Tournament: CEDA Nationals Indiana | Round: 3 | Opponent: Fresno State HT | Judge: Darren Elliott
An abusive, harmful act cannot be loving the repetition of abuse enacted by the plan reentrenches the problems of the status quo.
bell hooks, 2000
(quals: cultural critic and feminist theorist). “all about love. new visions.” p. 22

One of the most important social myths we …. abuse is happening in the first place.  

Thinking of love as an action forces us to be accountable for our actions and the consequences of our actions, that means that an act that causes harm is not loving.
bell hooks, 2000
(quals: cultural critic and feminist theorist). “all about love. new visions.”  p. 13-14

To begin by always thinking of …. affection, responsibility, respect, commitment, and trust. 

Narratives are insufficient to create real change—they are too particular to extend to other cases, and create indeterminacy in readers
Winter 89 (Steven L. Winter is an Associate Professor, University of Miami School of Law. B.A. 1974, Yeshiva College; J.D.
1977, Columbia University, “LEGAL STORYTELLING: THE COGNITIVE DIMENSION OF THE AGON
BETWEEN LEGAL POWER AND NARRATIVE MEANING” 87 Mich. L. Rev. 2225., August,1989, KK)

With this preface, we can understand  …. in any direction without warning.

Tournament: Wichita State University | Round: 1 | Opponent: Kansas MR | Judge: Stanley, Justin
Courts
Judicial Oversight sounds sweet in theory, but in practice there are a ton of procedural roadblocks making it IMPOSSIBLE for the aff to provide meaningful constraints upon the Executive.
Alston 2011 (Philip, NYU Law, The CIA and Targeted Killings Beyond Borders, 2 Harv. Nat'l Sec. J. 283 JK)

But whatever the theory, in - foreign intelligence matters in particular.

AND

The recent Clapper decision proves that the court won’t grant standing to challenges to executive authority.
Rohzenstein 2013 (Alan, Harvard Law, http://www.lawfareblog.com/2013/02/clapper-opinion-recap-supreme-court-denies-standing-to-challenge-nsa-warantless-wiretapping/)

There is a lot going on in both the majority - FISC involves judges in such matters already.

AND

The courts won’t be able to exercise oversight because cases won’t even make it to the ruling phase—justiciability issues and bought off lawyers will ensure it
Marshall 2008 (William P, Kenan. UNC Law, “Eleven Reasons why Presidential Power Inevitably Expands, and why it Matters” Boston Law Review 88:505 http://www.bu.edu/law/central/jd/organizations/journals/bulr/documents/MARSHALL.pdf JK)

The expansion of presidential power - interpretations of presidential power is inexorable. 

AND

Charming Betsy Warming Adv
Status quo solves – recent cases reaffirmed Charming Betsy
Bradley ’13 Curtis Bradley is the William Van Alstyne Professor of Law, Professor of Public Policy Studies, and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, “Terrorists, Pirates, and Drug Traffickers: Customary International Law and U.S. Criminal Prosecutions,” Jan. 11, http://www.lawfareblog.com/2013/01/terrorists-pirates-and-drug-traffickers-customary-international-law-and-u-s-criminal-prosecutions/

Hamdan involved a statutory scheme that - to reasonable political branch interpretations.

AND

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 - President's independent constitutional powers.203

AND

Citing international law doesn’t set a precedent
NYT 8 (“US Court is Now Guiding Fewer Nations,” 9-18, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/us/18legal.html?_r=2andhp=andadxnnlx=1221753717-8pdanTsDalyAfCQgzjrVvQandpagewanted=print)

Judicial citation or discussion of a - leads to more impressionistic, undisciplined adjudication.”

AND

No chance the Courts enforce ilaw – other rulings and executive deference slay solvency
Daniel Abebe and Eric A. Posner 11, Assistant Professor and Kirkland and Ellis Professor, University of Chicago Law School, The Flaws of Foreign Affairs Legalism, 51 Va. J. Int'l L. 507

Foreign affairs legalists make sweeping - Court held that he did not have the power to do so. n126

AND

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 - states, all exist on a plane of equality.

AND

Long says the grounds the aff rules on are distinct and do not emphasize broader international law incorporation on climate change
Long 08 Andrew Long (Assistant Professor of Law, Florida Coastal School of Law) 2008  “International Consensus and U.S. Climate Change Litigation” 33 Wm. and Mary Envtl. L.
and Pol'y Rev. 177 (2008), http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmelpr/vol33/iss1/4

The question whether international norms - constitutional interpretation have no force.

