Tournament: Mukai | Round: 3 | Opponent: ISU DI | Judge: Mike Shackelford
Go to the safe space discussion, draw a line – here are the turns:
A. Your discussion of the safe space is problematic – it reitifies white privilege and oppression – multiple reasons.
CuriousPraxis 11 (CuriousPraxis.Wordpress.Com, “Privilege and The Language of Safe Space and Boundaries: How The language of safe space and boundaries can be used to avoid accountability for oppressive behaviours and discussions of privilege,”  http://curiouspraxis.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/an-open-letter-regarding-privilege-amp-the-language-of-safe-space-and-boundaries/, MAY 22, 2011)IAA
A lot of people in my life use the …. ways that we’re complicit in these systems of privilege and oppression.
B. Your “safe space” isn’t accessible for everyone. The aff’s discussion is used to side-step their white privilege and perpetuates the erasure of womin of color.
CuriousPraxis 11 (CuriousPraxis.Wordpress.Com, “Privilege and The Language of Safe Space and Boundaries: How The language of safe space and boundaries can be used to avoid accountability for oppressive behaviours and discussions of privilege,”  http://curiouspraxis.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/an-open-letter-regarding-privilege-amp-the-language-of-safe-space-and-boundaries/, MAY 22, 2011)IAA
We are complicit in structures of … for avoiding accountability for one’s own oppressive behaviours.
C. Oh yeah, and you don’t solve for anything In or out of round.
CuriousPraxis 11 (CuriousPraxis.Wordpress.Com, “Privilege and The Language of Safe Space and Boundaries: How The language of safe space and boundaries can be used to avoid accountability for oppressive behaviours and discussions of privilege,”  http://curiouspraxis.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/an-open-letter-regarding-privilege-amp-the-language-of-safe-space-and-boundaries/, MAY 22, 2011)IAA
This is a huge problem in our movements, … of privilege and oppression in the abstract. 

We should employ state sovereignty when the particulars of a situation demands it
Derrida ‘4 Jacques Derrida, Directeur d’Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and Professor of Philosophy, French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, 2004, For What Tomorrow? A Dialogue With Elisabeth Roudinesco, p. 91-92
J.D.: A moment ago you spoke of regicide as the necessity of an ex¬ception, in sum. Well, yes, one can refer provisionally to Carl Schmitt (whatever one may think of him, his arguments … the side of unconditionaliry, even when it seems im¬possible, and not sovereignty, even when it seems possible.
Statism is inevitable—innovative engagement can redirect power for emancipation
Martin and Pierce ’13 Deborah G. Martin, Joseph Pierce, “Reconceptualizing Resistance: Residuals of the State and Democratic Radical Pluralism,” Antipode, Vol. 45, Issue 1, pp. 61-79, January 2013, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.00980.x
The state offers a complex set of power … that the state can be a tool for resistance, one we explore further in the rest of this paper.

Normative advocacy outweighs methodological coherence
Wetzstein ’12 Steffen Wetzstein, “Grasping a Historical Moment: Western Societal Challenges, Self-referential Academic Knowledge Production, and Renewed Political Commitment,” Antipode, Volume 44, Issue 3, pages 560–563, June 2012, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.00993.x
One way out of academia's current … making sense of life, re-prioritising goals, making decisions and negotiating trade-offs come from? Will academics be amongst them?
Empirical academic discourse is key to politics—the alt’s theoretical isolationism decimates applicability
Walt ’12 Stephen M. Walt, professor of international affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, “Theory and Policy in International Relations: Some Personal Reflections,” Yale Journal of International Affairs, September 2012, http://yalejournal.org/2012/09/theory-and-policy-in-international-relations-some-personal-reflections-by-stephen-m-walt/
Despite these limitations, … that has been lost in contemporary public life.

Conflict and violence at unprecedented lows now
Pinker ’11 Steven Pinker, experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist, and popular science author, and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard, “Violence Vanquished,” Wall Street Journal, 9/24/2011, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904106704576583203589408180.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories
Believe it or not, the world of the past … hate crimes against gay people.
Modernity checks genocide
O’Kane ’97 Rosemary O’Kane, professor of comparative political theory at the University of Keele, “Modernity, the Holocaust and politics,” Economy and Society 26:1, 1997, pp. 58-59
Modern bureaucracy is not … which stand in the way of modern genocides.

