Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: A | Judge: A
The reality of presidential power is that it is non-existant – politics acts as a distracting theater from the military-industrial complex acting behind the scenes – institutional action Is hopeless – only an active citizenry can solve
Bacevich 10 (Andrew – PhD in American Diplomatic History from Princeton University. Chair of International Relations; Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University “Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War” pg. 31-33)

Pretending to the ...  their democracy

This endless war causes structural violence, environmental destruction, and destroys deliberative democracy
Bacevich 10 (Andrew – PhD in American Diplomatic History from Princeton University. Chair of International Relations; Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University “Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War” pg. 223-226)

The world-we a...  that symbolic power.
Rubenstein 08 (Diane – Professor of Political Rhetoric and Science at Cornell University “This Is Not a President: Sense, Nonsense, and the American Political Imaginary” pp. 74-75)

-We might as well ...  secret.16
Reject the aff: Embracing a strategy of dissent from militarism key to solve

Ivie 7 (Robert L. Ivie Professor: University of Indiana, Ph.D., Washington State University, Rhetorical Critique of U.S. public culture; democracy; war propaganda; peace-building communication, Published 2007 by Kumarian Press, “Dissent from War”, PRINT, note: scanned and run through OCR software, mjb)

Indeed, militarism has ...  dehumanizing propaganda.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: A | Judge: A
The reality of presidential power is that it is non-existant – politics acts as a distracting theater from the military-industrial complex acting behind the scenes – institutional action Is hopeless – only an active citizenry can solve
Bacevich 10 (Andrew – PhD in American Diplomatic History from Princeton University. Chair of International Relations; Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University “Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War” pg. 31-33)

Pretending to the ...  their democracy

This endless war causes structural violence, environmental destruction, and destroys deliberative democracy
Bacevich 10 (Andrew – PhD in American Diplomatic History from Princeton University. Chair of International Relations; Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University “Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War” pg. 223-226)

The world-we a...  that symbolic power.
Rubenstein 08 (Diane – Professor of Political Rhetoric and Science at Cornell University “This Is Not a President: Sense, Nonsense, and the American Political Imaginary” pp. 74-75)

-We might as well ...  secret.16
Reject the aff: Embracing a strategy of dissent from militarism key to solve

Ivie 7 (Robert L. Ivie Professor: University of Indiana, Ph.D., Washington State University, Rhetorical Critique of U.S. public culture; democracy; war propaganda; peace-building communication, Published 2007 by Kumarian Press, “Dissent from War”, PRINT, note: scanned and run through OCR software, mjb)

Indeed, militarism has ...  dehumanizing propaganda.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: A | Judge: A
Leadership rhetoric maintains the state’s power to securitize society to the point of violently excluding difference, ensures unending conflict
Cheeseman, visiting politics fellow @ Univ. of New South Wales, 2005 p. 76-77
(Graeme, Critical Security Studies and World Politics Ed. By Ken Booth)
These contending world .... to dominate.

Structural violence is both the most probable and biggest impact in the round – moral obligation to reject
Abu-Jamal, ’98 Mumia, Master of Arts from CSU-Dominguez, Political Activist and Prisoner, http://www.mumia.nl/TCCDMAJ/quietdv.htm, 9/19
We live, equally ...  The War on the Poor. 

Alt – Reject the securitizing rhetoric of the aff, negation opens up space for emancipatory political engagement
Neocleous, 2008 Mark, Professor of the Critique of Political Economy; Head of Department of Politics and History Brunel Univ, Critique of Security, 185-6

The only way out ... return the gift."' 

Your ballot signifies your assent or refusal to produce the narratives constructed by the 1AC—risk isn’t natural its an effect of human action
Burke, senior lecturer in Intl Politics @ University of Wales, 2007  p. 13-14
(Anthony, “What Security Makes Possible: Some Thoughts on Critical Security Studies)
Waever's claim here ..  securitising some issues.46

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: A | Judge: A
Leadership rhetoric maintains the state’s power to securitize society to the point of violently excluding difference, ensures unending conflict
Cheeseman, visiting politics fellow @ Univ. of New South Wales, 2005 p. 76-77
(Graeme, Critical Security Studies and World Politics Ed. By Ken Booth)
These contending world .... to dominate.

Structural violence is both the most probable and biggest impact in the round – moral obligation to reject
Abu-Jamal, ’98 Mumia, Master of Arts from CSU-Dominguez, Political Activist and Prisoner, http://www.mumia.nl/TCCDMAJ/quietdv.htm, 9/19
We live, equally ...  The War on the Poor. 

Alt – Reject the securitizing rhetoric of the aff, negation opens up space for emancipatory political engagement
Neocleous, 2008 Mark, Professor of the Critique of Political Economy; Head of Department of Politics and History Brunel Univ, Critique of Security, 185-6

The only way out ... return the gift."' 

Your ballot signifies your assent or refusal to produce the narratives constructed by the 1AC—risk isn’t natural its an effect of human action
Burke, senior lecturer in Intl Politics @ University of Wales, 2007  p. 13-14
(Anthony, “What Security Makes Possible: Some Thoughts on Critical Security Studies)
Waever's claim here ..  securitising some issues.46