1NC - CP Concurrent Resolution DA Immigration K Coloniality PIC "Targeted Killing" 2NC - Concurrent Resoltuion and Case 1NR - Immigration and Case 2NR - Immigration and Case
UTD
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Opponent: Trinity DU | Judge: Joel Reed
1NC - T Restrict = Prohibit K Patriarchy CP Concurrent Resolution DA Immigration DA EU Soft Power
1NC - T Restrict = Prohibit DA EU Soft Power K Patriarchy DA Immigration CP Self-Restraint Case 2NC - Self-Restraint and Case 1NR - Immigration and Case 2NR - Immigration and Case
Wake
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Opponent: KentuckyGR | Judge: Casey Harrigan
2NR Security Decision Aff
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CP - Concurrent Resolution
Tournament: UTD | Round: 3 | Opponent: Trinity DU | Judge: Joel Reed Text: Both houses of the Congress should jointly coordinate a concurrent resolution establishing a Congressional review board for targeted drone killings.
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 ... and switches in waging limited war.
Doesn’t link to politics – avoids presentment because it’s legally not legislation Hale 90 - United States Under Secretary of Defense and former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Robert F, “The U.S. Army in a New Security Era,” p. 52) First, Congress establishes a three-year budget ... require the signature of the President.
1/8/14
CP - DTC
Tournament: UTD | Round: 2 | Opponent: UCO BH | Judge: Kurr Bevens and I advocate that the United States federal government should establish, fully fund and staff domestic terror courts that provide fair and speedy trials to defendants. We can clarify. This court system creates a framework that tests threats and releases innocents – Key to balance security and freedom Guiora 2008 Amos N., Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah. Professor Guiora served in the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the Israel Defense Forces where he held senior command positions related to the legal and policy aspects of operational counterterrorism. His publications include Global Perspectives on Counterterrorism (2007); Constitutional Limits on Coercive Interrogation (2008); Fundamentals of Counterterrorism (2008); and Freedom from Religion (forthcoming October 2009), “The Rule of Law and the Global War on Terrorism: Detainees, Interrogations, and Military Commissions Symposium: Article: Creating a Domestic Terror Court,” LexisNexis As an absolutely critical first step, President ... proceedings in front of the proposed DTC.
Detention is key to prevent terrorist attacks on US soil – Empirics prove Mukasey 2010 Michael, ttorney general of the United States from 2007 to 2009 “How a Bagram Detainee Foiled the Euro Terror Plot,” http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703735804575536502486233766.html The terrorism alert issued this week ... human intelligence that provides that picture.
A strike against the US leads to extinction Corsi 2005 Jerome, Ph.D. from Harvard, Atomic Iran, 176-178 In the span of less than one hour ... nations focus on attacking one another.
1/5/14
CP - Genocide
Tournament: UNT | Round: 6 | Opponent: Texas DS | Judge: Shae Bunas The United States federal government should statutorily prohibit the war powers authority of the president to use humanitarian justifications as grounds for introducing the United States Armed Forces into hostilities in all instances except government sponsored genocide.
Genocide outweighs Card 3 - Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin (Hypatia 18.1 (2003) 63-79. “Genocide and Social Death”) Genocide is not simply unjust (although it certainly ... termination. This view, however, is controversial.
1/10/14
CP - Self Restraint
Tournament: Wake | Round: 1 | Opponent: KentuckyGR | Judge: Casey Harrigan The President of the United States should create an internal national security court housed within the executive branch ruled by experts outside of the judicial branch for the purpose of creating an ex-post review process for drone strikes ordered or approved by the President.
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 3 | Opponent: Indiana MP | Judge: Gliniecki, Tom The President of the United States should create an internal national security court housed within the executive branch ruled by experts outside of the judicial branch with jurisdiction over targeted killing orders.
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 1 | Opponent: Houston JJ | Judge: Perkins, Dallas Text: The Executive of the United States should sign an executive order restricting the authority of the President of the United States to introduce nuclear weapons first into hostilities and publicly declare his intent.
CP sends a stronger international signal than the plan Sovacool ‘9 Dr. Benjamin K. Sovacool, Research Fellow in the Energy Governance Program at the Centre on Asia and Globalization, Assistant Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, 2009, Preventing National Electricity-Water Crisis Areas in the United States, Columbia journal of environmental law, 34 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 333, lexis Executive Orders can often send influence the global agenda. n301
10/5/13
DA - Bond
Tournament: UTD | Round: 2 | Opponent: UCO BH | Judge: Kurr Bond has challenged her arrest under the CWC on 2 grounds—a narrow argument that the treaty did not apply to her and a broad argument that the law violated the constitution Fidler 2013 David Fidler is the James Louis Calamaris Professor of Law at the Indiana University School of Law¶ SCOTUS and the CWC: A Challenge to the U.S. CWC Implementation Act¶ http://armscontrollaw.com/2013/08/28/scotus-and-the-cwc-a-challenge-to-the-u-s-cwc-implementation-act/ And now for something completely non-Syrian ... violated principles of federalism.
