Tournament: Swings - UTD | Round: 6 | Opponent: UTD | Judge:
---Victim PIK---

The 1AC Terrel evidence utilizes the rhetoric of victimization in order to make it’s claims about violence from drone strikes and civilian loss – This creates a rhetorical frame for understanding survivors and objects of power as weak and powerless.
And rhetoric of victimhood destroys agency through disempowering claims about the nature of violent relationships
Dunn 04
Jennifer Dunn is a professor at Southern Illinois University. Research focuses include women’s issues, violence against women and intimate partner violence. “Victims” and “Survivors”: Emerging Vocabularies of Motive for “Battered Women Who Stay”, Sociological Inquiry. Volume 75, Issue 1. Pg 1-30. February 2005.

Images of battered women such as these have been powerful tools in the hands of
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is a “survivor” differ from the image of a “victim”?

The alternative is a rejection of victim typifications in favor of survivor typifications.
Using “survivor” typifications solves – creates a better framework for understanding violence
Dunn 04
Jennifer Dunn is a professor at Southern Illinois University. Research focuses include women’s issues, violence against women and intimate partner violence. “Victims” and “Survivors”: Emerging Vocabularies of Motive for “Battered Women Who Stay”, Sociological Inquiry. Volume 75, Issue 1. Pg 1-30. February 2005.

Moreover, that activists were the first and most vocal critics of victim constructions suggests
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culturally resonant” (Williams 1995) image around which to rally.6

---State PIC---

Text: Joe and I advocate the discussion of Just war Theory without their call to the State and macropolitical governmental structures  
We’re accessing a stronger internal link to solvency via agency
The 1AC endorses an impoverished understanding of the State by portraying it as a homogenous entity capable of acting in predictable, rational ways—ignores the multiplicity of institutional desires
Claude, ’88 (Prof. of Gov. and Foreign Affairs, U of VA, States and the Global System, p. 18)

This view of the state as an institutional monolith is fostered by the notion of
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doing, or whatever the line of least resistance would seem to suggest.
Academic preoccupation with the making of policy is accompanied by academic neglect of the execution
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good as done and might as well be declared to have been done.

These transcendent ethics are an understanding of agency creates a slave-ontology which replicates oppression and prevents liberatory politics
Smith ‘98
(Daniel W. Prof at Grimmell “The Place of Ethics in Deleuze’s Philosophy”; New Mappings in Politics, Philosophy and Culture)
2. How is a mode of existence evaluated? The first ethical question concern¬ing
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of its power, in other words, how it can become active. 

This creates an Ego-centric identification with the State—Imagining  erases the distinction between the individual and institution. This national identity continually baits us into its madness and continued violence
Shaffer 7 (Butler teaches at the Southwestern University School of Law. B.S., Law, 1958, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; B.A., Political Science, 1959, and J.D., 1961, University of Chicago; Member, Colorado and Nebraska State Bars. “Identifying With the State” June 29th 2007. http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer159.html)

One of the deadliest practices we engage in is that of identifying ourselves with a
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conflict – to a centered, self-directed integrity in our lives.

---Coloniality---

The aff operates as a gift to the damned – their plan and impacts are framed within the epistemic perspective of coloniality, recognizing violence against the non-West in order to expand the scope of the West’s control – de-linking from the colonizer/colonized binary is only possible by first adopting the perspective of the damned
Mignolo 07
Walter Mignolo is a Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Literature at Duke University who’s published work extensively dealing with semiotics, literary theory and different aspects of the modern and colonial world. “Delinking”, Cultural Studies. March 3, 2007. 21: 2-3; 449-514.
Nobody has access to an ultimate truth, and, consequently, no one person
AND
the logic of coloniality and the rhetoric of modernity) but highly insufficient. 

