Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Wyoming FJ | Judge: Justin Kirk
observation one is the status quo
This year, the topic committee gave the community an opportunity to have a serious discussion of Presidential War Powers. Instead of taking this seriously, the community decided to have a small topic which ignores the biggest leak in the history of the United States
Ellsburg 10 (Daniel Ellsburg, Journalist and Leaker of the Pentagon Papers, The Guardian Newspaper, June 10. “Edward Snowden: saving us from the United Stasi of America.” Accessed online 9/23/13 via
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/10/edward-snowden-united-stasi-america djc)
In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak
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intrusion by the government into their private lives, have been virtually suspended.

Despite the revelations of Snowden, domestic surveillance was not part of the topic. This just goes to show that while we had an opportunity to actually debate a relevant topic, we are instead talking about things that will almost certainly never happen. We will not stop targeted killing; indefinite detention; offensive cyber operations; and we sure as hell won't stop introducing United States Armed Forces into hostilities.
This resolution is a fraud, and a trap. It is meant to distract us from the larger evil of the nation state, which will inevitably lead to genocide
Beres '94 (Louis René, Ph. D from Princeton and Professor of International Law, Department of Political Science, Purdue University. “SELF-DETERMINATION, INTERNATIONAL LAW AND SURVIVAL ON PLANET EARTH” Arizona Journal of International and comparitive law. Spring 1994. Accessed online 2/24/13 via http://www.lexisnexis.com.ezproxy.library.ewu.edu/hottopics/lnacademic/?verb=srandcsi=146210 djc)
The problem of the omnivorous State, which subordinates all individual sensibilities to the idea
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that people can exist only amid the death struggles of competing herds, n38 

The state is the worst enemy of the people; it is a machine which crushes the masses to sustain the ruling class.
Goldman '31 (Emma, Noted anarchist and drama critic, “Living my life.” Originally published in 1931, pg. 52-3 PDF version) djc
"Men and women", I began amidst sudden silence, "do you not
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they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right!" 

If politics cannot be organized around truth because it lacks grounding, politics is reduced to an expression of power.
Koch '93 (Andrew M. Professor of Government and Justice studies at Appalachian State University, “Poststructuralism and the Epistemological Basis of Anarchism.” The Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 23:3, September 1993. P 327-351 djc)

If politics cannot be organized around "truth" because it lacks transcendental grounding,
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critique of knowledge. Under what conditions does contingent knowledge become "fact?" 

But we reject the notion of political revolution aimed simply at seizing the reins of the state and we reject parliamentary and reformist process that work within the system of state power, like the perm. Classical anarchism reminds us that the state is the eternal charnel house of revolutionary movements.
Newman 10 (Saul, Ph. D in Political Science and Reader at Goldsmiths – University of London, “The Politics of Postanarchism” Accessed online 2/21/13 via http://dl.bookos.org/genesis/635000/34f75a38c180f40e0fe7f8c3a394f71d/_as/Saul_Newman_The_Politics_of_Postanarchism(Bookos.org).pdf  djc)

In Chapter 3, I explored the anarchist critique of Marxism – particularly on the
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fundamental insight that the state is the eternal charnel house of revolutionary movements. 

The state or political domination as a way of thinking and as a mode of relating to others must be overcome in our heads and hearts before it can be overcome as an external institution; or rather, that the two processes would be concurrent.
Our project is a micro-political resistance to the ongoing relations of power. While somewhat utopian, this provides us an escape point from the current order and a way to disrupt heterogeneity and singularity.
Newman 10 (Saul, Ph. D in Political Science and Reader at Goldsmiths – University of London, “The Politics of Postanarchism” Accessed online 2/21/13 via http://dl.bookos.org/genesis/635000/34f75a38c180f40e0fe7f8c3a394f71d/_as/Saul_Newman_The_Politics_of_Postanarchism(Bookos.org).pdf djc)

What remains insufficiently theorised within classical anarchism – with its narratives of the liberation and
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life presuppose what is non-existent or not yet existent.38 ¶ 

Advocacy statement
Our project is one of a micro-political resistance to the state. A vote for the affirmative is an endorsement of that resistance to the state. 

Observation 2 is Framework
We believe that the traditional framework of policy debate is dangerous and problematic. It is intended to create a new generation of Neo-Cons, just as Bush and Cheney were trained by debating societies. Traditional norms of policy debate seek to eliminate what it deems as "worthless" or "uneducational.” This mode of forgetting turns the activity into one that produces neocons who conclude that the violence waged at the border should be ignored in favor of “topical” debates. Of course, what is “topical” is only how to fix the system, even when the system is broken.
Spanos 4 (William, in Joe Millers’ Book Cross-ex pg. 467)

Dear Joe Miller, Yes, the statement about the American debate circuit you refer
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the blind arrogance of Bush Administration and his neocon policy makers is leading.
When we are forced to debate a resolution such as this, which cannot be defended in good conscious by my partner or I, Neg-Neg theory allows us to affirm the resolution while rejecting it.
Glass 12 (Rostrum Magazine Volume 86 Issue 6 February 2012 “Neg-Neg
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Debate League, and a former president of the National Debate Coaches Association.)
In academic Policy Debate, the Indeed, one might ask why it standard practice
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, and that the negative then argue for the rejection of the affirmative.

Solvency

Our resistance constructs an alternative political space outside the established order and provides a basis for new non-authoritarian forms of political organization.
Newman 10 (Saul, Ph. D in Political Science and Reader at Goldsmiths – University of London, “The Politics of Postanarchism” Accessed online 2/21/13 via http://dl.bookos.org/genesis/635000/34f75a38c180f40e0fe7f8c3a394f71d/_as/Saul_Newman_The_Politics_of_Postanarchism(Bookos.org).pdf  djc)
So we should regard contemporary anti-capitalist struggles and movements as constructing an alternative
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what exists, and a desire to conserve what needs to be conserved. 

Our resistance shows that there is already a weakening of the principle of state sovereignty. The revolutionary seizure or even destruction of the state doesn't solve the problem of power. The state should be thought of not simply a series of institutions and structures of power but as an authoritarian relationship and way of structuring our lives.
Newman 10 (Saul, Ph. D in Political Science and Reader at Goldsmiths – University of London, “The Politics of Postanarchism” Accessed online 2/21/13 via http://dl.bookos.org/genesis/635000/34f75a38c180f40e0fe7f8c3a394f71d/_as/Saul_Newman_The_Politics_of_Postanarchism(Bookos.org).pdf djc)
This conceptualisation does not mean, though, that we cannot envisage a future transcendence
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they embody – in their very singularity – the possibility of an alternative.