‘War on Terror’: The Legal and Policy Implications of the AUMF’s Coming Obsolescence,” Military Law Review, Vol. 211, 2012, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2150874)
The scope of the AUMF is also important for any future judicial opinion that might AND its precise scope, authorization, and continuing vitality matter a great deal.
That shifts US doctrine to international self-defense – expanded jus ad bellum collapses global firebreak on use-of-force -~-- causes global hotspots that go to war Beau Barnes 12 (J.D. Candidate, Boston University School of Law, “Reauthorizing the ‘War on Terror’: The Legal and Policy Implications of the AUMF’s Coming Obsolescence,” Military Law Review, Vol. 211, 2012, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2150874)
In a world without a valid AUMF, the United States could base its continued AND to kill people anywhere, anytime, the result would be chaos.”148
10/20/13
CIR - ESU
Tournament: ESU | Round: 1 | Opponent: KU HW | Judge: Fifelski Obama will get the GOP to cave on CIR now, but political capital is key and he can’t falter on anything Epstein 10/17 (Obama’s latest push features a familiar strategy By REID J. EPSTEIN BA emory| 10/17/13 http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/barack-obama-latest-push-features-familiar-strategy-98512.html)kk President Barack Obama made his plans for his newly won political capital official — he’s AND the day-to-day work that’s supposed to be done here.”¶
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Immigration reform key to invigorate the economy – on the knife’s edge Abraham 10/6 (Abraham and Gutierrez: Immigration reform can power U.S. economy¶ October 6, 2013¶ By Spencer Abraham and Carlos Gutierrez¶ http://www.freep.com/article/20131006/OPINION05/310060069/immigration-reform-citizenship-Abraham-Gutierrez)kk Immigration reform is a secret weapon that can help unleash the full power of the AND off the important task of immigration reform is no longer a viable option.
Growth averts great power nuclear war Mead 9 Walter Russell, Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, New Republic, February 4, http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=571cbbb9-2887-4d81-8542-92e83915f5f8andp=2 If current market turmoil seriously damaged the performance and prospects of India and China, AND the world economy back on track, we may still have to fight.
10/20/13
Cap 1nc V UNT CS
Tournament: Wake | Round: 5 | Opponent: UNT CS | Judge: Malcom Gordon Derrida’s writings preclude a class based analysis through the use of textual analysis that renders class into a phenomena of binaries – his writings are the key to the vanishing of class from contemporary discussions Ebert and Zavarzadeh in 2008(Teresa L., English, State University of New York, Albany, Mas’ud, prolific writer and expert on class ideology, “Class in Culture”, p.xii-xiv) So are the theories of Jacques Derrida whose writings have contributed greatly to the disappearing AND is forced out of sightby the discursive violence of the culture of capital.
Similarly, all the disasters that the ecologists blame on ‘technical progress' the growing AND no limit to the horror of this bloody monster that is decadent capitalism.
Our alternative is to reject the aff in favor of historical materialism – that’s the best methodology for fighting capital and is key to agency Holmstrom 97 (Nancy, Professor Emeritus Department of Philosophy at Rutgers, Renewing Historical Materialism, Solidarity, http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/2198)
Wood's interpretation of historical materialism has been pejoratively labeled "Political Marxism," but she AND sees "historical determinations, structured processes with human agencies." (78)
11/17/13
Cap 1nc v Rutgers
Tournament: Wake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Rutgers RS | Judge: Lindsay VanLuvanee A focus on whiteness or identity politics trades off with the material oppression that capitalism has caused to produce racialized oppression. Koshy 2001 (Susan Koshy, “Morphing Race into Ethnicity: Asian Americans and Critical Transformations of Whiteness”, Duke University Press, Project Muse)
Whiteness studies has focused primarily on the historical emergence of liminal European groups (the AND of agency that account for complicity and resistance within this intermediary racial group.
Focus on individual struggle trades off with class struggle, leaving us at the mercy of the system at large Zavarzadeh 94 (Mas'ud, “The Stupidity that Consumption is Just as Productive as Production (Marx, Theories of Surplus-Value),” The Alternative Orange Vol. 4 No. 1, Fall/Winter 1994,http://www.etext.org/Politics/AlternativeOrange/4/v4n1_cpp.html)
Reading and writing as stories of power-and-resistance are now part of AND . This is the post-al left in its most lucid moment.
Similarly, all the disasters that the ecologists blame on ‘technical progress' the growing AND no limit to the horror of this bloody monster that is decadent capitalism.
Our alternative is to reject the aff in favor of historical materialism – that’s the best methodology for fighting capital and is key to agency Holmstrom 97 (Nancy, Professor Emeritus Department of Philosophy at Rutgers, Renewing Historical Materialism, Solidarity, http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/2198)
Wood's interpretation of historical materialism has been pejoratively labeled "Political Marxism," but she AND sees "historical determinations, structured processes with human agencies." (78)
This essay advances a materialist theory of race. In my view, race oppression AND to one of democratic multiculturalism, ultimately, requires the transformation of capitalism.
