Tournament: West Georgia | Round: 1 | Opponent: West Georgia KV | Judge: 

1AC

Plan

The United States Congress should repeal section 2008 of the American Service-Members’ Protection Act.

First is Solvency

Section 2008 of ASPA authorizes presidential use of armed forces against the ICC

Langbroek 9 – Philip M., Managing Editor
~August, http://www.iaca.ws/files/LWB-ManagingEditor.pdf~~ ap
Section 2008 of ASPA authorizes the President to use "all means necessary and appropriate
AND
Scheveningen prison near The Hague to face prosecution before the International Criminal Court.

Congressional repeal key to legitimizing administration’s position toward the ICC

Trahan 13 – Jennifer, Chair, American Branch of the International Law Association, ICC Committee
~July 24, http://www.coalitionfortheicc.org/documents/ABILA_Letter_4_28129.pdf~~ ap
(3) The U.S. should work towards repeal of current law
AND
as to allow for additional U.S. support for the Court.

Congress key to democratic legitimacy and preventing future vacillation in executive policy

Wittes 9 – Benjamin, senior fellow and research director in public law at the Brookings Institution, Stuart Taylor, an American journalist, graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School
~"Legislating the War on Terror: An Agenda for Reform", November 3, Book, p. 329-330~gw
While President Obama’s policy makes a clean break with the Bush record, it actually
AND
past without giving up what the United States will need in the future.

ICC has never charged US officials and has bipartisan support – Congress should modify ASPA

Bellinger 12 – John B., partner with Arnold 26 Porter LLP and an adjunct senior fellow in international and national security law at the Council on Foreign Relations
~June 21, http://www.washingtonpost.com/congress-should-review-policies-toward-war-crimes-court/2012/06/21/gJQAN9RgtV_story_1.html~~ ap
The court has proved less threatening to U.S. personnel and interests than
AND
in cases where justice for international atrocities cannot be achieved through other means.

US and ICC are in a lovefest – ICC ties have bipartisan support

Kaye 4/16 – David, Foreign Affairs
~April 16, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/139170/david-kaye/americas-honeymoon-with-the-icc~~ ap
Earlier this month, the Brookings Institution hosted what would have been unthinkable a decade
AND
of congressional Democrats and Republicans, including the prominent Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.

No disads – Congress just passed two bills restricting presidential power to introduce armed forces

Douglas 26 Allam 7/24 – William 26 Hannah, McClatchy Washington Bureau
~July 24, http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/07/24/197591/on-voice-votes-house-sets-limits.html~~ ap
WASHINGTON — With little argument, the House of Representatives approved measures Wednesday that would
AND
Egypt or to fund individuals, groups or organizations engaged in paramilitary activity.
Advantage 1 is Courts

ICC on verge of collapse – US motives suspect

Peskin 26 Stover 9/23 – Victor, associate professor at the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University 26 Eric, faculty director of the Human Rights Centre, UC Berkeley School of Law
~September 23, http://gulfnews.com/opinions/columnists/icc-is-being-seen-as-an-anti-african-tribunal-1.1234614~~ ap
The Kenyan parliament’s recent vote to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC)
AND
the opportunity to question American motives at this critical juncture in Kenya’s history.

Repeal key to ICC effectiveness

Langbroek 9 – Philip M., Managing Editor
~August, http://www.iaca.ws/files/LWB-ManagingEditor.pdf~~ ap
Section 2008 of ASPA authorizes the President to use "all means necessary and appropriate
AND
to date, only Africans have been actively pursued by the ICC Prosecutor.

ICC empowerment prosecutes corporate crimes

Clarke 13 – Kamari Maxine, professor of anthropology at Yale
~February 6, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/opinion/treat-greed-in-africa-as-a-war-crime.html?_r=0~~ ap
The I.C.C. should be empowered to prosecute corporate crimes —
AND
, were ultimately figureheads in a vast and unregulated system of extractive capitalism.

