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Please feel free to ask for source material if you're having trouble getting something from my cites.

I'll probably put interps that apply to both sides on the aff wiki.

Also, if anything you think I might read would be upsetting, please let me know and I won't read it.

Tournament: University of Houston | Round: 1 | Opponent: SFA FH | Judge: Jacob Koshak

Text: The affirmative's actor will expand the "fighting words" doctrine to include hate speech.

Finegan '91 is the solvency advocate
Finegan, Susan M. "Anti-Harrassment Disciplinary Policies: A Violation of First Amendment Rights on the Public University Campus?" Boston College Third World Law Journal 11.1 (1991): 107-35. Boston College Journal of Law and Social Justice. Boston College. Web. 5 Jan. 2017. http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1305andcontext=twlj.
"Other commentators have also tried to reconcile these two commitments, free speech and
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, if not the letter, of existing first amendment doctrine.'205 "

Hate speech causes a pervasive mindset shift that makes minority groups structurally unwelcome in society.

Fish 1
Fish, Stanley. "The Harm in Free Speech." The New York Times. The New York Times, 04 June 2012. Web. 05 Jan. 2017. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/04/the-harm-in-free-speech/?_r=1. ~Visiting professor, Yeshiva University School of Law.~
"But harms to dignity, he contends, involve more than the giving of
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to the effects speech freely uttered might have on the fabric of society."

Hate speech directly produces harm – if the affirmative ignores this, they're a part of ivory tower academia.

Fish 2
Fish, Stanley. "The Harm in Free Speech." The New York Times. The New York Times, 04 June 2012. Web. 05 Jan. 2017. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/04/the-harm-in-free-speech/?_r=1. ~Visiting professor, Yeshiva University School of Law.~
"Notice that here ~we~ (and elsewhere in the book), Waldron
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arguments of this book, however; they hit the mark every time."

Hate speech intimidates victims of hate crimes, preventing recourse.

McElwee 1
McElwee, Sean. "The Case for Censoring Hate Speech." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 4 July 2013. Web. 05 Jan. 2017. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sean-mcelwee/hate-speech-online_b_3620270.html.
"The negative impacts of hate speech cannot be mitigated by the responses of third
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dialogue must be held at least partially responsible for our larger rape culture."

Hate speech prevents minority groups from accessing free speech, which straight turns the AC.

McElwee 2
McElwee, Sean. "The Case for Censoring Hate Speech." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 4 July 2013. Web. 05 Jan. 2017. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sean-mcelwee/hate-speech-online_b_3620270.html.
"Those who claim to 'defend free speech' when they defend the right to
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misogyny is pervasive. I encountered this when browsing /r/funny."

Tournament: University of Houston | Round: 3 | Opponent: Strake WD | Judge: Rebecca Gelfer

The 1AC's change through language fails – it only leads to a re-articulation of power. The affirmative fails in its problematization – ending "restrictions" on "speech" will only lead to a re-creation of conformity.

Massumi 1
Massumi, Brian. A Shock to Thought: Expressions after Deleuze and Guattari. London: Routledge, 2000. Library Genesis. Web. 6 Dec. 2016. ~Ph.D in French Literature from Yale University. Currently teaching at Université de Montréal, in the Communication Sciences Department. Taught and lectured internationally at Cornell University (2010), European Graduate School (2010), University of Helsinki/Turku (2009), Goldsmiths', University of London (2008) and University of California, Los Angeles (2000). In 2009 / 2010 was a Senior Scholar in Residence at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. Author of Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (2002) and Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts (2011) among other books.~ (Page xvii)
"The move to save change by breaking the symmetries at the basis of the
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affect composing forces, not composed forms' (Deleuze, 1988: 87)."

They also attempt to "free" an educational space, but normative education always employs methods of enforcing conformity, subordinating us to the dialectic and the rational and re-creating restriction.

Deleuze and Guattari 1
Deleuze, Gilles, and Pierre-Félix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota, 1987. Print. (Pages 129-130)
"The point of subjectification is the origin of the passional line of the postsignifying
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colder, more extreme, more self-interested passion than the Cogito?"