Tournament: Mukai | Round: 2 | Opponent: Weber HH | Judge: Lee Thach

Africa Adv

Drone strikes best solve terror

Byman ’13 Daniel L. Byman, Professor in the Security Studies Program of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Research Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy @ Brookings, former Director of the Center for Peace and Security Studies and the Security Studies Program at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, "Why Drones Work," Foreign Affairs, July/August 2013, http://www.brookings.edu/research/articles/2013/06/17-drones-obama-weapon-choice-us-counterterrorism-byman jss
The Obama administration relies on drones for one simple reason: they work. According
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forcing the group to choose between having no leaders and risking dead leaders.

Civilian casualties are exaggerated – drones are the most safe and precise form of warfare to decrease innocent death

Byman ’13 Daniel L. Byman, Professor in the Security Studies Program of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Research Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy @ Brookings, former Director of the Center for Peace and Security Studies and the Security Studies Program at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, "Why Drones Work," Foreign Affairs, July/August 2013, http://www.brookings.edu/research/articles/2013/06/17-drones-obama-weapon-choice-us-counterterrorism-byman jss
The truth is that all the public numbers are unreliable. Who constitutes a civilian
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the data show that drones are more discriminate than other types of force.

No escalation from Africa

Taire ’4 Morenike Taire, "SPEAKING OUT:- AFRICA AND THE FUTURE OF TERRORISM," Venguard (Nigeria) – AAGM, Global News Wire – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire, 4/9/2004, lexis
Defining our role may not have to be as difficult as it might first seem
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has ceased to be of any significance to anyone in the first world.

Deutsch card is terrible – it’s unqualified, unwarranted, and illogical – the "Rabid Tiger Project" is totally defunct and their webpage isn’t even accessible anymore, and it’s empirically denied by a host of African conflicts

No escalation from failed states

Stewart Patrick, "The Brutal Truth," Foreign Policy, July/August 2011, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/06/20/the_brutal_truth?page=full
The brutal truth is that the vast majority of weak, failing, and failed
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wealthy world. What happens in failed states often stays in failed states.

Drones key to heg – make counterinsurgency economically and politically sustainable

Reynolds ’13 Michael A. Reynolds, Department of Near Eastern Studies , Princeton University, "Return of the Maxim Gun? Technology and empire in an age of austerity,"  Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought,  Volume 3, Issue 1, 2013, pp. 120-128, DOI: 10.1080/23269995.2013.807603 jss
The United States, although it may not have the equivalent of the mythological Maxim
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. Empire in an age of austerity might well be one of them.

Heg key to peace – transition would cause extinction

Barnett ’11 Thomas P. M. Barnett, Former Senior Strategic Researcher and Professor in the Warfare Analysis 26 Research Department, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War College American military geostrategist and Chief Analyst at Wikistrat., worked as the Assistant for Strategic Futures in the Office of Force Transformation in the Department of Defense, "The New Rules: Leadership Fatigue Puts U.S., and Globalization, at Crossroads," World Politics Review, 3/7/2011, http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/8099/the-new-rules-leadership-fatigue-puts-u-s-and-globalization-at-crossroads
It is worth first examining the larger picture: We live in a time of
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. And if you know your history, that should make you nervous.

Continued drone strikes in Yemen key to prevent dangerous AQAP attacks

Washington Post ’12 "The U.S. is right to strike hard at terrorists in Yemen," Washington Post editorial board, 5/8/2012, http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-05-08/opinions/35454765_1_underwear-bomb-aqap-drone-attacks
THE RECOVERY of a sophisticated bomb that U.S. officials believe was intended
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, he is obligated to do so in order to defend the country.