If the court decides to get more aggressive it will have the votes for a sweeping ruling Baldi 13 Maxwell Baldi is President of the Foreign Affairs Society. Supremacy and Federalism: Treaty Power under the Necessary and Proper Clause http://foreignaffairsreview.co.uk/2013/02/treaty-power-federalism/ ¶ The underlying question the Court will ... federal power through treaties. The Court may rule by June.
The affirmative makes a broad ruling more likely. Empirically if the court makes a liberal decision in a term it will embolden it to make a more extremely conservative position in another highly visible case Hasen 13 Richard L. Hasen. Richard L. Hasen is a professor of law and political science at the U.C. Irvine School of Law¶ Same-sex marriage: Court on the couch¶ MARCH 26, 2013 http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/03/26/same-sex-marriage-court-on-the-couch/ Consider last year, when Supreme Court ... affirmative action and the Voting Rights Act.¶
A narrow ruling will preserve treaty credibility but a broad ruling would collapse it Trapp et al 13 Ralf Trapp served as a member of the German ¶ delegation to the Organisation for the Prohibition ¶ of Chemical Weapons, Professor Julian Robinson is now retired from ¶ the University of Sussex, Thomas Graham Jr.¶ served as Special Representative of the President for ¶ Arms Control, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, Graham S. Pearson is a Visiting Professor ¶ of International Security in the Division of Peace Studies ¶ of the University of Bradford. Guy Roberts was the Deputy Assistant Secretary ¶ General for Weapons of Mass Destruction Policy for the ¶ North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Amy E. Smithson, PhD, is a Senior Fellow at the James ¶ Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, David A. Koplow served as Special Counsel ¶ for Arms Control to the General Counsel of the U.S. ¶ Department of Defense, Barry Kellman is Director of the ¶ International Weapons Control Center at DePaul ¶ University College of Law, David P. Fidler is the James Louis ¶ Calamaras Professor of Law at the Indiana University, BRIEF OF AMICI CURIAE CHEMICAL WEAPONS¶ CONVENTION NEGOTIATORS AND EXPERTS¶ IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENT Bond V. United States http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Amicus-Brief1.pdf ¶ Bond argues that failure to prosecute ... future cases in the U.S. and abroad.
The decision would crush global arms control on chemical, biological and nuclear weapons Trapp et al 13 Ralf Trapp served as a member of the German ¶ delegation to the Organisation for the Prohibition ¶ of Chemical Weapons, Professor Julian Robinson is now retired from ¶ the University of Sussex, Thomas Graham Jr.¶ served as Special Representative of the President for ¶ Arms Control, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, Graham S. Pearson is a Visiting Professor ¶ of International Security in the Division of Peace Studies ¶ of the University of Bradford. Guy Roberts was the Deputy Assistant Secretary ¶ General for Weapons of Mass Destruction Policy for the ¶ North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Amy E. Smithson, PhD, is a Senior Fellow at the James ¶ Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, David A. Koplow served as Special Counsel ¶ for Arms Control to the General Counsel of the U.S. ¶ Department of Defense, Barry Kellman is Director of the ¶ International Weapons Control Center at DePaul ¶ University College of Law, David P. Fidler is the James Louis ¶ Calamaras Professor of Law at the Indiana University, BRIEF OF AMICI CURIAE CHEMICAL WEAPONS¶ CONVENTION NEGOTIATORS AND EXPERTS¶ IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENT Bond V. United States http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Amicus-Brief1.pdf ¶ Finally, Congress recognized that national ... individual conduct to penal measures.2¶
The impact is extinction Muller 2K Dr. Harold Muller is the Director of the Peace Research Institute-Frankfurt and Professor of International Relations at Goethe University Compliance Politics: A Critical Analysis of Multilateral Arms Control Treaty Enforcement http://cns.miis.edu/npr/pdfs/72muell.pdf In this author's view,3 at least four distinct missions continue to make arms control, disarmament, and non-proliferation agreements useful, even indispensable parts of a stable and reliable world security structure: • As long as the risk of great power ... breaches and a lack of effective enforcement.
