Tournament: Shirley | Round: 5 | Opponent: Vanderbilt Williford-Stothers | Judge: Brossmann
The war power to authorize socio-cultural researchers as armed forces analyzing the "human terrain" of terrorism and insurgency is a full-spectrum invasion of academia. This military-educational complex employs militarized scholarship and open-source data to approximate behavioral propensity for instability. The result is an inherent bias within threat forecasting expertise that manufactures politico-educational rationales for state-sponsored violence in every area of the globe.
R. Brian Ferguson, PhD, Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University-Newark 2010"Full Spectrum: The Military Invasion of Anthropology" http://www.ncas.rutgers.edu/sites/fasn/files/FullSpectrumMilitaryInvasionofA.pdf-http://www.ncas.rutgers.edu/sites/fasn/files/FullSpectrumMilitaryInvasionofA.pdf, ken
This is the third paper about anthropology’s engagement with U.S. military and
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and its consequences, at home and abroad. Resistance is not futile. 

The ideological pursuit of cultural knowledge production will culminate nuclear omnicide  
Chow 2006(Rey, Ph.D in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University, Professor in the Comparative Literature Program at the University of California Irvine., "The Age of the World Target", Published Duke university press 2006, p. 40-41, MT)

Modest and apparently innocuous agendas of act gathering and documentations, the "scientific"
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definable object" - and by "the problem of the vanishing object"

More immediately, democratic resistance to presidential imperialism is being domesticated by the military-educational complex. We must be crucially attentive to how debate educates war-faring pedagogies that manufacture systemic as well as existential violence  
Giroux 12 (Henry, Global TV Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMaster_University in Hamilton, Ontario-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton,_Ontario, "Against the Militarized Academy", 7.4.12,http://nnomy.org/index.php?option=com_flexicontent26view=items26cid=2903Amilitarism-a-war26id=5453Aagainst-the-militarized-academy26Itemid=82126lang=en-http://nnomy.org/index.php?option=com_flexicontent26view=items26cid=2903Amilitarism-a-war26id=5453Aagainst-the-militarized-academy26Itemid=82126lang=en)
While there is an ongoing discussion about what shape the military-industrial complex will
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political, cultural and social democracy and the desire to sustain human life.

During emergencies, presidents interpret statutory rules of legal authority by calculating the necessity to unilaterally exert powers in the name of security. This notion of exigency sets a precedent for executive decision making that normalizes a state of emergency, ensuring a self-fulfilling prophesy. Hence, the tools for demilitarizing the collusion of authoritative knowledge and securitized power must elaborate upon precedents of exigency.
Richard H. Fallon, Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School "INTERPRETING PRESIDENTIAL POWERS," 2013 DUKE LAW JOURNAL Vol. 63, ken

With characteristically pithy perspicacity, Justice Holmes famously worried that "~g~reat cases
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actions wholly and unproblematically "all right" from a legal perspective.100 

The United States Supreme Court should substantially increase restrictions on the war powers authority of the President of the United States to defensively introduce the employment of human terrain systems and associated conduct of sociocultural foreign intelligence operations activities into hostilities by judicially clarifying statutory rule of law exigency.  

The plan sets a precedent well received within academia that the cultural war waged on minds is unconstitutional
(Lieutenant Michael Bahar, JAGC, USN, "AXES OF POWER: PREDICTING THE RECEPTION OF ASSERTIONS OF PRESIDENTIAL WAR POWERS IN THE COURTS", 2009, Last Revised 2010, Naval Law Review, ken)
Ten years later, the D.C. Circuit reviewed President Clinton’s action in
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but over time, disruptive to normal body functioning and detrimental to it.

This exercise of transparency accords the democratic accountability to public adjudication
 (DEBORAH N. PEARLSTEIN, Visiting Faculty Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 2009-2011; Associate Research Scholar, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, "AFTER DEFERENCE: FORMALIZING THE JUDICIAL POWER FOR FOREIGN RELATIONS LAW," University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2011, Vol. 159, ken)
A second model of the judicial power, sometimes called instru- mental theory,
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law (and thereby to promote the rule of law) over time.

