1AC - "The Role of the ballot is who best performs liberation in the round" "Thus we propose El Plan Espiritual de Aztln sets the theme that the oppressed must use their oppression as the key or common denominator for mass mobilization and organization" 1NC - T-Restrictions Marx K Monology K 2NR - T-Restrictions
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Opponent: Oklahoma LW | Judge: Loghry, Chris
1AC - "Jon and I affirm the reversibility of cyber war" 1NC - T-Restrictions Marx War PIC Monology 2NR - Monology
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Tournament: WSU | Round: 6 | Opponent: UTSA CM | Judge: Taylor, James kaeli.wefald@gmail.com
1/26/14
BioWeapons CP
Tournament: UNT | Round: 1 | Opponent: Houston AB | Judge: Brian DeLong Text: The United States Congress should restrict the authority of the President of the United States to introduce nuclear weapons first into hostilities in every instance except for hostilities involving the use of biological weapons.
The plan would ban first use against biological weapons attacks Lodgaard 2 Sverre Lodgaard, “No First Use of Nuclear Weapons,” Pugwash, Conferences on Science and World Affairs, Meeting No. 279, November 2002, http://www.pugwash.org/reports/nw/lodgaard.htm.
At the UN, the United States has not.... be the first to use nuclear weapons in conventional war scenarios.5
Defense or conventional weapons aren’t enough to deter bioweapons attacks – a full no first use policy will encourage attacks against the United States, deterrence is key, and even if we retaliated it wouldn’t escalate Gompert 98 David. Vice President of the RAND Corporation and served as Senior Director for Europe and Eurasia on the National Security Council Staff during the Bush Administration. May 1998. “Rethinking the Role of Nuclear Weapons.” http://www.ndu.edu/inss/strforum/SF141/forum141.html.
Defense alone, with anti-missile and counterforce weapons, ... likely that any WMD would ever be used again at least against the United States.
Of all the weapons of mass destruction, ... HUMAN EXTINCTION IS NOW POSSIBLE.
A NFU would risk biological weapons attacks on the U.S. Tertrais in ‘9 Bruno Tertrais, October-November 2009, Survival Vol. 51 No. 5, p. 26-27, “The Trouble with No First Use”
My second argument is that the ... munitions against our populations.
1/9/14
CP - Concurrent Resolution
Tournament: UNT | Round: 4 | Opponent: Wyoming MP | Judge: Ziegler, Derek A concurrent resolution solves and avoids presentment Ackerman and Hathaway 11 – *Professor of Law and Political Science @ Yale, Professor of International Law @ Yale (Bruce and Oona, “Limiting War and the Constitution, Michigan Law Review, vol 109, Lexis) We have begun by discussing the classic ways in which the House and ¶ Senate “determine the rules of their proceedings.” But institutional creativity has a taken a new form over recent decades. Both houses have moved ¶ jointly to .....undisciplined “emergency” requests ¶ for funds that threaten Congress’s power to rein in presidential bait-and switches in waging limited war.
The counterplan competes – it’s non-statutory Lexis 13 (Training and Resources, http://law.lexisnexis.com/infopro/Monthly-Tips-from-Customer-Support/Federal-Budget-Documents-511) Using the President’s budget request and CBO’s reports, both the House Budget Committee and the Senate ....The 2011 final budget resolution (or Concurrent Resolution) will be located in the source: Congressional Full Text Bills - Current Congress.
1/24/14
CP - War PIC
Tournament: WSU | Round: 7 | Opponent: Oklahoma LW | Judge: Loghry, Chris Plan: Peg and I affirm the reversibility of cyber operations.
The impacts of the 1AC are falsely constructed – political mobilization is occurring now, the affirmative undermines this capability through its mobilization of “cyber-war” rhetoric. Rid 13 Thomas, Reader in War Studies at Kings College London, Cyber War Will Not Take Place, Oxford UP, pg xiv – xv This book argues that cyber war will not take place...of states with a bird s-eye perspective.
