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Tournament: X | Round: 1 | Opponent: X | Judge: X
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Tournament: UPS | Round: 4 | Opponent: Sprague SM | Judge: Ryan Hartman
Interpretation: The Neg must defend the converse of the resolution.

Tournament: UPS | Round: 1 | Opponent: Interlake HS  Bellevue MW | Judge: Jeffrey Richards
The AC is in open source.

Tournament: VBT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Flintridge Sacred Heart RL | Judge: Sujay Singh
The AC is in open source.

Tournament: Damus | Round: 1 | Opponent: Beckman JP | Judge: Samantha Weiss
IPV AFF – TRIGGER WARNING

FRAMING

All brackets for clarity, efficiency, and language. 

I value morality. The standard is Minimizing Structural Barriers, defined as alleviating the material conditions that commit structural violence on marginalized groups.

Ethical theories that aren’t grounded in the current social context fail to analyze structural inequalities and real world issues.  
Mills:  Mills, C. W. (2009), Rawls on Race/Race in Rawls. The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 47: 161–184
Now how can...ever did arrive.
Two implications.
a. analytic
b. analytic

Intimate partner violence is uniquely bad because it magnifies all type of oppression – preventing IPV is a key first step to fighting other types of oppression.
Thom 15:  Kai Cheng Thom essayist on identity, sexuality, gender, intersectional feminism, mental health, and activism “5 Common Ways Our Communities Fail to Address Intimate Partner Violence” September 10, 2015.  Everyday Feminism.
There is no ... to say, collectively.

CONTENTION 1 IS THE HARMS

Police officer’s negligence due to lack of accountability perpetuates the existence of IPV. Gray bracketed
Lela Gray, J.D. Candidate, Albany Law School, 2011; B.A., University of South Florida, 2007. “Municipal Accountability in Domestic Violence: A Promising New Case"
In this paper, ... cure this problem.

Qualified immunity protects omissions—meaning that police are not liable for refusing to help survivors of IPV. Stringent evidence requirements are only further obstacles towards recourse. Bishop bracketed
Gary M. Bishop, Section 1983 and Domestic Violence: A Solution to the Problem of Police Officers' Inaction, 30 B.C.L. Rev. 1357 (1989)
In the absence ... a fellow officer.

McFarlane bracketed: Lauren L. McFarlane, Domestic Violence Victims v. Municipalities: Who Pays When the Police Will Not Respond, 41 Cas. W. Res. L. Rev. 929 (1991)
Referring to one ... the violence themselves.

The qualified immunity doctrine allows police to claim laws are not clearly established as a way to justify lack of action in cases of IPV. Harper bracketed
Laura S. Harper, Battered Women Suing Police for Failure to Intervene: Viable Legal Avenues After Deshaney v. Winnibago County Department of Social Services , 75 Cornell L. Rev. 1392 (1990)
Should a battered ... their constitutional rights. 

CONTENTION 2 IS THE ADVOCACY

Thus the plan text
Resolved: The United States federal government ought to ban the use of the qualified immunity defense in cases where officers are negligent or fail to reasonably respond in cases of IPV. I reserve the right to clarify in CX. Jamison bracketed is the solvency advocate.
Carol Jamison, sister of the survivor, “Law that grants lawsuit immunity to police officers should be examined: reader opinion,” Alabama Media Group (Alabama Media Group is a media company that tells stories and connects businesses to the people who read them through advertising solutions), October 27, 2014
The death of ... take reasonable action.

A lack of accountability for police officers empowers batterers and prevents the enforcement of IPV laws. Exceptions don’t solve. Gray 2 bracketed
However, both the ... on a page. 

Police intervention is key to break the cycle of violence—limiting qualified immunity is a push towards action. McFarlane bracketed
Lauren L. McFarlane, Domestic Violence Victims v. Municipalities: Who Pays When the Police Will Not Respond, 41 Cas. W. Res. L. Rev. 929 (1991)

Prompt police intervention ... domestic violence calls.' 

The legal system is key to provide protection for survivors of IPV. Bishop 2 bracketed
Gary M. Bishop, Section 1983 and Domestic Violence: A Solution to the Problem of Police Officers' Inaction, 30 B.C.L. Rev. 1357 (1989)
Violence against women ... the passive officer.

CONTENTION 3 IS FRAMING

I recognize that IPV is an intersectional issue that affects everyone.
Thom 2:  Kai Cheng Thom essayist on identity, sexuality, gender, intersectional feminism, mental health, and activism “5 Common Ways Our Communities Fail to Address Intimate Partner Violence” September 10, 2015.  Everyday Feminism.
And we need ... communities to speak.

Implications
a. analytic

b.analytic

THEORY UNDERVIEW

1. Evaluate theory and topicality against the aff advocacy with the reasonability brightline of structural abuse.

2. No new responses to the theory underview in the 2N.

K UNDERVIEW

Solutions to oppression need to be grounded in policy rather than abstraction. K’s must be tied to an implementable, political solution to be effective.  Bryant
The problem as ... luck with that.

