Tournament: D114 | Round: 7 | Opponent: Southern California Nhan-Overing | Judge: Bato, Magallon, Parker
Politics as we know it has failed – the affirmative attempt to prevent juridical maneuvers by the executive will always engage in biopolitical exercises of power
Federman and Holmes, 2011
(Cary, Political Science professor at Montclair St., and Dave, Research Chair in Forensics Nursing, University of Iowa,  "Guantánamo Bodies: Law, Media, and Biopower" Media Tropes 3:1 EBSCO accessed 9/3/13 brs)

To be sure, the inmates of Guantánamo are not in the same situation as
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the population" (Foucault, 1990b, 139; italics in original).
The long view regarding the evolution of Guantánamo as a species of biopower that has
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, 1980, 141), a view not normally associated with legal liberalism.
It is, at the same time, important to recognize Guantánamo as one link
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replaced the city as the paradigmatic structure of modern times that informs subjectivity.
Guantánamo is the outcome of a rationality that accelerated in the late nineteenth century,
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man, a new sacred man" (Agamben, 1998, 131).

The impact is totalitarianism and the end of democracy – we must separate bare life from sovereign’s sphere or be politically complicit with violence
Agamben, 2005
(Giorgio, State of Exception, pp. 4-10 bs)

The protagonist of this book is bare life, that is, the life of
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himself no longer as an object but as the subject of political power.
These processes — which in many ways oppose and (at least apparently) bitterly
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the society of mass hedonism and consumerism certainly constitute answers to these questions.

the alternative: Reject the plan and solutions found in the law in order to expose the law as a violent fiction.
Agamben, College International de Philosophie professor, ’05
(Giorgio, State of Exception, pp. 86-87 bs)

It is from this perspective that we must read Benjamin’s statement in the letter to
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that it ceases to be law and blurs at all points with life.
In the Kafka essay, the enigmatic image of a law that is studied but
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" that has been freed from all discipline and all relation to sovereignty.
What can be the meaning of a law that survives its deposition in such a
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"study" and deactivate it, to "play" with it.
One day humanity will play with law just as children play with dis-used
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that absolutely cannot be appropriated or made juridical (Benjamin 1992, 41).

Tournament: D114 | Round: 4 | Opponent: Fresno State Maraiyesa-Mitchell | Judge: Marcus

The art making process is essential to enlarge the way we perceive cultural identities.

Marshall ’07 ~Cora M., Cultural Identity, Creative Processes, and ¶ Imagination: Creating ¶ Cultural Connections ¶ Through Art Making, Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education~ 

The idea of multicultural education
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clarifying their cultural identities. 

The process of imagining-that inherent in the artistic process evokes meta-empathetic connections – a more genuine level of understanding than the relationship created by language.

Marshall ’07 ~Cora M., Cultural Identity, Creative Processes, and ¶ Imagination: Creating ¶ Cultural Connections ¶ Through Art Making, Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education~ 

For artists who want to connect to their ancestral past but do not know with
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feelings, and motives" (Costello, 1995, p. 438).

Art allows for authentic expressions of identity. It is the only way to move away from static ethnic signifiers of the 1ac.

Marshall ’07 ~Cora M., Cultural Identity, Creative Processes, and ¶ Imagination: Creating ¶ Cultural Connections ¶ Through Art Making, Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education~ 

Written here, the story above becomes somewhat diluted. Yet, for me,
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authentic expressions that are reflexive of who they are––their ¶ identity.

The logic and reason we use in debate are insufficient to communicate the feelings inherent in experience – only art can communicate without limiting our understanding of one another.

Abscondo ’10 ~The Quest to Communicate Ideas Through Art and Logic; poetry vs. prose, indie vs. commercial, authentic vs. kitsch, http://www.abscondo.com/abscondo/2010/07/art-vs-logic.html-http://www.abscondo.com/abscondo/2010/07/art-vs-logic.html~~

Depending upon the nature of the subject-matter being communicated to the audience,
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. We might at least find comfort in that we are not alone. 

Prefer our political act. Art allows people to breathe new meaning into their particular experiences and speak for those who cannot speak – it has a uniquely subversive and empowering quality that is key to mobilizing struggles for equality.

Caruso ’05 ~Hwa Young Choi, PhD, Professor at Molloy College, Art as a Political Act: Expression of Cultural Identity, Self-Identity, and Gender by Suk Nam Yun and Yong Soon Min, The Journal of Aesthetic Education 39.3 (2005) 71-87~

Estella Lauter argues that art is related to social context.41 Art can reveal
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aimed at the modification of attitude and belief, can never be innocent.

Tournament: tournament | Round: 5 | Opponent: Whitman College Kochman-Newmark | Judge: Anderson

Text: The United States Congress should enter into binding consultation with the General Congress of Mexico over whether the United States federal government should restrict targets of targeted killing operations using remotely piloted vehicles outside declared zones of conflict to individuals identified as leaders of transnational organizations with direct involvement in past or ongoing violent operations against the United States

There’s an established forum for congressional consultation.