Coloniality generates a permanent state of exception that is the root cause of the death ethics of war and underwrites a hellish existence where death, murder, war, rape, and racism are ordinary
Maldonado-Toress 08
Nelson Maldonado-Torres is an associate professor of comparative literature at Rutgers. Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity, p. 217-21. 2008.
Dussel, Quijano, and Wynter lead us to the understanding that what happened in
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such a world, ontology collapses into a Manicheanism, as Fanon suggested." 

The roll of the ballot is whoever best epistemologically and methodological creates safe spaces for liberation movements
The alterative is the death of the American Man. Epistemic and semiotic struggle key – must seek the Death of American Man to solve war culture and propel decoloniality
Maldonado-Torres 5
Nelson Maldonado-Torres is an associate professor of comparative literature at Rutgers “Decolonization and the New Identitarian Logics after September 11,” Radical Philosophy Review 8, n. 1 (2005): 35-67.
Inspired by these Fanonian insights l have articulated elsewhere the idea of a weak utopian
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a nation-in-relation rather than as a continental being.71

Coloniality is the spinal chord energizing antiblackness and the death ethics of war—only our alternatives, propelled by decolonial love, offer the radical point of departure to challenge the signification of Being and the homicidal, genocidal drive of modernity
Maldonado-Torres 08
Nelson Maldonado-Torres, associate professor of comparative literature at Rutgers. Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity, p. 238-41. 2008.
The more positive side of this work, that is more constructive and less critical
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represents in this way the effective exorcism from the hypnotic glare of Being.

The heterosexual order of coloniality is based on continual sexual violence
Schiwy 7
Freya Schiwy is an associate Professor in the department of Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside, "Decolonization and the Question of Subjectivity: Gender, Race, and Binary Thinking." Cultural studies 21, no. 2-3 (2007): 275-276. 

The colonial imaginary has employed gender as a metaphor and means of subalternization, a
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to an urgent need to affirm male power in the process of decolonization.

Tournament: Swings - UTD | Round: 7 | Opponent: GSU FF | Judge:
---Parametrics---

The aff will always win that the principles of their advocacy are good in the abstract – we can only debate the merits of their framework if they defend the specific consequences of political implementation
Ignatieff 4—Prof of Human Rights @ Harvard
Michael, Lesser Evils p. 20-1
As for moral perfectionism, this would be the doctrine that a liberal state should
AND
, and thus respect for one right might lead us to betray another.

---Opacity---

The 1AC’s performance of reading narratives of violence towards Veterans mirrors a politics of insurrection through breaking silence. This confessional practice confines survivors of oppression to the status of victim in the public sphere and allows forces of power to them via the truth of their universal experiences.
Brown 2005 – Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley (Wendy, Edgework : Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics, p. 84-85)
Here is the way this problem unfolds politically: insurrection requires breaking silence about the
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but to instigate the further regulation of those lives while depoliticizing their conditions. 

Their political strategy of breaking silence through reflecting on personal experience is particularly problematic in the context of war powers. Empirically, dominant forces have manipulated their conversational model to bolster harmful ideologies and perpetuate  violent military intervention.
Boor Tonn 2005 – Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland (Mari Boor Tonn, “Taking Conversation, Dialogue, and Therapy Public” Rhetoric and Public Affairs Vol. 8, No. 3)

This widespread recognition that access to public deliberative processes and the ballot is a baseline
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therapeutic conversation and dialogue jeopardizes the very pulse and lifeblood of democracy itself. 

Mason and I affirm the right of the Veteran to Opacity—this is a strategy of concealment that offers shelter from the exploitative gaze of Oppression
Britton 99
Celia Britton is a professor of French at University College of London. Her research areas include French Caribbean literature and thought, especially Glissant, Fanon, Condé; postcolonial theory; surrealism in the Caribbean; psychoanalysis and colonialism; literature and ideology; images of community; the Nouveau Roman. Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance, University of Virginia Press. 1999. 

Glissant even applies this principle of non understanding to understanding of oneself-with further
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those who are seen cannot themselves"see" those who see them.