AQAP attack on the Bab al-Mandeb highly likely, collapses global trade and economic growth

Nincic ’12 Donna J. Nincic, PhD in Political Science from New York University and currently is Professor and Director of the ABS School of Maritime Policy and Management at the California Maritime Academy, a campus of the California State University, in Vallejo, "Maritime Terrorism: How Real is the Threat?" Fair Observer, 7/16/2012, http://www.fairobserver.com/article/maritime-terrorism-how-real-threat
However, with the exception of al-Qaeda Jamaah Islamiyah in Indonesia, and
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, the threat of maritime terrorism must continue to be taken very seriously.

Economic collapse causes global wars

Royal ’10 director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense (Jedediah, Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives, pg 213-215)
Less intuitive is how periods of economic decline may increase the likelihood of external conflict
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not featured prominently in the economic-security debate and deserves more attention.

Drone strikes down

- Numerically – in both Yemen and Pakistan
- Legally – USFG is turning down requests to initiate hostilities in other non-combat zones
Zenko 10/28 Micah Zenko, Fellow in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations, "Two Cheers For America’s Restraint in the Drone War," Foreign Policy, 10/28/2013, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/10/28/two_cheers_for_america_s_restraint_in_the_drone_war
However, even while analysts and policymakers evaluate policies based on incomplete information and with
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that, clearly, would only create additional enemies for the United States. 

Racism Adv

Banning drone strikes just causes shift to captures

Shane 13
Scott, NYT Writer, "Targeted Killing Comes to Define War on Terror," Published by New York Times April 7, 2013. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/world/targeted-killing-comes-to-define-war-on-terror.html?pagewanted=all26_r=0-http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/world/targeted-killing-comes-to-define-war-on-terror.html?pagewanted=all26_r=0

When Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden
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. "I don’t think you can really compare them," he said. 

Drones offer us the most ethical and effective way to conduct warfare – loss of drones causes conflict escalation and civilian violence

Issacharoff 13
Samuel and Richard Pildes, NYU School of Law, NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository. Published "Drones and the Dilemma of Modern Warfare," 6/1/2013. http://lsr.nellco.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=140826context=nyu_plltwp
A more complicated picture emerges if we shift from the perspective of the civilian leaders
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citizens and that better serves the humanitarian aims of the laws of war.

Drones are the most effective weapon to advance the laws of war and makes intervention more effective. No civilian deaths ever

Issacharoff 13
Samuel and Richard Pildes, NYU School of Law, NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository. Published "Drones and the Dilemma of Modern Warfare," 6/1/2013. http://lsr.nellco.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=140826context=nyu_plltwp
A third prevalent misconception, in our view, is that drones and targeted killing
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, for the very purpose of extracting more of this financial assistance.33

Tournament: Mukai | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Weber OV | Judge: Bausch, VanLuvanee, Thach
I know we read some other Agamben answers too but idk what they were. But we sure as hell read this card.

Agamben overdetermines politics by making it an all-or-nothing effort of Messianism that collapses into passive nihilism – placing the camp at the center of modern biopolitics obscures complex social-material processes active behind its construction
Meiches ’12 Ben Meiches, PhD student in International Relations at Johns Hopkins University, gave many 2NRs on Agamben, former coach at The Puge (we will never let him forget it), “Weapons of Another Sort: Towards an Ecology of the Camp,” Millennium Annual Conference 2012, http://millenniumjournal.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/meiches-weapons-of-anoter-sort.docx
The force of Agamben’s work has extended to Philosophy, Holocaust and … value by treating them as constitutive of the contemporary condition.

Tournament: Mukai | Round: 5 | Opponent: Wyoming HT | Judge: Dan Stout

Terror Adv

No terrorism threat

Russell ’13 James A. Russell, Associate Professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, where he teaches courses on Middle East security affairs, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, and national security strategy, held a variety of positions in the Office of the Assistant Secretary Defense for International Security Affairs, Near East South Asia, Department of Defense, Masters in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh and a Ph.D. in War Studies from the University of London, "The Terrorism Boogeyman," Lobelog, 6/28/2013, http://www.lobelog.com/the-terrorism-boogeyman/
The 9/11 attacks turned out to be an outlier and were not followed
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is not a strategic threat to the United States or the international community.

