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Interpretation – restriction requires prohibition of an entire topic list area
Restriction means prohibition
Corpus Juris Secundum 31
Volume 54, p. 735
RESTRICT:  To confine; to limit; to prevent (a person or thing) from passing a certain limit in any kind of action; to restrain; to restrain without bounds.

 “In the area” means all of the activities
United Nations 13
(United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty, http://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/part1.htm)
PART I¶ INTRODUCTION¶ Article 1
Use of terms and scope¶ 1.... the resources of the Area;

Violations – the affirmative doesn’t prohibit it just limits the scope of indefinite detention.

Voting issue –
Limits 

Bidirectionality – absent a prohibition, the aff can create meaningless “conditions” that EXPAND presidential power – commission consultation proves
Wilson Center No Date
(War Powers Proposal Gives the President Even More Authority, http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/war-powers-proposal-gives-the-president-even-more-authority)
A privately organized ..... behind closed doors and shielded by classified briefings and documents.

K

We can’t understand the history of detainment by focusing on exceptional spaces of incarceration like Military Detention. Investigation of the Prison Industiral complex is a prerequisite to how we understand both indefinite detention abroad and racism within our borders—Indefinite Detention isn’t new, its just business as usual
Van Veeren ‘13
(ELSPETH VAN VEEREN, PhD in Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Bristol, Banting Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for International and Security Studies at York University in Canada and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Conflict and Security  Research at the University of Sussex in the UK, “Clean War, Invisible War, Liberal War: The Clean and Dirty Politics of Guantánamo” Chapter shortly to be published as part of Democracies at War edited by Hillary Fotitt and Andrew Knapp, 2013)
http://www.academia.edu/attachments/31046538/download_file
In that sense, Guantánamo, d..... (often invisible) violence. 37

Prison became the new slavery of African Americans—mass incarceration shaped the social experience of Black people as criminals through this re-identification that was reproduced via the “War on Drugs”—the framing of War on Drugs and War on Terror wasn’t neutral, and created the standard for detainment after 9/11 and drug trade—African Americans became the every-day terrorists on the street
Hallett ‘6
(Dr. Michael Hallett is a Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of North Florida.  Dr. Hallett’s work has appeared in numerous books and journals including Punishment and Society, The Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, Contemporary Justice Review, Critical Criminology and others. Dr. Hallett was founding chairman of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at UNF, serving from 2004 - 2013. Dr. Hallett received the Outstanding Graduate Alumnus Award from his doctoral alma mater, Arizona State University, in 2007.  In 2006, he received the Gandhi, King Ikeda Award from Morehouse College for his book , “Private Prisons in America: A critical Race Perspective”, 2006) pg 4 - 6

As documented by Thorsten Sellin ......for black males in the prime of life. and#34;Mass imprisonmentand#34; indeed.

This imprisonment is built on violent social-engineering that denies objective statistics and outcomes of the Prison Industrial Complex—the punishment of the Black individual becomes a symbolic gesture to cover up the every-day war on the poor and Black
Hallett ‘6
(Dr. Michael Hallett is a Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of North Florida.  Dr. Hallett’s work has appeared in numerous books and journals including Punishment and Society, The Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, Contemporary Justice Review, Critical Criminology and others. Dr. Hallett was founding chairman of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at UNF, serving from 2004 - 2013. Dr. Hallett received the Outstanding Graduate Alumnus Award from his doctoral alma mater, Arizona State University, in 2007.  In 2006, he received the Gandhi, King Ikeda Award from Morehouse College for his book , “Private Prisons in America: A critical Race Perspective”, 2006) pg _ - _

Punishment assumes a modern, and#34;instrumentalistand#34; .....health care and unavailable child careand#34; (1999, p. 116j.

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..... that acts as a hidden foundation for the country.

The Alt is the deconstruction of Guantanamo Bay as a space of exception—only by breaking down the notion of temporal ruptures and investigating new assemblages 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 as ..... historical situation cannot effectively be resisted.

