Tournament: Anyone | Round: Finals | Opponent: Anyone | Judge: Anyone
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Tournament: University Of Texas TOC | Round: 5 | Opponent: Stony Point Sam Miller | Judge: Rohan Trivedi

CP

CP Text: The United States Federal Government should mandate that all police officers wear body cameras.

Cameras on police officers solves for court clogs, and will hold police more accountable.

Tweney 14 Tweney, Dylan. "Body Cameras Are the First Step to Reducing Police brutality." VentureBeat.  http://venturebeat.com/2014/12/04/body-cameras-are-the-first-step-to-reducing-police-brutality/N.p., 4 Dec. 2014. Web. 03 Nov. 2016 – Hebron AL
Let's get one thing clear: No gadget will fix bad policing. There is
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you can tell by my author photo, but my children are black.

NYPD and LAPD show that data-gathering measures would go along way in reforming law enforcement, including decreasing the rate of stop and frisk on minorities.

Fan 12 Mary D. Fan, ~Assistant Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law~, "Panopticism for Police: Structural Reform Bargaining and Police Regulation by Data-Driven Surveillance," Washington Law Review Vol. 87, 2012 – Hebron AL
The benefits of data collection and dissemination for public deliberation and oversight concerning police tactics
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cautious optimism for improved community relations that extended across racial and ethnic groups. 

CP solves material impacts of case—empirics prove body cameras massively reduce violence.

Feige 15 ~David Feige, television writer and the author of Indefensible and spent 15 years as a public defender "Brutal Reality: When police wear body cameras, citizens are much safer," Slate, April 10, 2015, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/04/police_body_cameras_cops_commit_less_violence_and_complaints_are_real.html~~ – Hebron AL
The difficulty in indicting and convicting police officers illuminates an uncomfortable truth of the criminal
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citizens are dismissed in favor of the self-justification of the police.

Cops want the cameras which means the CP doesn't create a chilling effect. Also solves for departments because it reduces the likelihood of litigation.

Wyllie 12 ~Doug Wyllie, Editor at Large for PoliceOne, responsible for providing police training content and expert analysis on a wide range of topics and trends that affect the law enforcement community ,"Survey: Police officers want body-worn cameras," PoliceOne, Oct. 23, 2012, http://www.policeone.com/police-products/body-cameras/articles/6017774-Survey-Police-officers-want-body-worn-cameras/~~ – Hebron AL
An overwhelming majority of police officers believe that there's a need for body-worn
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opinion was not widespread. In fact, it was the tiniest minority.

Body cams are empirically proven to prevent police misconduct.

Ariel 16 Ariel, Barack, and Alex Sutherland. "Contagious Accountability: A Global Multisite Randomized Controlled Trial on the Effect of Police Body-Worn Cameras on Citizens' Complaints Against the Police." Criminal Justice and Behavior (2016): n. pag. Web. Hebron AL
To estimate the treatment effect on a pretest–posttest basis, we used a
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1, and our before–after comparisons are depicted in Figure 2.

Tournament: University Of Texas TOC | Round: 5 | Opponent: Stony Point Sam Miller | Judge: Rohan Trivedi

DA

Qualified immunity screens frivolous lawsuits against police now.

King 16 Andrew King, "Keep Qualified Immunity... For Now", Mimesis Law, 07/0116, mimesislaw.com/fault-lines/keep-qualified-immunity-for-now/11010 – Hebron AL
Finally, that brings us back to qualified immunity. If you get rid of
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. Let's figure out a better one before tearing down the old one.

This means courts are fine now, but reducing protection by qualified immunity means more frivolous lawsuits against police which results in court clog.

Williams 9  "Frivolous Lawsuits against Police." Lawsuits: Chicago News Jersey Police. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Oct. 2016. – Hebron AL
~Brackets for Clarity~ The effect is devastating. Officers, confronted with life
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against the township, their police department, and the county prosecutor's office.

Voting AFF inherently leads to an Overburdening in the Courts. Increases the number of litigation cases leading to a courts clog.

Post 11 22, 2011 By Ashley PostJuly. "Frivolous Lawsuits Clogging U.S. Courts, Stalling Economic Growth." Frivolous Lawsuits Clogging U.S. Courts, Stalling Economic Growth. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Oct. 2016. – Hebron AL
 ~Brackets for Clarity~ Americans' litigiousness and thirst for massive damages has been
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countries discourage litigation; we nuture it," Beisner said at the hearing.