Cybersecurity threat construction justifies massive expansion of the military-industrial complex Greenwald 13 (Glenn, journalist, political commentator, lawyer, columnist, blogger, and author, “Pentagon's new massive expansion of 'cyber-security' unit is about everything except defense”, 28 January 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/series/glenn-greenwald-security-liberty) As always, it is not just political ....entrench and enrich itself based on pure pretext.
1/26/14
Case - Selective Listening
Tournament: UNT | Round: 6 | Opponent: Houston LR | Judge: Russell, Jason The affirmative claim to listen to the voices of the people of the FATA is a flawed methodology—They select a single person’s story and read it as representative of the views of the periphery—This is a bad model of listening to the other. There is no single view among the people of the FATA—There are a wide range of opinions among people in the FATA regarding drone policy and many of them support drone strikes
Taj 09 Farhat Taj is a research fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Research, University of Oslo and a member of Aryana Institute for Regional Research and Advocacy Thursday, March 05, 2009 http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=165781andCat=9anddt=3/7/2009 The Aryana Institute for Regional Research and Advocacy, a think tank of researchers and political activists from the NWFP and FATA, conducts research, surveys and collect statistics ...the land and culture I love, and our state. I will therefore continue to challenge the fantasies of the armchairs analysts, whenever possible.
The affirmative are part of efforts promoting the voices of survivors of drone attacks ignore the voices of those devastated by the Taliban Brown Pundits 13 http://www.brownpundits.com/2013/10/30/drone-and-anti-drone/ I am sure there are other theories that can be fitted to this strange business. (one very interesting, and perhaps typically Pakistani, theory: The US is itself promoting anti-drone ...inflicted on entire villages caught in vast air-raids, some questions can be asked. And have been asked; I will just copy and paste some excerpts, but the whole thing is worth a read:
Jirga’s are not representative of the voices of the periphery—they do not include the voices of marginalized groups Dennys 12 Christian Dennys, CAMP (Community Appraisal and Motivation Programme) ¶ and Saferworld, The Jirga: justice and ¶ conflict transformation, http://www.saferworld.org.uk/downloads/pubdocs/The20Jirga20justice20and20conflict20transformation.pdf ¶ Currently, the jirga system is not representative or inclusive of the communities it serves, ...member, nor witness or a complainant. Women may access jirga only through a male relative. In case of grievances against her male relatives, no recourse whatsoever is available"14
The Jirga system in the FATA excludes women’s voices Gauhar 11 Neha Gauhar, Research and Campaign Officer CAMP Reforming the Jirga System in FATA http://www.camp.org.pk/files/Jirga_manual-compressed.pdf Jirga and Human Rights: There is no female representation in the Jirga system and the members are at all times men. ...consideration the principles of fairness and justice.
The Jirga system does not represent the views of marginalized individuals in the periphery in the FATA Gauhar 11 Neha Gauhar, Research and Campaign Officer CAMP Reforming the Jirga System in FATA http://www.camp.org.pk/files/Jirga_manual-compressed.pdf Women Rights and Jirga: The reliance on Jirga under the FCR, in practice discriminates against women by providing ...violates women's and minorities' Human Rights.44
The Jirga system in the FATA does not representative the voices of the oppressed Pakistan Observor 11 Reforms in tribal jirga system in FATA stressed http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=103309 Speakers at a seminar stressed the need for reforms in tribal Jirga system in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) to address the grievances of all segments of society, ...the country’s tribal areas. He added Jirga is a body comprised of local, elderly, and influential men in Pakhtun communities who undertake dispute resolution, mainly through arbitration.
Jirga discriminate against women and the poor Abbas 13 ZAHEER ABBAS Islamabad- Dawn.com Pakistan news site http://dawn.com/news/798771/jirga-system-and-plight-of-women THROUGHOUT Pakistan, especially in feudal and tribal areas, a parallel judicial system exists in the form of jirga or the punchayat system. Although this system does not enjoy any legal ...either abolish this de facto judicial system or take concrete steps to institutionalise the jirga system.
1/24/14
DA - Drone Shift
Tournament: WSU | Round: 4 | Opponent: MoState MR | Judge: Varda, Scott Obama is shifting from drones to detention Dillow 13 (Clay, “Obama Set To Reboot Drone Strike Policy And Retool The War On Terror “, 5/23/13, http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-05/obama-set-reboot-drone-strike-policy-and-retool-war-terror) These three topics are deeply intertwined, of course. With the drawdown of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan...missile strikes from unseen robots in the sky.
