Tournament: UNLV | Round: 3 | Opponent: - | Judge: -
Interpretation – the affirmative must specify the agent of action of their methodology
A. Key to our offense – we can’t get competition for our alternative if the aff can re-characterize the agent of the plan later in the debate – protect neg strategy
B. Key to education about their methodology – understanding who and how we enact the change of the 1AC is an a priori question
Voting issue for fairness and education.

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 1 | Opponent: - | Judge: -
Attempts to legitimate the state and its Ability are based in the exclusion of vulnerability and fragility that creates a culture of ableism.
Soldatic and Biyanwila 2006 (Karen and Janaka, Graduate School of Education; Organisational and Labour Studies, University of Western Australia. “Disability and Development: A Critical Southern Stand point on Able-Bodied Masculinity”, TASA Conference 2006, University of Western Australia and Murdoch University. Pg 7-8 –Veeder)
While strengthening conditions for global capital to invest and operate, the state’s attempts to
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are core features of able-bodied masculinity that subordinate disabled bodies and women

The deviancy of disability only exists in relation to the presupposed normality of “nondisabled” bodies, we must rethink the biases towards “normal” bodies.
Campbell 08 (Fiona Kumari, Associate Professor in Law for Griffith Law School, and a Adjunct Professor in Disability Studies at the University of Kelaniya. “Refusing Able(ness): A Preliminary Conversation about Ableism.” M/C Journal. Vol. 11, No. 3, (2008). http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/46/ -Veeder)
Typically literature within disability and cultural studies has concentrated on the practices and production of
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as a pre-condition of vision and becomes the object of scrutiny”.

The disqualification of individuals integral to ableism operates under all other forms of oppression, and as we continue to combat other instances oppression, ableism remains in full force.
Siebers 09  (Tobin, University of Michigan, Professor of Literary and Cultural Criticism “The Aesthetics of Human Disqualification”, Oct 28, 2009. Lecture, http://www.google.com/url?sa=tandrct=jandq=andesrc=sandsource=webandcd=1andved=0CCoQFjAAandurl=http3A2F2Fdisabilities.temple.edu2Fmedia2Fds2Flecture20091028siebersAesthetics_FULL.docandei=LWz4T6jyN8bHqAHLkY2LCQandusg=AFQjCNGdkDuSJkRXMHgbXqvuyyeDpldVcQandsig2=UCGDC4tHbeh2j7-Yce9lsA, accessed 9/1/13 Pg. 8-10 –Veeder)
Oppression is the systematic victimization of one group by another. It is a form
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represents at this moment in time the final frontier of justifiable human inferiority.
Alternative: Vote negative to Crip the Human
Crippin the human allows us to examine other ways of being human that helps us to rethink the presumed ability of the nondisabled body
Campbell 10 (Fiona Kumari, Associate Professor in Law for Griffith Law School, and a Adjunct Professor in Disability Studies at the Unviersity of Kelaniya. “Using the Concept of Ableism to Rethink Disability and Abledness” for the conference, Perspectives on Inclusive Development: Embracing Diversity and Creating Disability-Sensitive Communities, 28-29 July 2010. http://www.fss.unimas.my/images/stories/haslina/Day2/fiona20kumari20-20a20new20horizon20using20the20concept20of20ableism20to20rethink20disability2020abledness.pdf  Pg 11-12 –Veeder)
In the final section of this paper, I shift our direction to dare to
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. And allies who will assist us to grow into and maintain resilience.