11/17/13
Case - ESU TW Three tier method
Tournament: ESU | Round: 4 | Opponent: ESU TW | Judge: Harris Attention given to micropolitics obscures actual successes of disfavored groups and only benefits the privileged Patricia Hill Collins 98 (Prof. of Sociology - Dept. of African-American Studies at Univ. of Cincinnati, Fighting Words, 135-7)
In this academic context, postmodern treatment of power relations suggested by the rubric of AND relations in academia or elsewhere. Ironically, their privilege may actually increase.
They create a homogenous black body, ignoring the multiplicities of identity that shape oppression
Clarence Lusane 2004 Bynoe, cultural critic, political analyst and public speaker, 2004(Yvonne, Stand and Deliver: Political actiism, leadership and Hip Hop culture 74-75)
Clarence Lusane: It is important, I believe, to recognize that what is AND the multidimen¬sional character of black America has warped its leadership and polit¬ical capabilities.
The oppressor/oppressed dichotomy forecloses addressing the intersections of power. They can’t account for the multiplicity of power relations within “oppressed” groups Thomas S. Popkewitz Sept 97 Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction at Univ. of Wisconsin-MadisonANDMarieBrennan,Faculty of Education at Central Queensland U; “RESTRUCTURING OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THEORY IN EDUCATION: FOUCAULT AND A SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY OF SCHOOL PRACTICES,” Educational Theory, Volume 47 Issue 3 , Pages 287 – 434, JT
Thus, while research and researchers can be sensitive to issues of race, class AND multiplicity of relations that exist within and among groups at any one time.
A standpoint of the oppressed is inadequate to ground ontology. Their argument establishes a truth regime where their specific location becomes the standard by which to exclude all others. The net result is to entrench oppression Carolyn D'Cruz 1 LaTrobe University, Australia; "What Matter Who's Speaking?" Authenticity and Identity in Discourses of Aboriginality in Australia, Vol. 5 Issue 3, Jouvert, http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v5i3/cdcr.htm
Borrowing from Marx's materialist conception of history, feminist standpoint theory finds its point of AND way in which the issues raised by standpoint positions impinge upon that debate.
10/20/13
Case - KU BhCo Space weapons
Tournament: ESU | Round: 6 | Opponent: KU BhCo | Judge: Moore There’s no uniqueness for relations – Russia and China have been pissed at us for perceived space weapon development for YEARS – even though we’re NOT developing the weapons. Independently, Chinese and Russian weaponization makes all their impacts inevitable Stone 9 (Space strategy planner for the USAF, a former staff member for two US Senators, and Executive Director of a growing Chamber of Commerce, “How should we secure our space-based assets as a nation?,” http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1345/1) At the same, US satellites, military as well as commercial, have been AND as a sanctuary free from conflict will be restored. Or will it?
Their 1AC “Brown” evidence concludes neg Brown 9 Trevor—PhD at Auburn, "Soft Power and Space Weaponization" Air 26 Space power Journal Volume 23 No 1, Spring, pg. 68 The notion that the United States can keep space from becoming a “shooting gallery AND requisite political skill in order to retain soft power while expanding hard power.
Judicial citation or discussion of a foreign ruling does not, moreover, convert it AND reached on other grounds. It leads to more impressionistic, undisciplined adjudication.”
Top consensus and new report indicates warmings a fraud – 15 years of cooling, politically driven and dated models Bastasch 9/29 (Top MIT scientist: Newest UN climate report is ‘hilariously’ flawed¶ 1:27 PM 09/29/2013¶ Michael Bastaschhttp://dailycaller.com/2013/09/29/top-mit-scientist-un-climate-report-is-hilariously-flawed/#ixzz2gmtrGt1E)kk Not all scientists are panicking about global warming — one of them finds the AND that the science behind manmade global warming is faulty and politically driven.¶
Cooling now – history and trends Carlin 11 Alan Carlin, PhD in Economics, former Director @ EPA and fellow @ RAND, 3-2011, “ A Multidisciplinary, Science-Based Approach to the Economics of Climate Change,” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol. 8 On the contrary, the evidence is that during interglacial periods over the last 3 AND civilization in the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere—not global warming.
No offense – co2 inevitable – exhalations Lovelock ‘9, Consultant of NASA, former president of the Marine Biological Association, and Honorary Visiting Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford (James, The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning: Enjoy it While You Can, 74-75) It is surprising that politicians could have been so unwise as to agree on policies AND that harms the Earth; the people's footprint is larger and more deadly.
The latest figures from more than 20 scientific institutions around the world show that global AND ,” she said. “Aerosols cool the climate by reflecting the sunlight.”
But they cause faster warming – large emission reductions remove sulfate aerosols which cool the Earth Lovelock ‘9, Consultant of NASA, former president of the Marine Biological Association, and Honorary Visiting Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford (James, The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning: Enjoy it While You Can, 55-56
In 2004, two IPCC contributors, Peter Cox and Meinrat Andreae, raised the AND "We live in a fool's climate and are damned whatever we do."