Tournament: Voices | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker NT | Judge: Calen Smith
analytic

A) Moral evaluation presupposes freedom

B) freedom necessary

Individuals come together to the collective for self-preservation as the common will; the collective has no power above the sovereign so requires deliberation as the basis for action. Rousseau 1 bracketed for gendered language
Jean Jacques Rousseau “THE SOCIAL CONTRACT OR PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL RIGHT” 1762. Translated by G. D. H. Cole
6. THE SOCIAL COMPACT … most frightful abuses.

The general will must be achieved through democratic deliberation under free and equal conditions. Benhabib
Seyla Benhabib 94 Eugene Mayer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University, and director of the program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics, and a well-known contemporary philosopher, “Deliberative Rationality and Models of Democratic Legitimacy”, Constellations Volume I, No/, 1994, Published by Blackwell Publishers, BE
I define democratic … for being informed.

analytic

analytic

Deliberative democracy is epistemically more reliable since it accounts for a plurality of opinions. Christiano  Christiano, Tom, "Democracy", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
Two kinds of … advance those interests.

analytic

Democracy is a key motivating factor and methodology for resisting oppression. Glasius and Pleyers
Glasius, Marlies, and Geoffrey Pleyers. "The global moment of 2011: Democracy, social justice and dignity." Development and Change 44.3 (2013): 547-567.

On the surface,. . . leadership’ of ‘political parties,

Democracy is key for social struggle – black lives matter proves. Bradley
Bradley, S. M. "The Rise of #blacklivesmatter." American Book Review 37.3 (2016): 5-5. Project MUSE. Web. 9 Sep. 2016. https://muse.jhu.edu/. JL

The cases … recent US history.

Moral Progress - Democracy allows for self-correction and only alternative is totalitarianism. Sen
Amartya Sen, "WHY DEMOCRATIZATION IS NOT THE SAME AS WESTERNIZATION. Democracy and Its Global Roots", The New Republic Online Post date: 09.25.03 Issue date: 10.06.03
The value of … like North Korea.

analytic
Nuclear energy consistently fails to engage in effective public deliberation – India’s example provides three warrants. Bhadra
Bhadra, Monamie. "Fighting Nuclear Energy, Fighting for India's Democracy." Science as Culture 22.2 (2013): 238-246.
Now, those tactics … Chatterjee, 2004, p. 18)

Public trust in the nuclear industry is near rock bottom - any attempt to reconcile inevitably fails and leaves the population unequipped to evaluate nuclear programs. Ramana
M.V. Ramana (2011) Nuclear power and the public, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 67:4, 43-51, DOI: 10.1177/0096340211413358, JL

A number of … statements about safety.

The public is excluded and kept in the dark for decision-making processes regarding nuclear energy. Kyne and Bolin
Dean Kyne Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and Bob Bolin School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University “Emerging Environmental Justice Issues in Nuclear Power and Radioactive Contamination” Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2016, 13, 700; doi:10.3390/ijerph13070700 RY
Public participation: While … be adequately addressed. 

Secrecy kills deliberative democracy since it excludes constituents from knowing about or participating in the decision making process. Hamilton
Lee H. Hamilton former member of the United States House of Representatives and currently a member of the U.S. Homeland Security Advisory Council “COLUMN: Government secrecy is killing our democracy behind closed doors” Mar 30, 2016. RY
“Openness is not … the best disinfectant.”

Widespread corruption exists in the nuclear industry. Tanter
Richard Tanter, "After Fukushima: A Survey of Corruption in the Global Nuclear Power Industry", Asian Perspective 37 (2013), 475–500, JL
“During the eighteen … but unconfirmed case.”

Big nuclear has caused regulatory capture and manipulates policy makers to serve their interests – we need to stand against the trend before its too late. Brutoco and Austin
Rinaldo Brutoco and Madeleine Austin, "The Upcoming Nuclear Peril: Worse Than the BP Oil Disaster", Thursday, 01 July 2010 09:32, Rinaldo Brutoco is a well-known futurist and the founding president of the World Business Academy, a nonprofit think tank launched in 1987 with the mission to educate and inspire the business community to take responsibility for the whole of planetary society. He is a frequent public speaker and a prolific author on renewable energy, climate change and sustainable business strategies. He is the co-author of "Freedom from Mid-East Oil" (2007), a leading book on energy and climate change and "Profiles in Power" (1997), a college textbook on nuclear power and the dawn of the solar age. Madeleine Austin is vice president of the World Business Academy and a member of the Hawaii Energy Policy Forum. She is the co-author with Rinaldo Brutoco of "The Nuclear Nemesis" (ABA, Trends May/June 2008) and "The Nuclear Nemesis Redux" (Forum CSR International, Dec. 2008)., http://www.truth-out.org/archive/component/k2/item/90459:the-upcoming-nuclear-peril-worse-than-the-bp-oil-disaster
“How many crises … and act now.”

Tournament: Meadows | Round: 1 | Opponent: x | Judge: x
Interpretation: Debaters' disclosure must include a listing of the labels of all positions they have read directly on the wiki page, and may not only post speech docs without a general description of the arguments within. To clarify, you can't just throw up a document on the wiki, if you disclose a warming DA, you must add a listing saying "Warming DA" or similarly descriptive entry title.

Tournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: Socrates Independent AS | Judge: David Dosch
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