Tournament: CSUN | Round: 1 | Opponent: - | Judge: -
The harms of the 1AC are merely subsets of an unawakened anxiety that exists at our core—panic over death prevents us from living
Loy, 3
(David Robert Loy is a professor, writer, and Zen teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition of Japanese Zen Buddhism. “The Great Awakening” pg. 19-20) Henge
“Suffering,” the usual English translation for dukkha, is not very enlightening,
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lurk around every corner, because any little accident could be our last.
This anxious egoism makes nuclear war and violence inevitable
Ikeda 07 (Daisaku Ikeda President, Soka Gakkai International January 26, 2007 “Restoring the Human Connection: The First Step to Global Peace” http://www.sgi-usa.org/newsandevents/docs/peace2007.pdf) Dabo
The challenge of preventing any further proliferation of nuclear weapons is just such a trial
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certain sense makes inevitable the birth of such demonic progeny as nuclear weapons.
Vote negative to shed the ego
This is a path of self-transformation that recognizes the interpermeation of all beings—we must assimilate the postmodern insight of the fictive self
Loy, 3
(David Robert Loy is a professor, writer, and Zen teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition of Japanese Zen Buddhism. “The Great Awakening” pg. 4-6) Henge
In contrast, the early Buddhist teachings focus almost exclusively on the path of self
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, that Indian thought never felt the Western need to differentiate between them.

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 3 | Opponent: - | Judge: -
The affirmative is a fundamental misreading of politics and the reproduction of social relations.  There is no vague, floating discursive evil that seeks to manage and control populations for the sake of power.  The state and capital move hand in glove—one cannot exist without the other.  Only by using the state to eradicate the metabolic foundations can we allow for the destruction of capital.  Otherwise what is pushed out the door only comes back in through the window

Mezaros 1995
Istavan, (Prof. Emeritus @ Univ. Sussex) Beyond Capital: Towards a Theory of Transition, pg 65

The modern state as the comprehensive political command structure of capital — is both the
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faithful to the Marxian concern with the ‘withering away’ of the state.
Furthermore, the absence of structural historicism and THEIR RELIANCE ON GENDER AS THE SITE OF POLITICAL CONTESTATION IS NOT AN ACCIDENTAL INSTANCE OF IGNORING CLASS is no mere oversight; the reliance of indenty-based politics is not an accidental instance of ignoring class.  The demand arises out of the crisis of liberalism—such politics particularizes the oppressions of capitalism to the point that the universal system is naturalized.  Attaining white, male bourgeoisse privilege becomes the bench-mark of political success, re-entrenching the very foundation of the system

Brown 1993
Wendy, (Professor and Genius) “Wounded Attachments”, Political Theory, Aug. p. 392-394

Although this détente between universal and particular within liberalism is potted with volatile conceits,
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produced by capitalism in addition to that bound to the explicitly politicized marking.

Next, the reduction of class to a neutral level among a long list of other oppressions such as race and gender, destroys the emancipatory potential of class to reach across all lines of identity and forge political action.  Class must be recognized as qualitatively more important—otherwise the system is able to satisfy demands on grounds of formal equality, destroying attempts to overcome capitalist oppression

Gimenez  2001
Martha, (Prof. Sociology at UC Boulder) “Marxism and Class; Gender and Race”, Race, Gender and Class, Vol. 8, p. online: http://www.colorado.edu/Sociology/gimenez/work/cgr.html

There are many competing theories of race, gender, class, American society,
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what happens in social interactions grounded in "intersectionality" is class power.

From the perspective of structural kritik, there can be no such thing as ‘making things better’— their model of politics fundamentally exaggerate the importance of the formal institution of politics and power, ignoring the ways such a system creates knowledge—only a marxist shift to kritik the structure and create mass social consciousness will overcome this failure of politics

Harnecker 2000
Marta, Dir of MEPLA, Links, p. online: http://www.dsp.org.au/links/back/issue16/harnecker.html

To think about the construction of forces and the correlation of forces is to change
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to be stirred up, but as something that has to be built.

THE OPPRESSION OF WOMEN AND RELEGATION OF REPRODUCTION TO THE PRIVATE SPHERE ARE NOT AHISTORICAL PRODUCTS OF SEXISM OR PATRIARCHY, BUT RATHER ARE HISTORICAL PRODUCTIONS OF THE EMERGENCE OF A CLASSED SOCIETY FOUNDED ON THE LOGIC OF SURPLUS ACCUMULATION.  THIS SHIFT FROM NECESSITY TO SURPLUS SOLIDIFIED THE PRE-EXISTING DIVISION OF LABOR BASED ON NEED AND THEN SEXED IT TO JUSTIFY INEQUALITY

CLOUD (Prof. Comm at UT) 2003 Dana, “Marxism and Oppression”, Talk for Regional Socialist Conference, April 19, 2003, p. online wyo-tjc

In order to challenge oppression, it is important to know where it comes from
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men against women encourage us to fight each other rather than organizing together.