We’ll win on timeframe – causes warming spikes faster than CO2 can solve Jessica Strefler, Gunnar Luderer, and Elmar Kriegler, June 12. Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research, Germany. "The role of aerosol emission and control for achieving ambitious climate protection targets," iew2012.odandbrown.co.uk/files/2012/06/Strefler.pdf. kk
More than 100 countries have adopted the goal to limit temperature change to two¶ AND However they used simple illustrative emission¶ scenarios for CO2 and air pollutants.
10/20/13
Case - KU HW Charmin betsy
Tournament: ESU | Round: 1 | Opponent: KU HW | Judge: Fifelski Your aff is a joke – Al-Bihani’s international law holdings had ZERO precedential effect – DC court rulings prove Marty Lederman (Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel, appointed by President Obama in January 2009) and Steve Vladeck (Professor of Law and the Associate Dean for Scholarship at American University Washington College of Law) December 31, 2011 “The NDAA: The Good, the Bad, and the Laws of War–Part II” http://opiniojuris.org/2011/12/31/the-ndaa-the-good-the-bad-and-the-laws-of-war-part-ii/
Al-Bihani petitioned for en banc review. In response, the United States AND ago, in Uthman v. Obama, No. 11-413.
The aff is a facial ruling that doesn’t require tangible policy changes Kim Lane Scheppele 12, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and University Center for Human Values; Director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University. THE NEW JUDICIAL DEFERENCE, 92 B.U.L. Rev. 89
In this Article, I will show that American courts have often approached the extreme AND present to bring counter-terrorism policy back under the constraint of constitutionalism.
Charming Betsy is inherently uncertain – poor signal and circumvention Dore ’11 Philip, JD from Louisiana Law, Law Clerk at United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, “Greenlighting American Citizens: Proceed with Caution,” http://digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3055andcontext=lalrev
In support of its position that the AUMF incorporates the laws¶ of war, AND considering that the authorization¶ overlaps with the President's independent constitutional powers.203
Judicial citation or discussion of a foreign ruling does not, moreover, convert it AND reached on other grounds. It leads to more impressionistic, undisciplined adjudication.”
Ilaw fails – states will either inevitably cooperate, or ilaw can’t convince them to Eric A. Posner 9, Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. The Perils of Global Legalism, 34-6
Most global legalists acknowledge that international law is created and enforced by states. They AND states, and bad states, all exist on a plane of equality.
Multilat fails – to many actors means no consensus Holmes ’10 Kim Holmes, VP, foreign policy and defense studies, Heritage. Frmr Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs. While at the State Department, Holmes was responsible for developing policy and coordinating U.S. engagement at the United Nations and 46 other international organizations. Member of the CFR. Frmr adjunct prof of history, Georgetown. PhD in history, Georgetown, Smart Multilateralism and the United Nations, 21 Sept. 2010, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/09/smart-multilateralism-when-and-when-not-to-rely-on-the-united-nations
The need for multilateralism is obvious. Nations share concerns about many problems and issues AND positions on an issue have been predetermined in their regional or political groupings.
International law doesn’t prevent conflict Cassese 1 Antonio Cassese, Professor at the University of Florence and member of I'Institut de droit international, 2001 (International Law) pg. 348
Over the years the 'authorization regime' has evolved along three main lines. First with AND 2004) (see for instance 9-14), both on Iraq.
No impact to ozone loss and it won’t collapse anyways Ring 09 Meteorologist in New Zealand. 2009. “The Nonsense that is Ozone Depletion.” http://www.ourcivilisation.com/ozone/king.htm There is not a 'layer' of ozone at all, any more than there is AND to correspond with increases in sunspot activity, which throws out more UV radiation
10/20/13
Case - Liberty AB Pakistan aff
Tournament: Wake | Round: 3 | Opponent: Liberty AB | Judge: Michael Davis 1 Their 1st card indicates that refroms are inevitable – this is their marki card For all its successes, the U.S. drone program in Pakistan is AND their predecessors in offering tacit endorsements of the United States’ expansive counterterrorism efforts.
No chance that Pakistan will collapse Bandow 09 Senior Fellow @ Cato, former special assistant to Reagan (11/31/09, Doug, “Recognizing the Limits of American Power in Afghanistan,” Huffington Post, http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10924)
From Pakistan's perspective, limiting the war on almost any terms would be better than AND state in the vain hope of salvaging Afghanistan would be a terrible mistake."
No inherency – US just reduced drone strikes which appeased Pakistan – also any Pakistani resistance is not sincere. Gannon and Abbot 7/24 (U.S. slashes drone program in Pakistan July 25, 2013 - 4:50pm KATHY GANNON SEBASTIAN ABBOT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS http://thechronicleherald.ca/world/1144300-us-slashes-drone-program-in-pakistan)kk ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The United States has drastically scaled back the number of drone AND articulate a clear demand regarding drone strikes to take advantage of coalescing pressure.”
Economic decline doesn’t cause war – empty bellies – war requires wealth that doesn't exist in an economic downturn Deudney 91 Hewlett Fellow in Science, Technology, and Society at the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Princeton (Daniel, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Ebsco)
Poverty Wars. In a second scenario, declining living standards first cause internal turmoil AND military operations require complex organizational skills, specialized industrial products and surplus wealth.