No nuclear terror—deterrence and prevention solves

Mearsheimer ’10 John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, "Imperial by Design," The National Interest, 12/16/2010, http://nationalinterest.org/print/article/imperial-by-design-4576
This assessment of America’s terrorism problem was flawed on every count. It was threat
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by accident-causing deer, or by severe allergic reactions to peanuts."

No bioterror

Schneidmiller ’9 Chris Schneidmiller, "Experts Debate Threat of Nuclear, Biological Terrorism," Global Security Newswire, 1/13/2009, Experts Debate Threat of Nuclear, Biological Terrorism
Panel moderator Benjamin Friedman, a research fellow at the Cato Institute, said academic
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. Which can’t make anything and what it would make is just garbage."

No groupthink – existing congressional oversight, military rules and target vetting, legal discussions, int’l laws of war solve

Etzioni ’13 Amitai Etzioni is a professor of international relations at George Washington University, "The Great Drone Debate," Military Review 93.2, Mar/April 2013, pp. 2-13, proquest jss
Critics like The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf argue that the drone campaign is an "unprecedented
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, foreign policy implications and the care taken to minimize noncombatant casualties."25

Drone strikes down

- Numerically – in both Yemen and Pakistan
- Legally – USFG is turning down requests to initiate hostilities in other non-combat zones
Zenko 10/28 Micah Zenko, Fellow in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations, "Two Cheers For America’s Restraint in the Drone War," Foreign Policy, 10/28/2013, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/10/28/two_cheers_for_america_s_restraint_in_the_drone_war
However, even while analysts and policymakers evaluate policies based on incomplete information and with
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that, clearly, would only create additional enemies for the United States. 

Drone strikes best solve terror

Byman ’13 Daniel L. Byman, Professor in the Security Studies Program of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Research Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy @ Brookings, former Director of the Center for Peace and Security Studies and the Security Studies Program at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, "Why Drones Work," Foreign Affairs, July/August 2013, http://www.brookings.edu/research/articles/2013/06/17-drones-obama-weapon-choice-us-counterterrorism-byman jss
The Obama administration relies on drones for one simple reason: they work. According
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forcing the group to choose between having no leaders and risking dead leaders.

Prolif Adv

Drone prolif will be limited – their impacts are overblown

Singh ’12 Joseph Singh, researcher at the Center for a New American Security, "Betting Against a Drone Arms Race," TIME, 8/13/2012, http://nation.time.com/2012/08/13/betting-against-a-drone-arms-race/
Bold predictions of a coming drones arms race are all the rage since the uptake
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campaign, or to conduct targeted killing operations against a technologically unsophisticated enemy.

International drone norms would fail and constrain the US but not its peer competitors or other intransigent states

Lerner ’13 Ben Lerner, Vice President for Government Relations at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., "Judging ’Drones’ From Afar," The American Spectator, 3/25/2013, http://spectator.org/archives/2013/03/25/judging-drones-from-afar/print
Whatever the potential motivations for trying to codify international rules for using UAVs, such
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at the expense of its neighbors to see how this often plays out. 

No deterrence breakdown – their ev assumes armed drones – other countries don’t have them

Zenko ’13 Micah Zenko, Fellow in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations, "Reforming U.S. Drone Strike Policies," Council on Foreign Relations Special Report No. 65, January 2013 jss
The fact that drones lower the threshold for the use of force, combined with
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.S. states—except Israel—developing an armed drone capability.

Drone prolif will be limited – their impacts are overblown

Singh ’12 Joseph Singh, researcher at the Center for a New American Security, "Betting Against a Drone Arms Race," TIME, 8/13/2012, http://nation.time.com/2012/08/13/betting-against-a-drone-arms-race/
Bold predictions of a coming drones arms race are all the rage since the uptake
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campaign, or to conduct targeted killing operations against a technologically unsophisticated enemy.

No armchair adventurism – states don’t suspend caution in undertaking drone strikes

Singh ’12 Joseph Singh, researcher at the Center for a New American Security, "Betting Against a Drone Arms Race," TIME, 8/13/2012, http://nation.time.com/2012/08/13/betting-against-a-drone-arms-race/
In short, the doomsday drone scenario Ignatieff and Sharkey predict results from an excessive
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an ability to meet the political and security risks associated with their use.