Vote Negative to validate and adopt the method of structural/historical criticism that is the 1NC.
THIS IS NOT THE ALTERNATIVE, BUT IN TRUTH THE ONLY OPTION— METHOD IS THE FOREMOST POLITICAL QUESTION BECAUSE ONE MUST UNDERSTAND THE EXISTING SOCIAL TOTALITY BEFORE ONE CAN ACT ON IT—GROUNDING THE SITES OF POLITICAL CONTESTATION OR KNOWLEDGE OUTSIDE OF LABOR AND SURPLUS VALUE MERELY SERVE TO HUMANIZE CAPITAL AND PREVENT A TRANSITION TO A SOCIETY BEYOND OPPRESSION

TUMINO (Prof. English @ Pitt) 2001Stephen, “What is Orthodox Marxism and Why it Matters Now More than Ever”, Red Critique, p. online wyo-tjc

Any effective political theory will have to do at least two things: it will
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determinism of corporate theory ("knowledge work") that masquerades as social theory.

FINALLY, METHODOLOGY IS THE FOREMOST POINT OF DEPARTURE TO ANY POLITICAL QUERY.  YOU SHOULD EVALUATE EPISTEMOLOGY FIRST BECAUSE THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT PROBLEMS DETERMINES HOW YOU RESPOND TO THEM AND THE CONSEQUENCES THEY ENGENDER
        
Smith ’96 Steve, Professor of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, “Positivism and Beyond,” International theory: Positivism and beyond, New York: Cambridge University Press, 12-1 3uwyo-ajl

But the stakes are also high because of the links between theory and practice.
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are far more considerable than at first sight seem to be the case.

Capitalism leads to imperialist aggression that results in nuclear war and extinction
Harvey 2006, Professor of Anthropology City University of New York, 2006 - The Limits to Capital
At times of savage devaluation, interregional rivalries typically degenerate into struggles over who is
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matters not a jot), but to the survival of the human race.

Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: 1 | Opponent: - | Judge: -
First, criticizing Obama for his drone policy ignores the broader history of white supremacist violence and is complicit in a racist system of privilege that oppresses marginalized communities every single day

Lawyer in 2013
(Rad-Femme, practicing litigator living in Chicago, “Drone Policy is the Most Important Racism”, http://thisweekinblackness.com/2013/07/25/drone-policy-is-the-most-important-racism/, rcheek)

Salon’s arc of fail last week began with David Sirota’s meditation that “we are
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them as such. Remind me how that, itself, isn’t racist?
And, Racism is the root cause of violence
Foucault 76 (Michel, Society Must be Defended: Lectures at the College de France, 1975-1976, p. 254-257 Trans. David Macey, MV)

What in fact is racism? It is primarily a way of introducing a break
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half of the nineteenth century), except by activating the theme of racism.
The alternative is to vote negative to speak out against the racism embedded in the 1AC criticism of Obama’s drone policy.
Only by speaking out against racism can we hope to eliminate it. Privileging their exaggerated impact scenarios sustains the dominant structures that make institutional racism inevitable

IRC in 2006
(InterReligious Council of Central New York, http://www.irccny.org/programs/cwd/racism/fr_session5.php, rcheek)

According to this view, we must work to improve racial understanding, end prejudice
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carefully at our institutions, and make the needed changes at all levels.

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 3 | Opponent: - | Judge: -
A. Interpretation: the affirmative must answer the question: Is the enactment of topical action by the USFG better than the status quo or a competitive option?