He clarifies that the ruling must EXPLICITELY be applied to climate change to increase leadership
Long 08 Andrew Long (Assistant Professor of Law, Florida Coastal School of Law) 2008  “International Consensus and U.S. Climate Change Litigation” 33 Wm. and Mary Envtl. L.
and Pol'y Rev. 177 (2008), http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmelpr/vol33

Tournament: Wichita State University | Round: 3 | Opponent: UCO YV | Judge: Loghry, Chris
We must assess the discourse of the aff first- their terms of identification are linguistic imperialism
Bird 1999 Dr. Michael Yellow Bird, a citizen of the Sahnish (Arikara) and Hidatsa First Nations, is Assistant Professor and Director of the Office for the Study of Indigenous Social and Cultural Justice in the School of Social Welfare, University of Kansas. “Indian, American Indian, and Native Americans: Counterfeit Identities” Indigenous People of Africa and America Magazine, 1999. http://www.ipoaa.com/indian_american_indian_counterfeit_identities.htm accessed Oct 31 2007. 

In our cultural renaissance there - loss of sovereignty by the colonized.

AND

Indians are from INDIA. The aff use of this term is linguistic imperialism against the people of India
Rajeev Srinivasan, columnist for Rediff, March 2000. http://www.rediff.com/news/2000/mar/19rajeev.htm accessed Oct 31 2007.

I think Indians need to fight to - with self image (vaastuhara, we are) already.

AND

Their terminology is inaccurate and promotes western dominance
Bird 1999 Dr. Michael Yellow Bird, a citizen of the Sahnish (Arikara) and Hidatsa First Nations, is Assistant Professor and Director of the Office for the Study of Indigenous Social and Cultural Justice in the School of Social Welfare, University of Kansas. “Indian, American Indian, and Native Americans: Counterfeit Identities” Indigenous People of Africa and America Magazine, 1999. http://www.ipoaa.com/indian_american_indian_counterfeit_identities.htm accessed Oct 31 2007. 

There are several additional problems - of its domination and disposal.

AND

Narratives are constructed to appeal to the prevailing norms of society - your narrative is the system you criticize
Ahmad 2k3 Muneer, Assistant Professor of Law@American, American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law, 11 Am. U.J. Gender Soc. Pol'y and L. 117

Critical study is committed to the - generalized political commitments meeting individual demands.

AND

Using experience automatically legitimizes the speaker’s knowledge – non-falsifiable claims prevent discursive inquiry, this destroys education and argumentation
Scott ‘91 (Joan W., University of Wisconsin, Ph.D; University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Assistant Professor; Northwestern University, Assistant Professor; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Associate Professor, Professor; Brown University, Nancy Duke Lewis University Professor, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Founding Director; Institute for Advanced Study, Member, Professor, Harold F. Linder Professor, “The Evidence of Experience,” Critical Inquiry, Vol. 17, No. 4 (Summer, 1991), p. 783-84
The concepts of experience described - escape from a strong structural determination.

AND

Genocide turn

The kritik is is a form of projective imagintion that inverts the relationship of genocide making the ultimate forms of violence possible.
Meister /Department of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz/ 2005
/Robert, "Never Again": The Ethics of the Neighbor and the Logic of Genocide, Postmodern Culture, 15.2, muse/

Lévinas's critique of totalization is an - my responsibility not to kill is based on proximity alone.

AND

Specifically, the Kritik’s connection of ethnicity to Land reproduces the conditions for genocidal violence
Meister, Department of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz, in ‘5
Robert, "Never Again": The Ethics of the Neighbor and the Logic of Genocide, Postmodern Culture, 15.2, muse

The imaginability of genocide - merely his own original feelings projected onto others.

AND

Turn #2

The creation of a victim state cannot occur without its own minoroties. This reproduces victimization and the possibilty ofethnic cleansing as a remedy.
Meister, 2005 /Department of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz/
/Robert, "Never Again": The Ethics of the Neighbor and the Logic of Genocide, Postmodern Culture, 15.2, muse/

At the level of political psychology, - that the ethical has priority over the political.

AND

Additionally, their racial ideology destroys cultural differnces between tribes. This is the logic of federal blood quantum standards.
TallBear, consultant to the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe and the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe and Ph.D. student in the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, ‘3
/ /Kimberly, “DNA, Blood, and Racializing the Tribe”, Wicazo Sa Review 18.1 (2003) 81-107/ /

This type of comment is a fundamental misunderstanding - if such violations are perpetuated on a smaller scale within tribal communities.