Court clog harms the economy—it's bad for business. Prefer my evidence over theirs, my Internal Link is specific to the relationship between the overburdening of courts and the economy.

Leahy 12 Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT). "Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy On The Nominations Of Mary Elizabeth Phillips To The Western District Of Missouri And Thomas Owen Rice To The Eastern District Of Washington." March 6^th, 2012. http://www.leahy.senate.gov/press/statement-of-senator-patrick-leahy-on-the-nominations-of-mary-elizabeth-phillips-to-the-western-district-of-missouri-and-thomas-owen-rice-to-the-eastern-district-of-washington - Hebron AL
While consensus judicial nominations are stalled without a final vote by the Senate, millions
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, and it slows government enforcement actions, which ultimately costs taxpayers money."

The US is key to the global economy.

Caploe 9 David, CEO of the Singapore-incorporated American Centre for Applied Liberal Arts and Humanities in Asia., "Focus still on America to lead global recovery", April 7, The Strait Times – Hebron AL
IN THE aftermath of the G-20 summit, most observers seem to have
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US - and it is going to have to be solved there too.

Economic Collapse Would Escalate To Full-Scale Conflict and Rapid Extinction

Bearden 2K (Lt. Col in US Army) ~Thomas, "The Unnecessary Energy Crisis", Free Republic, June 24, p. online wyo-tjc~ – Hebron AL
History bears out that desperate nations take desperate actions. Prior to the final economic
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, and perhaps most of the biosphere, at least for many decades.

Tournament: University Of Texas TOC | Round: 5 | Opponent: Stony Point Sam Miller | Judge: Rohan Trivedi

DA

The Plan forces trial, thus police go to court. If AC goes to court, they rarely force police to even pay for their damages, the city bears the cost.
Rosenberg 15 Rosenberg, Paul Contributor, Salon "We must make the police pay: When cops go too far, they must feel the pain too." Salon. May 2015.

One key indicator of this is how
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held financially responsible for violating citizens' rights.

Impact Turn: QI backfires; this destroys poor especially on the black communities

Phillip 15 Phillip, Abby Contributor, The Washington Post "Why the poor often pay for police misconduct with their pocketbooks." The Washington Post. June 2015. – Hebron AL
Floyd Dent, a black man
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victims and victims' attorneys."

Tournament: University Of Texas TOC | Round: 5 | Opponent: Stony Point Sam Miller | Judge: Rohan Trivedi

T

A. Interpretation: "Qualified Immunity" is a generic bare plural noun phrase that refers to Qualified Immunity in general. The AFF may not defend the right to limit Qualified Immunity for one or some instances, but must defend all Qualified Immunity as a general principle.

B. Violation: They only defend Qualified Immunity in the instance of the infringement of the 4th Ammendment

C. Standards:

1. Textuality – Textuality is a prima facie voter for the neg. It doesn't matter how educational the Aff is; if the case doesn't affirm the topic, then they haven't met the Aff burden. Also, textuality link turns other theory standards because it is the basis for claims to predictability and ground. Aff isn't textual, two reasons:

a) Grammar – Grammar key to accurate reading of the text because it explains the proper way to read the text. The generic interpretation is the only one consistent with common usage. These card say just governments, but it clearly applies to all bare plurals.

Nebel 14 Jake Nebel, owner of Victory Briefs. Pretty big deal in the debate community. http://vbriefly.com/2014/12/19/jake-nebel-on-specifying-just-governments/ - Hebron AS
I believe that debaters shouldn't specify a government on the living wage topic. The
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Only the second interpretation allows one to affirm by specifying a few governments. 

b) Common usage – our interp is key to how ordinary speakers would view the topic—they're masters of the language and best understand it.

Nebel-2 Jake Nebel, owner of Victory Briefs. Pretty big deal in the debate community. http://vbriefly.com/2014/12/19/jake-nebel-on-specifying-just-governments/ - Hebron AS
To my ear, the generic reading is correct. I think the best evidence
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questions and objections in the comments to be addressed in a later article.)

Common usage key to textuality because words only acquire meaning by how they are used. Granting any standard priority over textuality is a blank check to ignore the resolution and would lead to a massive proliferation of unpredictable strategies and theory/T. Predictability key to reciprocal offensive engagement of positions.