1. Resolved requires a policy action
   Louisiana House 2005, (3-8-5 http://house.louisiana.gov/house-glossary.htm
   Resolution  A legislative instrument that generally is used for making declarations,  stating policies, and making decisions where some other form is not  required. A bill includes the constitutionally required enacting clause; a  resolution uses the term "resolved". Not subject to a time limit for  introduction nor to governor's veto. ( Const. Art. III, §17(B) and House  Rules 8.11 , 13.1 , 6.8 , and 7.4)

2.  Should denotes an expectation of enacting a plan
American Heritage Dictionary – 2000 www.dictionary.com
Used to express probability or expectation

3. The USFG is the government in Washington D.C.
Encarta Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2000 http://encarta.msn.com
“The federal government of the United States is centered in Washington DC.”

B. Violation – The aff does not defend a policy enacted by the USFG

C. Prefer our interpretation

1. The affirmatives action is out side the “game space of debate” which makes predictable research impossible and destroys dialogue in debate- framework is a way to provide valuable contestation of the content of a critical positon
   Hanghøj 2008 (Thorkild Hanghøj PhD, author affiliated with Danish Research Centre on Education and Advanced Media Materials PLAYFUL KNOWLEDGE An Explorative Study of Educational Gaming http://static.sdu.dk/mediafiles/Files/Information_til/Studerende_ved_SDU/Din_uddannelse/phd_hum/afhandlinger/2009/ThorkilHanghoej.pdf ) MT
   Debate games are often based on pre-designed scenarios that include descriptions of issues
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   dialogue as an end in itself” (Wegerif, 2006: 61).

2. Debating over controversial issues is essential to learn about political thinking to understand how policies happen – the affirmatives truth statements destroy our ability to make decisions about right/wrong -  leading to a subjective view of politics and we never change anything – turns the aff
Steinberg and Freeley 2008
(David L Steinberg is a professor of communication studies – University of Miami, and Austin J Freeley is a  criminal, civil rights law, and personal injury attorney., Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making pg.3-4 ) MT
Debate is a means of settling differences, so there must be a difference of
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particular point of difference, which will be outlined in the following discussion.
3. Without traditional political simulations we become passive spectators in the political sphere - leading to alienation and the worst form of politics – switch side debate is key
Joyner  1999 – Christopher C Jouner Professor of International Law in the Government Department at Georgetown University Spring, 1999 5 ILSA J Int'l and Comp L 377 ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law
Use of the debate can be an effective pedagogical tool for education in the social
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the real world of policy analysis, political critique, and legal defense.

Two ways our framework solves your offense:
First, engaging in policy oriented criticism is key to understanding individual agency.
Juffer 1 (Jane Juffer former director of the Latino/a Studies Initiative @ Penn State 2001 “The Limits of Culture Latino Studies, Diversity Management and the Corporate University” Nepantla: Views from South 2.2 quals continued: Associate Professor of English @ Cornell)
Although there are, of course, many ways to achieve this materialist approach to
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understanding how individual agency always manifests itself as movement within broader structural conditions.
Second, this is the best internal link to student activism.
Juffer 1 (Jane Juffer former director of the Latino/a Studies Initiative @ Penn State 2001 “The Limits of Culture Latino Studies, Diversity Management and the Corporate University” Nepantla: Views from South 2.2 quals continued: Associate Professor of English @ Cornell)
2. Whenever possible, in both research and pedagogy, connect the study of
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conditions for Latinas/os in the United States and in Latin America.

Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: 1 | Opponent: - | Judge: -
Text: The President of the United States should issue a Presidential Policy Directive to restrain his use of war power by banning the use of signature strikes.

Definitional: “The” means all parts – they’re definitionally bound to defending all branches
Merriam-Webster's Online Collegiate Dictionary, No Date,
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
used as a function word before a noun or a substantivized adjective to indicate reference to a group as a whole

This is key to neg ground and is a voter for fairness.