It might have been expected that such prosperity would eliminate the causes of war. AND and as the commander of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. Ad 2 No threat of terror – weak leadership and no recent attacks Zenko and Cohen 12 *Fellow in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations, *Fellow at the Century Foundation, (Micah and Michael, "Clear and Present Safety," March/April, Foreign Affairs, www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137279/micah-zenko-and-michael-a-cohen/clear-and-present-safety
NONE OF this is meant to suggest that the United States faces no major AND the intelligence and law enforcement agencies of the United States and its allies. No chance of a terrorist attack Mueller 8-2 IR prof at Ohio State. PhD in pol sci from UCLA (2 August 2011, John, The Truth about Al Qaeda, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/68012/john-mueller/the-truth-about-al-qaeda?page=show)
As a misguided Turkish proverb holds, "If your enemy be an ant, AND complaining about how cash-strapped they are. Some reports suggest they've also
At the end of last week, foreign secretaries Nirupama Rao of India and Salman AND issues both countries have gone to war over several times in the past.
11/17/13
Case - Liberty BM Pakistan aff
Tournament: Wake | Round: 8 | Opponent: Liberty BM | Judge: Alex Mcvey Ad 1 Sharif would be forced to say no—he’s painted himself into a political corner on drone strikes. Syaing no leads to new attacks on NATO supply lines in the region
The Hakimullah strike has plunged Sharif into a trap of his own making. He AND supply routes through Pakistan would probably be taken seriously by the Obama administration.
No chance that Pakistan will collapse Bandow 09 Senior Fellow @ Cato, former special assistant to Reagan (11/31/09, Doug, “Recognizing the Limits of American Power in Afghanistan,” Huffington Post, http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10924)
From Pakistan's perspective, limiting the war on almost any terms would be better than AND state in the vain hope of salvaging Afghanistan would be a terrible mistake."
Sharif is an awful leader and Pakistan is ridiculously dysfunctional—we are declaring shenanigans on your rosy optimism about reforms Nazar 2013 (Consultant and former chief economist for citigroup, http://dawn.com/news/1052293/can-nawaz-sharif-fix-the-economy) Pakistan has been down this path many times before and back to square one. AND wishing the problems would just go away when they are actually getting worse.
The root cause of Balochistan violence is extremist groups, which the aff doesn’t solve for Esfandiari 11/7 Golnaz Esfandiari. Senior Correspondent in RFE/RL's Central Newsroom and editor of the award-winning Persian Letters blog. She previously worked as the Chief Editor of RFE/RL ‘s Persian Service Radio Farda. “Violence Returns to Iran’s Sistan-Esfandiari Province” http://www.rferl.org/content/violence-sistan-baluchistan/25161200.html Sistan-Baluchistan is one of the poorest regions of Iran, and the majority AND ," claims it is defending the rights of Sunnis in Sistan-Baluchistan.
No Central Asian war --- cooperation’s most likely between Russia, China, and the US Weitz ‘6 Richard, Senior Fellow and Director at the Program Management Hudson Institute, “Averting a New Great Game in Central Asia,” The Washington Quarterly Central Asian security affairs have become much more complex than during the original nineteenth- AND opportunities for cooperative diplomacy in a region where bilateral ties traditionally have predominated.
MAD prevents war between India and Pakistan. Khan ‘11 A.Q. Khan, Doctor of Science, “Indo-Pak nuclear war unlikely”, 5/17/11, http://www.kashmirawareness.org/Article/View/6464 7/7/11 Khan has said that despite sabre-rattling between Islamabad and New Delhi, there AND as the once bitter enemies Germany and France live today," he added.
At the end of last week, foreign secretaries Nirupama Rao of India and Salman AND issues both countries have gone to war over several times in the past.
Ad 2 No inherency – US just reduced drone strikes which appeased Pakistan – also any Pakistani resistance is not sincere. Gannon and Abbot 7/24 (U.S. slashes drone program in Pakistan July 25, 2013 - 4:50pm KATHY GANNON SEBASTIAN ABBOT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS http://thechronicleherald.ca/world/1144300-us-slashes-drone-program-in-pakistan)kk ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The United States has drastically scaled back the number of drone AND articulate a clear demand regarding drone strikes to take advantage of coalescing pressure.”
No threat of terror – weak leadership and no recent attacks Zenko and Cohen 12 *Fellow in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations, *Fellow at the Century Foundation, (Micah and Michael, "Clear and Present Safety," March/April, Foreign Affairs, www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137279/micah-zenko-and-michael-a-cohen/clear-and-present-safety
NONE OF this is meant to suggest that the United States faces no major AND the intelligence and law enforcement agencies of the United States and its allies.
As a misguided Turkish proverb holds, "If your enemy be an ant, AND complaining about how cash-strapped they are. Some reports suggest they've also
Economic decline doesn’t cause war – empty bellies – war requires wealth that doesn't exist in an economic downturn Deudney 91 Hewlett Fellow in Science, Technology, and Society at the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Princeton (Daniel, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Ebsco)
Poverty Wars. In a second scenario, declining living standards first cause internal turmoil AND military operations require complex organizational skills, specialized industrial products and surplus wealth.