And, they also link through their assumption that a constitutional protection can even fix anything – their automatic belief that the constitution is true or that their provisions will be afforded is just evidence of their complicity in the state.

Comaroff and Comaroff '6
Comaroff, Jean, and John L. Comaroff. Law and Disorder in the Postcolony. Chicago: U of Chicago, 2006. Print.
"Striking, in this regard, is the number of national constitutions (re
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imaginings, we might add, by the criminal violence within its walls."

Conformity is how the State and its institutions control our existence – they defuse and co-opt criticisms, which is terminal defense to case.

Massumi 2
Massumi, Brian. A Shock to Thought: Expressions after Deleuze and Guattari. London: Routledge, 2000. Library Genesis. Web. 6 Dec. 2016. ~Ph.D in French Literature from Yale University. Currently teaching at Université de Montréal, in the Communication Sciences Department. Taught and lectured internationally at Cornell University (2010), European Graduate School (2010), University of Helsinki/Turku (2009), Goldsmiths', University of London (2008) and University of California, Los Angeles (2000). In 2009 / 2010 was a Senior Scholar in Residence at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. Author of Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (2002) and Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts (2011) among other books.~ (Pages xvi-xvii)
"The problem for Deleuze and Guattari is that conformity and correspondence sneak~s
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manifestation, signification resurgent. Perhaps insurgent. But is this change enough?"

Educational conformity models a restrictive and limiting state – stratified thought creates the conditions of stratification that create oppression. That turns case – we can't conceive of an end to oppression if our very methods of conception are oppressed.

Deleuze and Guattari 2
Deleuze, Gilles, and Pierre-Félix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota, 1987. Print. (Pages 375)
"Thought contents are sometimes criticized for being too conformist. But the primary question
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as principle, or as a form of interiority, as a stratum."

This failure of language necessitates alternative methods of examination. Look instead to an affirmation of negation of dialectical rationality, a negation of insular pedagogy, in favor of affective desire that engages all things. I would ask the judge to be a catalyst to these thoughts – your role is to approach this debate from an affective standpoint rather than a dialectic one.

Albrecht-Crane and Slack '7
Albrecht-Crane, Christa, and Jennifer Daryl Slack. "Toward a Pedagogy of Affect." Deleuzian Encounters: Studies in Contemporary Social Issues. By Anna Hickey-Moody and Peta Malins. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. N. pag. Library Genesis. Web. 6 Dec. 2016. ~Albrecht-Crane (PhD) is an Associate Professor at Utah Valley University and the Assistant Chair of the Department of English and Literature. Slack has a PhD from the University of Illinois Institute of Communications Research, was Assistant Professor both in The Department of Humanities at The University of Michigan, College of Engineering, and in the Department of Communication at Purdue University, and is now a Full Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies at Michigan Technological University, contributing significantly to the graduate program in Rhetoric and Technical Communication by incorporating cultural studies and technology studies into the degree.~ (Pages 106-107)
"We would like to conclude by reasserting the affirmative nature of a pedagogy of
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with other things, absolutely anything... is learning and teaching with love."

Static configurations of knowledge have taken over pedagogical spaces. Thus, the role of the ballot is to vote for the debater who best methodologically embraces becoming.

Humphreys '13
Chloe Humphreys. "Rhizomatic Writing and Pedagogy: Deleuze andAmp; Guattari and Heidegger." The Journal of Educational Thought (JET) / Revue De La Pensée Éducative, vol. 46, no. 3, 2013, pp. 191–205. www.jstor.org/stable/24713039KOHS-AG
Didactic teaching, recursive learning, grand narratives, and linear papers are perhaps the
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and multiply in ourselves" (Gregoriou, as cited in Allan 2004). 

We thusly embark upon the Odyssey of becoming – of a schizoanalytic journey which seeks to de-rationalize and liberate as it roams. We move to deconstruct methods of oppression; we move towards the "body without organs," which is a way of examining ways to maximize potential and escape oppression.

