Tournament: Clarion | Round: 1 | Opponent: Pittsburgh Keefe-Larsen | Judge: Lowry
A. Your decision should answer the resolutional question: Is the enactment of topical action better than the status quo or a competitive option? 

1. “Resolved” before a colon reflects a legislative forum
   Army Officer School ‘04
    (5-12, “# 12, Punctuation – The Colon and Semicolon”, http://usawocc.army.mil/IMI/wg12.htm)
   The colon introduces ...petition the mayor.

2. “USFG should” means the debate is solely about a policy established by governmental means
Ericson ‘03
(Jon M., Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts – California Polytechnic U., et al., The Debater’s Guide, Third Edition, p. 4)
The Proposition of Policy: ... that you propose. 

B. Violation—the affirmative does not present a topical course of action taken by the United States Federal Government, nor do they read a plan text.  

C. Our reason to prefer is dialogue which is key to clash which is the internal link to both education and fairness.

1. Debate over a controversial point of action creates argumentative stasis—that’s key to avoid a devolution of debate into competing truth claims
   Steinberg, lecturer of communication studies – University of Miami, and Freeley, Boston based attorney who focuses on criminal, personal injury and civil rights law, ‘8
   (David L. and Austin J., Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making p. 45)

Debate is a means ...the following discussion.

Turns their advocacy--Decisionmaking skills and engagement with the state actualizes radical politics—our form of debate education is key to their movement
Hager, professor of political science – Bryn Mawr College, ‘92
(Carol J., “Democratizing Technology: Citizen and State in West German Energy Politics, 1974-1990” Polity, Vol. 25, No. 1, p. 45-70)

During this phase... modern technological society.61

Debates with determined end-points makes research impossible and destroys dialogue in debate which is key to education.
Hanghoj 8
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 .

Debate games are often ... and game goals.

Dialogue is critical to affirming any value—shutting down deliberation devolves into totalitarianism and reinscribes oppression—turns the case
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 ...ongoing spiral of intolerance.

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HEG K

The neg’s rhetorical criticism of American policy or values is dangerous—it contributes to the collapse of US primacy—yes this card says talking smack on heg collapses heg.

Kagan 98 (Robert, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and PhD in American History from American U, “The Benevolent Empire,” Foreign Policy. Summer, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=viewandid=275)

Those contributing to ... next American humbling.

Vote aff to align yourself with American dominance—the unwavering rhetoric of support is critical to preserving international stability.

Kristol and Kagan 96 (William Kristol – visiting professor in government at Harvard University and Robert Kagan – senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and PhD in American History, “Toward a Neo-Reganite Foreign Policy,” Foreign Affairs. July/August, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=viewandid=276 shree)

TWENTY YEARS later...and moral confidence.

Heg solves every impact in the debate. Intervention is inevitable, only a question of effectiveness—if we increase heg it’s more effective which means we solve the disad impact faster than they say we trigger it.
Kagan 11 contributing editor to The Weekly Standard and a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, Robert, “The Price of Power”, 1-24, Vol. 16, No. 18, http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/articles/price-power_533696.html, CMR

Today the international ... built and defended. 

Utopian musing prevents political action to solve real threats.
Hanson 3 (Victor Davis, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Professor Emeritus at California University, Fresno, Ph.D. from Stanford, “We Could Still Lose.” National Review Online. August 11. http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/3050721.html)

If one were to ... they pass away.

The alternative is code for wishful-thinking—their politics may be good in the abstract but suicidal in real life.
Sowell 6 (Thomas, senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, “Serious or Suicidal”, Jewish World Review, http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell010306.asp)

Just last year...if we do act.

Terrorism DA
Terrorist attacks on the homeland have been eliminated in the status quo through the War on Terror
CNN 13 (Is terrorism still a threat to American, 7/19/2013, families?http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2013/07/19/is-terrorism-still-a-threat-to-american-families/)
After the September 11, 2001, terrorist ...get it,” he said.

Collapse of US hegemony causes apolar vacuum risking leads to terrorism, economic collapse, disease, and nuclear wars
Ferguson, Stanford University’s Hoover Foundation Senior Fellow, 4
Niall, July 2004, Foreign Policy, “A World Without Power,” https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/afp/vac.htm, accessed 7-7-13, MSG

Yet universal claims ... not-so-new world disorder.

Terrorism results in extinction
Ayson 2010 (Robert Ayson, 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,)
A terrorist nuclear attack... chances of nuclear restraint.

CASE

And, their thesis of biopower is flawed – the use of state isn’t the problem in this context – the production of bare life is. Our interpretation of power as productive is superior because it creates space to hold the sovereign to account through through restrictions like Habeas
Dillon and Reid 01
Professor and PhD Student IR – University of Lancaster 2001 Millennium 30.1

Although Foucault did not ... freedoms and methods of control.29

Their alternative collapses the political by making life indistinguishable from death. Acting outside the state is an ineffective form of resistance because it allows elites to consolidate unrestricted power and create exclusionary norms.
And, theory alone fails – criticism must be grounded in politics

Foucault ‘82
Michel, “Politics and Ethics: An Interview,” The Foucault Reader, Trans. Catherine Porter, Ed. Paul Rabinow, 373-4uwyo-ajl

M.F. That's right. When ... one is doing.

Yes the government has flawed components but challenging our understanding of government is important and valuable through discussion of federal policies--- Learning that language allows us to confront and challenge those institutions outside of this round and resolves a lot of the impacts they discuss
Hoppe, Twente University policy professor, 99
Robbert, Professor of Policy and knowledge in the Faculty of Management and Governance at Twente University “Argumentative Turn,” Science and Public Policy, volume 26, number 3, June 1999, pages 201–210

ACCORDING TO LASSWELL ... politically disenchanted citizenry.

The aff can’t alter society without confronting the state
Subotnik Professor of Law, Touro College ’98
(Subotnik, Professor of Law, College, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, 7 Cornell J. L. and Pub. Pol'y, 1998, QDKM)

Having traced a major ... limiting academic debate.