1/5/14
DA - Conventional Buildup NFU
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 1 | Opponent: Houston JJ | Judge: Perkins, Dallas Conventional military declining Helprin 13 Mr. Helprin is a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute , “Benghazi's Portent and the Decline of U.S. Military Strength”, WSJ April 9, 2013 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324100904578401083677703420.html In the rush to paper over is only a symbol of things to come.¶
No first use changes war planners and stops nuclear weapons from having primary emphasis Gerson 10 Michael S. Gerson is a principal analyst and project director at the Center for Naval Analysis, where his work focuses on nuclear and conventional deterrence, nuclear strategy, arms control, and weapons of mass destruction proliferation, “No First Use The Next Step for U.S. Nuclear Policy”, International Security, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Fall 2010), pp. 7–47 http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA538352 Third, NFU places primary emphasis to maintain conventional superiority
Causes prolif Futter and Zala 13 Andrew Futter is a Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Leicester, having completed his PhD at the University of Birmingham in 2011. Benjamin Zala is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at University of Birmingham. “ADVANCED US CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS AND NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT”, Nonproliferation Review 20:1, 107-122 In many respects, the idea proliferation in the first place.
10/5/13
DA - Deference
Tournament: Wake | Round: 1 | Opponent: KentuckyGR | Judge: Casey Harrigan Judicial restrictions establish bright lines that check executive war powers Perkins 5 (Jared, BYU Journal of Public Law, 19 BYU J. Pub L. 437, Lexis) It is the function of the judiciary and fundamental liberties jealously guarded.
Deference is key to deterrence Green 97 (Tracy Colton, University of South Carolina, Associate with McNair Law Firm, “Providing for the Common Defense versus Promoting the General Welfare: the Conflicts Between National Security and National Environmental Policy”, South Carolina Environmental Law Journal, 6 S.C Envtl. L.J. 137, Fall) The deployment of nuclear weapons, however enforce federal law passed by Congress. 63 *145
Extinction Schneider 8 (Mark, National Institute for Public Policy, The Future of the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent, Comparative Strategy, 27:345–360) According to the Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review constraints upon U.S. conventional capabilities.
11/16/13
DA - Detention Trade-Off
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 3 | Opponent: Indiana MP | Judge: Gliniecki, Tom Detention low now because of drones NYT 12 (New York Times, “Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will”, 5/29/12, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html?pagewanted=alland_r=0) Yet the administration’s very success at killing advertise that, but that’s what they are doing.”
Key to check Russian expansionism Brzezinski 3 (Zbigniew, CSIS counselor and trustee and cochair of the CSIS Advisory Board, Senior research professor of international relations at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, “Hegemonic Quicksand”, http://www.kas.de/upload/dokumente/brzezinski.pdf) Finally, there is the question of the degree to which Russia can successful joint AmericanEuropean effort to preserve peace in Europe and then end Europe’s division.
Nuclear war Blank 9 (Stephen, Strategic Studies Institute's expert on the Soviet bloc and the post-Soviet world since 1989, former Associate Professor of Soviet Studies at the Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education, Maxwell Air Force Base, B.A. in History from the University of Pennsylvania, and a M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago, “Russia And Arms Control: Are There Opportunities For The Obama Administration?” March 2009, http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=908) Proliferators or nuclear states like China and Russia on their neighbors or their own people.172
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 ... 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 ... 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 ... famine, and generating chaos and destruction.
1/5/14
DA - EU Soft Power
Tournament: Wake | Round: 1 | Opponent: KentuckyGR | Judge: Casey Harrigan EU soft power is high now Ahston 13 – High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, Speaking @ a UCLA faculty event (Catherine, “The European Union in the world: The value of soft power,” May, http://www.international.ucla.edu/news/article.asp?parentid=131775) The benefits of strong economic policies of the world, such as creating a single market.
The plan trades off – Low US credibility is forcing the EU to lead – solves several scenarios for global war Ischinger 7 - the German ambassador to Britain (Wolfgang, “Can the EU Fill Leadership Void Left by US?” www.china.org.cn/english/international/203945.htm) In 1990, Charles Krauthammer published his to lead, and welcome the European moment.
Warming leads to extinction Tickell 08 Oliber, Climate Researcher, 8/11/08 On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction, The Guardian, pg. Np We need to get prepared for four us towards a similar hothouse Earth.
11/16/13
DA - Immigration
Tournament: UTD | Round: 3 | Opponent: Trinity DU | Judge: Joel Reed 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 ... thing we can be sure of in 2014.
