Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Kansas | Judge:
GRAMMAR OF ENCOUNTER

What does your ballot do?  Does it reward the 1AC for their astute exposure of power?
What are the stakes that emerge from this debate encounter?

George Pavlich discerns the predominance of a certain “Grammar of Judgment”—
disciplinary regimes have …establishing normative yardsticks*
*context at end…
George Pavlich 2000
Dept Sociology at University of Alberta, “NIETZSCHE, CRITIQUE AND THE PROMISE OF NOT BEING THUS . . .”International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 13: 357–375, 2000 

Pavlich notes the three step method that marks the grammar of judgment:
The development of … courses of action. 

Their 1AC creates “justifiable criteria” by which to judge this debate, specifically the imperative to overcomes the structures of the Terror-Monster and gendered bodies. “Vote negative to divide the 1AC into two piles. Welcome the 1AC’s imperative to overcome the present limitations of democracy assistance deliberation. Set aside their social and gender theory as justification for this advocacy.”

• • context at end…
    George Pavlich 2005
    Professor of Sociology  University of Alberta Law and Critique (2005) 16: 95–112
    
    What can be wrong with deploying judgments against bad forms of normativity?
    Pavllich wonders about:
    Stated differently,  what …outside the quagmire.* (Pavlich 2000)*

Your decision process generates emotional orientations and habits of perception.
Cutting across these routines sparks the AFFECT that makes research and politics Go!
Inna Semestky, Professor Education at the University of Newcastle, 2008
“On the Creative Logic of Education, or: Re-reading Dewey through the lens of complexity science” Educational Philosophy and Theory, Vol. 40, No. 1, 2008
The dynamics of …its individual components.   

FRAMEWORK

Our Interpretation is the 1AC Must Have a Normative Defense of the Passing of the Plan – And They Don’t Meet – C-ex says vote aff because of their representations

Our Interpretation is Most Predictable Given the Wording of the Resolution: 

(). Resolved Means “A Formal Resolution Made by a Deliberative Body” – That’s American Heritage Dictionary 2k

(). In Deliberative Context – The Ballot Only Has Jurisdiction to the Immediately Pending Question.
Roberts, 1915. (General Henry M. Robert, US Army, 1915 ( http://www.bartleby.com/176/4.html)
 4. Motions and Resolutions. A motion …the motives of members. 

().The USFG Must Be the Starting Agent of the Resolution – They Chose to Capitalize the Phrase Following the Colon.
Webster’s, 2k. “Guide to Grammar and Writing” Online.
Use of a colon before a list or an explanation that is preceded by a clause that can stand by itself. Think of the …a capital letter.

(). The United States federal government is the Government in D.C.
Encarta, 2k. Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia. Online.
“The federal government …in Washington DC”
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(). This is Distinct From Small Organizations or Individuals
Black’s Law Dictionary, 99. Seventh Edition Ed. Bryan A. Garner (Chief)
Federal government 1. A …national political matters. 

Topical Plans are Good: 

Their Interpretation Devolves into Tunnel Vision – Switch-Side Debate Fosters Critical Education.
Muir, 93. (Star Muir, communication studies at George Mason University, 1993 (Philosophy and Rhetoric 26.4)
The debate over … successes on the job.

Learning to Defend a Concise and Written Demand is Essential to Coalition Building and Activism
Nixon, 2k. (Makani Themba-Nixon, Executive Director of the Praxis Project, previous director of the Transnational Racial Justice Initiative and the Grass Roots Innovative Policy Program, 7/31/2000 (Colorlines 3.2)
Much of the … to making it so.

ANTHROPOCENTRISM

The affirmative’s rhetoric of dehumanization offers nothing more than a corrected humanization which leaves in place the subhuman as a target for violence and elimination.
Deckha 2010 Maneesha, Assc professor of law at the U of Victoria. “The Subhuman as a Cultural Agent of Violence” Journal for Critical Animal Studies 8.3 http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/JCAS-Special-Issue-Women-of-Color-November-FINAL-20101.doc
The first part of this … nonhumans as well.

The Role of Your Ballot Is Liberatory Scholarship as Animal Standpoint Theory
Anthropocentrism is THE Foundational Hierarchy that structures all others—Their Humanist Politics Dooms Us To a Future That Endlessly Repeats the Oppression of the Status Quo.
Steven Best, Chair of Philosophy at UT-EP, 2007 JCAS 5.2
While a welcome …evolutionary cul-de-sac. 