AND

And, the desire to make genocide unthinkable is the exact form of totalization that makes genocide possible in the name of progress.
Meister, Department of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz, in 5
Robert, "Never Again": The Ethics of the Neighbor and the Logic of Genocide, Postmodern Culture, 15.2, muse

The presumed unthinkability of genocide - self-conscious return to civilized values.23

Tournament: CEDA Nationals Indiana | Round: 6 | Opponent: United States Military Army CH | Judge: Lindsey Van Luvanee
Oversight fails because secrecy ensures that the game is rigged from the start—programs that are cut or subjected to scrutiny can just be moved elsewhere
Zegart 2011 (Amy, Stanford Political Science/Hoover Institution, “The Roots of Weak Congressional Intelligence Oversight”, http://media.hoover.org/sites/default/files/documents/FutureChallenges_Zegart.pdf JK)

These and other secrecy rules …… an ¶ environment that is ripe for gaming.

The president can just withhold vital information in order to stymie Congressional oversight
Marshall 2008 (William P, Kenan. UNC Law, “Eleven Reasons why Presidential Power Inevitably Expands, and why it Matters” Boston Law Review 88:505 http://www.bu.edu/law/central/jd/organizations/journals/bulr/documents/MARSHALL.pdf JK)

At least two significant …… know that such a program exists?

Congress is incapable of reigning in the executive—Obama will use secret legal interpretations to justify his actions, nobody can access the right info, and the most powerful congresspeople are lackeys for the national security apparatus.
Greenwald 8-4-13 (Glenn, National Security Correspondent @ the Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/04/congress-nsa-denied-access)

Members of Congress have …….. actively blocked from finding out.

Tournament: CEDA Nationals Indiana | Round: 3 | Opponent: Fresno State HT | Judge: Darren Elliott
The privatized family built on ideas like love is a perfect institution for the propagation of capitalist relations
COTTER 2002
Jennifer, nqa, “War and Domestic Violence”, Red Critique, Sept/Oct, p. online adi-tjc

Moreover, the class interests behind … toward which abuse seems "justified".

Capitalism results in extinction—ecological destruction and unending warfare
International Review 1989 (The decomposition of capitalist society, 57:2 http://en.internationalism.org/node/3070)

Similarly, all the disasters that … that is decadent capitalism.

Historical materialism is the best methodology for understanding and fighting capital- it recognizes that capitalism is not inevitable, overcomes the depoliticized nature of economics, and opens space for solidarity and human agency
Holmstrom in 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 … structured processes with human agencies." (78)

Tournament: Wichita State University | Round: 5 | Opponent: Oklahoma CO | Judge: Bonnet, Alexander
Postmodernism sucks because by placing everything into the discursive field, we can (ir)rationalize away environmental destruction as a social construct rather than immediate consequences of our embrace of civilization
Zerzan in 2005 (John, http://insurgentdesire.org.uk/globalization.htm)

In fact, even more confounding than lack of - forces and the endangered coherent individual

AND

Civ is the root cause
T.H.U.G. 2005 (Tree Huggin Urban Guerillas, Disorderly Conduct #6, http://insurgentdesire.org.uk/ whycivilization.htm)

Over the next thousands of years, - while they have devoured life.

AND

Civilized life is meaningless. It is based on the twin pillars of individual alienation and planetary destruction —The only way out of this debacle is radical critique of civilization and the refusal to participate in structural reform¶
Zerzan 2005 (John, Primitivist Activist, MA SFSU, http://insurgentdesire.org.uk/feral.htm)¶ 

We exist in a landscape of absence - less than such a politics of rage and dreams?

AND

ALT IS TO REJECT THE AFF IN FAVOR OF MOMENTUM BUILDING REJECTION OF THE STATE.

AND

We aren’t a revolution – attempts to organize people after one homogenized cause leads to violence. Chaos rules everything theorizing any order is counterproductive and authoritarian—instead we should try to build momentum against the state.
Felonius Skunk 2005 (Green Anarchy #19)

Along with the promising contagious articulation - terms, as with the lives we create for ourselves.