Two links – First Obama will fight the plan with a veto 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) Finally, there is the statutory approach ... without the need for presidential ¶ approval.
Second – he’ll fight the plan with signing statements Mork 6 – JD @ MSU (Steven, “DISAPPROVING SIGNING STATEMENTS AND THE PRESENTMENT CLAUSE: WHEN WORDS SHOULD SPEAK LOUDER THAN ACTIONS,” http://www.law.msu.edu/king/2006/2006_Mork.pdf) The current and conventional approach ... time and, hence, remains a sleeping controversy.
This causes widespread Congressional backlash Dean 6 – JD, Former Counsel to the President (John, “The Problem with Presidential Signing Statements: Their Use and Misuse by the Bush Administration,” http://writ.lp.findlaw.com/dean/20060113.html) But like steroids, signing statements ultimately ... will wish it had not issued all those signing statements.
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 ... is in place and here to stay.
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 ... with external adventures.
1/8/14
DA - Iran
Tournament: UNT | Round: 6 | Opponent: Texas DS | Judge: Shae Bunas 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 group ... the 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 uttered 10 ... quite what it has been cracked up to be.
Two links – First Obama will fight the plan with a veto 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) Finally, there is the statutory approach...need for presidential ¶ approval.
Second – he’ll fight the plan with signing statements Mork 6 – JD @ MSU (Steven, “DISAPPROVING SIGNING STATEMENTS AND THE PRESENTMENT CLAUSE: WHEN WORDS SHOULD SPEAK LOUDER THAN ACTIONS,” http://www.law.msu.edu/king/2006/2006_Mork.pdf) The current and conventional approach of the ... and, hence, remains a sleeping controversy.
This causes widespread Congressional backlash Dean 6 – JD, Former Counsel to the President (John, “The Problem with Presidential Signing Statements: Their Use and Misuse by the Bush Administration,” http://writ.lp.findlaw.com/dean/20060113.html) But like steroids, signing statements ultimately ... wish it had not issued all those signing statements.
Successful deal key to prevent war with Iran Shank and Gould 9/12 Michael Shank, Ph.D., is director of foreign policy at the Friends Committee on National Legislation. Kate Gould is legislative associate for Middle East policy at FCNL, No Iran deal, but significant progress in Geneva, 9/12/13, http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/cause-conflict-conclusion/2013/nov/12/no-iran-deal-significant-progress-geneva/ Congress should welcome, not stubbornly ... Congress’s obstructionism to a peaceful path forward.
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 new President, Hassan ... of all the peoples of the world, US citizens included.
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 ... into a Manicheanism, as Fanon suggested."
The roll of the ballot is whoever best epistemologically and methodological creates safe spaces for liberation movements
We advocate critical border thinking as our alternative. This redistribution of the geopolitics of knowledge starts from a different epistemic starting point to criticize the epistemological basis of the affirmative. This is critical to advancing space to subaltern epistemologies that challenge the ethnocidal foundations of modernity. Mignolo 2k Walter, William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University Local Histories/Global Designs, 069100140568-69 The second opposition Khatibi attempts to undo ... order of knowledge production.
1/8/14
K - Cynicism
Tournament: UNT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Texas CM | Judge: Alex Martel Our argument is about the method deployed by the 1AC. They ignore the institutions of power and don’t provide a solution for how to recognize the ontology of the drone external to its operator.
Cede the political
The aff leads to the fragmentation of politics. This depoliticizing move fails to rethink macrolevel centers of power and is the perfect supplement to corporate colonization. Reject their retreat into enclave politics in order to prevent political atrophy and domination Boggs 2K (Carl, professor at National University, The End of Politics: Corporate Power and the Decline of the Public Sphere pg. 221-222) In the splintered, discontinuous universe ... stubborn reality of corporate domination.
Cynicism – The affirmative’s focus on problems within the world without offering a method of solvency means that every time you sign the ballot for the movement you are endorsing the cynicism of the 1AC allowing it to be reproduced in every subsequent debate
This impact turns the affirmative – you generate ontological violence through a process of involuntary unmasking, which generates ressentiment and leads to a psychopathology of consciousness wars. Van Tuinen 10 Sjoerd van Tuinen, Erasmus University, “A Thymotic Left? Peter Sloterdijk and the Psychopolitics of Ressentiment,” symploke Volume 18, Numbers 1-2, 2010 Just as psychoanalysis, in practice, internalizes and spiritualizes ressentiment in the form of castration instead of overcoming it (Deleuze and Guattari 2003, 215), Sloterdijk observes that, instead ... instead of creating an opportunity for its dissolution (2010b, 55; 1989, 169–70).