CP

Text: Jyleesa and I advocate ordering the release of individuals in military detention who have won their habeas corpus hearing.
We have a stronger internal link to solvency via agency:
A) Advocating Macro-level institutional reform has no political endpoint—no levers of power
Schlag ’90 (professor of law@ univ. Colorado, 1990 (pierre, stanford law review, november, page lexis)

In fact, normative legal ..... normative advice into effect.

B) Their advocacy cedes the political and papers over personal responsibility
Kappeler 95 (Susanne, The Will to Violence: The politics of personal behavior, Pg. 10-11)
Yet our insight that indeed ....values of war and violence.

The Impact is Ego confusion—Their act of pretending to release detainees erases the distinction between the individual and institution. This Egocentric-Identification with the State 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 ...... self-directed integrity in our lives.

ADV 1: Democracy
Democracies start more wars- statistical analysis proves
Henderson 2
Errol Henderson, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science at the University of Florida, 2002, Democracy and War The End of an Illusion?, p. 146
Are Democracies More Peaceful t......and to ini-tiate—interstate wars.

Transitions to democracy lead to war
Manfield and Snyder 2
Edward D. Mansfield, Hum Rosen Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics at the University of Pennsylvania, and Jack Snyder, Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Relations at Columbia University, Spring 2002, International Organization

In previous research, ....significantly more likely to generate hostilities than transitions toward autocracy.

Assuming democracy limits violence justifies violence against backsliders
Little ‘5
(Adrian Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Melbourne, September, http://auspsa.anu.edu.au/proceedings/publications/Littlepaper.pdf)
The point at which democratic ...... It fails to recognise that democracy is an ‘unfinished project’ (Miller 2002).  

Democracy in china would cause a rise of nationalism and conflict, and increases emissions and warming.
Bell ‘11
Daniel A. Bell, is professor of political theory at Tsinghua University in Beijing and of the arts and humanities at Jiaotong University in Shanghai. His latest book is China’s New Confucianism. “Why China Won’t Follow Arab Revolt”. New Perspectives Quarterly. Spring 2011. Wiley Online.
So should outside forces turn to democracy-promotion ......but they would likely be revoked by a popularly elected government.

Despite multiple flashpoints – Asian war unlikely
Bitzinger and Desker ‘8 – Senior Fellow @ International Studies Perspectives
Richard and Barry, PhD from UCLA and Senior Fellow @ International Studies Perspectives, Dean of the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Why East Asian War is Unlikely, Survival, Volume 50, Issue 6 December 2008 , pages 105 – 128
The Asia-Pacific region can be regarded ..... is unlikely.

ADV 2:Legitimacy

The aff’s norms setting claims are a façade of legitimacy that expands US imperial control – they justify US control of the means of litigation and pave the way for violent imposition of US legal norms against non-complying states
Petras 12
(James, Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York, ‘“Legal Imperialism” and International Law: Legal Foundations for War Crimes, Debt Collection and Colonization’, 12.03.2012, http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1923)

While force and violence, ..... local military, judicial and police officials.

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 ...... ontology collapses into a Manicheanism, as Fanon suggested.and#34; 

The aff’s hegemony args transform those who oppose it into racially inferior others – these claims are rooted in an orientalist model of knowledge production.
Kaplan 3
(Amy, “Violent belongings and the question of empire today presidential address to the American studies Association” American Quarterly, vol. 56, no.1, march 2004, muse)

Another dominant narrative about empire today, ..... through the threat and use of violence.

We control the probability of all wars – US militarism is the key internal link to all conflicts
Marsella (Department of Psychology, University of Hawaii; paper delivered on the occasion of receiving the Lifetime Contribution Award by the International Academy for Intercultural Research) 11
(Anthony J., United States of America: “A culture of war”, International Journal of Intercultural Relations 35 (2011) 714–728)
In  a world that is in desperate ......military action, and the fostering of (or nostalgia for) military ideals.”  (Bacevich,   2005, p. 2). 