Textuality is also key to jurisdiction as the judge cannot vote on a non-topical case – the NSDA-mandated topic is analogous to mandated speech times. The judge should uphold debating the topic just as much as they would only evaluating arguments within speeches.

D. Education

Education is the sole purpose of debate we do the activity to learn something. By not properly affirming we can never have the education that we would have from defending the resolution as a general principle. 

E. Framework:

Drop the debater

1. The NC was skewed. I can't redo it after the 1AR shifts.
   2. Key to deterrence. Drop the arg means the aff will run abusive
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   to not learn how to debate against someone talented in a fair round.

even though hundreds of other health care bills have been proposed in the past.

Tournament: Plano West Senior High School TFA | Round: 1 | Opponent: Reedy High School | Judge: 

Nayar CP

Counter Plan Text

Countries ought to gradually prohibit the production of Nuclear Power

Mutually Exclusive

–The AC can't advocate for both a gradual prohibition and an immediate prohibition. 

Net Benefits

Globalized viewpoints of solving always fail, it is through targeting key contributors to the problem can the problem be solved, this gives the CP unique grounds of solvency since we begin this through gradually prohibiting the production of nuclear power.

Nayar 99  Nayar, Jayan. Professor. Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems. University of Warwick. Fall 1999. "Re-Framing International Law for the 21^st Century." Order of Inhumanity. - Hebron AL
The description of the continuities of violence in Section II in many ways is familiar
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on what is perhaps less often the focus of critiques of "ordering."

The CP is topical, they clearly concede in CX that the ban is an immediate change. Nayar 99 also acts as a solvency takeout because the globalized vision that they have for solving will inevitably fail due to them not targeting key factors to the problem.

Tournament: Plano West Senior High School TFA | Round: 3 | Opponent: Ursuline Elizabeth Parker | Judge: Blake Andrews

SMR CP

CP Text: Countries ought to transition to Small Modular Reactors.

SMRs have the ability to create emission-free power along with other applications.

Conca 15 James Conca, February 2016, "Can SMRs Lead The U.S. Into A Clean Energy Future?," Forbes, http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2015/02/16/can-smrs-lead-the-u-s-into-a-clean-energy-future/~~#65d56f0626c3 – Hebron AL
If you thought the nuclear industry wasn't excited about the future of nuclear energy,
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-generation and hybrid systems are key ingredients to our global energy future.

SMRs are cheaper than normal-sized nuclear plants.

Cunningham 12 Cunningham, Nick, October 2012 "Small Modular Reactors: A Possible Path Forward for Nuclear Power", American Security Project pg 4-5, http://www.uxc.com/smr/Library5CUS20National20Programs/201220-20SMRs-A20Possible20Path20Forward20for20Nuclear20Power.pdf - Hebron AL
The greatest challenge facing the nuclear power industry is the upfront costs of new reactors
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nuclear reactor, a significant cost advantage for SMRs over large reactors.30 

SMRs are safer than large reactors that are currently used – solves for AC impacts.

Cunningham 12 Cunningham, Nick, October 2012 "Small Modular Reactors: A Possible Path Forward for Nuclear Power", American Security Project pg 4-5, http://www.uxc.com/smr/Library5CUS20National20Programs/201220-20SMRs-A20Possible20Path20Forward20for20Nuclear20Power.pdf - Hebron AL
SMRs can offer improved safety and security over conventional large reactors because of specific design
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to conventional large reactors that require refueling every 18-24 months.22

Tournament: Plano West Senior High School TFA | Round: 1 | Opponent: Reedy High School | Judge: 

Thorium CP

CP Text: The United States Federal Government Ought to ban all reactors except Thorium Reactors.

Thorium reactors are the utmost favorable form of energy production in the future.

Schaffer 13 "Abundant thorium as an alternative nuclear fuel: Important waste disposal and weapon proliferation advantages," No Publication, September 2013  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421513003157 - Hebron AL
The principal arguments for thorium rather than uranium as fuel for nuclear reactors are the
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amplifier approach warrants support provided affordable energetic proton accelerators are developed and demonstrated.

Mutually Exclusive

- The AFF bans all Nuclear Energy Production which would include Thorium Reactors

Thorium Reactors Solve Proliferation.