Deleuze and Guattari 3
Deleuze, Gilles, and Pierre-Félix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota, 1987. Print. (Pages 244-247)
"Civilization is defined by the decoding and the deterritorialization of flows in capitalist production
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processes of deterritorialization; and on whether money burns or bursts into flames."

Tournament: University of Texas | Round: 1 | Opponent: Tuloso JM | Judge: Samuel Rinkacs

Courts have high burdens now and they're on the brink – unmanageable workloads are increasingly becoming the norm, preventing judges from processing litigation.

Bannon '13
Bannon, Alicia. "Testimony: More Judges Needed in Federal Courts." Brennan Center for Justice. New York University School of Law, 10 Sept. 2013. Web. 30 Nov. 2016. https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/testimony-federal-courts-need-more-judges. ~Serves as counsel for the Brennan Center's Democracy Program, where her work focuses on judicial selection and promoting fair and impartial courts. Also previously served as a Liman Fellow and Counsel in the Brennan Center's Justice Program. J.D. from Yale Law School in 2007, where she was a Comments Editor of the Yale Law Journal.~
"While the current high level of judicial vacancies partially explains this high per-
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2013, so as to ensure the continued vitality of our federal courts."

Qualified immunity as it is now is essential – it holds back a flood of litigation. Their limitation of qualified immunity substantially increases burdens.

Putnam and Ferris '92
Putnam, Charles T., and Charles T. Ferris. "Defending a Maligned Defense: The Policy Bases of the Qualified Immunity Defense In Actions Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983." Bridgeport Law Review 12.3 (1992): 665-713. HeinOnline. Quinnipiac University. Web. 30 Nov. 2016. http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/qlr12anddiv=6andid=andpage=. ~Putnam is a Senior Assistant Attorney General for New Hampshire, and Ferris has a JD from Franklin Pierce Law Center.~
"National resources are obviously scarce, yet increasing numbers of section 1983 actions are
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thus an important safety measure for both the courts and defendants facing suit."

Overburdening swells dockets and expansion won't be able to keep up, leading to collapse of the federal judiciary.

Oakley '96
Oakley, John B. "The Myth of Cost-Free Jurisdictional Reallocation." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 543 (1996): 52-63. JSTOR. American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1996. Web. 30 Nov. 2016. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1048447. ~Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus US Davis School of Law~
"Personal effects: The hidden costs of greater workloads. The hallmark of federal
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would raise the most serious questions of the future course of the nation."

Collapse of the judiciary puts severely undercuts separation of powers, which destroys accountability and paves the way for unaccountable governmental actions (such as war).

Adler and George '96
Adler, David Gray, and Larry Nelson George. The Constitution and Conduct of American Foreign Policy. Lawrence, Kansas: U of Kansas, 1996. Web. 1 Dec. 2016.
"The structure of shared powers in foreign relations serves to deter the abuse of
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in comparison to those of the American people and their representatives in Congress."

Tournament: University of Texas | Round: Triples | Opponent: Anderson JT | Judge: Tyler Gamble

The 1AC's attempt to hold state agents (like the police) accountable is futile. The State always wants to maintain power. The State is constantly arresting what Deleuze and Guattari call "lines of flight," or possible connections between two things. It does this by "territorializing," or placing restrictions and control. The State is not one to give up this control easily and will always reassert mechanisms of control.

Deleuze and Guattari 1
Deleuze, Gilles, and Pierre-Félix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism
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which only reinforced the connection between commerce and the war machine.64"

State violence is "smooth" – there are no beginnings or ends, no boundaries or borders, no starts or stops – there is only an omnipresent violence which simply is.

Deleuze and Guattari 2
Deleuze, Gilles, and Pierre-Félix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota, 1987. Print. (Pages 352-353)
"Let us take a limited example and compare the war machine and the State
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elsewhere . ..). Another justice, another movement, another space-time."