Even a rapid US-Russia war would end in peace negotiations before nukes were launched – Russian generals concede. Ivashov ‘7 (Colonel General Leonid Ivashov, President of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems. July 2007 “WILL AMERICA FIGHT RUSSIA”. Defense and Security, No 78. LN
Ivashov: Numerous scenarios and options are possible. Everything may begin as a local AND nuclear arsenals. It will stop the war and put negotiations into motion.
11/17/13
Case - UNT CS Hauntology
Tournament: Wake | Round: 5 | Opponent: UNT CS | Judge: Malcom Gordon The prisoners are not bare life – there are rules that prevent true reduction Halit Tagma 09, Professor of Political Science, Arizona State , “Homo Sacer vs. Homo Soccer Mom: Reading Agamben and Foucault in the War on Terror,” Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 2009), pp. 407-435
Thus in some respects, prisoners of the "war on terror" might be AND work in the day-to-day administration of this space.67
It’s not unique – people can assert agency in the face of state power, invoking the concept of bare life destroys that Cesare Casarino and Antonio Negri 4 (*Professor of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota; Author of numerous volumes of philosophy and political theory; “It’s a Powerful Life: A Conversation on Contemporary Philosophy,” Cultural Critique 57)
AN: I believe Giorgio is writing a sequel to Homo Sacer, and I AND continuously try to subtract or neutralize our resistance. End Page 174
Racism is not the root cause – resolving it doesn’t solve conflict Julie Mertus 99 (Professor and co-director of Ethics, Peace and Global Affairs @ American U. She has written widely on human rights and gender, conflict, the Balkans, U.S. foreign policy and U.N. institutions, J.D., Yale Law School; B.S. Cornell University, International Council on Human Rights Policy; “THE ROLE OF RACISM AS A CAUSE OF OR FACTOR IN WARS AND CIVIL CONFLICT”, http://www.ichrp.org/files/papers/167/112_-_The_Role_of_Racism_as_a_Cause_of_or_Factor_in_Wars_and_Civil_Conflict_Mertus__Julie__1999.pdf)
II. CHARACTERISTICS OF CONFLICTS WITH RACIAL DIMENSION: ROLES OF RACISM 18. The AND of violence. Until this happens, the cycle of violence will continue.
Bostrom, who directs Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, has argued over the course AND eliminating poverty or curing malaria, which would be tremendous under ordinary standards.
Util outweighs ethics impacts in policymaking Dan W. Brock Jul 87 (Professor of Philosophy and Biomedical Ethics at Brown University; “Truth or Consequences: The Role of Philosophers in Policy-Making," Ethics, Volume 97, p. 787, JSTOR)
When philosophers become more or less direct participants in the policy-making process and AND why did they enter the public domain? What are they doing there?
They create tunnel vision, evil and irrelevance Isaac ‘2 (Jeffrey C. Isaac, professor of political science at Indiana-Bloomington, director of the Center for the Study of Democracy and Public Life, PhD from Yale, Spring 2002, Dissent Magazine, Vol. 49, Iss. 2, “Ends, Means, and Politics,” p. Proquest
As writers such as Niccolo Machiavelli, Max Weber, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Hannah AND not true believers. It promotes arrogance. And it undermines political effectiveness.
Constant ethic for the other allows for the West to assert our identity upon the other without being seen as racist allowing for oppression. Zizek, 2K5 (Slavoj, “Smashing the neighbors face,” http://www.lacan.com/zizsmash.htm)
Levinas therefore secretly imputes to Spinoza an egotistic "subjectivist" notion of (my AND , the place from which the truth about the others' oppression is accessible.
11/17/13
Case v Rutgers RS
Tournament: Wake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Rutgers RS | Judge: Lindsay VanLuvanee The invocation of social death as ontologically inevitable inscribes a pessimism towards politics which makes agency impossible and oversimplifies the history of resistance Vincent Brown Dec 9 (Prof. of History and African and African-American Studies @ Harvard University; "Social Death and Political Life in the Study of Slavery," American Historical Review, Pp. 1231-1249)
Specters of the Atlantic is a compellingly sophisticated study of the relation be- tween AND That is precisely what the women on the Hudibras fought to accomplish.31
Social death is descriptively inaccurate and reinforces fatalism—the truth is that it’s easier to write off gains under antagonism Clark, professor of law – Catholic University, ‘95 (Leroy D., 73 Denv. U.L. Rev. 23)
A Final Word Despite Professor Bell's prophecy of doom, I believe he would like AND . was his capacity to "dream" us toward a better place.
Anti-blackness isn’t a monolithic root cause – they shut off productive debate over solutions – means the alt fails Tommie Shelby 7, Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard, 2007, We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity
Others might challenge the distinction between ideological and structural causes of black disadvantage, on AND developments (such as immigration policy or reduced federal funding for higher education).
The metaphor of war in debate excludes womyn and perpetuates a violent hierarchy. Knutson 1996 (contemporary argumentation and debate) A deeper and more troubling problem … Derive education from the experience.