PPDs are confidential and perceived only by a limited group of advisors close to the president, NOT congress
Aftergood 13 (Steven Aftergood July 12 2013, Federation of American Scientists Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy FAS's Secrecy News reports on new developments in government secrecy and provides public access to documentary resources on secrecy, intelligence and national security policy)LC
However, the White House presidential directive non-disclosure policy extends beyond homeland security
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, and agency heads concerning the global development policy of the United States.”
While unclassified Obama presidential directives are mostly unavailable to the public, at least one highly classified Obama directive is posted online for anyone who wishes to read it. Presidential Policy Directive 20 on U.S. Cyber Operations Policy was apparently leaked by Edward Snowden and was published by the Guardian newspaper (“Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks” by Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill, June 7).

Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: 1 | Opponent: - | Judge: -
Budget proposal will pass – political focus key
Cohen 9/26/13 Tom Cohen, CNN Thu September 26, 2013 Boehner signals GOP focus now on debt ceiling http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/26/politics/shutdown-showdown/?hpt=po_c1) MT
In the Senate, tea party conservatives led by GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of
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in its original form -- would defund programs under the Affordable Care Act.

Restricting presidential war powers crushes credibility with congress and causes debt ceiling not to pass
Seeking Alpha 9/10/13 Seeking Profits 2013 -  Syria Could Upend Debt Ceiling Fight
Sep 10 2013 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1684082-syria-could-upend-debt-ceiling-fight MT
Unless President Obama can totally change a reluctant public's perception of another Middle-Eastern
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U.S. obligations unless another last minute deal can be struck. 

Failure to solve budget crisis causes economic collapse
Davidson 9/10 Adam, co-founder of NPR’s "Planet Money," Our Debt to Society, New York Times, 9/10/13, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/magazine/our-debt-to-society.html?pagewanted=all MT
If the debt ceiling isn’t lifted again this fall, some serious financial decisions will
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would collapse far worse than anything we’ve seen in the past several years.

Economic collapse causes nuclear war
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.

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 1 | Opponent: - | Judge: -
Pol cap high-Obama won the budget issue using zero political capital
Miller 10/17/13 (Emily,  MILLER: Obama’s victory lap - Republicans routed in shutdown, Obamacare fight, Washington times, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/17/miller-obamas-victory-lap/)
Once again, President Obama routed congressional Republicans. He used zero political capital and
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consummate dealmakers — Mr. Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. 

CIR Will Pass – now is the key time for a deal
Bowman 10/17/13 Michael Bowman October 17, 2013 Obama Renews Push for US Immigration Reform/ http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-renews-push-for-us-immigration-reform/1771832.html) MT
Thursday, President Barack Obama urged a renewed bipartisan commitment to confront the nation’s challenges
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legal, but you would not have any option to become a citizen.”

Empirics prove that Obama loses political capital when he lowers war power
Curry  8/11/13 Tom, National Affairs Writer,Top GOP lawmaker accuses Obama of not defending NSA surveillance program http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/11/19975169-top-gop-lawmaker-accuses-obama-of-not-defending-nsa-surveillance-program?lite) MT
Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the House Homeland Security
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administration with their phone records. That’s the dilemma the president’s in right now 

Immigration reform is key to jobs and agriculture – solves the economy
METZLER 2013  (By REBEKAH  State house writer/Staffwriter/ July 29, 2013 / White House: Immigration Reform Helps the Economy http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/07/29/white-house-immigration-reform-helps-the-economy MT
The agriculture industry is hampered by a broken immigration system that fails to support a
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,000 jobs in 2014 and nearly 40,000 jobs in 2045."

Economic Decline leads to nuclear conflict and increased terrorism
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.

Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: 3 | Opponent: - | Judge: -
A. Interpretation-War powers are the power of the executive to make war
Merriam/Webster No date
the power to make war; specifically :  an extraordinary power exercised usually by the executive branch of a government in the prosecution of a war

Violation-They do not increase statuatory or judicial restrictions on the presidents War Power authority, they only use the judiciary to release prisoners

Standards-
Extra topical-the ability for the judiciary to release prisoners is not in the topic, this is a huge strategy skew for the neg as we are forced to research things that aren’t in the topic, this creates an infinite research burden for the aff.
Juristiction-You as the judge cannot vote for a team that does not engage in the topic sufficiently
Ground-We lose our topic generics based on the war powers of the president, for example we can’t run our War on Terror DA because they don’t even effect the ability for us to go to war which is the core of the topic
Education-They destroy all education on Obama’s war powers which is the core of the topic

Voter for fairness education and jurisdiction

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 1 | Opponent: - | Judge: -
A Interpretation – Restrict means to limit and confine – not prohibit
Words and Phrases 04 (Volume 37A, p. 406)
Miss. 1927.  To “restrict” is to restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; and does not mean to destroy or prohibit.  Dart v. City of Gulfport, 113 So. 441, 147 Miss. 534.
B. Violation – the aff Bans the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in Yemen

C. Standards
a. Ground – Banning a war power takes out all of our topic links that are specific to restriction – we can’t get access to our topic disads
b. Limits – All preparation is based off of “restriction” not “ban” – we can’t prepare for every aff that is a restriction or ban – makes neg research endless
c. Extra topicality  – they go beyond the resolution with specificity in Yemen which allows affirmatives to spike out of links and counterplans and gives them advantages that they would otherwise not have.– independent voter

D. Voter for fairness and education

Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: 3 | Opponent: - | Judge: -
Terrorist groups have been weakened, but they could bounce back because of recent instability.
Labott, Elise, CNN Foreign Affairs reporter, and Dan Merica, CNN reporter. July 19th, 2013. “Upheavel and the redrawing of the terrorist lines in the Arab world.” CNN. http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2013/07/19/upheaval-and-the-redrawing-of-terrorist-lines-in-the-arab-world/ --Veeder
Terrorists today, he said, “have the largest safe haven and area of
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the region and less likely to carry out attack within the United States.

Flexibility in counterterrorism policy is key to fighting changing terrorist groups- That includes indefinite detention  
Zarate , Juan, former deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism and Thomas Sanderson, co-director of the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. August 6th, 2013. “Adapting to terrorism 2.0.” Washington Post. Lexis Nexis. -Veeder
Though the al-Qaida core has been decimated, its regional affiliates have adapted
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end, but we can't blind ourselves to the terrorist adaptations already underway.

The judicial powers granted by the AUMF has allowed us to dismantle terrorist networks-restricting it would allow terrorist groups to gain strength and threaten the US
Majidyar, Ahmad. Senior research associate at the American Enterprise Institute studying political and security affairs in South Asia and the Middle East. June 17th, 2013. “We Need Military Authorization Until Al-Qaida Is No Longer a Threat” USNews. http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/should-the-authorization-for-use-of-military-force-be-repealed/we-need-military-authorization-until-al-qaida-is-no-longer-a-threat -Veeder
The law has given both the Bush and Obama administrations the authority to "use
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threat to the United States, the law should not be repealed or replaced

The judicial justification powers granted by the AUMF has allowed us to dismantle terrorist networks-restricting it would allow terrorist groups to gain strength and threaten the US
Majidyar, Ahmad. Senior research associate at the American Enterprise Institute studying political and security affairs in South Asia and the Middle East. June 17th, 2013. “We Need Military Authorization Until Al-Qaida Is No Longer a Threat” USNews. http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/should-the-authorization-for-use-of-military-force-be-repealed/we-need-military-authorization-until-al-qaida-is-no-longer-a-threat -Veeder
The law has given both the Bush and Obama administrations the authority to "use
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threat to the United States, the law should not be repealed or replaced