Restricted detention leads to increased drone use Chesney 11 (Robert, Charles I. Francis Professor in Law, University of Texas School of Law, “ARTICLE: WHO MAY BE HELD? MILITARY DETENTION THROUGH THE HABEAS LENS”, Boston College Law Review, 52 B.C. L. Rev 769, Lexis) The convergence thesis describes one manner in which law might ...detention takes place through the lens of habeas corpus litigation.
Increased drone use sets a precedent that causes South China Sea conflict Roberts 13 (Kristen, News Editor at National Journal, “When the Whole World Has Drones”, 3/22/13, http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/when-the-whole-world-has-drones-20130321) And that’s a NATO ally seeking the capability to conduct missions that ...to be subject for an engagement by the United States government.”
Extinction Wittner 11 (Lawrence S., Emeritus Professor of History at the State University of New York/Albany, Wittner is the author of eight books, the editor or co-editor of another four, and the author of over 250 published articles and book reviews. From 1984 to 1987, he edited Peace and Change, a journal of peace research., 11/28/2011, "Is a Nuclear War With China Possible?", www.huntingtonnews.net/14446) The gathering tension between the United States and China is clear enough...creating worldwide famine, and generating chaos and destruction.
1/26/14
Debt Ceiling PTX
Tournament: UMKC | Round: 4 | Opponent: Mo State HM | Judge: Aaron Hardy *Obama is pushing Congress to resolve the debt ceiling - political capital is key to success Pace 9/12 Julie, AP White House correspondent, Syria debate on hold, Obama refocuses on agenda, The Fresno Bee, 9/12/13, http://www.fresnobee.com/2013/09/12/3493538/obama-seeks-to-focus-on-domestic.html With a military strike against Syria on hold, President Barack Obama tried Thursday to reignite... ....he won't negotiate over the debt limit, House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday said the GOP will insist on curbing spending. *Obama pushes the plan Bannon 5/28— pollster and political consultant (Brad, “An Offer We Can’t Refuse,” US News, May 28, 2013, http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/brad-bannon/2013/05/28/obama-wants-us-to-take-away-his-war-powers~-~-we-should) President Obama kicked off the long Memorial Day weekend with a speech which had a request that you hardly get from a .... ...president also suggested the creation of a special federal court – like the court created to monitor federal wiretaps authorized under Federal Intelligence Security Act – to review drone strikes against American citizens abroad *Congress opposes closing Guantanamo and Obama has to spend capital New Zealand Herald ‘13 Staff Writer, May 1st, “Obama vows again to close prison at Guantanamo Bay”, Lexis President Barack Obama has renewed his pledge to close the prison for terrorist suspects at ... ...full support of his party on this issue, with some Democrats joining Republicans in blocking efforts to transfer detainees to U.S. prisons. *Failure collapses the economy – goes global and past events don’t disprove Davidson 9/10 Adam, co-founder of NPR’s “Planet Money,” Our Debt to Society, New York Times, 9/10/13, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/magazine/our-debt-to-society.html?pagewanted=all If the debt ceiling isn’t lifted again this fall, some serious financial decisions will have to ... ...asset more risky, the entire global economy becomes riskier and costlier. *Nuclear war Friedberg and Schoenfeld 8 Aaron, Prof. Politics. And IR @ Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School and Visiting Scholar @ Witherspoon Institute, and Gabriel, Senior Editor of Commentary and Wall Street Journal, “The Dangers of a Diminished America” http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122455074012352571.html Then there are the dolorous consequences of a potential collapse of the world's financial ... ...countries seek to divert attention from internal travails with external adventures.
9/15/13
Executive Restraint CP
Tournament: UMKC | Round: 4 | Opponent: Mo State HM | Judge: Aaron Hardy Text: The President of the United States will issue an Executive Order to end his authority to indefinitely detain terrorist suspects *Only executive action solves the aff Joscelyn 13 Thomas, “Obama, Not Congress, Is the Reason Guantánamo Is Still Open” http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/03/obama-not-congress-is-the-reason-guantanamo-is-still-open.html May 3 mtc Congressional restrictions have made it more difficult to transfer or relocate Guantánamo detainees. ... ...of 166—are in U.S. custody because that is where the Obama administration thinks they belong.