No destabilization – drones aren’t a security threat

Lewis ’11 Michael W. Lewis, teaches international law and the law of war at Ohio Northern University School of Law, "Unfounded drone fears," LA Times, 10/17/2011, http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/17/opinion/la-oe—lewis-drones-20111017
While it is true that some other nations have begun developing their own unmanned aerial
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by a foreign nation could be easily detected and either destroyed or captured.

International drone norms would fail and constrain the US but not its peer competitors or other intransigent states

Lerner ’13 Ben Lerner, Vice President for Government Relations at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., "Judging ’Drones’ From Afar," The American Spectator, 3/25/2013, http://spectator.org/archives/2013/03/25/judging-drones-from-afar/print
Whatever the potential motivations for trying to codify international rules for using UAVs, such
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at the expense of its neighbors to see how this often plays out. 

No possible means of enforcement

Lerner ’13 Ben Lerner, Vice President for Government Relations at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., "Judging ’Drones’ From Afar," The American Spectator, 3/25/2013, http://spectator.org/archives/2013/03/25/judging-drones-from-afar/print
And who would enforce the treaty’s rules — a third party tribunal? Would it
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countries that already use UAVs responsibly, while empowering those that do not.

China drone use will be moderated

Erickson and Strange ’13 Andrew Erickson is an associate professor at the Naval War College and an Associate in Research at Harvard University’s Fairbank Centre, Austin Strange is a researcher at the Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute and a graduate student at Zhejiang University, "China has drones. Now how will it use them?" The Nation, 5/29/2013, http://www.nationmultimedia.com/opinion/China-has-drones-Now-how-will-it-use-them-30207095.html jss
Beijing, however, is unlikely to use its drones lightly. It already faces
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and a lack of confidence in untested drones, systems, and operators.

No SCS war

Gupta ’11 Rukmani Gupta, Associate Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in New Delhi, "South China Sea Conflict? No Way," The Diplomat, 23 October 2011, http://the-diplomat.com/2011/10/23/south-china-sea-conflict-no-way/2/-http://the-diplomat.com/2011/10/23/south-china-sea-conflict-no-way/2/
These suggestions to recalibrate Indian policy towards the South China Sea and its relationship with
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pipelines.’ The prospect of threats to SLOCS thus seems somewhat exaggerated.

No ECS war – Beijing’s strategic calculations prevent conflict

Allison and Blackwill 13 (Graham, IR professor at Harvard, and Robert, senior fellow at CFR, former ambassador to India, and former assistant dean at Harvard’s Kennedy School. "Beijing still prefers diplomacy to force" Financial Times http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/2bda1e4c-694c-11e2-9246-00144feab49a.html~~23axzz2JJeYB859-http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/2bda1e4c-694c-11e2-9246-00144feab49a.html)

Should we connect the dots between China’s neighbours’ increasing assertiveness over claims to disputed islands
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sparks military conflict over the Senkakus, which would serve no one’s interests.

Solvency

Drone courts are meaningless – they don’t solve transparency or accountability

Mulrine ’13 Anna Mulrine, "Would a US ’drone court’ to authorize drone strikes be a good idea?" Christian Science Monitor, 5/24/2013, http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2013/0524/Would-a-US-drone-court-to-authorize-drone-strikes-be-a-good-idea-video jss
Critics of the drone program, however, are generally not reassured by the notion
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independent investigations of alleged extrajudicial executions and remedy for victims," he says.

Drone courts violate separation of powers – requiring judicial approval for targeted killing steps on Article II, Section 2 and a long history of Constitutional practice – the impact is tyranny and due process violations

Robertson ’13 James Robertson, "Judges shouldn’t decide about drone strikes," Washington Post, 2/15/2013, http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-02-15/opinions/37117878_1_drone-strikes-justice-department-white-paper-federal-courts
In the wake of the recent confirmation hearing on John Brennan’s nomination as CIA director
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a case. If he did, his independence would be severely compromised.