Warmflash 15 David Warmflash, 1-16-2015, "Thorium Power Is the Safer Future of Nuclear Energy," Crux, http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2015/01/16/thorium-future-nuclear-energy/~~#.WBUYIOErJsM – Hebron AL
But perhaps the most salient benefit of thorium power, in our geopolitically dicey world
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-232, unless they had a robot to carry out the task.

Thorium reactors are safe compared to normal reactors

Warmflash 15 David Warmflash, 1-16-2015, "Thorium Power Is the Safer Future of Nuclear Energy," Crux, http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2015/01/16/thorium-future-nuclear-energy/~~#.WBUYIOErJsM – Hebron AL
The isotope of thorium that's being studied for power is called Th-232.
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happens the hot liquid would all drain out and the reaction would stop.

We have Easy Access to Thorium.

Warmflash 15 David Warmflash, 1-16-2015, "Thorium Power Is the Safer Future of Nuclear Energy," Crux, http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2015/01/16/thorium-future-nuclear-energy/~~#.WBUYIOErJsM – Hebron AL
Thorium would be easier to obtain than uranium. While uranium mines are enclosed underground and thus very dangerous for the miners, thorium is taken from open pits, and is estimated to be roughly three times as abundant as uranium in the Earth's crust.

Implementation Feasable, India Proves. They are on the shift to Thorium Cycle Reactors.

IEA 15 "Technology Roadmap: Nuclear Energy." IEA Technology Roadmaps (n.d.): n. pag. 2015. Web. 8 Aug. 2016 – Hebron AL
India has been developing nuclear energy technology since the 1950s, and its first reactor
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in India. Other drivers include enhanced energy security and local pollution concerns.

Tournament: Newman Smith TFA | Round: Octas | Opponent: Marcus High School Nikil Srivnas | Judge: Eric Berdugo and David Pham

Coal DA

Carbon emissions are extremely high right now.

Neild 3/23 Nield, David(journalist published in The Guardian, TechRadar, and MIT, and other tech companies). "Last Time Carbon Emissions Were This High, the Dinosaurs Went Extinct." ScienceAlert. N.p., 23 Mar. 2016. Web. 21 Sept. 2016. – Hebron AL
A new study has found that carbon emissions are now so high, the last
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concerned. The team's work has been published in the journal Nature Geoscience. 

Without implementing nuclear power, we will have to resort to coal, and GHGs skyrocket. Germany proves.

Canadian Nuclear Association et al 16."Germany Replaces Nuclear with Coal, GHGs Skyrocket" No date, 2016.https://cna.ca/news/germany-replaces-nuclear-coal-ghgs-skyrocket/-Hebron AL
In 2011, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced a plan to close all of the
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about replacing low-carbon nuclear energy with carbon-creating fossil fuels.

CO2 emissions are the primary cause of global warming

UCS 16 Union of Concerned Scientists. "Why Does CO2 Get Most of the Attention When There Are so Many Other Heat-trapping Gases (greenhouse Gases)?" Union of Concerned Scientists. Union of Concerned Scientists, 2016. Web. 21 Sept. 2016. – Hebron AL
Global warming is primarily a problem of too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.  
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atmosphere provides the clearest possible rationale for reducing our CO2 emissions without delay.

Global warming will have a disastrous impact on the human population which will end in its extinction.

Snow and Hannam 14  Snow, Deborah, and Peter Hannam. "Climate Change Could Make Humans Extinct, Warns Health Expert." The Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney Morning Herald, 31 Mar. 2014. Web. 19 Dec. 2015. – Hebron AL
The Earth is warming so rapidly that unless humans can arrest the trend, we
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sowing stages near or below 35 degrees, the report said.
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Tournament: Newman Smith TFA | Round: Octas | Opponent: Marcus High School Nikil Srivnas | Judge: Eric Berdugo and David Pham

Desalinization DA

Nuclear power is the only way to power large-scale desalinization plants.

IAEA 15 widely known as the world's "Atoms for Peace" organization within the United Nations family. Set up in 1957 as the world's centre for cooperation in the nuclear field, the Agency works with its Member States and multiple partners worldwide to promote the safe, secure and peaceful use of nuclear technologies, "New Technologies for Seawater Desalination Using Nuclear Energy," IEAE TecDoc Series,  2015~ – Hebron AL

It is anticipated that by 2025, 33 of the world population,
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for coupling nuclear reactors and desalination systems for specific sites in the Mediterranean region 

Nuclear powered desalinization plants are the only solution to water shortages

Griggs 14 Griggs, Brandon(senior producer for CNN). "How Oceans Can Solve Our Freshwater Crisis." CNN. Cable News Network, 26 May 2014. Web. 02 Sept. 2016. – Hebron AL
It's been a cruel irony for ancient mariners and any thirsty person who has ever
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consider, is 'What's the cost of not having enough water?'"