Judicial restrictions on the AUMF can only come after terrorist groups are not a threat, anything else allows the threat of terrorism to grow.
Majidyar, Ahmad. Senior research associate at the American Enterprise Institute studying political and security affairs in South Asia and the Middle East. June 17th, 2013.
“Repealing the Authorization for Use of Military Force will empower al Qaeda”. American Enterprise Institute. http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/06/repealing-authorization-for-use-of-military-force-will-empower-al-qaeda/ -Veeder
Since 9/11, both the Bush and Obama administrations have used the Authorization
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the enemy to seek new sanctuaries in areas immune from US counterterrorism responses.
India and Pakistan are at the brink; any terrorist attack will trigger war.
Riedel, Bruce. Director of the Brookings Intelligence Project, fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, senior advisor to presidents on South as and the Middle East. March 11th, 2013. Interview with Mark Thompson, reporter for Time Magazine: “Avoiding Armageddon on the Sub-Continent.” http://nation.time.com/2013/03/11/avoiding-armageddon-on-the-sub-continent/ --Veeder
What is the most important takeaway for readers of your new book, Avoiding Armageddon
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Pakistan go to the brink expect a lot of anxiety on this issue.

Now is a key Dismantling terrorism in Pakistan gives Indian leaders political capital to form a peace deal with Pakistan over the Kashmir.
Riedel, Bruce. Director of the Brookings Intelligence Project, fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, senior advisor to presidents on South as and the Middle East. January 29th, 2013.  Avoiding Armageddon: America, India, and Pakistan to the Brink and Back. Pg. 277-278 --Veeder
But that should not be an excuse for defeatism. A unique opportunity now exists
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clout to advance the back-channel talks to secure a peace breakthrough.  
 time in Pakistan-India relations, ties can either improve between the countries, or deteriorate and go nuclear.
Jones, Seth G. Associate director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at the RAND Corporation, and an adjunct professor at John Hopkins Unviersity’s School for Advanced International Studies. May 29th, 2013. “Preventing a Nuclear ‘Great Game.’” The Wall Street Journal. http://www.rand.org/commentary/2013/05/29/WSJ.html -Veeder
For over a decade, the U.S. presence in South Asia has
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Great Game” between nuclear-armed states is in no one's interest.

Tournament: CSUN | Round: 3 | Opponent: - | Judge: -
A) The term “weapons” identifies a tool intended to be used in combat, the Aff’s use of this term obscures the reality of nuclear forces and makes their use more likely
Gates in 2001
(John M., Aileen Dunham Professor of History, Emeritus, The U.S. Army and Irregular Warfare, “Chapter 11: The Continuing Problem of Conceptual Warfare”, http://www3.wooster.edu/history/jgates/book-ch11.html)

Over time, something even worse happened to the language. A trend began toward
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for weapons, by definition, are instruments intended for use in combat.
B) Breaking from prenuclear terminology to frame nuclear discourse is critical to escape our linguistic prison and stave off complete annihilation from conceptual confusion
Gates in 2001
(John M., Aileen Dunham Professor of History, Emeritus, The U.S. Army and Irregular Warfare, “Chapter 11: The Continuing Problem of Conceptual Warfare”, http://www3.wooster.edu/history/jgates/book-ch11.html)

To solve the frightening problem of the nuclear threat, people need terms that they
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necessary first step toward the development of an intellectual system to avoid disaster.
The affirmative’s belief that they can accurately predict and solve for nuclear war scenarios is deceptive and misleading. Nuclear war is irrational and its pattern cannot be predicted, attempt to do so only hides the reality of global insecurity and makes war from misperception possible.

Gates in 2001
(John M., Aileen Dunham Professor of History, Emeritus, The U.S. Army and Irregular Warfare, “Chapter 11: The Continuing Problem of Conceptual Warfare”, http://www3.wooster.edu/history/jgates/book-ch11.html)

A more dangerous example of conceptual confusion and the use of inappropriate terminology came at
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a rational form of warfare or a rational instrument of policy."14
The alternative is to reject the word “weapons”  and replace it with “nuclear explosives”
The only way to safely avoid nuclear explosives exchange is to change our way of thinking about them
Gates in 2001
(John M., Aileen Dunham Professor of History, Emeritus, The U.S. Army and Irregular Warfare, “Chapter 11: The Continuing Problem of Conceptual Warfare”, http://www3.wooster.edu/history/jgates/book-ch11.html)

Similarly, terms such as "victory" or "win" lose their meaning
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thinking about the role of military power in the nuclear age."33