Individual liberty comes first—rejecting every instance of coercion is key

Petro 74—Professor of Law at NYU (Sylvester, Toledo Law Review, Spring, p. 480, http://www.ndtceda.com/archives/200304/0783.html)//MY

However, one may still insist, echoing Ernest Hemingway - "I believe in
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every invasion of freedom must be emphatically identified and resisted with undying spirit.

Tournament: Mukai | Round: 3 | Opponent: ISU DI | Judge: Mike Shackelford
Link – the 1AC’s anti-oppression methodology creates an additive mode of oppression functioning on the either/or dichotomy and ignores an intersectional approach.
COLLINS 90 (Patricia Hill, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of Cincinnati, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment. p.225)IAA
Additive models of oppression are firmly … group or simultaneously oppressor and oppressed.
Specifically, their white feminist approach points at their victimization but ignores away their white privilege  oppresses others – turns the case.
Collins 90 (Patricia, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of Cincinnati, “Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the politics of Empowerments)IAA
Domination operates by seducing, pressuring, or … who possess eloquent analyses of racism often persist in viewing poor white women as symbols of white .
And we turn solvency – you cant solve.
COLLINS 90 (Patricia Hill, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of Cincinnati, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment. p.225)IAA
Despite African-American women's potential … its theories and methodologies as the universal norm evaluating other groups' experiences.
The alternative is to embrace black feminist coalitional politics – put your perms away this is the only way to solve the criticism.
Collins 90 (Patrica Hill, Associate Proffesor of African American Studies University of Cincinnati, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment. 1990 p)IAA
"What I really feel is radical is … of basic social science concepts.
Empowerment requires rejection of the affirmative.
COLLINS 90 (Patricia Hill, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of Cincinnati, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment. p.225)
Empowerment involves … selves, without the restriction of externally imposed definition." 

Embracing our perspective changes our entire approach to oppression and social relations new methodologies growing out of this paradigm would be non hierarchal but more importantly unlike the 1ac it refuses primacy to either class, race, gender, or ethnicity, demanding instead a recognition of their matrix-like interaction.
COLLINS 90 (Patricia Hill, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of Cincinnati, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment. p.223-232)
Embracing a both/and conceptual … much about the more universal process of domination.

Tournament: Mukai | Round: 2 | Opponent: Weber HH | Judge: Lee Thatch
Pres war powers strong now
National Journal 10/3 "The Do-It-Yourself Presidency," National Journal staff, 10/3/2013, http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/the-do-it-yourself-presidency-20131003
After 20 children were gunned down at a Connecticut elementary school, President Obama pledged
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so divided and unwilling to do anything on substantive policy issues. And.
Congressional interference signals a diluted American commitment to force – that emboldens enemies
Newton ’12 Michael A. Newton, professor at Vanderbilt Law, "Inadvertent Implications of the War Powers Resolution," Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2012, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2232354
The corollary to this modern reality, and the second of three inadvertent implications of
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asymmetric enemy can in theory erode our political will even before it solidifies.
Exec flex key to prevent rogue state and terrorist WMD use
Royal ’11 JOHN PAUL ROYAL, "War Powers and the Age of Terrorism," Center for the Study of the Presidency 26 Congress The Fellows Review 2011, http://www.thepresidency.org/storage/Fellows2011/Royal-_Final_Paper.pdf
The international system itself and national security challenges to the United States in particular,
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changes, Congress possesses the intrinsic power to rescind and limit these powers.

Tournament: Mukai | Round: 2 | Opponent: Weber HH | Judge: Lee Thatch
The Executive Branch should establish a National Security Court to approve or deny targeted killing orders. This Court’s decisions should be forwarded to Congressional intelligence committees for review.
NSC solves the aff but avoids the executive flex DA
Katyal ’13 Neal Katyal, NDT semifinalist, was Acting Solicitor General of the United States for Obama, served as Al Gore’s co-counsel in Bush v. Gore and lead counsel in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, "Who Will Mind the Drones?" New York Times, 2/21/2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/21/opinion/an-executive-branch-drone-court.html-http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/21/opinion/an-executive-branch-drone-court.html jss
Imagine instead that the president had an internal court, staffed by expert lawyers to
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balance the demands of secrecy and speed with those of liberty and justice.