The alternative is to embrace kynicism and reject the counterfeit politics of the 1AC Only by rejecting the 1AC interrogation of ontology can we embrace the origins of ontological understanding, a state of being-in the world oriented around the public sphere where our private criticism becomes our public policy. Van Tuinen 10 Sjoerd van Tuinen, Erasmus University, “A Thymotic Left? Peter Sloterdijk and the Psychopolitics of Ressentiment,” symploke Volume 18, Numbers 1-2, 2010 Yet even if it shares Deleuze and Guattari’s ... a critique beyond ressentiment4—can take place.
1/9/14
K - Drone Ontology
Tournament: UNT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Texas CM | Judge: Alex Martel The Link—The Technological Drone Imperative
The affirmative participates in an ontological perspective which orients itself with a fascination with the technology of the drone. The 1AC says that their advocate should be framed through Holmvquist’s approach to examining the ontology of warfare—Holmvquist takes a technology centered approach to examining the ontology of war Holmvquist 12 Caroline, Centre for International Studies, London School of Economics, UK Swedish National Defence College, Sweden. “Undoing War: War Ontologies and the Materiality of Drone Warfare,” Millennium. Vol. 41 No. 3. pp. 535-552 Drawing on the philosophies of Maurice ... ethically about contemporary war.
Holmvquist analysis is based on the assumption that it is the drone technology itself that CREATES the unethical relationship in relation to war. Hers is a drone technology driven philosophy that fixates on the impact of the drone technology itself Holmvquist 12 Automation and ‘undoing’: (re)thinking materialities ... good first step toward ‘undoing’ war itself.
A technologically based ontological understanding of warfare is disastrous. The claim that developments in drone technology are the cause of a human disconnect in the human ontological relation to war 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 ... 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 ... 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...throughout many countries in the world.
1/9/14
K - Patriarchy
Tournament: UTD | Round: 3 | Opponent: Trinity DU | Judge: Joel Reed Patriarchy produces war - transformation of gender relations key to peace Cockburn 10 Cynthia Cockburn, honary professor in the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, Warwick University, “Militarism and War”, Gender Matters in Global Politics- ed by Laura J. Shepard. Pg. 110-11 In the patriarchal gender orders ... their country into a doomed war.
Our alternative is to embrace a feminist epistemology
Link and alternative – IR theory is necessarily embedded in a masculine epistemology – Only the alternative can solve Pandey 06 (Anupam, thesis submitted to faculty of graduate studies and research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctorate of philosophy department of political science Carleton university, forging bonds with women, nature and the third world: an ecofeminist critique of international relations, proquest) 103-105 Both traditional IR theory and ... in relationships between humans.
1/8/14
K - Science
Tournament: UNT | Round: 3 | Opponent: JCCC SW | Judge: Ashley Morgan Their method renders Scientific Empiricism Impossible, meaning only a method of Scientific non-epistemology can Solve Anne-Françoise Schmid 05 Professor of Epistemology, “The Hypothesis of a Non-Epistemology” Accessed online google scholar Epistemology runs aground when dealing with...the idea that epistemology relates directly to science.
Science is key to survival Coyne 2006 – Professor of Biology @ the University of Chicago (Jerry A., “A plea for empiricism”, FOLLIES OF THE WISE, Dissenting essays, 405pp. Emeryville, CA: Shoemaker and Hoard, 1 59376 101 5) Supernatural forces and events, essential ... need to heed Crews’s plea for empiricism.
Our alternative is to reject the 1AC and support a methodology of basing propositions on scientific reasoning and empiricism and to provide clear understandings of problems and results
This is the only method for solving Sokal and Bricmont 1998 (Alan professor of physics at New York University and Jean professor of theoretical physics at the Universite de Louvaine in Belgium, “Fashionable Nonsense,” Page 188) Be wary of argument from authority...critically the rest of Deleuze’s writings.
1/9/14
K - Security
Tournament: Wake | Round: 1 | Opponent: KentuckyGR | Judge: Casey Harrigan Your scripting of the United States as the provider of stability and economic progress is securitizing Mustapha 2008 (Jennifer, PhD Candidate Department of Political Science McMaster University, Hamilton ON, “Threat Construction in Post-9/11 US Foreign Policy Discourses: Implications for (Critical) Security in Southeast Asia,” http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2008/Mustapha.pdf) Freed from the operative and narrative strictures neoliberal economic globalization project” (Mustapha 2007, 260).
The alternative is to reject the 1AC.