The Role of the Ballot is to plead the Fifth and refuse to comment on the 1AC. Voting for the 1AC subjects their speech act to unitary discourses of power within the debate community and is the ultimate act of colonization. Only silence preserves opacity of the colonized
Brown 2005 – Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley (Wendy, Edgework : Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics, p. 87-90)

The paradoxical capacity of silence to engage opposites with regard to power— both to
AND
Commission on pornography as the violence done to all women by all pornography. 

---Trans K---
There are those who serve who are denied their Identity. Those people are veterans and service members who identify as Trans-gender. They cannot be recognized as veterans because accepting one identity means giving up another
Sandeen 13
Autumn Sandeen is a retired, disabled, U.S. Navy Persian Gulf War Navy veteran who served as a Petty Officer between 1980 and 2000 “How the Military Discriminates Against Transgender Individuals”  Sept 13 2013 http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2013/09/06/how-the-military-discriminates-against-transgender-individuals/
Chelsea Manning, who enlisted under the name Bradley Manning—and who in August
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as initiating their separation from the military services. This is settled law.

The Aff’s exclusion of the trans is a violent exclusionary act,  this re-entrenches cisprivilege world wide. We must prioritize combating cisprivilege which is the largest proximal cause of violence, on the individual and trans-national levels
 Shepherd and Sjoberg 12
 Laura J. Shepherd Laura J. Shepherd is an Associate Professor of International
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of a social order that excludes their existence both de jure and de facto

The 1AC fails to recognize transgender veterans who cannot access the public sphere that debate is. These people are relegated further into the periphery. That even their aff can’t This failure to recognize difference is what has leads to war and marginalization that you have felt.
Shepherd and Sjoberg 12
Laura J. Shepherd Laura J. Shepherd is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the School of Social Sciences and International Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, at the University of New South Wales,..and Laura Sjoberg University of Florida Department of Political Science JD Boston College, PhD in IR USC “trans- bodies in/of war(s): cisprivilege and contemporary security strategy” Feminist Review June 2012 google scholar                                                                                                             
¶ ¶ As mentioned above, in addition to wrestling with concepts of identity,
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existence of subjects who do not conform” (Munoz 1999:4).

The Alternative is to adopt a method of Trans-Theorizing.

The role of the Ballot is to vote for the team who bets makes the debate space safe for all.

A Transgender Method solves root cause of war, it creates an understanding of the liminal states that veterans live in and how we can combat the cisprivilege that  
Sjoberg 12
Toward Trans-gendering International Relations?† Laura Sjoberg University of Florida Dec. 2012
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ips.12005/abstract?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=anduserIsAuthenticated=false
Even assuming a clear ability to both recognize and treat fairly potential actors¶ ¶
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IR theorists are interested in locating for global politics’ marginal/liminal participants.

Tournament: Swings - UTD | Round: 2 | Opponent: JCCC GM | Judge:
---T Armed Forces = Humans---

“Introduction of US Armed Forces into hostilities” is solely human combat troops – it excludes technological ventures EVEN THOUGH humans control the technology
Lorber 13 – JD Candidate @ Duke and PhD Candidate @ Penn
(Eric, “Executive Warmaking Authority and Offensive Cyber Operations: Can Existing Legislation Successfully Constrain Presidential Power?,” 15 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 961)
As is evident from a textual analysis, ... such operations will not trigger the War Powers Resolution.

---State PIC---

Text: Mason and I advocate a micropolitical movement towards a ban introducing non-human persons to enter into hostilities

We’re accessing a stronger internal link to solvency via agency
The 1AC endorses an impoverished understanding of the State by portraying it as a homogenous entity capable of acting in predictable, rational ways—ignores the multiplicity of institutional desires
Claude, ’88 (Prof. of Gov. and Foreign Affairs, U of VA, States and the Global System, p. 18)

This view of the state as an institutional ... done it was as good as done and might as well be declared to have been done.