The operation of the State is even more heinous than that of war. Not only is the slaughter of war encapsulated in the machinations of the State, the State mutilates our existence and pushes a living death upon us in order to arrest our potentiality for production.

Deleuze and Guattari 3
Deleuze, Gilles, and Pierre-Félix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota, 1987. Print. (Pages 424-425)
"Let us return to Dumezil's theses: (1) Political sovereignty has two
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, the congenitally infirm, the one-eyed and one-armed."

This appropriation of the war machine by the State institutes an economy of violence, making it unlimited. This turns the case – their arguments attempting to break free of violent cycles only play into their re-creation.

Deleuze and Guattari 4
Deleuze, Gilles, and Pierre-Félix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota, 1987. Print. (Pages 395-396)
"Second, weapons and tools do not 'tendentially' (approximately) have the
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he abstracts the idea of the motor, applying it to himself."

The micro-social is key to disrupting the hegemonic discourse of the status quo. The youth is able to singularize and take control of a space in order to stage an ethico-political revolt. The judge must be a catalyst to these thoughts. The role of the judge is to embrace an abstract methodology – we must find something which can lead us to individualized solutions to infinitely unique problems.

Guattari 2k
Guattari, Pierre-Félix. The Three Ecologies. London: Athlone, 2000. Print. (Pages 33-34)
"As for young people, although they are crushed by the dominant economic relations
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, as much on a microsocial level as on a larger institutional scale."

They'll try to condemn our abstraction, yet they don't distinguish between material and ideological abstraction. Their methodologies, just as any State methodologies, belie notions of power – power which makes abstract totalizations in order to control the masses. Embracing ideological abstraction is key to formulate specific solutions to localized problems. This is especially important now, when a politicized pedagogy will call upon educators to police thought. Thus, the role of the ballot is to endorse micro-political rejections of oppression.

Deleuze '72
Deleuze, Gilles. "Intellectuals and Power: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze." Libcom.org. Libcom.org, 9 Sept. 2006. Web. 20 Nov. 2016. https://libcom.org/library/intellectuals-power-a-conversation-between-michel-foucault-and-gilles-deleuze.
"On the basis of our actual situation, power emphatically develops a total or
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of information carried by the Agence de Press Liberation (7).'"

Thus, we embark upon the schizoanalytic journey of the alternative. That is, we cast away presuppositions and embrace the ability to deterritorialize ourselves. We refuse to seek solutions which only throw us back into the arms of the State. We embrace "becoming," which is framed in the context of the "body without organs," which is the plane of ultimate deterritorialization where no restrictions have been placed on our potential. This allows us to break down a racist system which perpetuates racism and allows us to fundamentally understand the Other, resolving the disparities of knowledge that enable racism.

Ibrahim '15
Ibrahim, Awad. "Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development." Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 36.1 (2015): 13-26. Taylor and Francis Online. Taylor and Francis Group, 27 Mar. 2014. Web. 22 Nov. 2016. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01434632.2014.892498?journalCode=rmmm20. ~Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa. Ph.D., Curriculum Theory / Educational Foundations, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Awad Ibrahim is Full Professor. Curriculum Theorist with special interest in cultural studies, Hip-Hop, youth and Black popular culture, social foundations (i.e., philosophy, history and sociology of education), social justice and community service learning, diasporic and continental African identities, ethnography and applied linguistics. He has researched and published widely in these areas. Has ongoing projects in Morocco, Sudan and the United States. His immediate projects include an ethnography of an inner city high school in Ottawa and a project on the daily struggle of 'becoming citizen' in Canada. Books include: The Rhizome of Blackness: A critical ethnography of Hip-Hop culture, language, identity and the politics of becoming (Peter Lang, 2014); Critical Youth studies: A reader (with Shirley Steinberg; Peter Lang, 2014); The education of African Canadian children: Critical perspectives (with Ali Abdi; in progress); Provoking curriculum studies: Strong poetry and the arts of the possible (with Nicholas Ng-A-Fook and Giuliano Reis; Routledge, in progress) and Global Linguistic Flows: Hip-Hop Cultures, Youth Identities, and the Politics of Language (with Samy Alim and Alastair Pennycook, Routledge, 2009).~
"Juxtaposing the two rhizomes of BswO and CRT, I want to create a
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human dignity and claim a Canadianness that is conscious of its own limits."