Corporate greed destroys the world

Adams 10 – Mike, the Health Ranger, Editor of NaturalNews.com
~June 18, http://www.naturalnews.com/029023_corporations_crimes_against_nature.html~~ ap
It is the corporations that are committing these crimes against nature: Big Pharma’s mass
AND
actions, corporations are threatening YOUR life and the lives of your children.

Our creation of a space for reflection is a key step in ending non-human oppression. Speciesism makes possible "systematic beastilization," which justifies non-criminal putting to death of the Other – this is the root cause of all oppression.

Rossini 6 – Manuela, Postdoctoral Fellow at Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
~Sept, "To the Dogs: Companion speciesism and the new feminist materialism," Kritikos, Volume 3, http://intertheory.org/Rossini~~cn
What is equally sobering, however, is the fact that the most radical metaposthumanists
AND
means limited to its overwhelmingly direct and disproportionate effects on animals.~26~

Advantage 2 is Process

Presidential power is unilateral

Mesle 8 – C. Robert, professor of Philosophy and Religion at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa
~Process-Relational Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead, p. 65 – 66~ ap
Look at the world around you, and consider what most people would see as
AND
down the ranks. They don’t move upward against the flow of power.

Unilateral power destroys existence – process philosophy’s relational power is the only solution

Mesle 8 – C. Robert, professor of Philosophy and Religion at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa
~Process-Relational Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead, p. 72-73~ ap
Breaking with our usual format, this entire chapter is about the "so what
AND
power to engage the lives of others in ways that enrich us all.

Process understandings key to accurate predictions

Urry 6 – John, Dept of Sociology, Lancaster University
~January, www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/events/docs/carsclimates26complexfutures.doc~ ap
More generally then in this paper I revisit the ’future’ deploying some concepts from
AND
especially how different systems are adapting to each other and co-evolving.

ICC key to process thought

Cobb 26 Griffin 12 – John B., Jr. 26 David Ray, The Center for Process Studies
~http://www.ctr4process.org/publications/Articles/pax_americana.shtml~~ ap
Process thought calls for empowering individuals, communities, and communities of communities up to
AND
strengthening the authority of the World Court and the new International Criminal Court.
Advantage 3 is Netherlands

Chavez’s death leads to Caribbean instability

Miller 4/10 – Perry, M.A. Political Economy, writer, journalist and avid reader
~April 10, http://potentmagazine.com/2013/04/10/elections-in-venezuela-could-lead-to-violence-and-caribbean-instability/~~ ap
With the new and uncertain post-Chavez period in Venezuela rapidly unveiling and elections
AND
, and economic solvency of patron Caribbean states in a regionally tenuous situation.

Invasion of The Hague Act hurts Dutch relations and doesn’t make sense

Marquand 9 – Robert, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
~February 13, http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2009/0213/p05s01-woeu.html~~ ap
In 2002, Congress passed a law enabling United States forces to unilaterally storm into
AND
a good faith effort to investigate. That automatically sets aside ICC jurisdiction."

Dutch leadership key to Caribbean stability – US influence key

theguardian.com 10 – AMBASSADOR CLIFFORD SOBEL
~December 15, http://www.theguardian.com/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/38987~~ ap
- Venezuela: The Dutch have strategic interests in the Caribbean (i.e
AND
efforts more actively would give us a reliable European partner in the region.

Instability causes global war

Griffith 2k – Ivelaw L., professor of political science and dean of the honors college at Florida International University
~Autumn, "U.S. Strategic Interests in Caribbean Security", JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly, Issue 26~
The strategic importance of the Caribbean is found in its resources, sea lanes,
AND
area that represents a global crossroads and an essential element for regional stability.

Tournament: West Georgia | Round: 3 | Opponent: University of Georgia JL | Judge: 

1AC

Plan

The United States Congress should repeal section 2008 of the American Service-Members’ Protection Act.