9/15/13
K - Drone Distancing
Tournament: UNT | Round: 6 | Opponent: Houston LR | Judge: Russell, Jason The claim that developments in drone technology are the cause is nonsensical—It is underlying alternative ontological human relations like, class and race that are the central issues we should examine Chakrabatri 12 Spandan Chakrabarti Jadavpur University http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2012/08/drones-and-race.html ¶ And the fixation on drones is strange. The United States government has been regularly conducting air-strikes in third world countries since World War II ended - directly and via ....to mobilize opposition to change. But nobody can discuss any of that because the "left" that should be making this argument is obsessed with attacking the character of the President.
Focus on drones distracts from a true ontological reexamination of the true causes of conflict Trombly 12 Daniel Trombly is an analyst and writer on international affairs and strategy. He blogs at Abu Muqawama and Slouching Toward Columbia. Graduate with a concentration in Conflict and Security at George Washington University, http://slouchingcolumbia.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/drone-panic-iii-rolling-stone-edition/ Where to begin here – firstly, in an article that acknowledges and appears to be cognizant of the nature and duties of an organization called the Central Intelligence Agency, Hastings has the gall ...something invented in a lab by Lockheed Martin or General Atomic and begun by President Obama.
The alternative is to reject the affirmatives drone centric ontology. An ontological perspective which focuses on a drone centric ontology that labels drones as a causal factor undermines our ability to develop valid understandings of the causes of war Noble 12 Is It the Drones or the Killings We Oppose? Doug Noble is an activist with the Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/08/29/is-it-the-drones-or-the-killings-we-oppose/ But recent controversial revelations about presidential-approved “kill lists,” used to identify targets for drone assassinations, suggest a broader scope for our opposition. US assassination ...covert killing now allegedly being conducted by CIA and Special Forces, or their indigenous proxies, throughout many countries in the world.
1/24/14
K - Latinidad
Tournament: UTD | Round: 4 | Opponent: UTSA CM | Judge: loghry, chris The term “Latinidad” is steeped in the very coloniality they wish to fight, use of the term privileges European white heritage. The Affirmative’s embrace of the world renders those who were colonized invisible and subject to the violence of exclusion. Turns the Aff Demuro 12 Eugina, Demura ¶ PhD Language Studies. Visiting Fellow, School of Language Studies, College of Arts and Social ¶ Sciences, Australian National University ¶ Examining ‘Latinidad’ in Latin America: Race, ‘Latinidad’ ¶ and the Decolonial Option ¶ Volume 8, Number 2, 2012 http://www.acrawsa.org.au/files/ejournalfiles/187Demurofinalversion.pdf
Following the conquest and colonisation of the Americas, the concept of race, as a category, became instrumental to social organisation and, significantly, continues to be a powerful ...Portuguese colonial rule. In fact, coloniality persists today and is evident in the distribution of wealth and resources across the region and the globe…
The Alternative is to reject their embrace of the term “Latinidad” and instead engage in the aff act of reclamation by asserting the invention of categories of “Latinidad” and “Latin America” The Term “Latinidad” perpetuates the narrative of the Discovery and Conquest of what is known as the “Americas” In order to engage in the act of reclaimation against coloniality we must instead assert narrative of the Invention of the both “Latinidad” and “Latin America” Demuro 12 Eugina, Demura ¶ PhD Language Studies. Visiting Fellow, School of Language Studies, College of Arts and Social ¶ Sciences, Australian National University ¶ Examining ‘Latinidad’ in Latin America: Race, ‘Latinidad’ ¶ and the Decolonial Option ¶ Volume 8, Number 2, 2012 http://www.acrawsa.org.au/files/ejournalfiles/187Demurofinalversion.pdf
In order to extricate ourselves from coloniality, it is imperative that our ¶ understanding of the conquest of the Americas moves beyond the fact of the ¶ colonisation of the continent, to identify the mechanisms by which Western ¶ discourse became universal. For example, Edmundo O’Gorman has contended ¶ that Latin America was ...without conjuring Europe – a problem that is not true in the reverse order. In other words, they reify the power relations of coloniality.