These transcendent ethics are an understanding of agency creates a slave-ontology which replicates oppression and prevents liberatory politics
Smith ‘98
(Daniel W. Prof at Grimmell “The Place of Ethics in Deleuze’s Philosophy”; New Mappings in Politics, Philosophy and Culture)
2. How is a mode of existence evaluated? ... in other words, how it can become active. 

This creates an Ego-centric identification with the State—Imagining a restriction on war powers over deploying animals erases the distinction between the individual and institution. This national identity continually baits us into its madness and continued violence
Shaffer 7 (Butler teaches at the Southwestern University School of Law. B.S., Law, 1958, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; B.A., Political Science, 1959, and J.D., 1961, University of Chicago; Member, Colorado and Nebraska State Bars. “Identifying With the State” June 29th 2007. http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer159.html)

One of the deadliest practices we ...– without division and conflict – to a centered, self-directed integrity in our lives.

---Trans Kritik---

The Affirmative starts as a wrong starting point, the ethical treatment of animals. In order to fully solve we must We must reject the notion of bodies as living thing and instead embrace our shared interdependent trans-sex to avoid Ecocatastrophe.
Kier 11
Bailey Kier PhD Professor of American Studies, University of Maryland, “Interdependent ecological transsex:
Notes on re/production, “transgender” fish, and the management of populations, species, and resources College Park, MD, USA Published online: 31 Jan 2011. Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory Volume 20, Issue 3, 2010 Special Issue: The Transbiological Body

I contend that everybody on the planet is ..., or the various interrelated decisions systems and things make.

---Prison Industrial Complex Kritik---

Their alternative is color-blindness for animals—instead of grouping beings whose narratives of oppression are fundamentally different into the collective “Animal”, we should act ethically based on acknowledgement of that difference
Schillmoller 11 – Lecturer in the School of Law and Justice at Southern Cross University
(Anne, “Gaining ground: towards a discourse of posthuman animality: a geophilosophical journey”, Southern Cross University Law Review, vol. 14, pp. 41-73, dml)  

While preparing for her journey into ... ‘That the other must prove to be somehow like me.’ 37 

The US carceral system is built on violence towards economically exploitable black individuals—it routinizes imprisonment and violent rape-experiences into the every-day life of American culture
Gopnik ‘12
(Adam, writer for the New Yorker since 1986, “The Caging of America”, January 30th, 2012)
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/01/30/120130crat_atlarge_gopnik?currentPage=all

For most privileged, professional people, ..., the reality of incarceration that acts as a hidden foundation for the country.

Their politics aren’t accessible to victims of the Prison Industrial Complex—people who are brutalized daily don’t have the option to shed their human identity and collapse the Human/Animal divide—being vegan in prison means killing yourself. This focus puts suffering of colored bodies on the ethical backburner
Yancy ‘8
(George, PhD and Professor of Philosophy, works primarily in the areas of critical philosophy of race, critical whiteness studies, and philosophy of the Black experience, “Black Bodies, White Gazes: the continuing significance of race” 2008, pg 229-)

The white student's objection raised the ... The sheer weight of this reality mocks the patience of theory.

Thus Mason and I advocate the deconstruction of Indefinite Detainment
You should evaluate this argument by voting for whichever team creates the best epistemological and historical space for discussing the Executive’s War powers over detainment—animals are detained via anthropocentric logic that precludes questions of whether or not we introduce them as technologies of war

And, Our Criticism recognizes the violence of Indefinite Detainment not as a new phenomenon, but a re-organization of similar historical power-structures as part of the Prison Industrial Complex and consequently the Farm Industrial Complex—only by breaking down the notion of temporal ruptures and investigating new continuities between the past and present can we formulate successful resistance to contemporary violence
Chapell ’6
(Ben, anthropologist and assistant professor of sociology/cultural studies at Bridgewater College, Virginia and honorary member of the Knights of Pleasure car club, Austin, Texas, “Rehearsals of The Sovereign: States of Exception and Threat Governmentality”, Cultural Dynamics 2006 18: 313)
http://cdy.sagepub.com/content/18/3/313

Yet we continue to pose questions ... present historical situation cannot effectively be resisted.