Tournament: CEDA Nationals Indiana | Round: 6 | Opponent: United States Military Army CH | Judge: Lindsey Van Luvanee
The term “targeted killing” obscures indiscriminant murder—it should be abandoned.
Woodward 2013 (Paul, The ongoing campaign to cover up Obama’s indiscriminate killing program, http://warincontext.org/2013/05/10/the-ongoing-campaign-to-cover-up-obamas-indiscriminate-killing-program/)

Micah Zenko continues in his relentless ….. disguise its role in indiscriminate killing.

Legalistically certain calls for war are epistemologically bankrupt and ignore the structural root cause of large scale violence. Our alternative is to reject the 1ac and in favor of pacifist deliberation. Doubting the aff and its violent calculations is key to re-orient politics and philosophy towards careful decision-making
Neu 2013
(“The tragedy of justified war”¶ Michael Neu,¶ University of Brighton, International Relations 2013, http://ire.sagepub.com/content/27/4/461)kk

Just war theory is not concerned …… fighting or not fighting them¶ will be.

Tournament: Wichita State University | Round: 1 | Opponent: Kansas MR | Judge: Stanley, Justin
Aff is just another example of the colonialist impulse to control the distribution of the globe’s environmental assets
DALBY IN 2004 (SIMON, Global Environmental Politics 4.2 (2004) 1-11)

A parallel concern is the discussion  - been the practice in most discussions of environment.12 

The idea of preventing conflicts from escalating and maintaining stability is used to continue exploitation of natural resources - continuing the current conflict
Ginty 06 Mac Ginty, Lecturer @ Univ of York, 2006 (Roger, Lecturer at the Department Politis and the Post-war Recontruction Development (PRDU), “No War, no Peace”, p. 22-23) 

Sustainability has been the third meta-idea - encompass environmental and developmental sustainability.

And, trying to solve for security ensures that violence is only combated with more violence, traped in an endless cycle.
Dillon 96, Professor of Politics @ Univ of Wales Aberstwyth, 1996 (Dillon, Michael, “Politics of Security: Towards a political philosophy of continental thought” p. 150-151) 

Only violence, it seems, can -  but is always committed against.

AND

And so we propose to give back the gift of security
Neocleous 08.  Mark Neocleous is a Professor of the critique of Political Economy at Brunel University, UK and a member of the Editorial Collective of “Radical Philosophy”. Critique of Security. 186
Edited for ableist language

Simon Dalby reports a personal communication - be brave enough to return the gift.

Tournament: Wichita State University | Round: 3 | Opponent: UCO YV | Judge: Loghry, Chris
Their criticisms of the “West” only reify the metageographic concept that the world can be compartmentalized into neat sections of West and Rest, and that certain ideals of rationality, control, militarism, etc can be properly spatialized and contained by a simplified set of geographical coordinates —Ultimately rhetorics that disparage the West and celebrate the rest end up reinforcing the colonizer’s model of the world.
 Lewis and Wigen 97. Martin W. and Karen E., The Myth of Continents 6-7

AND

The North-South distinction, like - disparages the West and celebrates the rest.
B) Reject the Aff--it uncritically embraces the geographical myth of the “West”. This is not a naïve mistake, but is rather an instrument of ideological power that maintains American exceptionalism while ignoring the rootedness of such concepts as the “West” in military thinking.  These systems of thought must be actively challenged and thrust into academic scholarship and debates.
Lewis and Wigen 97. Martin W. and Karen E., The Myth of Continents xi-xii

Whatever their differences, all of - were first framed by military thinkers. 

AND

Being critical isn’t an excuse—The least excusable deployments of the concept of an East-West binary are within otherwise self-critical academic discourse—This habitual yet often ignored pattern of essentialism must be rejected
Lewis and Wigen 97. Martin W. and Karen E., The Myth of Continents 1

In a country where high school - its consequences can be truly tragic.

Tournament: CEDA Nationals Indiana | Round: 3 | Opponent: Fresno State HT | Judge: Darren Elliott
Imperialism has always gendered, racialized, and sexualized, and classed its imperial wars. Creating wars embedded in male superiority and white supremacy
Mohanty, Pratt, and Riley 2008. Chandra, Minnie, and Robin. “Introduction: Feminism and US Wars – mapping the ground”, Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism. Pg 3

The anti-imperialist analysis in  …  underpinning for both nation and empire. 