Leaving Guantanamo open guts solvency
Glenn Sulmasy – aff author – 9, Associate Professor of Law at the United States Coast Guard Academy and was a National Security and Human Rights Fellow at the Carr Center, Harvard Kennedy School, April 13, “THE NEED FOR A NATIONAL SECURITY COURT SYSTEM”, PDF
While one can arguably understand ...... process in Guantanamo to continue adjudicating war crimes against al Qaeda.

Hegemony relies on racist and imperialist assumptions that inevitably reproduce the chaos they try to eradicate; we have a responsibility to challenge it
Chernus  07
July 22, 2007 Ira Chernus is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder “The Democratsand#39; Iraqi Dilemma Questions Unasked, Answers Never Volunteered” http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174823/ira_chernus_democratic_doublespeak_on_iraq
Running for the Imperial Presidency........ arenand#39;t about to take up the task. I guess it must be up to us

Solvency

Restrictions cause Obama to claim detention power under article 2 – Broadens detention
McAuliff 13 (Michael, Covers Congress and politics for The Huffington Post, “AUMF Repeal Bill Would End Extraordinary War Powers Granted After 9/11”, 6/10/13, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/10/aumf-repeal-bill-war-powers_n_3416689.html)
But without the AUMF in force, Congress and the administration ......then weand#39;re broadening the power of the presidency to act unilaterally.and#34;

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Mostate HR | Judge: Zeigler
Statism P.I.C. 

Text: Jyleesa and I advocate that we amend the War Powers Act of 1973 to include the offensive use of drones into the definition of “hostilities”

Advocating Macro-level institutional reform has no political endpoint—no levers of power
Schlag ’90 (professor of law@ univ. Colorado, 1990 (pierre, stanford law review, november, page lexis)

In fact, normative legal thought is so much in.... normative advice into effect.

Their advocacy cedes the political and papers over personal responsibility
Kappeler 95 (Susanne, The Will to Violence: The politics of personal behavior, Pg. 10-11) 

Yet our insight that indeed we are not responsible for the decisions of a.....according: to the structures and the values of war and violence.

The Impact is Ego confusion—Their act of pretending to  erases the distinction between the individual and institution. This Egocentric-Identification with the State 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....eturns us – without division and conflict – to a centered, self-directed integrity in our lives.

Colonialism K

The affirmative replicates structures of Coloniality by clining to American hegemony - creates a logical structure of colonial domination that wants to control and dominate the planet
Mignolo 05
Walter mignolo is an Professor of Romance Languages at Duke University. The Idea of Latin America, 2005.
How do these two entangled concepts.....the same logic was maintained; only power changed hands.

Coloniality generates a permanent state of exception that is the root cause of the death ethics of war
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....ontology collapses into a Manicheanism, as Fanon suggested.and#34; 

The alternative is epistemic struggle that seeks 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.... oneself as a nation-in-relation rather than as a continental being.71

Acts of epistemic disobedience uncover the invisible violence of modernity and create the space for the perspective of the Global South
Mignolo 12
Walter Mignolo is an professor of Literature in Duke University, Joint Appointments in Cultural Anthropology and Romance Studies. “Epistemic Disobedience and the Decolonial Option: A Manifesto,” Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, 45-46, NDW. 2012.
But the basic formulation of decolonial delinking....Greek, Latin, and the six modern imperial European languages.

Case args - Pakistan

Blackouts caused by Pakistan’s failing energy sector are the biggest risk to Pakistan stability and new energy policy risk further escalation
-breakdown in services
-violent riots
-terrorism
Kugelman 9/10
Michael Kugelman is a columnist for Gulf News publication. “The real threat to Pakistan isn’t terrorism”, Gulf News publication. 9/10/13.
It has been a bloody few weeks in Pakistan..plans to expand generation capacity by building more dams can drive up tensions between Pakistan’s fractious provinces.