Privileging situated knowledge produces political atrocity. Social location appears to limit authority, but grants limitless authority to body, blood, and territory. David SIMPSON English @ UC Davis 2 Situatedness, or Why We Keep Saying Where We’re Coming From p. 25-30
Casey's book makes a learned and comprehensive argument for the disappearance and reappearance of place AND a signifying ground and serving as signposts with no indication of direction"? 15
An international perspective is key to challenge white supremacy—we can’t just retreat into discussing what’s going on here.
Romany 96 (CELINA, Professor of Law at City University of New York Law School and Latina Activist, KEYNOTE ADDRESS: CLAIMING A GLOBAL IDENTITY: LATINO/A CRITICAL SCHOLARSHIP AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS, 28 U. Miami Inter-Am. L. Rev. 215, Winter, 1996-97)
We cannot forget the classroom. The incorporation of an international human rights perspective can AND Europe reveal the entrenched colonized and racist practices with which we are familiar.
11/17/13
Community PIC
Tournament: Wake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Rutgers RS | Judge: Lindsay VanLuvanee We agree with the affirmative’s arguments about the people who are in debate and the structures of debate, but believe that we should not call that assemblage a “community”.
Community is an empty ideal—it cannot be libratory and only forcloses a deeper critique of civilization because it glorifies hierarchy and exclusion Zerzan 2005 (John, Primitivist Activist, MA SFSU, “Community” http://insurgentdesire.org.uk/community1.htm)
Community, by which one obviously means more than, say, neighborhood, is AND the categories of existent community, is legitimate and appropriate to our aims.
Social hierarchies and the elimination of undesirables are the outcome of the civilizing project, turns the case and causes massive subjigation T.H.U.G. 2005 (Tree Huggin Urban Guerillas, Disorderly Conduct #6, http://insurgentdesire.org.uk/ whycivilization.htm) Over the next thousands of years, this disease progresses, with its colonizing and AND level from the institutional to the personal, while they have devoured life.
11/17/13
Consult Brazil
Tournament: ESU | Round: 6 | Opponent: KU BhCo | Judge: Moore Prior to implementation, the United States federal government will enter into binding consultation with the government of Brazil, proposing that the plan and will implement the agreed upon policies of consultation. We’ll clarify.
Brazil continues to-attach high priority to the objective of safeguarding outer-space AND on a legally¶ binding instrument that prevents the weaponisation of outer space.
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.
Still, even when bilateral relations have become strained in recent years, the two AND there is consensus in Washington on U.S. climate change policy.
Downward push in relations causes Amazonian Deforestation and destabilizes South America, resulting in arms races and nuclear proliferation
Shultz 00 (Donald, Research Professor of National Security Policy at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College THE UNITED STATES AND LATIN AMERICA: SHAPING AN ELUSIVE FUTURE, March) While we are in a speculative mode, it may be useful to raise the AND , there is an increasing temptation to look to the military for answers.
Amazon destruction will cause planetary extinction Takacs 96 (David, Instructor in Department of Earth Systems Science and Policy at California State-Monterey Bay. Philosophies of Paradise, http://www.dhushara.com/book/diversit/restor/takacs.htm) Peter Raven bases his thinking on Leopold's observation "To keep every cog and wheel AND the famines could lead to a thermonuclear war, which could extinguish civilization.”
10/20/13
Farm bill ptx - Wake
Tournament: Wake | Round: 3 | Opponent: Liberty AB | Judge: Michael Davis Farm bill can be passed before the end of the year- House Republicans and the Agriculture Committee are compromising, but bipart is key Rogers 11/14 (David, 11-14-13, David Rogers has covered Congress for better than 30 years and was an early addition to POLITICO in January 2008, “Republicans more optimistic on farm bill”, http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/republicans-farm-bill-99889.html, JKS) House Republicans were more upbeat Thursday on getting a farm bill done this year, AND I am hopeful that we can make progress on all of these issues.”
Plan saps bipart Wolfensberger 2007 (Congress Is Always Reluctant to End Wars Unilaterally Don Wolfensberger is director of the Congress Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and former staff director of the House Rules Committee. http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/congress-always-reluctant-to-end-wars-unilaterally)kk The principal focus was an amendment offered to the foreign military sales bill by Sens AND his hands, micromanaging the war, endangering the troops or inviting chaos.
Failure on the farm bill massively spikes food prices Sherry 8/28 (Farm bill: Milk, food prices could rise if Congress fails to act¶ By Allison Sherry¶ The Denver Post¶ POSTED: 08/28/2013 http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_23967275/farm-bill-milk-food-prices-could-rise-if)kk YUMA — If Congress cannot find common ground soon on a farm bill that both AND hard on the state of Colorado," Washington County farmer David Foy said.
Food price collapse causes global war Hume 2008 (World Food Crisis Threatens Rich Nations (That's Us), Too by Stephen Hume Thursday, Apr. 17, 2008 http://miami.indymedia.org/news/2008/04/10852.php) However, if Ug99 spreads swiftly, devastating crops before science can breed resistant strains AND rice thieves. In South Korea, a food panic stripped supermarket shelves.