First is Solvency

Section 2008 of ASPA authorizes presidential use of armed forces against the ICC

Langbroek 9 – Philip M., Managing Editor
~August, http://www.iaca.ws/files/LWB-ManagingEditor.pdf~~ ap
Section 2008 of ASPA authorizes the President to use "all means necessary and appropriate
AND
Scheveningen prison near The Hague to face prosecution before the International Criminal Court.

Congressional repeal key to legitimizing administration’s position toward the ICC

Trahan 13 – Jennifer, Chair, American Branch of the International Law Association, ICC Committee
~July 24, http://www.coalitionfortheicc.org/documents/ABILA_Letter_4_28129.pdf~~ ap
(3) The U.S. should work towards repeal of current law
AND
as to allow for additional U.S. support for the Court.

Congress key to democratic legitimacy and preventing future vacillation in executive policy

Wittes 9 – Benjamin, senior fellow and research director in public law at the Brookings Institution, Stuart Taylor, an American journalist, graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School
~"Legislating the War on Terror: An Agenda for Reform", November 3, Book, p. 329-330~gw
While President Obama’s policy makes a clean break with the Bush record, it actually
AND
past without giving up what the United States will need in the future.

ICC has never charged US officials and has bipartisan support – Congress should modify ASPA

Bellinger 12 – John B., partner with Arnold 26 Porter LLP and an adjunct senior fellow in international and national security law at the Council on Foreign Relations
~June 21, http://www.washingtonpost.com/congress-should-review-policies-toward-war-crimes-court/2012/06/21/gJQAN9RgtV_story_1.html~~ ap
The court has proved less threatening to U.S. personnel and interests than
AND
in cases where justice for international atrocities cannot be achieved through other means.

US and ICC are in a lovefest – ICC ties have bipartisan support

Kaye 4/16 – David, Foreign Affairs
~April 16, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/139170/david-kaye/americas-honeymoon-with-the-icc~~ ap
Earlier this month, the Brookings Institution hosted what would have been unthinkable a decade
AND
of congressional Democrats and Republicans, including the prominent Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.

No disads – Congress just passed two bills restricting presidential power to introduce armed forces

Douglas 26 Allam 7/24 – William 26 Hannah, McClatchy Washington Bureau
~July 24, http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/07/24/197591/on-voice-votes-house-sets-limits.html~~ ap
WASHINGTON — With little argument, the House of Representatives approved measures Wednesday that would
AND
Egypt or to fund individuals, groups or organizations engaged in paramilitary activity.
Advantage 1 is Courts

ICC on verge of collapse – US motives suspect

Peskin 26 Stover 9/23 – Victor, associate professor at the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University 26 Eric, faculty director of the Human Rights Centre, UC Berkeley School of Law
~September 23, http://gulfnews.com/opinions/columnists/icc-is-being-seen-as-an-anti-african-tribunal-1.1234614~~ ap
The Kenyan parliament’s recent vote to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC)
AND
the opportunity to question American motives at this critical juncture in Kenya’s history.

Repeal key to ICC effectiveness

Langbroek 9 – Philip M., Managing Editor
~August, http://www.iaca.ws/files/LWB-ManagingEditor.pdf~~ ap
Section 2008 of ASPA authorizes the President to use "all means necessary and appropriate
AND
to date, only Africans have been actively pursued by the ICC Prosecutor.

ICC empowerment prosecutes corporate crimes

Clarke 13 – Kamari Maxine, professor of anthropology at Yale
~February 6, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/opinion/treat-greed-in-africa-as-a-war-crime.html?_r=0~~ ap
The I.C.C. should be empowered to prosecute corporate crimes —
AND
, were ultimately figureheads in a vast and unregulated system of extractive capitalism.

Corporate greed destroys the world

Adams 10 – Mike, the Health Ranger, Editor of NaturalNews.com
~June 18, http://www.naturalnews.com/029023_corporations_crimes_against_nature.html~~ ap
It is the corporations that are committing these crimes against nature: Big Pharma’s mass
AND
actions, corporations are threatening YOUR life and the lives of your children.