No Indo-Pak war.
Loudon 8 Bruce, The Australian, Doomsday dread, December 04, 2008, http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24746635-25837,00.html

THE doomsayersand#39; published assessments tell the grim story.....by the intense secrecy that surrounds their arsenals.

No escalation.
Loudon 8 Bruce, The Australian, Doomsday dread, December 04, 2008, http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24746635-25837,00.html

Three wars with Pakistan have demonstrated that India...should be restricted to serving a deterrent purpose

Domestic policies can’t solve warming
Frankel and Menzies 2011 (Emil and Thomas,Chair of the TRB Committee for a Study of Potential Energy Savings and Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Transportation. Menzies is Senior Program Officer, TRB Studies and Special Programs, Tribal Transportation News 4(1), Winter, http://www.nijc.org/pdfs/TTAP/A20NEWSLETTER_SHELL-V204-Issue201-Jan2011.pdf)
Why policy makers may want to target individual sectors is not....on global GHG emissions and buildup.

Case args - Yemen

Supply disruptions in Yemeni oil exports threatens domestic security and rule of law
McKillop 8/24
Andrew McKillop is a political science analysts and staff writer for the Market Oracle news publication. His focus is in Middle Eastern politics and energy sector. “Libya Moving From Arab Spring to Arab Winter”, The Market Oracle. 8/24/13.
Exactly like Libya is now doing after the ....if not, the Yemenite scenario for Libya unfortunately beckons.

No nukes
Parfomak and Frittelli ‘7
Paul W. Parfomak and John Frittelli, Resources, Science, and Industry Division, Congressional Research Service,  Maritime Security: Potential Terrorist Attacks and Protection Priorities, Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, May 14, 2007, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/RL33787.pdf
Although much attention is paid to the threat of nuclear terrorism, there are divergent opinions about the likelihood of a terrorist group such as al Qaeda constructing or otherwise obtaining a workable nuclear weapon.....device being detonated” in the United States

Claims of an existential risk from terrorism are irrational
Fettweis, Professor of Political Science, ‘10
Chris, Professor of Political Science @ Tulane,Threat and Anxiety in US Foreign Policy, Survival, 52:2
Conventional war, much less outright assault, is...it does not possess the capability to do so.

Case args - Seperation of Powers ADV
Hegemony relies on racist and imperialist assumptions that inevitably reproduce the chaos they try to eradicate; we have a responsibility to challenge it
Chernus  07
July 22, 2007 Ira Chernus is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder “The Democratsand#39; Iraqi Dilemma Questions Unasked, Answers Never Volunteered” http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174823/ira_chernus_democratic_doublespeak_on_iraq
Running for the Imperial Presidency  The top Democrats agree that we must leave.....arenand#39;t about to take up the task. I guess it must be up to us

The narrative of Hegemony and American Superiority represents the malice of world history—
Hoggett 4
prof of politics and co-dir. of Center for Psycho-Social Studies, U West England. Degree in social psychology, U Sussex—AND—Dr. Simon Clarke—prof of psycho-social studies and co-dir. of the center. (The Empire of Fear: The American Political Psyche and the Culture of Paranoia, http://www.btinternet.com/~psycho_social/Vol5/JPSS5-PHSC1.htm, AMiles)

The image of Prometheus has often been used as a metaphor to describe.....Empire of Fear, now stands as the major threat to global society.

Court interpretation of treaties undermines seperation of powers.
Yoo in ‘2
John C. Yoo, Professor of Law, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. “RESPONSE ESSAY: Rejoinder: Treaty Interpretation and the False Sirens of Delegation”. California Law Review. July 2002. Lexis.
In response to this footnote, Professor Van Alstine has attempted to redress his most obvious difficulty: .....or history of the Constitution, for erasing that textual barrier