11/17/13
Flex
Tournament: Wake | Round: 3 | Opponent: Liberty AB | Judge: Michael Davis Consult kills flexibility and leadership, which is a stronger internal link to relations Krauthammer ‘2 (CHARLES, winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary, writes a nationally syndicated editorial page for the Washington Post. “American Unilateralism”, http://www.byui.edu/onlinelearning/courses/hum/202/American20Unilateralism.htm)
So much for the moral argument that underlies multilateralism. What are the AND to act alone if necessary, that he created the Gulf War coalition.
Turns the aff with multiple escalatory wars Waxman 8/25/13 (The Constitutional Power To Threaten War¶ Matthew C. Waxman*¶ Forthcoming in YALE LAW JOURNAL, vol. 123 (2014)¶ August 25, 2013 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2316777)kk After the Cold War, the United States continued to rely on coercive force – AND U.S. protection, to avert a destabilizing arms race.111
Independently, China war causes extinction Strait Times 2k Straits Times (Singapore), June 25, 2000, No one gains in war over Taiwan
THE high-intensity scenario postulates a cross-strait war escalating into a full AND should that come to pass, we would see the destruction of civilisation.
11/17/13
Framework
Tournament: ESU | Round: 4 | Opponent: ESU TW | Judge: Harris Our framework – The aff must present a predictable and stable policy option and defend that the United States federal government should adopt their policy.
Violations – “Resolved” before a colon reflects a legislative forum Army Officer School 4 (5-12, “# 12, Punctuation – The Colon and Semicolon”, http://usawocc.army.mil/IMI/wg12.htm)
The colon introduces the following: a. A list, but only after " AND resolved:" Resolved: (colon) That this council petition the mayor.
The mechanics of the topic support a debate is solely about the outcome of a policy established by governmental means Ericson 3 (Jon M., Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts – California Polytechnic U., et al., The Debater’s Guide, Third Edition, p. 4)
The Proposition of Policy: Urging Future Action In policy propositions, each topic contains AND compelling reasons for an audience to perform the future action that you propose.
“The federal government of the United States is centered in Washington DC”
And it excludes action by smaller political groups or individuals. Black’s Law Seventh Edition Ed. Bryan A. Garner (chief) 99
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.
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3. Groupthink – they have functionally decided to write their own resolution instead of affirming the one we already have – even if the resolution is wrong, having a devil’s advocate in deliberation is vitally important to critical thinking skills and avoiding groupthink Hugo Mercier and Hélène Landemore 11 (Philosophy, Politics and Economics prof @ U of Penn, Poli Sci prof @ Yale; “Reasoning is for arguing: Understanding the successes and failures of deliberation,” Political Psychology, http://sites.google.com/site/hugomercier/publications)
Reasoning can function outside of its normal conditions when it is used purely internally. AND (e.g. Schweiger,¶ Sandberg, and Ragan, 1986).
No offense – we’re advocating a process, not an outcome – it’s just a counter-method, not exclusion Perkins, senior professor of education – Harvard Graduate School of Education, ‘9 (David, Education and a Civil Society: Teaching Evidence-Based Decision Making, p. 16)
Good decision making can be seen as a double balancing act. The decision maker AND to put good decision-making practices into action in learners’ everyday lives?
10/20/13
Identity K
Tournament: ESU | Round: 4 | Opponent: ESU TW | Judge: Harris The 1ac engages in a process of self-subalternization, rendering oppressions equivalent and robbing those who are relatively more oppressed of a vocabulary of resistance Chow 93 Rey Chow, Comparative Literature—Brown University, 1993 Writing Diaspora, p. 12-15
In the 1980s and 1990s, however, the Maoist is disillusioned to watch the AND career. How do we intervene in the productivity of this overdetermined circuit?
Debate tournaments are pre-figured by the institutions that allow them. The idea that this debate round itself can make a change is depoliticizing and inaccurate Occupied UC Berkeley 9 http://anticapitalprojects.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/the-necrosocial/, the necrosocial: civic life, social death, and the UC, nov. 19
In the university we prostrate ourselves before a value of separation, which in reality AND the positions we thoughtlessly enact. It’s the particular nature of being owned.
The role of the speaker must be questioned – their “counter-hegemonic politic” relies on planned strategies, motivations and locations of utterances that affect the message – their advocacy of the 1AC representations fall within the hermeneutics of domination inherent in debate as a competitive activity. Ann Marie Baldonado, Postcolonial Studies at Emory University, ‘96 “Representation,” Fall, http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Representation.html, Accessed June 10, 2006, JT/DREG
If there is always an element of interpretation involved in representation, we must then AND only ignorance but a lack of respect for the diversity within marginalized communities.
Privileging situated knowledge produces political atrocity. Social location appears to limit authority, but grants limitless authority to body, blood, and territory. David SIMPSON English @ UC Davis 2 Situatedness, or Why We Keep Saying Where We’re Coming From p. 25-30
Casey's book makes a learned and comprehensive argument for the disappearance and reappearance of place AND a signifying ground and serving as signposts with no indication of direction"? 15
Our alternative is to not use experience as the basis for positive argumentation. Exposing the existence of racist ideology on the basis of experience does not provide the means to undermine it. Experience of being oppressed doesn’t provide the path to getting outside oppression. If the only way to resist is based on experience of racist oppression, then there is no way to get outside of the system of racism. Joan W. SCOTT is professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, 91 “The Evidence of Experience,” Critical Inquiry, Vol. 17, No. 4 (Summer, 1991), pp. 773-797, JSTOR
The project of making experience visible precludes analysis of the workings of this system and AND explanatory categories usually taken for granted, including the category of "experience."