Tournament: Mukai | Round: 5 | Opponent: Wyoming HT | Judge: Dan Stout

First—The 1AC’s call for the restriction of presidential war authority is nothing more than a re-assertion of the status quo’s Us or them narrative; they give the war on terror a new face by effectively ignoring the way race gender and western supremacy shape the existence of war.

Dr. Zine 6 (Jasmine, Associate Professor, Sociology at the Department of Sociology at Laurier Since July 2005, "Between Orientalism and Fundamentalism: The Politics of Muslim Women’s Feminist Engagement," Muslim World Journal of Human Rights 3(1), 2006)IAA
The web of racism, cultural stereotypes, political imperialism, dehumanizing ideology holding in
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Muslim women as victims of their anachronistic faith, lacking agency and voice.

Second—their calls to policy change in particular serve only to create a distortion between the sanitized notion of war we are fed and what is actually going on in other countries.

Ahmed 7 (Faiz, Ph.D. student, University of California, Berkeley; J.D., University of California Hastings College of the Law, Gonzaga Journal of International Law, 10 Gonz. J. Int’l L. 269) 
Autumn 2006 marked the fifth anniversary of a series of notable events in Afghanistan’s recent
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reaping the benefits of auspicious promises made by so many countries in 2001.

This means that the criticism outweighs and turns the case – two reasons:

First, – continued unquestioning of their underlying assumptions guarantees those assumptions continue to exist which would inevitably make the annihilation of entire populations inevitable – this turns case.

CHOW 6 (Rey, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Modern Culture 26 Media Studies at Brown University, "The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work," p. 40-42) 
Often under the modest and apparently innocuous agendas of fact gathering and documentation, the
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of this chapter – will never receive the attention that is due to them

Second—Their strategic worldview causes extinction

CHOW 6 (Rey, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Modern Culture 26 Media Studies at Brown University, "The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work," p. 40-42) 
Often under the modest and apparently innocuous agendas of fact gathering and documentation, the
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this chapter – will never receive the attention that is due to them.

Tournament: Mukai | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Weber OV | Judge: Bausch, VanLuvanee, Thach
Agamben oversimplifies modern biopolitics to remove lively animality from our theoretical radars—causes ignorance and apathy towards speciesism
Wolfe ’13 Cary Wolfe, Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame, University of Chicago Press, 2013, p. 24-26
Not surprisingly, such a view of what …, and banalized in the services of a strategic, not symbolic, project.

The ethical irresponsibility of speciesism conceals unspeakable violence
Kochi and Ordan ‘8 Tarik Kochi and Noam Ordan, “An Argument for the Global Suicide of Humanity,” borderlands, vol. 7 no. 3, 2008, http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol7no3_2008/kochiordan_argument.pdf
Within the picture many paint of humanity, events … and moral action re-conceived through this relational or dialectical standpoint in thought.

The aff’s ethical insufficiency is prior to its consequential benefits. Rejecting eco-sovereignty is essential to discovering better ways of relating to our ‘natural environment’
Smith ’11 Mick Smith, Against Ecological Sovereignty, University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, 2011, p. 44-45
Leaving aside for the moment the question of how far … to enclose the nonhuman in an economy of the Same.

Tournament: Mukai | Round: 5 | Opponent: Wyoming HT | Judge: Dan Stout

The Executive Branch should notify the Senate and House Armed Services committees of targeted killing operations carried out by the Joint Special Operations Command.

Solves transparency and generates accountability

Pearlstein ’13 Deborah Pearlstein, J.D., Harvard Law School, "Congress Shouldn’t Give the President New Power to Fight Terrorists," Slate, 3/26/2013, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/03/congress_shouldn_t_give_president_obama_new_power_to_fight_terrorists.html-http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/03/congress_shouldn_t_give_president_obama_new_power_to_fight_terrorists.html
This is hardly to say the president’s decision to use force operates under no constraint
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the age of drones, Congress should explore strengthening that reporting requirement further.