Tournament: GSU | Round: 1 | Opponent: na | Judge: na

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Human Terrain System contracting exists now and continues to grow

Vanessa M. Gezari is a Professor and Journalist at Columbia with a focus on South Asia http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/08/16/the-human-terrain-system-sought-to-transform-the-army-from-within.html, ken
By 2012, the Human Terrain System had cost U.S. taxpayers more than 24600 million. Today, the program continues under new management (though only 14 field teams remain in Afghanistan, and none in Iraq). Last month, the Human Terrain System’s current recruitment and hiring contractor, CGI Federal, was handed an additional 2445 million for work related to the program. 

First, The HTS program reflects a dangerous epistemology of Western imperialism and Oriental differentiation. This de-contextualizes colonizing warfare, resulting in unending occupational violence.

Bell 12 (Colleen is a researcher and doctoral candidate at the Centre for International and Security Studies at York and Lecturer of IR Politics at the University of Saskatchewan. "Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development", Volume 3, Number 2, Summer 2012, pp. 225-247, MUSE, ken)
The characteristics of modern counterinsurgency add to the increasingly prom-inent role of the
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enduring principle that the ef?cacy of armies always relies on exposure to enemies. 

Orientalism guarantees genocidal conflicts - epistemological exclusion lays the groundwork for invasion fiascos and physical violence.

Pinar Batur, PhD @ UT-Austin – Prof. of Sociology @ Vassar, ’7 ~"The Heart of Violence: Global Racism, War, and Genocide," in Handbook of The Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations, eds. Vera and Feagin, p. 446-7~
At the turn of the 20th century, the "Terrible Turk" was the
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dizzying frequency. The 21st century opened up with genocide, in Darfur.

Second, These new culture weapon systems sterilize populations "infected" with insurgency – this negotiates cultural autonomy and rationalizes disposable life

Bell 12 (Colleen is a researcher and doctoral candidate at the Centre for International and Security Studies at York and Lecturer of IR Politics at the University of Saskatchewan. "Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development", Volume 3, Number 2, Summer 2012, pp. 225-247, MUSE, ken)
The metaphor of immunization captures the process by which counterinsurgents attempt to establish protective containment
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life worth valuing and preserving, a life that quali?es for recognition.’’ 

The logic of human disposability, exposited through a racialized knowledge-matrix, subjugates lives to the imperial politics of invisible violence

Mignolo ’7 (Walter, argentinian semiotician and prof at Duke, "The De-Colonial Option and the Meaning of Identity in Politics" online)
 "Development" was—as we all know—in South America and
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of human lives; that is, according to a racist classification.5

The sanitizing effect of cultural re-appropriation accelerates the prospect of extinction

WEATHERFORD 1994 (Jack, Anthropologist, Savages and Civilization: Who Will Survive?, pp. 287-291)
Today we have no local and regional civilizations.  The world now stands united in
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alien civilization will stare at our ruined cities and wonder why we disappeared.

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Contention 2 is the academy

In order for anthropological scholarship to implicate knowledge production and power structures, it must be removed from the military context

Wax 10 (Dustin M. Wax Antrhopologist "Uses of Anthropology in the Insurgent Age" Edited by John D. Kelly, Beatrice Jauregui, Sean T. Mitchell, and Jeremy Walton 2010 Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency  pg,164)

In the end, anthropological research in all it glorious messiness is essentially incompatible with
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– nor, ultimately is limited solely to anthropology relation with the military.

The Army has praised the integration of HTS throughout special operations globally; however, if its strategic purpose loses support then its military contribution will be suspended

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/02/17/human-terrain-system-iraq-afghanistan/1923789/ Army plows ahead with troubled war-zone program
Next up: Expansion Despite the myriad problems documented in the 2010 report, the
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and disseminated at great cost, and often too late to ensure success." 

The corollary is that the debate about HTS must acknowledge its role as concealing and advancing the purpose of war.