Tournament: University of Texas | Round: 1 | Opponent: Tuloso JM | Judge: Samuel Rinkacs

The value is morality. Internalism ultimately guides our actions – external morality is just a manifestation of internal motives.

Katsafanas '11
Katsafanas, Paul. "Deriving Ethics from Action: A Nietzschean Version of Constitutivism." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 83.3 (2011): 620-60. Wiley Online Library. John Wiley and Sons, Inc.1, 11 Jan. 2011. Web. 1 Nov. 2016. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1933-1592.2010.00440.x/abstract. ~Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Boston University~
"While externalism captures the non-optional status of moral claims, it faces
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not murdering. And this pushes us back in the direction of internalism."

Overarching moral truth cannot exist – incompatible maxims can be perfectly rational when separately applied to different circumstances.

Kelley '91
Kelley, Leigh B. "Normativity and Motivation." International Phenomenological Society 51.4 (1991): 739-75. JSTOR. ITHAKA. Web. 1 Nov. 2016. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2108181?seq=1~~#page_scan_tab_contents.
"To come full circle, however, it needs to be explained how it
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a preference contrary to his, and be fully justified in doing so."

Moral theories must thusly appeal to internal motivation, requiring an ethics which appeals to agents' self-interest.

Gauthier '97
Gauthier, David. "Political Contractarianism." The Journal of Political Philosoph 5.2 (1997): 132-48. PhilPapers. The PhilPapers Foundation. Web. 1 Nov. 2016. http://philpapers.org/rec/GAUPC. ~Gauthier was educated at the University of Toronto (B.A. Hons., 1954), Harvard University (A.M., 1955), and the University of Oxford (B. Phil., 1957; D. Phil., 1961). In 1979, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (F.R.S.C.). From 1958 to 1980, he was a member of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, serving as Chairman from 1974 to 1979. Since 1980, he has been a member of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, where he is now Professor Emeritus. He served as Chairman from 1983 to 1987, and was appointed a Distinguished Service Professor in 1986. He has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science. He has held visiting appointments at UCLA, UC Berkeley, Princeton, UC Irvine, and the University of Waterloo. Gauthier is the author of numerous articles, some of the most important of which are collected in Moral Dealing, and several books including Practical Reasoning, The Logic of Leviathan, Morals by Agreement, and Rousseau: The Social and the Solitary.~
"The idea of agreement among hypothetical deliberators choosing their terms of interaction may seem
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of being included in an agreement by demanding better terms than his fellows."

Thus, the standard is adherence to contractarianism – it's necessary to have non-circular morality that can function in the context of internalism.

Gauthier '87
Gauthier, David. Morals by Agreement. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1987. University Press Scholarship Online. Oxford University Press, Nov. 2003. Web. 1 Nov. 2016. http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/0198249926.001.0001/acprof-9780198249924.
"A contractarian theory of morals, developed as part of the theory of rational
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action, from a non-moral, or morally neutral, base."

And, the contract most applicable to the United States is Locke's social contract.

Doernberg '85
Doernberg, Donald L. "We the People: John Locke, Collective Constitutional Rights, and Standing to Challenge Government Action." California Law Review 73.1 (1985): 52-118. Berkeley Law Scholarship Repository. Digital Commons. Web. 1 Nov. 2016. http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2069andcontext=californialawreview.
"It would be difficult to overstate John Locke's influence on the American Revolution and
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then to examine the specific reflections of Locke's ideas in American political thought."

And, I contend that qualified immunity allows police officers to carry out their duties.