Corporations invent security threats for profits, justifying imperialistic wars

Hossein-zadeh 6 – Ismael, Professor Emeritus of Economics
~http://www.untag-smd.ac.id/files/Perpustakaan_Digital_2/POLITICAL20ECONOMY20The20political20economy20of20U.S.20militarism.pdf~~ ap
Another salient hallmark of militarism is its constant need to invent (or manufacture,
AND
markets and their share of national tax dollars by increasing the Pentagon’s budget.

Dismantling corporate power is the first step to recognizing non-human animot and the ecosystem

Z. 12 – Mickey, author of 11 books
~February 15, http://www.fairsharecommonheritage.org/2012/02/15/corporate-power-vs-animal-rights-deoccupyaeta/~~ ap
If you’re working to dismantle corporate power, expand freedoms, and create a safer, more sane culture, you already have plenty in common with animal rights activists. Why not take things even further and recognize that the mighty 99 also includes non-human animals—and the entire ecosystem itself?

Use of the term "the animal" violently homogenizes the plurality of animal life, thus re-entrenching speciesism – prefer the term "animot." This turns the K onto itself.

Derrida 97 – Jacques, French philosopher
~June, The Animal that Therefore I Am (More to Follow)~
Ecce animot- that is what I was saying before this long digression. In
AND
come) and that in sum there are only crimes "against humanity"?

Speciesism makes possible "systematic beastilization," which justifies non-criminal putting to death of the Other – this is the root cause of all oppression.

Rossini 6 – Manuela, Postdoctoral Fellow at Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
~Sept, "To the Dogs: Companion speciesism and the new feminist materialism," Kritikos, Volume 3, http://intertheory.org/Rossini~~cn
What is equally sobering, however, is the fact that the most radical metaposthumanists
AND
means limited to its overwhelmingly direct and disproportionate effects on animals.~26~

Our creation of a space for reflection is a key step in ending non-human oppression.

Williams 8 – Nancy, Philosopher at Wofford College
~"Affected Ignorance and Animal Suffering" Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics (2008) 21:371-384~
Epistemological and moral tensions such as these, however, can be the impetus for
AND
be fully informed about modern factory farming practices (and subsequent animal suffering).
Advantage 2 is Process

Presidential power is unilateral

Mesle 8 – C. Robert, professor of Philosophy and Religion at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa
~Process-Relational Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead, p. 65 – 66~ ap
Look at the world around you, and consider what most people would see as
AND
down the ranks. They don’t move upward against the flow of power.

ICC key to process thought

Cobb 26 Griffin 12 – John B., Jr. 26 David Ray, The Center for Process Studies
~http://www.ctr4process.org/publications/Articles/pax_americana.shtml~~ ap
Process thought calls for empowering individuals, communities, and communities of communities up to
AND
strengthening the authority of the World Court and the new International Criminal Court.

Unilateral power destroys existence – process philosophy’s relational power is the only solution

Mesle 8 – C. Robert, professor of Philosophy and Religion at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa
~Process-Relational Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead, p. 72-73~ ap
Breaking with our usual format, this entire chapter is about the "so what
AND
power to engage the lives of others in ways that enrich us all.

Process understandings key to accurate predictions

Urry 6 – John, Dept of Sociology, Lancaster University
~January, www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/events/docs/carsclimates26complexfutures.doc~ ap
More generally then in this paper I revisit the ’future’ deploying some concepts from
AND
especially how different systems are adapting to each other and co-evolving.

Relational power transcends all oppression

Mesle 8 – C. Robert, professor of Philosophy and Religion at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa
~Process-Relational Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead, p. 76-77~ ap
Ultimately, growth in relational power takes us beyond the human community. A process
AND
love are two faces of the same strength, enriching all our lives.