Tournament: UTD | Round: 4 | Opponent: Baylor BB | Judge:
The aff operates as a gift to the damned – their plan and impacts are framed within the epistemic perspective of coloniality, recognizing violence against the non-West in order to expand the scope of the West’s control – de-linking from the colonizer/colonized binary is only possible by first adopting the perspective of the damned
Mignolo 07
Walter Mignolo is a Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Literature at Duke University who’s published work extensively dealing with semiotics, literary theory and different aspects of the modern and colonial world. “Delinking”, Cultural Studies. March 3, 2007. 21: 2-3; 449-514.

Nobody has access to an ultimate truth, and, consequently, ... the logic of coloniality and the rhetoric of modernity) but highly insufficient. 

Coloniality extends itself primarily through their constructed figure of the terrorist
Escobar 8
(Arturo, Kenan Distinguished Professor at UNC Chapel Hill, Ph.D, University of Calfornia, Berkeley, May 27. Third World Quarterly. Beyond the Third World: imperial¶ globality, global coloniality and antiglobalisation social movements. Third World Quarterly, Vol 25, No 1, pp 207–230)

Some partial conclusions: coloniality incorporates colonialism and imperialism but goes beyond them; ... and Republican—in actuality or epistemically (that is, in mindset). 

Their authors assumes policy modeling is a one-way process where the emulator consumes the model wholesale – policy mobility is a better model because it takes into account the way policies mutate as they move across the political landscape
Peck and Theodore 10
(Jamie, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Nik, Center for Urban Economic Development and Department of Urban Planning and Policy, “Mobilizing policy: Models, methods, and mutations”, Geoforum 41 (2010) 169–174)

If this represents a new generation of critical policy studies, ... the notion of counter-hegemony as used in this article.

Coloniality generates a permanent state of exception that is the root cause of the death ethics of war and underwrites a hellish existence where death, murder, war, rape, and racism are ordinary
Maldonado-Toress 08
Nelson Maldonado-Torres is an associate professor of comparative literature at Rutgers. Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity, p. 217-21. 2008.

Dussel, Quijano, and Wynter lead us to the understanding ... ontology collapses into a Manicheanism, as Fanon suggested." 

The roll of the ballot is whoever best epistemologically and methodological creates safe spaces for liberation movements
The alterative is the death of the American Man. Epistemic and semiotic struggle key – must seek the Death of American Man to solve war culture and propel decoloniality
Maldonado-Torres 5
Nelson Maldonado-Torres is an associate professor ... as a nation-in-relation rather than as a continental being.71

We must change the terms of discussion to cause concrete change - focusing on the enunciated conceals inherent injustice while focus on the enunciation has the ability to break down racism and patriarchy by changing what it means to be human
Mignolo 09
Walter Mignolo is an professor of Literature in Duke University, Joint Appointments in Cultural Anthropology and Romance Studies. “Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and Decolonial Freedom,” Theory, Culture, and Society, 163-166, NDW. 2009.
The introduction of geo-historical and bio-graphical configurations ..., and is being asked today by Latino and Latina philosophers in the United States.

Structural violence is the proximate cause of all war- creates priming that psychologically structures escalation
Scheper-Hughes and Bourgois ‘4
(Prof of Anthropology @ Cal-Berkely; Prof of Anthropology @ UPenn)
(Nancy and Philippe, Introduction: Making Sense of Violence, in Violence in War and Peace, pg. 19-22) 

This large and at first sight “messy” Part VII ... including the house gun and gated communities; and reversed feelings of victimization).