1/24/14
K - Marx
Tournament: UTD | Round: 4 | Opponent: UTSA CM | Judge: loghry, chris The discursive quest proposed by the aff does nothing more than obscure the logic of capital – it prioritizes identity and representation to class and reifies the dominant structure of social classes. Their individual pedagogical strategy delinks individuals from underlying modes of production and pushes them toward flashy inquiries Zavarzadeh 94 (Mas’ud, Dept English @ Syracuse, 1994 “The Stupidity that Consumption is Just as Productive as Production”, The Alternative Orange, V 4, Fall/Winter. The task of this text is to lay bare the structure of assumptions and its relation to the ....Stalinist. If I ask what is wrong with Stalinism, again (in terms of the logic of his text) I will not get a political or philosophical argument but a tropological description.(6)
Their exclusion of structural historicism is not a fluke—they rely on identity politics to ignore class and capitalist exploitation. They particularize oppressions so that the root system remains unscathed. Brown 93 (Wendy, professor of legal studies and women's studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, “Wounded Attachments”, Political Theory, Aug. p. 392-394) Although this detente between universal and particular within liberalism is potted with volatile conceits, it is rather thoroughly unraveled by two features of late modernity, spurred by developments in what Marx and Foucault, respectively, reveal as liberalism's companion powers: capitalism and disciplinarity. On one side, the state loses even its ...the sufferings produced by capitalism in addition to that bound to the explicitly politicized marking.
REDUCTION OF CLASS TO A LEVEL AMONG ALL OTHER OPPRESSIONS DESTROYS ITS EMANCIPATORY POTENTIAL—CLASS MUST BE RECOGNIZD AS QUALITATIVELY MORE IMPORTANT AS A UNIVERSALIZING MECHANISM TO OVERCOME CAPITALIST OPPRESSION gimenez 2001 Martha, Prof. Of Sociology at CU Boulder, “Marxism and Class, Gender and Race”, Race Gender and Class, Vol. 8, p. online There are many competing theories of race, gender, class, American society, political economy, power, etc. but no specific theory is invoked to define how the terms race, gender and class are used, or to identify how they are related to the rest of the ...of what happens in social interactions grounded in "intersectionality" is class power.
THE DETERMINISM OF CAPITAL IS RESPONSIBLE FOR INSTRUMENTALIZATION—THIS MOBILIZES AND ALLOWS FOR THE 1AC’S SCENARIOS dyer-witherford 99 Nick, Prof at U. of Western Ontario, Cyber Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High Technology Capitalism For capitalism, the use of machines as organs of “will over nature” is an imperative. The great insight of the Frankfurt School—an insight subsequently improved and amplified by feminists and ecologists—was ...across the planet. The degree to which this project of mastery has backfired is all too obvious.
METHOD FIRST IN MARX - ITS THE FOREMOST POLITICAL QUESTION BECAUSE ONE MUST UNDERSTAND THE EXISTING SOCIAL TOTALITY BEFORE ONE CAN ACT—GROUNDING THE SITES OF POLITICAL CONTESTATION OUTSIDE OF LABOR HUMANIZE CAPITAL AND PREVENT A TRANSITION
tumino 2001 Stephen, Prof English at Pitt, ““What is Orthodox Marxism and Why it Matters Now More than Ever”, Red Critique, p. online Any effective political theory will have to do at least two things: it will have to offer an integrated understanding of social practices and, based on such an interrelated knowledge, offer a ...repeat the technological determinism of corporate theory ("knowledge work") that masquerades as social theory.
US aggressions against Mexico and Chicano persons are grounded in capitalism’s drive for accumulation—only our materialist analysis enables an understanding of the historical motives behind the exercise of war powers described by the 1AC Almaguer 77 (Tomas, “Historical Notes on Chicano Oppression: The Dialectics of Racial and Class Domination in North America,” Aztlan, 5, 1-2, 27-56, Spr-F 74) To make sense of these United States aggressions on Mexico, they must be understood in the context of the rise and expansion of U.S. capitalism. The root of ...of “spreading democracy,” but rather it was a crucial requisite for the continued development and expansion of U.S. capitalism.