10/20/13
Law K
Tournament: ESU | Round: 1 | Opponent: KU HW | Judge: Fifelski Our interpretation of politics is Schmittian – The executive cannot be effectively constrained using the law, only via popular uprising and public pressure
Vermeule and Posner 2011 (Adrian Vermeule, prof of Law at Harvard University Law School, Eric A Posner., prof of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic, Oxford University Press 2011)
Our thesis is that these modifications to liberal legalism fail. Either they do not AND way to improve upon it, under the conditions of the administrative state.
And, the plan creates a façade of legal restraint while creating a gray hole of executive action—this is worse than doing nothing at all, because it masks the absence of real constraints on executive authority and implies citizen consent. Reject their security state that is liberal in name only.
Osborn 2008 (Timothy, Baker Ferguson Professor of Politics and Leadership at Whitman College, “We are all Torturers now: Accountability after Abu Ghraib” Theory and Event Volume 11, Issue 2 JK)
The examples cited in this section suggest not the formation of an utterly lawless regime AND , renders recognition of the problematic character of its exercise ever less likely.
The alt is to reject the aff’s legal liberalism and acknowledge that the only constraints we have are political
Vermeule and Posner 2011 (Adrian Vermeule, prof of Law at Harvard University Law School, Eric A Posner., prof of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic, Oxford University Press 2011)
We do not yet live under a plebiscitary presidency. In such a system, AND better, despite the lack of a Madisonian separation of legislative and executive powers
10/20/13
T - No space weapons
Tournament: ESU | Round: 6 | Opponent: KU BhCo | Judge: Moore Best analysis indicates “armed forces” only means human troops – excludes weapons systems such as space weapons Lorber 13 – Eric Lorber, J.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Ph.D Candidate, Duke University Department of Political Science. January 2013, "Executive Warmaking Authority and Offensive Cyber Operations: Can Existing Legislation Successfully Constrain Presidential Power?" University of Pennsylvania Journal of Contsitutional Law, 15 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 961, lexis nexis
As is evident from a textual analysis, n177 an examination of the legislative history AND human members of the armed forces, such a conclusion is not determinative.
War Powers and Offensive Cyber Operations¶ In a report submitted to Congress in November AND the ground, no active exchanges of fire, and no body bags.
10/20/13
T - Restrict V Liberty
Tournament: Wake | Round: 3 | Opponent: Liberty AB | Judge: Michael Davis INTERP - “Restriction” is a method of prohibiting with certaintey P.A. Mohammed 1/24/97 (J. Sri Chithira Aero And Adventure ... vs The Director General Of Civil ... on 24 January, 1997¶ Equivalent citations: AIR 1997 Ker 121 Sri Chithira Aero And Adventure ... vs The Director General Of Civil ...; http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/255504/?type=print)
10. Microlight aircrafts or hang gliders shall not be flown over an assembly of AND P4 and P5 are purely measures regulating the use and operation of aircrafts.
11/17/13
Terror DA
Tournament: Wake | Round: 5 | Opponent: UNT CS | Judge: Malcom Gordon A violent war on terror is inevitable and necessary – debates embracing government action in the face of violent threats is critical to shape the direction of change – the aff’s abstractions allow for extinction David Brooks 1, senior editor for the Weekly Standard, The Weekly Standard, 11/5, lexis
Obviously nobody knows what the future years will feel like, but we do know AND they have stood for and the role they have assigned themselves in society.
These three concerns challenge the detention paradigm. They do nothing to eliminate the need AND in the past; having government authorities that reflect that change makes sense.
High risk of nuke terror – escalates and turns the case because of crackdowns Vladimir Z. Dvorkin 12 Major General (retired), doctor of technical sciences, professor, and senior fellow at the Center for International Security of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The Center participates in the working group of the U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism, 9/21/12, "What Can Destroy Strategic Stability: Nuclear Terrorism is a Real Threat," belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/22333/what_can_destroy_strategic_stability.html
Hundreds of scientific papers and reports have been published on nuclear terrorism. International conferences AND a common understanding of these threats and develop a strategy to combat them.
Terrorism causes extinction – hard-line responses are key Nathan Myhrvold '13, Phd in theoretical and mathematical physics from Princeton, and founded Intellectual Ventures after retiring as chief strategist and chief technology officer of Microsoft Corporation , July 2013, "Stratgic Terrorism: A Call to Action," The Lawfare Research Paper Series No.2, http://www.lawfareblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Strategic-Terrorism-Myhrvold-7-3-2013.pdf
Several powerful trends have aligned to profoundly change the way that the world works. AND us with our shortcomings by repeatedly attacking us or hectoring us for decades.