Looming global water shortages will trigger nuclear war.

NASCA 04 "Water shortages – only a matter of time," National Association for Scientific and Cultural Appreciation, http://www.nasca.org.uk/Strange_relics_/water/water.html - Hebron AL
Water is one of the prime essentials for life as we know it. The
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ourselves with a nightmare situation for which there will be no obvious answer. 

Computer simulation proves. Nuclear war causes extinction.

CBS Denver 14 Gs114 Says, 3-26-2014, "Study: 'Small' Nuclear War Would Destroy The World," No Publication, http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/03/26/study-small-nuclear-war-would-destroy-the-world/ - Hebron AL
With an estimated 17,000 nuclear weapons in the
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would be very detrimental to food production and to ecosystems," Mills said.

Tournament: Plano West Senior High | Round: Octas | Opponent: Plano East Cedric Zhao | Judge: Panel

Cap K

The aff's focus on reforming the energy sector ignores the way in which energy is embedded in social and historical context, which reinforces capitalist structures of domination.

Huber 13 Matt Huber, 5-4-2013, "What do we mean by "Energy Policy"? Life, Capitalism, and the Broader Field of Energy Politics by Matt Huber," No Publication, http://www.stateofnature.org/?p=7138 – Hebron AL
In the 1970s we saw the rise of a peculiar concept: "energy policy
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begin to reimagine life and freedom as only possible through collective political struggle.

Nuclear power's flaws are a product of class society. The aff's focus on banning the technology completely ignores it's emancipatory potential for workers.

SLP 81 "Socialism and Nuclear Power" A Socialist Labor Party Statement 1981 http://www.slp.org/res_state_htm/soc_nuc_power.html - Hebron AL
Socialists can bring many important insights to the questions and concerns raised by nuclear technology
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the horror it currently is to the benefactor of an emancipated working class. 

3 impacts:

a) Capitalism is the root cause of all of their impacts – the system of capital produces the material reality, which makes their impacts inevitable.

Zizek 8 Slavoj Zizek, senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and a professor at the European Graduate School, Violence, 2008 p. 11-12 - Hebron AL
There is an old joke about a husband who returns home earlier than usual from
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in shambles. We see a lot of ecological decay and human misery. 

b) Aside from the alternative, you have an ethical obligation to reject every instance of neoliberal ideology. This takes out the perm since reconciliation allows capitalism to continue unharmed. As long as we allow capitalist structures to continue, we remove our ability to overthrow and replace the system.

Zizek and Daly 4 Slavoj Zizek and Glyn Daly, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16, 2004 – Hebron AL
For Zizek it is imperative that we cut
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to absorb them within a culture of differential affirmation.
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c) Capitalism is structurally unsustainable, we have no control over it.

Foster 5 John Bellamy Foster, professor of sociology at the University of Oregon in Eugene, "Naked Imperialism" Monthly review Volume 57, Number 4, 2005 – Hebron AL
The United States is seeking to exercise sovereign authority over the planet during a time
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and world capitalism is now headed points to global barbarism—or worse. 

The alternative is to completely withdraw from the logic of capital. This is essential to destroy the mindset that allows capital to survive – individual criticism is key to solve.

Johnston 4Adrian Johnson, interdisciplinary research fellow in psychoanalysis at Emory University, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, December v9 i3 p259 – Hebron AL
Perhaps the absence of a detailed practical roadmap in Žižek's political writings isn't a major
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belief in others' belief in the socioperformative force emanating from this same material.

Thus the role of the ballot is: Resisting Capitalism.

Underview.

Tournament: Plano West Senior High School TFA | Round: 3 | Opponent: Ursuline Elizabeth Parker | Judge: Blake Andrews

Terror Discourse K

The terrorist discourse creates binary identities of "us" vs. "the other".

Talbot 8 (Steven, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Sociological Research Online 13(1)17 'Us' and 'Them': Terrorism, Conflict and (O)ther Discursive Formations, http://www.socresonline.org.uk/13/1/17.html) – Hebron AL
Sociology of the enemy examines the social process of constructing enemies, and within the
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'Rest' has the effect of silencing dissenting voices residing within both camps.