1/24/14
K - Monology
Tournament: WSU | Round: 4 | Opponent: MoState MR | Judge: Varda, Scott Their methodology of presenting a one sided snapshot of research as a justification for making policy is a monological methodology making the results invalid – this monological methodology should be rejected in favor of participatory dialogism prior to enacting policy Sidorkin 96 Alexander M. Sidorkin is Research Associate at the Center for Educational Renewal in the College of Education at the University of Washington AN ONTOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING OF DIALOGUE IN EDUCATION http://sidorkin.net/pdf/dis.pdf Most researchers today pay tribute to the fact that ....is, there are no partial human beings.
Tournament: UTD | Round: 6 | Opponent: Baylor CE | Judge: Elliott, Darren Threat construction is a self-fulfilling prophecy resulting in endless war – we as a community shouldn’t adhere to this harmful logic. Wendt 99 (Alexander, Ralph D. Mershon Professor of International Security at the Ohio State University, “Social Theory of International Politics”, pg. 261-266) Enemy images have a long pedigree, and some states continue to position each other in such terms today. The Greeks represented the Persians as “barbarians”; the Crusaders perceived the Turks as “infidels”; medieval Europeans ...exception will be states that are able to “hide” because of the material condition of geography (Switzerland in World War II), although geography’s significance is itself subject to material changes in technology (nuclear weapons).
Securitization justifies massive violence Friis 2k (Karsten, UN Sector at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Peace and Conflict Studies 7.2, “From Liminars to Others: Securitization Through Myths”, http://shss.nova.edu/pcs/journalsPDF/V7N2.pdf#page=2) The problem with societal securitization is one of representation. It is rarely clear in advance who it is that speaks for a ...launching his world-view and in prescribing the necessary measures taken against it. This is possible by using the myths, by speaking on behalf of the natural and eternal, where truth is never questioned.
The alternative is to rethink security as a community Cheeseman and Bruce 96 (Graeme Cheeseman, Senior Lecturer at New South Wales University, and Robert Bruce, Associate Professor of social sciences Curtin University “Discourses of Danger and Dread Frontiers”, pg. 5-9) This goal is pursued in ways which are still unconventional in the intellectual milieu of international relations in Australia, even though they are gaining influence worldwide as traditional modes of theory and practice are rendered inadequate by global trends that defy comprehension, let alone policy. The inability to give meaning to global changes ...through policy-making processes. Contributors ask whether Australia’s policy-makers and their academic advisors are unaware of broader intellectual debates, or resistant to them, or choose not to understand them, and why?
1/24/14
Parametrics
Tournament: UTD | Round: 2 | Opponent: Texas CM | Judge: Martel, Alex Interpretation- the aff should have to defend a parametricization of their method
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 never have ...consistency at the price of leaving us defenseless in the face of evildoers. Security, moreover, is a human right, and thus respect for one right might lead us to betray another.
1/24/14
Politics - Immigration
Tournament: UTD | Round: 6 | Opponent: Baylor CE | Judge: Elliott, Darren Immigration will pass – Obama PC is key Lopez 1/1 Oscar, Latin Times, New Year 2014: 4 Reasons Immigration Reform Will Pass In 2014, 1/1/14, http://www.latintimes.com/new-year-2014-4-reasons-immigration-reform-will-pass-2014-141778 4. Leadership: As immigration reform comes to the fore, party leaders will step up in 2014 ...importance of the issue, comprehensive legislation is one thing we can be sure of in 2014.
Limitations on war powers sap political capital Kriner ‘10 Douglas L., assistant professor of political science at Boston University, “After the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War”, University of Chicago Press, Dec 1, pages 68-69 While congressional support leaves the president’s reserve of political capital intact, ...the president will be more likely to judge the benefits of military action insufficient to its costs than if Congress stood behind him in the international arena.