US Imperialism relishes dominating anyone too black, too brown, too gay, too Muslim, too female, too poor, or too disabled. From invading countries abroad to the militarization of the police force in the US. The empires need for domination knows no bounds and is restricted by no rules  
MOHANTY in 6 (CHANDRA TALPADE, Department of Women’s Studies, Syracuse
University, Gender, Place and Culture Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 7–20, February 2006, US Empire and the Project of Women’s Studies: Stories of citizenship, complicity and dissent, http://www.uccs.edu/~pkeilbac/courses/intlpol/readings/US20Empire.pdf)

The clearest effects of US empire ….  abroad. Take Abu Ghraib for instance. 

Our alternative is to form an Anti-Imperialist feminist struggle. Allowing us to build coalitions across race, gender, sex, and class.  
Mohanty, Pratt, and Riley 2008. Chandra, Minnie, and Robin. “Introduction: Feminism and US Wars – mapping the ground”, Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism. Pg 5

The inextricable connections ….. intellectual anchors of anti-war organizing.

Tournament: CEDA Nationals Indiana | Round: 6 | Opponent: United States Military Army CH | Judge: Lindsey Van Luvanee
Text: The United States Federal Government should statutorily prohibit the use of drones for Assassination.
Observation 1: it competes.  They call it targeted killing, we call it something else.  Any permutation necessarily severs that from the plan text/advocacy statement.

Observation 2: Euphemism DA
Targeted killing is a state crafted euphemism used to distances ourselves from the ethics of our actions, the affs use of the term is key in legitimizing the practices they attempt to stop.
Craig Jones March 12, 2013
(Phd at Culumbia and member of the Lui Institute for global affairs) Legitimate target? http://warlawspace.com/tag/targeted-killing/

Targeted killing is both an anesthetising …. in the Israeli legal and religious elite.

This regime of sanitized language actively conceals the horror of totalitarianism---the language of euphemism clinically detaches people from any sense of ethical responsibility
Elias Davidsson, Centre for Research on Globalization, 2003 (http://www.aldeilis.net/jus/econsanc/debate.pdf)

In order to effectively describe a ….. humanitarian law has sprung.

Euphemisms are central to the capacity to wage an unregulated war on terror---the plan legitimizes the abuse of civil liberties and the mistreatment of prisoners   
Andrew Sullivan, political journalist for New York Times Magazine, 11/12/05 (http://www.andrewsullivan.com/index.php?dish_inc=archives/2005_11_06_dish_archive.html)

EXEMPTING THE CIA: A former …… and torture of defenseless detainees.

Tournament: Wichita State University | Round: 5 | Opponent: Oklahoma CO | Judge: Bonnet, Alexander
T: Restriction

A. Interpretation: Restrictions are prohibitions on action.

Jean Schiedler-Brown 12, Attorney, Jean Schiedler-Brown and Associates, Appellant Brief of Randall Kinchloe v. States Dept of Health, Washington,  The Court of Appeals of the State of Washington, Division 1, http://www.courts.wa.gov/content/Briefs/A01/68642920Appellant20Randall20Kincheloe27s.pdf
The ordinary definition of the - to repress or suppress, to curb. 

B. The affirmative doesn’t actually do anything to restrict war powers against animals they just say we should view the war powers through an nonhuman lens

Random House, 2010. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/reject. ZDS

to refuse to have, take, use, recognize, etc.: to reject a job offer.

C. Voter:

1. Stasis: Debates require an actual starting point, there’s an infinite number of things they can dislike, but for a debate they have propose a change from the status quo.

2. Ground: The negative needs an action to generate links.

3. Jurisdiction: The judge can only vote aff if the resolution is a good proposition. Affs that don’t affirm the resolution should be rejected on presumption.

Tournament: Wichita State University | Round: 1 | Opponent: Kansas MR | Judge: Stanley, Justin
A. Interpretation
Defined by Constitution as the authority of the president to conduct war
Black’s Law Dictionary, 1999
(7th Edition, p. 1578-9)

"War Power" is defined as "the constitutional authority of Congress to declare war and maintain armed forces (U.S. Const. art. I, § 8, cls. 11-14), and of the President to conduct war as commander-in-chief (U.S. Const. art. II, § 2, cl. 1)." 

B. Violation: Extra topicality
The advantages are not garnered directly due to a restriction on the war powers authority. It comes from traties which are not Presidential War Powers

C. Reasons to prefer – 

1. Limits – they explode the topic allowing for any aff to have any mpx attached to it.

2. Ground – our links are predicated statutory or judicial restriction of the presidential war powers and the benefits that may come directly from that restriction

D. Voter for Juristiction and education – evaluate extra T in a competing interpretations - most objective framework