Your ethical imperative is Political Scholarship and Speech Against the Oppression Of Humanism.
Rather than produce the slaughterhouse of a so-called “radical” and more perfect humanity, vote negative to disrupt and revolutionize your humanist identity
Best No Date Steven, Chair of Philosophy at UT-EP, “Animal Rights and the New Enlightenment”, http://www.drstevebest.org/AnimalRightsandtheNewEnlightenment.htm
Western society has made … evolve or die.  

XO CP

Text: The Executive branch of the United States should require that terrorism suspects are tried in federal court within 18 months of detention or release the suspects.

CP solves the aff
Posner 13
(Eric Posner, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, is a co-author of The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic and Climate Change Justice, “President Obama Can Shut Guantanamo Whenever He Wants” May 2, 2013, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2013/05/president_obama_can_shut_guantanamo_whenever_he_wants_to.html, KB)
The NDAA does … has this authority.

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POLITICS
Debt ceiling will pass now – GOP has to cave
Sargent 9-11-13 Greg, writer for the Washington Post, John Boehner must cut loose the Tea Party, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/09/11/john-boehner-must-cut-loose-the-tea-party/

Here’s the read …suffer the consequences.  
Plan’s unpopular with Congress—they don’t want to be politically accountable
Noah, 08
(Timothy, writer for Slate, and#34;Congress Doesnand#39;t Want War Powersand#34;, July 9, www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/2008/07/congress_doesnt_want_war_powers.html NL)
James Baker and appropriations, no war.

Political capital is key
The Hill 9-7-13 Mike Lillis and Erik Wasson, Fears of wounding Obama weigh heavily on Democrats ahead of vote, http://thehill.com/homenews/house/320829-fears-of-wounding-obama-weigh-heavily-on-democrats#ixzz2eqLLmbbY

Obama needs all …to being engaged.and#34;
Debt ceiling is the real deal – would crash multiple sectors of the economy
LA Times 9-3-13 Michael Hiltzik, Five ways to think about the U.S. debt limit, http://articles.latimes.com/2013/sep/03/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20130904

2. The consequences of …would come true?

Extinction
Royal 10 Jedediah, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, “Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises,” in Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213-215
Less intuitive is how …of economic downturn.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 3 | Opponent: Kansas | Judge:
TOPICALITY
Interpretation- “war powers authority of the President” refers to existing war powers enunciated by congress
Bejesky 2012 (Robert, M.A. Political Science (Michigan), M.A. Applied Economics (Michigan), LL.M. International Law (Georgetown). The author has taught international law courses for Cooley Law School and the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan, American government and constitutional law courses for Alma College, and business law courses at Central Michigan University and the University of Miami, WAR POWERS PURSUANT TO FALSE PERCEPTIONS AND ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION IN THE "ZONE OF TWILIGHT,” St. Mary's Law Journal, 44 St. Mary's L. J. 1, lexis)
V. CONCLUSION¶ The roles of war …nearly two centuries.

RISK

If impacts are calculated by multiplying probability times magnitude, then every probability of an infinite impact register as infinite – This breaks down rational risk calculus
Kessler ‘8  Oliver Kessler, Sociology at University of Bielefeld,   “From Insecurity to Uncertainty:  Risk and the Paradox of Security Politics” Alternatives  33 (2008), 211-232
The problem of the … with relative certainty.   

Fiat Debate Has Become Like “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”
Every Round Brings a New Extinction Event.
This Endless Repetition of Banal Apocalypse  Increases Public Cynicism and Elite Control.
Randals, 2k9.
Samuel, Department of Geography at the University College London  with Marieke de Goede, Department of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam and “Precaution, preemption: arts and technologies of the actionable future.”  Environment and Planning. 27: . pp.  859-878

Politics We have …  evacuated from media sensationalism. 

The alternative is to Reflect on the 1AC as a Flow of Communication, meaning RESONATING through flows of affect and knowledge
Their abstract risk calculus backfires, undermining political responsibility in the face of threat.
Kinsella 2010 William J. Kinsella, Assoc Prof Communication at NC State University,
“Risk communication, phenomenology, and the limits of representation” Catalan Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies 2 (2) pp. 267–276

 Despite movements towards more …and bear risks.