Reform key to competitiveness and growth Trujillo and Melgoza 13 Mr. Trujillo is chairman of the Trujillo Group, LLC and co-chairman of the Latino Donor Collaborative. Mr. Melgoza is the CEO of Geoscape International Inc. The Economic—and Demographic—Case for Immigration Reform, 2/21/13, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323951904578290471589119346.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Since the November election, there has been much talk in Washington and on the pundit circuit about America's changing demographics, especially the "Latino vote" and the new realities of political campaigning. There has also been considerable wrangling over immigration and what it means for a country that is a nation of immigrants but is more crowded than it once ...level of government—that a coherent and enforceable immigration policy is in place and here to stay.
1/24/14
Politics - Iran
Tournament: UNT | Round: 1 | Opponent: Houston AB | Judge: Brian DeLong Obama is using PC – needs it to sustain a veto on Iran sanctions – top of the agenda Lobe 12/27 Jim, reporter for Inter Press Service, “Iran sanctions bill: Big test of Israel lobby power,” 12/27/13, http://www.arabamericannews.com/news/index.php?mod=articleandcat=Worldandarticle=8046 This week’s introduction by a bipartisan ... upper chamber’s calendar, to forestall any new sanctions legislation.
Obama will win the fight – failure undermines negotiations and leads to Middle East war Merry 1/1 Robert W. Merry, political editor of the National Interest, is the author of books on American history and foreign policy, “Obama may buck the Israel lobby on Iran,” Washington Times, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/dec/31/merry-obama-may-buck-the-israel-lobby-on-iran/ Presidential press secretary Jay Carney ... quite what it has been cracked up to be.
Congressional agenda-setting in war powers tanks Obama’s agenda Kriner 10 - Assistant Profess of Political Science at Boston University (Douglas, “After the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War,” p. 67-69) Raising or Lowering Political Costs by Affecting Presidential Political Capital Shaping both real and anticipated public opinion ... Congress stood behind him in the international arena
US-Iran war causes global nuclear war and collapses the global economy Avery 11/6 John Scales, Lektor Emeritus, Associate Professor, at the Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, since 1990 he has been the Contact Person in Denmark for Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, An Attack On Iran Could Escalate Into Global Nuclear War, 11/6/13, http://www.countercurrents.org/avery061113.htm Despite the willingness of Iran's ... peoples of the world, US citizens included.
1/9/14
QDR CP
Tournament: UNT | Round: 1 | Opponent: Houston AB | Judge: Brian DeLong The National Defense Panel should include a recommendation in the Quadrennial Defense Review that ...
The counterplan competes – it’s not topical and only fiats the executive branch. The panel shapes DoD policy and leads to Congressional action Brimley 13 - Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security, served as Special Advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon from 2009 to 2011 (Shawn, “The Next QDR Is the Last Chance for Sanity,” http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2013/07/next-qdr-last-chance-sanity/66629/) Enter the congressionally appointed ... Time to get moving.
Tournament: UNT | Round: 1 | Opponent: Houston AB | Judge: Brian DeLong A. “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.
1/9/14
T - Increasing Restrictions
Tournament: UTD | Round: 2 | Opponent: Texas CM | Judge: Martel, Alex Interpretation – The affirmative’s advocacy must advocate increasing restrictions on the President’s war powers authority
Restrictions are limitations Plummer 29 J., Court Justice, MAX ZLOZOWER, Respondent, v. SAM LINDENBAUM et al., Appellants Civ. No. 3724COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT100 Cal. App. 766; 281 P. 102; 1929 Cal. App. LEXIS 404September 26, 1929, Decided, lexis The word "restriction," when used in connection with the grant of interest in real property, is ...particular event, or the performance or nonperformance of a particular act.
War powers refer to the combination of the military forces, but include Cravens 7 – (RG, “The War Within: Presidential Versus Congressional Supremacy in War Powers,” http://www.thepresidency.org/storage/documents/Fellows2008/Cravens.pdf) In order to better understand exactly what it being discussed, it is important to ¶ have ...more than just¶ the military capabilities at the disposal of the president.