US-Mexico Binational Council ’01

~"NEW HORIZONS IN U.S.-MEXICO RELATIONS: Recommendations for Policymakers," A Report of the U.S.-Mexico Binational Council, cosponsored by CSIS, September, 2001 http://csis.org/files/media/csis/pubs/newhorizons5B15D.pdf~~

The U.S-Mexico Inter-Parliamentary Group (IPG), which has
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between the legislative branches of each country on a year-round basis.

Mexico would say yes – spying scandal and border drone threat.

Tucker ’13 ~Duncan,Guadalajara Reporter, US drones operating over Mexican territory
JULY 31, 2013, http://duncantucker.wordpress.com/2013/07/31/us-drones-operating-over-mexican-territory/~~

In March 2011, the New York Times first reported that the United States had
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a year, more than all other federal law-enforcement agencies combined.

Failure to consult tanks US-Mexico relations.

Starr ’04, professor of international studies and political economy at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

~Pamela K., professor of international studies and political economy at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, "U.S.-Mexico Relations," Center for Strategic and International Studies, HEMISPHERE FOCUS Volume XII, Issue 2, January 9, http://csis.org/files/media/csis/pubs/hf_v12_02.pdf, 2004~

Mexico’s active support for increased multilateralism in world affairs as a means to protect itself
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S.-Mexico relations and to the success of Mexico’s North American strategy. 

US-Mexico relations are the backbone of the Mexican economy - key to the US and global economies.

Diplomatic Courier 2/24/13 ~U.S.-Mexico Relations: Love Thy Neighbor WRITTEN BY OSCAR MONTEALEGRE, CONTRIBUTOR,http://www.diplomaticourier.com/news/regions/latin-america/1331-us-mexico-relations-love-thy-neighbor~~====**

It is not common knowledge that Mexico is the United States’ third largest trading partner
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commonalities, and cooperation will be spearheaded in unison by both countries’ leaders. 

Nuclear war.

O’Donnell ’9 ~2-26, Sean, "Will this recession lead to World War III?" Baltimore Republican Examiner, www.examiner.com/republican-in-baltimore/will-this-recession-lead-to-world-war-iii, accessed 9/20/11~

Could the current economic crisis affecting this country and the world lead to another world
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possibility of World War III is averted. However sometimes history repeats itself.

Tournament: tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Whitman College Anderson-Hauck | Judge: Peters

A GOP win is inevitable in the fall, but the tea party could win the primaries, making the GOP more conservative

Pitney, Poli Sci Professor at Claremont-McKenna College, 3/3/14
(John J. Pitney Jr.,Roy P. Crocker professor of American politics
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close races could be a sign of enduring strength for the tea party")

Can Republicans take control of the Senate in November? And what kind of face
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of 2014 is likely to unfold at ballot boxes this spring and summer.

The plan would be viewed as a win for Tea Party senators.

Klein 3-7-13 Philip Klein, senior writer for the Washington Examiner  http://washingtonexaminer.com/rand-pauls-moment-and-the-end-of-obama-envy/article/2523538
A lot of the outpouring of conservative support for Paul’s filibuster on Obama’s drone policy
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Party, the filibuster also showed how it could have a bright future. 

Tea party midterm victory causes recession.

Bloomberg Business 10/17/13 ~The Tea Party’s Pyrrhic Victory, By Peter Coy, http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-17/tea-partys-victory-against-government-spending-comes-at-high-price~~23p1-http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-17/tea-partys-victory-against-government-spending-comes-at-high-price~~====**

In political terms, the Tea Party’s scorched earth strategy has produced some impressive legislative
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vociferous Tea Party opposition seems to have pushed them right off the agenda.

Recession causes nuclear war.

O’Donnell ’9 ~2-26, Sean, "Will this recession lead to World War III?" Baltimore Republican Examiner, www.examiner.com/republican-in-baltimore/will-this-recession-lead-to-world-war-iii, accessed 9/20/11~

Could the current economic crisis affecting this country and the world lead to another world
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possibility of World War III is averted. However sometimes history repeats itself.

Tournament: tournament | Round: 4 | Opponent: Monmouth Craig-Roman | Judge: Le

Text:

The Executive branch of the United States Government should issue an Executive Order to_.

CP solves- functional limits create accountability and don’t link to politics?

Michaels 11 (Jon, Professor, UCLA School of Law, "The (Willingly) Fettered Executive: Presidential Spinoffs in National Security Domains and Beyond," Virginia Law Review, http://www.virginialawreview.org/content/pdfs/97/801.pdf)-http://www.virginialawreview.org/content/pdfs/97/801.pdf)
These are revealing …of the dominant understanding.

These are revealing case studies, weighty in the own right and interesting complements to
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itself serves as testament to the durability and primacy of the dominant understanding.