This is necessary to withdraw from the ideology of statist fear forming a micro-politics necessary to shape the environment around us and break down the system of domination Chomsky 2003 Noam, American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political activist, and lecturer. He is an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance,” p. 236 Over the course of modern history, there the stakes are far higher.
The affirmative’s engagement of securitization has promoted the evangelism of fear shaping and producing a realism based on cycles of preemptive violence and threat construction – This results in war, destroys all value to life, and produces error replication Mustapha 2008 Jennifer, PhD Candidate Department of Political Science McMaster University, Hamilton ON, “Threat Construction in Post-9/11 US Foreign Policy Discourses: Implications for (Critical) Security in Southeast Asia,” http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2008/Mustapha.pdf When understood as a thick signifier in the country.s foreign policy discourse.7
11/16/13
PIC - Bioweapons NFU
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 1 | Opponent: Houston JJ | Judge: Perkins, Dallas Text: The United States Congress should limit the use of nuclear weapons first to scenarios of nuclear response and bioweapons response, explicitly clarify that the response to a biological weapons attack will be nuclear retaliation and regime change except in the case of an accident and develop low-yield nuclear weapons.
Solves and avoids bioweapons use: Maintaining the option of first use in this limited instance is key to deterring bioweapons attacks, but avoids the commitment trap Martin 1 – Assistant Professor @ FAU (Susan, “Responding to Chemical and Biological Threats,” International Security 25.4, Muse) A proper assessment of this choice not miscalculate the potential costs of such an attack.
Extinction Mhyvold 13 – doctorate in theoretical and mathematical physics and a master's degree in mathematical economics from Princeton University; founded Intellectual Ventures after retiring from his position as chief strategist and chief technology officer of Microsoft (Nathan, “Strategic Terrorism: A Call to Action” http://www.lawfareblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Strategic-Terrorism-Myhrvold-7-3-2013.pdf) As horrible as this would be, such solid background in biology terrorists included.
10/5/13
PIC - Special Ops
Tournament: UNT | Round: 7 | Opponent: UMKC CJ | Judge: Matt Moore Plan: The United States federal government should amend the War Powers Resolution to prohibit the use of remotely piloted aircraft for targeted killing under the war powers authority of the President of the United States.
The CP is competitive – the plan restricts all targeted killings which includes special operations raids Masters 13 – editor @ Council on Foreign Relations Jonathan, “Targeted Killings” http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/01/targeted-killings.html January 23 mtc According to a U.N. special report on the ... to expand in countries such as Somalia and Yemen.
Intelligence key to solve terrorist WMD use Yoo 4 John Yoo 4, Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law @ UC-Berkeley Law, visiting scholar @ the American Enterprise Institute, former Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Law @ the University of Trento, served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Council at the U.S. Department of Justice between 2001 and 2003, received his J.D. from Yale and his undergraduate degree from Harvard, “War, Responsibility, and the Age of Terrorism,” UC-Berkeley Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series, http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1015andcontext=johnyoo Third, the nature of warfare against ... prevent further interception of their communications.
That causes extinction Ayson 10 Robert Ayson is Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington, “After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Volume 33, Issue 7, July 2010, Informaworld But these two nuclear worlds—a non-state...require a degree of advanced consultation from
1/10/14
PIC - Targeted Killing
Tournament: UTD | Round: 6 | Opponent: UMKC FW | Judge: Matt Moore Text: The United States federal government should replace in all statutes the term “targeted killings” with “political executions.” The United States federal government should amend the War Powers Resolution to prohibit the offensive use of remotely piloted aircraft for political killings under the war powers authority of the President of the United States.
Use of targeted killing is bad – it leads to increased threat construction, justifying biopolitical control Grayson 12 (Kyle, Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University in International Politics, PhD. In political science from York University, “The ambivalence of assassination: Biopolitics, culture and political violence,” February 2012, Vol.43(1), pp.25-41) The practices of assassination and targeted ... the desire of creating organizational disarray.
Biopower wages war on entire populations and as conflict grows nuclear war becomes the only possible outcome. Foucault 78 (Michel, Professor of Philosophy at the College de France, The History Of Sexuality: An Introduction, Volume 1, 136-137) Since the classical age the West has undergone ... the large-scale phenomena of population.
1/8/14
Spec - Buddhism
Tournament: UNT | Round: 3 | Opponent: JCCC SW | Judge: Ashley Morgan The affirmative should specify what type of Buddhism they are supporting.