Tournament: Mukai | Round: 3 | Opponent: ISU DI | Judge: Mike Shackelford
Scholarship cannot be purely political – their strategy attempts to subvert the fundamental antagonism separating academics from the political sphere, spurring expertism and narcissistic research because it emerges in a competitive context. The opposing poles of social change and personal benefit are irreconcilable – their goal of repairing the community is academic fantasy structured by the impossibility of breaking free from subjective norms.
Welsh ’12 Scott Welsh, Department of Communication @ Appalachian State University, “Coming to Terms with the Antagonism between Rhetorical Reflection and Political Agency,” Philosophy and Rhetoric, vol. 45, no. 1, 2012
Between Scholarly Reflection and Political Agency It is …, and collectively to reclaim the promises of a truly global, democratic future” (2004, 77).
Breakthrough emancipation is impossible in the social confines of debate – the form and location of their communicative strategy proves that it’s more interested in self-reproduction than in goal-actualization
Bryant ’13 Levi Bryant, prof phil Collin College, “ The Paradox of Emancipatory Political Theory,” Larval Subjects, 5/31/2013 http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/the-paradox-of-emancipatory-political-theory/
There’s a sort of Hegelian contradiction at the … and like their the best thing since sliced bread, I guess.
Attempting to bridge the gap between scholar and citizen requires an impossible submersion of academia into politics – this failure is sutured by a narcissistic fantasy that projects every error onto a scapegoated other and redirects emancipatory energy into self-defeating ends.
Welsh ’12 Scott Welsh, Department of Communication @ Appalachian State University, “Coming to Terms with the Antagonism between Rhetorical Reflection and Political Agency,” Philosophy and Rhetoric, vol. 45, no. 1, 2012
Giroux’s concluding words, in which scholars reclaim … empirical obstacle (feckless or selfish individuals) to be displaced.
Alt: Reject the aff’s attempt to unify academic debate and social justice politics.
Trying to eliminate the opposition between these terms constricts the emancipatory potential of debate – instead of denying the competitive nature of the game, we should keep it in view as a reminder of the impossibility of full political subjectivity
Welsh ’12 Scott Welsh, Department of Communication @ Appalachian State University, “Coming to Terms with the Antagonism between Rhetorical Reflection and Political Agency,” Philosophy and Rhetoric, vol. 45, no. 1, 2012
What is Žižek’s psychoanalytic advice? Identify with the … embeddedness, even if such a distinction is unavoidably tenuous.

Tournament: Lewis  Clark | Round: 1 | Opponent: Gonzaga DE | Judge: Kuswa
Apologies for the lack of detailed cites - but here's some cards we've read. no idea what the tags were.

Wilderson ’10 Frank, Associate Professor at UC Irvine’s Department of Drama and African American Studies, Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, pp. 21-23
Again, what is important for us to glean from these … they have no line of flight leading to the Slave. 

Pak 2012 (Yumi, PhD in literature from UC-San Diego, “Outside Relationality: Autobiographical Deformations and the Literary Lineage of Afro-pessimism in 20th and 21st Century African American Literature,” Dissertation through Proquest)
Because the four authors I examine focus … blackness as being absent in the dialectic, as “anti-Human.”

Wilderson 2010 (Frank, Revolutionary, Interviewed by Percy Howard, http://percy3.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/frank-wilderson-wallowing-in-the-contradictions-part-2/)
Well, I think that the question of civil society, not all the questions but the truth … our car is pulled over by the police for being in the wrong neighborhood.

Hartman ‘9 Saidiya, professor of English and comparative literature and women's and gender studies at Columbia University, “Redressing the Pained Body: Toward a Theory of Practice”, in American Studies: An Anthology, pp.343-344
In order to illuminate the significance of performance … individual, and perhaps even without a "person," in the usual meaning of the term.

Rodriguez ’11 Dylan, PhD in Ethnic Studies Program of the University of California Berkeley and Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at University of California Riverside, “The Black Presidential Non-Slave: Genocide and the Present Tense of Racial Slavery”, Political Power and Social Theory Vol. 22, pp. 38-43
To crystallize what I hope to be the potentially useful implications of … landslide while well over a million Black people are incarcerated with the overwhelming consent of white/multiculturalist civil society.