Gonzalez 9 (Roberto J. associate professor of anthropology at San Jose State University; "American Counterinsurgency: Human Science and the Human Terrain" p. 109-111)

What if we take the claims of HTS proponents at face value? Let’s suppose
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social science in the service of empire, the historical record can provide insight

However, these debates are depoliticized in an attempt to domesticate their ties to scholarship. The pacification of public critique has sown the seeds for the militarization of academia

Maximilian Forte, Ph.D, and professor of anthropology at Concordia University http://zeroanthropology.net/2013/02/17/the-end-of-debates-about-the-human-terrain-system/
Before going further, let me agree. I do agree that debates about HTS
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, nor surrendered, we can expect many more rounds in this fight. 

Scholarship procured within the rationale of security mobilizes the articulation of a self-referential, militant epistemology

Neocleous 2008 (Mark is a Professor of the Critique of Political Economy; Head of Department of Politics 26 History, he joined Brunel University in the Department of Government in 1994. Since then he has published numerous books and articles. His most recent work has been towards the development of a critique of security. "CRITIQUE OF SECURITY" 2008. Pg. 182-184)
I have been arguing, then, that the ideology of security shaped a whole
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nothing less than the security ideologue, peddling the fetish of our time.

This weaponization of knowledge production in the name of enmity causes nuclear war

Mack 1990 (John E., M.D. an American psychiatrist, writer, and professor at Harvard Medical School. He was a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. "The Enemy System" 1988. http://www.johnemackinstitute.org/passport/enemysystem.html, MT)
The threat of nuclear annihilation has stimulated us to try to understand what it is
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communication of this reality must become a major focus of our educational system.

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Contention 3 is the purpose of war:

Status Quo unrestrained presidential authority paralleled by statutory and judicial passivity manifesting within a Constitutional linguistic characterized by the War on Terror stipulates arbitration of resolutional agency

Walter A. McDougall is the Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is Chairman of Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Center for the Study of America and the West " THE CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY:
222 YEARS OF TENSION IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE" September 2010 http://www.fpri.org/enotes/201009.mcdougall.constitutionalhistoryofusforeignpolicy.html
After the 9/11 attacks, needless to say, Congress was thoroughly routed
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adjust relatively quickly, if not smoothly, to whatever new challenges loom. 

In this respect, the politicization of public scholarship is sovereign. The modern administrative state has obviated the legal constraints on war powers authority and simultaneously empowered the public and political instruments to restrict the executive.

John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic, Oxford: Oxford University Press, USA, 2011.
We live in a regime of executive-centered government, in an age after
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of liberal legalism, is in some ways more constrained than ever before.

As protectorate of the political as well as the pedagogical, your ballot is a referendum on the 1ac’s resolutional demilitarization of scholarship. Only reclaiming the public nature of the privatized debate space engenders tangible democratic resistance to securitized organizations that manufacture violence and coercion

Giroux 12 (Henry, Global TV Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, "Against the Militarized Academy", 7.4.12,http://nnomy.org/index.php?option=com_flexicontent26view=items26cid=2903Amilitarism-a-war26id=5453Aagainst-the-militarized-academy26Itemid=82126lang=en)
While there is an ongoing discussion about what shape the military-industrial complex will
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political, cultural and social democracy and the desire to sustain human life.

Thus the Plan: The United States Congress should substantially increase statutory restrictions on the war powers authority of the President of the United States through a referendum on limiting the use of the Human Terrain System Program to introduce United States Armed Forces into hostilities and conduct targeted killing operations.

A referendum on the purpose of military involvement in the context of the HTS program is an exercise of transparency regarding the power to authoritatively govern militarized anthropology. Affording the people their right to public criticism de-securitizes war power politics.

Senator Robert LaFollette (R-Wisc.) FREE SPEECH AND THE RIGHT OF CONGRESS TO DECLARE THE OBJECTS OF THE WAR United States Senate Chamber, Washington, DC OCTOBER 6, 1917
The authority of the President over the Army and Navy to command and control is
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no alarms of external danger could tame the people to the domestic yoke."
I now invite your attention to some of the precedents established by Congress showing that
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in the war be speedily made by the Congress of the United States.