It’s more beneficial to debate about restrictions on war powers authority – It provides the civic education necessary to challenge unfettered executives Buchanan 13 - Government professor, UT Austin (Bruce, Presidential Power and Accountability: Toward a Presidential Accountability System, Routledge, pg. 21-23) When it is authoritatively marshaled (i.e., mobilized, unified, clear, stable, and focused) and brought to bear with surgical ...in popular opinion gained authoritative constitutional recognition" (Ackerman, 1991: 41).
aff turns debate into an echo chamber—prevents the value of any knowledge they produce Talisse 5—Professor of Philosophy @Vandy Robert, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Deliberativist responses to activist challenges, 31(4) p. 429-431 The argument thus far might appear to turn exclusively upon different conceptions of what reasonableness entails. The deliberativist view I have sketched holds that ...justice. Insofar as the activist denies this, he is unreasonable.
And effective deliberative discourse is the lynchpin to solving all existential problems Christian O. Lundberg 10 Professor of Communications @ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Tradition of Debate in North Carolina” in Navigating Opportunity: Policy Debate in the 21st Century By Allan D. Louden, p311 The second major problem with the critique that identifies a naivety in articulating debate and democracy is that it presumes ...the existential challenges to democracy in an increasingly complex world.
the process of discussion precedes any truth claim by magnifying the benefits of any discussion Morson 4 http://www.flt.uae.ac.ma/elhirech/baktine/0521831059.pdf#page=331 Northwestern Professor, Prof. Morson's work ranges over a variety of areas: literary theory (especially narrative); the history of ideas, both Russian and European; a variety of literary genres (especially satire, utopia, and the novel); and his favorite writers -- Chekhov, Gogol, and, above all, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. He is especially interested in the relation of literature to philosophy. A belief in truly dialogic ideological becoming would lead to schools that were quite different. In such schools, the mind would be populated with a complexity of voices and perspectives it had not known, and the student would learn to think with those voices, to ...world of uncertainty and difference is itself the most important thing. What we must do is keep the conversation going.
shutting down deliberation devolves into totalitarianism and reinscribes oppression Morson 4 http://www.flt.uae.ac.ma/elhirech/baktine/0521831059.pdf#page=331 Northwestern Professor, Prof. Morson's work ranges over a variety of areas: literary theory (especially narrative); the history of ideas, both Russian and European; a variety of literary genres (especially satire, utopia, and the novel); and his favorite writers -- Chekhov, Gogol, and, above all, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. He is especially interested in the relation of literature to philosophy.
Bakhtin viewed the whole process of “ideological” (in the sense of ideas and values, however unsystematic) development as an endless dialogue. As teachers, we find it ...the same way, in an ongoing spiral of intolerance.
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T - Military
Tournament: WSU | Round: 2 | Opponent: WSU | Judge: Moore, Matthew Interpretation: A topical plan is limited to restricting the President’s authority over the military Bajesky 13 – MA in Political Science and Applied Economics, LLM @ Georgetown (Robert, “Dubitable Security Threats and Low Intensity Interventions as the Achilles' Heel of War Powers,” 32 Miss. C. L. Rev. 9) A numerical comparison indicates that the Framer's ....and not to commence war." n32
Violation: the plan applies to CIA targeted killings Policinski 13 - legal fellow with the International Humanitarian Law Dissemination unit at American Red Cross National Headquarters, holds a J.D. from Villanova Law School in Villanova, Pennsylvania and an LL.M. from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland (Ellen, “Why Shifting Drone Strikes from the CIA to the DoD is a Good Idea,” http://lawsofarmedconflict.com/2013/06/13/why-shifting-drone-strikes-from-the-cia-to-the-dod-is-a-good-idea/) The use of drones as a tool to carry out targeted killing operations raises a number ...controlled by the CIA.3
Tournament: UMKC | Round: 4 | Opponent: Mo State HM | Judge: Aaron Hardy A. Interpretation – Restriction requires prohibition Northglenn 11 (City of Northglenn Zoning Ordinance, “Rules of Construction – Definitions”, http://www.northglenn.org/municode/ch11/content_11-5.html) Section 11-5-3. Restrictions. As used in this Chapter 11 ...thing shall be authorized by any permit or license.