Chen '6
Chen, Alan K. "The Facts About Qualified Immunity." Emory Law Journal 55 (2006): 229-78. Social Science Research Network. Elsevier B. V. Web. 1 Nov. 2016. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=741367anddownload=yes.
"The Court's earlier cases suggested that qualified immunity protects officials from the unfairness of
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, but also from lawful conduct that advances the public good.35"

And, since Locke posits that citizens waive certain freedoms in favor of safety, it's necessary to keep qualified immunity in place. Removing it prevents the state from being able to protect the general public, as the police can no longer protect citizens.

Mears '14
Mears, Bill. "Justices Seem to Side with Police in Deadly Chase Case." CNN. Cable News Network, 4 Mar. 2014. Web. 1 Nov. 2016. http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/04/us/court-police-chase/.
"'Dangerous,' 'Reckless' — 'Innocent people who might get injured or
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months. The case is Plumhoff v. Rickard (12-1117)."

Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 4 | Opponent: Connally AK | Judge: Kim Hsun

Text: The United States federal government will implement a Low-Carbon Portfolio Standard (or LCPS).

Lovering ~et al~, Jessica, Ted Nordhaus, Will Boisvert, Jack Shaked, and Michael Shellenberger. "Low-Carbon Portfolio Standards: Raising the Bar for Clean Energy." Breakthrough Institute. Breakthrough Institute, 18 May 2016. Web. 23 Aug. 2016. http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/issues/energy/low-carbon-portfolio-standards.
 "Embracing expansion of state R~enewable ~P~ortfolio ~S
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something that all advocates of a low-carbon future can agree upon."

Advantage 1

The LCPS would foster growth of renewable energy growth while preventing backsliding from removal of nuclear plants.

Lovering ~et al~, Jessica, Ted Nordhaus, Will Boisvert, Jack Shaked, and Michael Shellenberger. "Low-Carbon Portfolio Standards: Raising the Bar for Clean Energy." Breakthrough Institute. Breakthrough Institute, 18 May 2016. Web. 23 Aug. 2016. http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/issues/energy/low-carbon-portfolio-standards.
"An LCPS would be a~n~ straightforward extension of RPSs already in
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ensure that the nation's decarbonization efforts are as vigorous and comprehensive as possible."

Advantage 2

The LCPS would provide a more cost-effective transition to renewable energy.

Lovering ~et al~, Jessica, Ted Nordhaus, Will Boisvert, Jack Shaked, and Michael Shellenberger. "Low-Carbon Portfolio Standards: Raising the Bar for Clean Energy." Breakthrough Institute. Breakthrough Institute, 18 May 2016. Web. 23 Aug. 2016. http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/issues/energy/low-carbon-portfolio-standards.
"Many ratepayers could be concerned that setting more ambitious targets for low-carbon
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put in place, or could put in place to safeguard electricity rates."

Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake SP | Judge: Drew Marshall

Turn – they use Germany as an example and Germany fell back to fossil fuels – means they're sure to link hard into the climate DA.

Abrams, Lindsay. "Germany's Clean Energy Plan Backfired." Salon. Salon Media Group, Inc., 30 July 2013. Web. 09 Sept. 2016. http://www.salon.com/2013/07/30/germanys_clean_energy_plan_backfired/.
"When a nuclear power plant closes, a coal plant opens. At least
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The Merkel government doesn't do enough to protect the climate anymore.'"

Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake SP | Judge: Drew Marshall

Water crises are coming now

Kucera, Jane. Desalination: Water from Water. Beverly, MA: Scrivener, 2014. Web. 31 Aug. 2016.
"While population growth and per capita increase in demand are two major water stressors
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, will be in regions under the threat of significant drought ~7~."

Link

Nuclear power is key to desalination – it's the best, most efficient, most effective technology.

"Nuclear Desalination." World Nuclear Association. World Nuclear Association, 2016. Web. 29 Aug. 2016. http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/non-power-nuclear-applications/industry/nuclear-desalination.aspx.
"Small and medium sized nuclear reactors are suitable for desalination, often with cogeneration
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day surplus water for county residents. Small nuclear reactors suitable for desalination." 