Terrorist rhetoric generates more violence and creates a self-fulfilling prophecy – 4 warrants, turns case.

Kapitan and Schulte 2  Tomis and Erich, Journal of Political and Military Sociology Vol. 30 Issue 1, 2002, pp. 172– Hebron AL
The 'terrorist' rhetoric typified in Netanyahu's book actually increases terrorism in four distinct ways.
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violence against civilians.19 Let us now examine evidence for these points. 

The alternative is to reject the discourse and not construct them as the "Other." Break down the binaries and reject the urgent call to action.

Enns 04 Diane, Philosophy Department at the University of Toronto, John Hopkins University Press, Bare Life and the Occupied Body http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/v007/7.3enns.html – Hebron AL
Foucault persists in being optimistic. The claim that "at the very heart of
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unnecessary, it is worse to say that it is the only option.

Role of the judge key—must examine the discourse of the 1AC

Edwards 10 Brian, American Literary History, http://alh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/22/2/360, July 10, 2010 – Hebron AL
In addressing the popular fascination with Private Jessica Lynch, taken captive by Iraqi forces
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handing of the crisis in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina).

Discourse matters.

Vincent 13 Christopher J. Vincent is currently the Graduate Assistant for the University of Louisville Debate Team and Director of Debate at the James Graham Brown School in Louisville, KY.  He debated at the University of Louisville, reaching the double-octafinals of both the National Debate Tournament and Cross-Examination Debate Tournament. "Re-Conceptualizing our Performances: Accountability in Lincoln Douglas Debate" 10/26/2013 – Hebron AS
It is becoming increasingly more apparent in Lincoln Douglas debate that students of color are
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educators and must be accountable for the discourse they endorse with their ballot.

Tournament: University of North Texas TFA | Round: 5 | Opponent: Colleyville Herritage High School Eesha Charaniya | Judge: Jennifer Melin

1NC Shell

Part 1 - The End is Coming

First, there are a multitude of scenarios for Nuclear War.

Moore No Date Retaliation By, Carol Moore, "Six Escalation Scenarios to World Nuclear War," No Publication, http://www.carolmoore.net/nuclearwar/alternatescenarios.html - Hebron AL
A world nuclear war is one that involves most or all nuclear powers releasing a
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and lead to unforeseeable consequences that could easily spiral to world nuclear war.

Access to Civil Nuclear power leads to proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

Diesendorf 15 Mark Diesendorf, 5-18-2015, "Accidents, waste and weapons: nuclear power isn't worth the risks," Conversation, http://theconversation.com/accidents-waste-and-weapons-nuclear-power-isnt-worth-the-risks-41522 - Hebron AL
The case for expanding nuclear energy is based on myths about its status, greenhouse
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smooth out the supply. Why would we need to bother with nuclear?

Proliferation makes Nuclear War Inevitable.

Waltz 95 Kenneth Waltz, prof. Of International Relations in the Institute for Global Cooperation and Conflict at the U. of California, and Scott Sagan, Prof of International Relations and Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control, 1995, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate, P. ~la) – Hebron AL
In short, while there have been no catastrophic nuclear weapons accidents in the new
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positive safety record is likely to be only the lull before the storm. 

If the risk of war is not zero, it is an eventual certainty.

Kenneth 91 E. After the Cold War: Questioning the Morality of Nuclear Detterence 1991 pg. 104 Boulding, prof of economics, Emeritus at U Colorado, 1991 – Hebron AL
If the probability of nuclear weapons going off is not zero then if we wait
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percent, and in 1,000 years, 99.996 percent. 

Part 2 – The Aftermath

Nuclear war will not cause the doomsday scenarios they assume. Nuclear fallout and radiation are myths used to misguide the public. Nuclear war would be very much survivable, it's empirically proven by natural disasters and the bombs dropped in Japan. Prefer our evidence, it cites specific studies and Ivy League professors, their evidence assumes stacked studies.

Nyquist 99 (Nyquist, Jeffrey R. Contributing Editor. WorldNetDaily. Expert. Geopolitics. "Is Nuclear War Survivable?" WorldNetDaily. May 20, 1999. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=19722.) – Hebron AL
I patiently reply to these correspondents that nuclear war would not be the end of
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the radiation from a nuclear war contaminate the whole earth, killing everyone? 