The aff didn’t specify their type of Buddhism- there are at least four and the choosing of one is a beneficial practice AMTB No Date “The Four Kinds of Buddhism Today”, From Collective Talks of Master Chin Kung, No Date http://www.amtb.tw/e-bud/releases/4kinds.htm In our world today, there are ... and the one we will ultimately follow.
Violation – The affirmative doesn’t specify in the 1AC and cross-x proves the abuse.
Vote neg
- Key to advocacy. Can’t know the outcome of the 1AC if we don’t know where it has come from.
- Ground – Already reading an unpredictable affirmative. No specifying their type of Buddhism makes it worse. This collapses in round education and out of round research turning any of their education claims.
Evaluate this in an offense/defense paradigm.
1/9/14
T - AF People
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 1 | Opponent: Houston JJ | Judge: Perkins, Dallas Interp A. “Introduction of US Armed Forces into hostilities” is not solely combat systems and must include human individuals – 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, 177 the War Powers Resolution.
Tournament: Wake | Round: 1 | Opponent: KentuckyGR | Judge: Casey Harrigan Interpretation – restrictions must be an EX ANTE prohibition Restriction means prohibition Corpus Juris Secundum 31 Volume 54, p. 735 RESTRICT: To confine; to limit restrain; to restrain without bounds.
Prohibitions on authority in the context of targeted killing occur ex ante, not ex post Knoepfler ‘10 Stephen, JD, “Dead or Alive: The Future of U.S. Assassination Policy Under a Just War Tradition”, NYU Journal of Law and Liberty, 5.457, p. 464 Indeed, recent memory should give under both E.O. 12,333 and just war theory.
“War powers authority” is the president’s discretion to launch an attack – ex post doesn’t do that because the president maintains the decision power – only ex ante is topical Vladeck 13 (Steve, Professor of Law and the Associate Dean for Scholarship – American University Washington College of Law, JD – Yale Law School, Senior Editor – Journal of National Security Law and Policy, “Why a “Drone Court” Won’t Work–But (Nominal) Damages Might…,” Lawfare Blog, 2-10, http://www.lawfareblog.com/2013/02/why-a-drone-court-wont-work/) ¶ II. Drone Courts and the Separation of just, or remotely reliable decisions.
This distinction is important – “targeted killing authority” is the decision to determine what is imminent – ex post doesn’t challenge that authority, but is just after-the-fact supervision on if the president used the right definition – only ex ante is topical McKelvey 11 (Benjamin, JD Candidate, Senior Editorial Board – Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, “Due Process Rights and the Targeted Killing of Suspected Terrorists: The Unconstitutional Scope of Executive Killing Power,” Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, November, 44 VAND. J. TRANSNAT'L L. 1353, http://www.vanderbilt.edu/jotl/2012/06/due-process-rights-and-the-targeted-killing-of-suspected-terrorists-the-unconstitutional-scope-of-executive-killing-power/) Therefore, the President was justified the targeted killing of a U.S. citizen).
Vote Neg Limits Ground
11/16/13
T - Humanitarian Intervention
Tournament: UNT | Round: 6 | Opponent: Texas DS | Judge: Shae Bunas -~--Interpretation – authority refers to response to emergency threats to the nation, NOT humanitarian intervention. Bajesky 2013 2013¶ Mississippi College Law Review¶ 32 Miss. C. L. Rev. 9¶ LENGTH: 33871 words ARTICLE: Dubitable Security Threats and Low Intensity Interventions as the Achilles' Heel of War Powers NAME: Robert Bejesky* BIO: * M.A. Political Science (Michigan), M.A. Applied Economics (Michigan), LL.M. International Law (Georgetown). The author has taught international law courses for Cooley Law School and the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan, American Government and Constitutional Law courses for Alma College, and business law courses at Central Michigan University and the University of Miami. A numerical comparison indicates that the ... empowered "to repel and not to commence war." n32
Vote neg Limits – they blow the lid off the topic – there are an infinite number of justifications
Ground – all neg ground relies on the aff restricting authority not justifications – we lose warfighting, process CPs, politics links, shift DAs, etc.
1/10/14
T - Restriction Prohibition
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 3 | Opponent: Indiana MP | Judge: Gliniecki, Tom 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 shall be authorized by any permit or license.
Authority is power delegated to an agent Kelly 3 - judge for the State of Michigan (JOSEPH ELEZOVIC, Plaintiff, and LULA ELEZOVIC, Plaintiff-Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY and DANIEL P. BENNETT, Defendants-Appellees/Cross-Appellants., No. 236749, COURT OF APPEALS OF MICHIGAN, 259 Mich. App. 187; 673 N.W.2d 776; 2003 Mich. App. LEXIS 2649; 93 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 244; 92 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 1557, Lexis) Applying agency principles, a principal is responsible out the principal's business." Id. at 1348.