Impact

Water shortages lead to wars which escalate—go global

Rousseau, 4/12/2015, Associate Professor at the American University of Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates (Richard, "The Growing Potential for Water Wars", http://www.internationalpolicydigest.org/2015/04/12/the-growing-potential-for-water-wars/)
Tensions over water are nothing new and will increase as shortages mount. However,
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and other scarce resources will ignite wars of global proportions in the future.

Leads to nuclear war

Taylor, Theodore B. "Proliferation of Nuclear W eapons." (n.d.): n. pag. Stanford Engineering. Stanford University, 2001. Web. 22 July 2016. http://ee.stanford.edu/~~hellman/Breakthrough/book/pdfs/taylor.pdf.
"Nuclear proliferation - be it among nations or terrorists - greatly increases the chance
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or criminals. Continuing to neglect this menace is a recipe for disaster."

Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake SP | Judge: Drew Marshall

Uniqueness

We are extremely close to the brink of catastrophic climate change.

McKie, Robin. "Scientists Warn World Will Miss Key Climate Target." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 06 Aug. 2016. Web. 08 Aug. 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/06/global-warming-target-miss-scientists-warn.
"Leading climate scientists have warned that the Earth is perilously close to breaking through
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of decades. If not, we are in real trouble.'"

Link

A reliance on alternative energy that excludes nuclear power can't fix our climate issues; nuclear power is necessary. This doesn't link to the aff's projection of nuclear power as a false "quick fix" – all this proves is it's necessary to transfer to renewables, which is the aff.

Biello, David. "How Nuclear Power Can Stop Global Warming." Scientific American. Nature America, Inc., 12 Dec. 2013. Web. 08 Aug. 2016. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-nuclear-power-can-stop-global-warming/.
"When the Atlantic Navigator docked in Baltimore harbor earlier this month, the freighter
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will exist and implausible that fossil fuels will be phased out.'"

Constraints on nuclear power limit our ability to prevent climate change.

Moniz, Ernest. "Why We Still Need Nuclear Power." Foreign Affairs. Council on Foreign Relations, Inc., 07 Feb. 2016. Web. 20 Aug. 2016. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2011-10-17/why-we-still-need-nuclear-power.
"In the years following the major accidents at Three Mile Island in 1979 and
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change—is long overdue. Further delay will only raise the stakes."

Impacts

Causes the death of 100 million by 2030.

Koebler, Jason. "100 Million Could Die From Climate Change By 2030." US News. U.S. News and World Report L.P., 27 Sept. 2012. Web. 8 Aug. 2016. http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/09/27/report-100-million-could-die-from-climate-change-by-2030.
"A report commissioned by the governments of more than 20 countries found that more
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~ will also minimize widespread illness and mortality that inaction causes.'"

An inability to prevent greater temperature rise threatens to wipe out all species from the planet, including humans.

Auerbach, David. "A Child Born Today May Live to See Humanity's End, Unless…." Reuters. Thomson Reuters, 18 June 2015. Web. 20 Aug. 2016. http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/06/18/a-child-born-today-may-live-to-see-humanitys-end-unless/.
"Humans will be extinct in 100 years because the planet will be uninhabitable,
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United Nations' work is a nice gesture, but hardly a meaningful one."

Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake SP | Judge: Drew Marshall

Affirmative has no inherency – status quo policies are shifting to renewables which means you don't need the aff.

Lins ~et al~, Christine, Laura E. Williamson, Sarah Leitner, and Sven Teske. "The First Decade: Ten Years of Renewable Energy Progress." Ren21. Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century, 2015. Web. 25 Aug. 2016. http://www.ren21.net/Portals/0/documents/activities/Topical20Reports/REN21_10yr.pdf.
"The global policy landscape has largely driven the expansion of renewable energy technologies by
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. Policies that encourage local value creation have also appeared in many countries."

AND, inherency is a voting issue

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Burden of proof is on the aff to show why their action is necessary