Second, more people currently die of smoking and car accidents than would through nuclear fallout, which subsists quickly.

Nyquist 99 (Nyquist, Jeffrey R. Contributing Editor. WorldNetDaily. Expert. Geopolitics. "Is Nuclear War Survivable?" WorldNetDaily. May 20, 1999. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=19722.) – Hebron AL
OK, so nuclear winter isn't going to happen. What about nuclear fallout?
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we do not take seriously the nuclear war preparations of Russia and China.

Third, "the worst that nuclear war could do" is unable to cause orbit alteration, rotational axis shift, oceanic collapse, planetary explosion, or biodiversity loss. Life would survive.

Sagan and Turco 90 (Sagan, Carl Edward. B.A. Recipient. Physics. M.A. Recipient. Physics. Ph.D. Recipient. Astronomy/Astrophysics. University of Chicago. Professor. Astronomy. Critical Thinking. Cornell University. Advisor. National Aeronautical and Space Administration. Turco, Richard P. Professor. Atmospheric Sciences. University of California – Los Angeles. Director. Institute for the Environment. University of California – Los Angeles. A Path Where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race. Pg. 63. 1990.) – Hebron AL
What is the worst that nuclear war could do? Our technology – while capable
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, understandably, an important question is whether we can make humans extinct.

Fourth, even launching every weapon on Earth wouldn't cause extinction.

Gay 87 (Gay, William C. Ph.D. Recipient. Professor. The Nuclear Arms Race: The Last Quarter Century. Pg. 14. 1987.) – Hebron AL
Bernard Feld, a major critic of nuclear weapons who has done extensive research on
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blast and radiation potential is insufficient to guarantee human annihilation in any war.

Part 3 – The Recovery

Subpoint A – Environment

Nuclear war is inevitable because of resource shortages, overpopulation, easy access to plutonium, industrialization, and the desire for something to gain. We must seek nuclear war now; it is the only solution to the environmental crisis and human misery, poverty, and hopelessness. Each year 30,000 species go extinct as a result of industrialization and overpopulation, only nuclear war can solve these problems. Delay only risks extinction of other species and humanity. This is our chance to save the environment and ourselves.

Caldwell 3 (Caldwell, Joseph George. Economic Growth Supervisor. Worldwide. PhD. Mathematical Statistics. "What Oil Can Do to Tiny States: And Big Ones, Too!" February 3, 2003.)
It would appear that global nuclear war is inevitable, for several reasons. A
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a global nuclear war happens now, the production of greenhouse gases stops. 

The attempt to save as many humans as possible is a flawed approach that only leads to destruction of the environment and thus humanity. Rather, we must adopt the minimal-regret strategy to preserve the environment, from which all other purposes and goals can be derived. The protection of the environment is the purpose of humanity.

Caldwell 2k (Caldwell, Joseph George. Economic Growth Supervisor. Worldwide. PhD. Mathematical Statistics. "Can America Survive?" November 21, 2000.) – Hebron AL
Population policies that attempt to maximize the number of human beings on the planet,
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term survival of the human race, this is an incredibly absurd approach. 

Subpoint B: Future Weapons

Putting off war until these weapons come to fruition guarantees a calamity thousands of times worse than nuclear war. Only way to prevent this is if we have war now and reverse the development.

Antimatter Weapons are coming and are more destructive than Nuclear Weapons.

IDR 97 International Defense Review 1997, (The Civil Science, January 1^st, 1997, pg. 61. – Hebron AL
In the future, nuclear-fusion weapons may be triggered by laser beams or
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of anti-protons would be enough to trigger a large thermonuclear explosion. 

Pure Fusion Bombs are coming and would precipitate substantially worse nuclear wars.

PPG 98 Pittsburgh Post Gazzette 98 July 27, 1998, Monday, Sooner Edition, Section: Science, Technology, and Medicine, pg. A-9. Length 799 words. Headline: Activist fear "Pure Fusion" bomb likely. – Hebron AL
A frightening new generation of "pure fusion" nuclear weapons might emerge from the
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it easier for generals or politicians to justify using nuclear weapons during wartime. 

Coming Laser Technologies could annihilate whole Solar Systems.