Tournament: UNT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Texas CM | Judge: Alex Martel A. Interpretation: The affirmative should defend that the war powers authority of the President ought to be restricted in the areas of offensive cyber operations, indefinite detention, targeted killing and/or the introduction of armed forces into hostilities.
The president’s war powers authority is control over the military Cravens 7 (RG, “The War Within: Presidential Versus Congressional Supremacy in War Powers,” http://www.thepresidency.org/storage/documents/Fellows2008/Cravens.pdf) The specific power concerning war ... presidential versus congressional preeminence
B. Violation: The affirmative does not deal with the second half of the resolution.
C. Vote Negative –
The Dialogic– Pre-designed scenarios are a pre-requisite to dialogue and debate Steinberg and Freeley 08 David L. Steinberg is lecturer in communication studies from U of Miami and Austin J. Freeley is Boston based attorney who focuses on criminal and civil rights law, Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making p. 45) Debate is a means of settling differences ... or physical force for a specific purpose.
Rejecting structured clash makes debate into an echo chamber mitigating their arguments and any knowledge they produce Talisse 05 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 ... as the activist denies this, he is unreasonable.
Turns their education claims- critical thinking skills developed through clash are key to act on content-specific knowledge English et al 07 Eric English, Stephen Llano, Gordon R. Mitchell, Catherine E. Morrison, John Rief and Carly Woods, all former debate coaches, “Debate as a Weapon of Mass Destruction” http://www.pitt.edu/~gordonm/JPubs/EnglishDAWG.pdf It is our position, however, that ... as a ‘‘weapon of mass destruction.’’
2. Role of the Negative- our interpretation has a function for the negative team. We must disprove the desirability of the resolution. If there is no predictable limit on what affs can do we lose the ability to have a limited and focused discussion. Especially if the affirmative can moot words, it means that any aff could moot different words and forget the resolution entirely- meaning ... we have no predictable place for the negative.
3. Role of the Judge – You should function as a responsible educator. Voting aff to protect their ability to talk about anything collapses into banal over-privileging of the student voice and is the essence of an irresponsible educator Giroux 95 Henry A. Giroux is the Waterbury Chair Professor of Secondary Education and Cultural Studies at Penn State¶ University¶ Postmodernism, Post Colonialism and Pedagogy¶ edited by Peter McLaren It is against the claims of social ... engagement with democratic public life.
4. Epistemology
5. Switch side is uniquely important Switching sides is key to resolve exclusion and create more equitable ground Conflict Research Consortium 03 In the past, the Consortium has been involved in a number of projects which contribute directly to this knowledge base. These include CRInfo, the International Online Training Program on Intractable Conflict, the Environmental Framing Consortium on Intractable Conflict, the Stanford/Hewlett Theory Centers Conference on Intractable Conflict, the Civil Rights Mediation Oral History Project, and the Conflict Research Consortium Intractable Conflict Project. Frame Reflection: Toward the Resolution of Intractable Policy Controversies Sept. 2003 http://www.beyondintractability.org/about/about-beyond-intractability A central thesis of Schon and Reidìs ... things from the other’¬s perspective.
It also creates better advocates Dybvig and Iverson 99 Kristin Chisholm Dybvig, and Joel O. Iverson, Can Cutting Cards Carve into Our Personal Lives: An Analysis of Debate Research on Personal Advocacy, http://www.uvm.edu/~debate/dybvigiverson1000.html Not all debate research appears...strengthen their own stance on issues.
6. Simulations Good Simulations linking the ballot to a should question teaches the skills to organize pragmatic consequences and philosophical values into a course of action Hanghoj 08 http://static.sdu.dk/mediafiles/Files/Information_til/Studerende_ved_SDU/Din_uddannelse/phd_hum/afhandlinger/2009/ThorkilHanghoej.pdf Thorkild Hanghøj, Copenhagen, 2008 Since this PhD project began in 2004, the present author has been affiliated with DREAM (Danish Research Centre on Education and Advanced Media Materials), which is located at the Institute of Literature, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. Research visits have taken place at the Centre for Learning, Knowledge, and Interactive Technologies (L-KIT), the Institute of Education at the University of Bristol and the institute formerly known as Learning Lab Denmark at the School of Education, University of Aarhus, where I currently work as an assistant professor. Joas’ re-interpretation of Dewey’s pragmatism as ... domain-specific processes of problem-based scenarios.