Langford 79 , Weapons physicist at Atomic Weapons Research Establishment in Aldermason, 1979. (David War in 2080: The Future of Military Technology, 1979, pg. 206) – Hebron AL
Such a weapon may be available to Type II civilizations. The astrophysicist Geoffery Burbridge
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late that Earth is inhabited by radio- and TV- using beings.  

Subpoint C: Conciousness Shift

First, to move beyond the static order of things in which we must await our fate wondering only how long to live and how bad the weapons we must consider the possibility that it is only through a nuclear war that we could prevent something far worse later. Only by allowing nuclear war to occur can we shift from the dichotomy of war and peace to a new age of harmony, to be co-creators of Earth. This is the only way to solve for their impacts and to bear witness to all beings, including humanity.

Zimmerman 87 ~Michael E – Prof at Newcomb College, Tulane U. "Anthropocentric Humanism and the Arms Race," Nuclear War~ – Hebron AL
Today, we are faced with facts and evidence about the nuclear arms race that
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and sons of the Earth-co-creators of the cosmic order.

Second, Nuclear War would catalyze voluntary Nuclear Abolition.

Miller 88 Miller, Fellow at the Center for Science and International Affairs, 1988 ( James N. Jr., Fateful Visions Avoiding Nuclear Catastrophe, E.D. Joseph S. Nye Jr., Graham T. Allison, Albert Carnesale, "Zero and Minimal Nuclear Weapons," 1988, pg. 16-17. – Hebron AL
It seems unlikely that the American Public would strongly support an agreement for zero nuclear
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path to an agreement to abolish nuclear weapons may be a nuclear war.

Tournament: University of North Texas TFA | Round: 3 | Opponent: Colleyville Herritage High School Celine Wei | Judge: 

T Nebel

A. Interpretation: "Countries" is a generic bare plural noun phrase that refers to countries in general. The aff may not defend the right to prohibit nuclear power production in one or some countries, but must defend all countries as a general principle.

B. Violation:

C. Standards:

1. Textuality – Textuality is a prima facie voter for the neg. It doesn't matter how educational the Aff is; if the case doesn't affirm the topic, then they haven't met the Aff burden. Also, textuality link turns other theory standards because it is the basis for claims to predictability and ground. Aff isn't textual, two reasons:

a) Grammar – Grammar key to accurate reading of the text because it explains the proper way to read the text. The generic interpretation is the only one consistent with common usage. These card say just governments, but it clearly applies to all bare plurals.

Nebel 14 Jake Nebel, owner of Victory Briefs. Pretty big deal in the debate community. http://vbriefly.com/2014/12/19/jake-nebel-on-specifying-just-governments/ - Hebron AS
I believe that debaters shouldn't specify a government on the living wage topic. The
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Only the second interpretation allows one to affirm by specifying a few governments. 

b) Common usage – our interp is key to how ordinary speakers would view the topic—they're masters of the language and best understand it.

Nebel-2 Jake Nebel, owner of Victory Briefs. Pretty big deal in the debate community. http://vbriefly.com/2014/12/19/jake-nebel-on-specifying-just-governments/ - Hebron AS
To my ear, the generic reading is correct. I think the best evidence
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questions and objections in the comments to be addressed in a later article.)

Common usage key to textuality because words only acquire meaning by how they are used. Granting any standard priority over textuality is a blank check to ignore the resolution and would lead to a massive proliferation of unpredictable strategies and theory/T. Predictability key to reciprocal offensive engagement of positions.

Textuality is also key to jurisdiction as the judge cannot vote on a non-topical case – the NSDA-mandated topic is analogous to mandated speech times. The judge should uphold debating the topic just as much as they would only evaluating arguments within speeches.

D. Education

E. Framework:

Tournament: Plano West Senior High School TFA | Round: 3 | Opponent: Ursuline Elizabeth Parker | Judge: Blake Andrews

T - Production

A. Interpretation: AFF debaters can only prohibit the production of power produced by an atomic reaction.

West Law 8 defines nuclear power as  West's Encyclopedia of American Law, edition 2. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved. http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Nuclear+Power  - Hebron AL
A form of energy produced by an atomic reaction, capable of producing an alternative source of electrical power to that supplied by coal, gas, or oil.

B. Violation: The AFF defends both the prohibition of nuclear power and the extraction of nuclear power.

C. Net Benefits:

1. Predictability

2. Limits

3. Research skew:

4. Common Usage:

D. Education

E. Framework: