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We have passed the point of no return. Methane sinks in the arctic, hydro damns have become global warming hotspots due to build up of organic matter, ocean acidification, geopolitical conflict and its associated emissions, the transportation sector, the intensely complicated scale at which climate change functions represents the death of the anthropocene—the fantasy temporality in which humanity was internalized as the driving force of change on the planet. Ask yourself a simple question—how much more scientific proof would be necessary to convince humanity to act as a whole?

ROY SCRANTON  NOVEMBER 10, 2013 3:00 PM November 10, 2013 3:00 pm 475; The Stone; Learning How to Die in the AnthropoceneRW
I. Driving into … dark, empty hole. 

As such, modernity operates according to the logic of passive nihilism in which ethics has become a reactive fleeing from extinction. Humanity as an emitting species has come to loathe its seeming incompatibility with the natural world.

ROY SCRANTON  DECEMBER 21, 2015 3:20 AM December 21, 2015 3:20 am 382; The Stone; “We’re Doomed. Now What?”RW
The time we’ve … if not incomprehensible. 

The scale of world death reveals academic debate as nothing more than an archive of the margins of an already dead civilization. The only meaning left remains hidden unless we learn how to die.

ROY SCRANTON  NOVEMBER 10, 2013 3:00 PM November 10, 2013 3:00 pm 475; The Stone; Learning How to Die in the AnthropoceneRW
The challenge the … as a civilization. 

Rather than come to terms with this fundamental meaninglessness confirmed by climate change, humanity would rather end its own destruction via a war against those deemed responsible for our failed sustainable relationality—the only trajectory in that can result from this ontological impulse towards total control is an all out war on the periphery that is unwilling to stop emitting in the name of modernity’s new eco-crusade.

ROY SCRANTON  DECEMBER 21, 2015 3:20 AM December 21, 2015 3:20 am 382; The Stone; “We’re Doomed. Now What?”RW
In her recent … apocalyptic planetary warming. 

Advocacy: Thus I advocate learning to die as the only policy left.

We still have the power to change our lives by changing what our lives mean.  Voting aff means consciously affirming our role as creators of the end of the world. What may seem as passivity in the face of looming destruction is the only ethical decision that allows for meaning for those thrown into an existence characterized by mass extinction.

ROY SCRANTON  DECEMBER 21, 2015 3:20 AM December 21, 2015 3:20 am 382; The Stone; “We’re Doomed. Now What?”RW
Meanwhile the world … among our ruins.

Living as if we’re already dead is the only path to freedom. Choose to shatter the fantasy of civilization or humanity will cannibalize itself, consuming those parts of itself via a processed of internalized self hatred all the while continuing to live life as usual, ignoring the philosophical weight of our impending doom.

ROY SCRANTON  NOVEMBER 10, 2013 3:00 PM November 10, 2013 3:00 pm 475; The Stone; Learning How to Die in the AnthropoceneRW
III. Learning how … how to die.

We lack the tools to effectively respond to the crisis of the Anthropocene. Their inevitable appeal to catastrophe is nothing but an emotive training ground to fit the catastrophe within familiar modes of politics and lull the population into fear-laden productivity. Our frantic attempts to resolve such problems merely institutionalize the most horrendous homicidal violence and push us to the brink of war. The only political task left is that of the philosopher who interrupts the absorption of the resonance of fear that greases the wheels of modern power.

Scranton 15. Jeremy Scranton, acclaimed journalist, activist and author, PhD in English from Princeton, currently teaching at Notre Dame, New York Times contributor, Iraq War veteran, Learning To Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of Civilization, City Lights Books, 2015, online
“When it comes … interrupter practices dying.”

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Part 1 – The Debate Space

Welcome to LD debate, where every two months we’re assigned a relevant political topic to analyze and research.  We then discuss it, debating whether or not a hypothetical plan will make the world a better place.  Through this process, we gain education about a variety of issues that allow us go out into society and do our part to make it better.  But something is missing from this narrative, a question that has never been answered – why are we pursuing a better world in the first place?

Political thought, since its conception, has been dogmatically bound to the idea of a “good” society at the end of the road – we endlessly pursue ways to solve society’s problems, never realizing that that very pursuit is the problem.

McGowan, Todd. Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. Lincoln, U of Nebraska P, 2013. WC
The great challenge … to be progressing.

The reason we can never solve these problems is because we haven't factored in the psychological force that created them – the death drive.  The death drive is based on an unconscious enjoyment that can only be sustained through perpetual loss.  Without addressing the drive, any action is doomed to failure from the moment it’s conceived.

McGowan 2 (Todd. Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. Lincoln, U of Nebraska P, 2013.) WC
The death drive … to their good.

Failure to recognize the death drive locks us into cycles of failure that ultimately culminate in extinction – fundamentally rethinking our politics is the only way to break out.

McGowan 3 (Todd. Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. Lincoln, U of Nebraska P, 2013.) WC
Unlike Herbert Marcuse, … of progress altogether.

The judge should thus vote to deconstruct the pursuit of the good within debate.  This is a prerequisite to everything else, without radically challenging the way that we approach progress any action is doomed to perpetual failure, ultimately resulting in extinction.

The ballot is, by nature, an endorsement of one team’s performance as superior to the other’s, meaning that if we can win our methodology is net-better than theirs, you should vote Aff to endorse it.

Part 2 – Methodology

We propose a psychoanalytic examination of the death drive; rejecting traditional, progress-based epistemologies in exchange for radical inaction.  Instead of projecting better future worlds through a barrage of hypothetical policies, we challenge the psychological structures that replicate suffering within the status quo.

The alt is key — examining the structures of desire and enjoyment is the only way to break out of the cycles of failure and channel the death drive away from catastrophe.

McGowan 4 (Todd. Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. Lincoln, U of Nebraska P, 2013.) WC
There is no ... it remains lost.

This card is based on the idea of external and internal limits.  When we try to get from where we are now to an imaginary better future, we will see an “Other” standing in our way – the external limit to our enjoyment.  For the Nazi’s, this limit was the Jews, for Trump, it’s immigrants.  The alt allows us to re-orient ourselves to this limit.  By abandoning the pursuit of a better future, we accept the “Other” as the internal, self-imposed limit to our enjoyment, thus making it merely a figure, rather than embodied by an actual group.

The alt is the only way to abandon the pursuit of a better world – we are a negation of power, a kritik of the underlying assumptions of policy action, as opposed to the traditional positive action that is used in pursuit of a fictional “good society”.

McGowan 5 (Todd. Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. Lincoln, U of Nebraska P, 2013.) WC
Political theorists of … of revolt culture.

Part 3 – Not Solvency

Our alt doesn’t solve, it doesn’t create a better world, it doesn’t eliminate the problems of the status quo.  It instead operates as a pre-requisite to change.  We aren’t complacent with oppression, but rather a challenge to the psychological structure that produces oppression to begin with.

McGowan 6 (Todd. Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. Lincoln, U of Nebraska P, 2013.) WC
Underlying a position … may appropriate it.

Subpoint A – Death Drive

The alt is the only real option – the death drive is inherent within our psyche, making our methodology the only way to challenge problems within the status quo.

Mills, Jon. "Reflections on the Death Drive." Process Psychology.com, 2006, www.processpsychology.com/new-articles2/Freud20on20Todestrieb.pdf. Accessed 25 Nov. 2016. Dr. Mills is a board certified clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, and a certified member in good standing with the Canadian Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology. He holds six university and post-graduate degrees including two doctorates, as well as post-doctoral training and international scholarly recognition. With twenty years of clinical experience, he specializes in the assessment and treatment of many psychological disorders upon which he is widely published. He is founding President of the Section on Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology of the Canadian Psychological Association, Editor of two international book series, author and/or editor of over one-hundred publications including twelve books, and teaches as Core Faculty and clinical supervisior at the Adler School of Graduate Studies in Toronto. He is the only psychologist in Canada with double board certification in clinical psychology and psychoanalysis.  WC
What could be … to begin with.

All other theories fail, they cannot fully account for the psychological structures that operate as the root cause of any given problem.

Mills, Jon. "Reflections on the Death Drive." Process Psychology.com, 2006, www.processpsychology.com/new-articles2/Freud20on20Todestrieb.pdf. Accessed 25 Nov. 2016. Dr. Mills is a board certified clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, and a certified member in good standing with the Canadian Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology. He holds six university and post-graduate degrees including two doctorates, as well as post-doctoral training and international scholarly recognition. With twenty years of clinical experience, he specializes in the assessment and treatment of many psychological disorders upon which he is widely published. He is founding President of the Section on Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology of the Canadian Psychological Association, Editor of two international book series, author and/or editor of over one-hundred publications including twelve books, and teaches as Core Faculty and clinical supervisior at the Adler School of Graduate Studies in Toronto. He is the only psychologist in Canada with double board certification in clinical psychology and psychoanalysis.  WC
Freud’s thesis on … progression and decay.

Subpoint B – The Unconscious

The second net-benefit to the alt is its interaction with unconscious knowledge.  All other forms of political thought assume our conscious knowledge is the extent of our psyche, however, psychoanalysis reveals that it’s only the tip of the iceberg.  Instead, it’s our unconscious – the realm of our psyche formed by our suppressed desires and drives – that acts as the basis for all of our actions.  Only through the alt can we bracket off our conscious knowledge and examine the underlying structures of the unconscious that would otherwise doom any action to serial policy failure.

McGowan 7 (Todd. Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. Lincoln, U of Nebraska P, 2013.) WC
But knowledge and … has lost it.

Part 4 – Framing

A - Interpretation

The judge should act as a decision-maker and vote for the best methodology – the burden of the negative is thus to provide a competitive counter-methodology to the Aff, and whichever side wins that their methodology is superior gets the ballot.

B – Reasons to Prefer

Analytics

Underview

Experimental data and empirical evidence prove that psychoanalysis is both falsifiable and valid.

Petocz, professor at the University of Western Sydney, ====15====
PhD in Psychology, currently teaches history, psychology, and critical thinking at the University of Western Sydney. Visiting researcher at the Department of Philosophy, Kings College, London University in 2000 (Agnes, 1/12/2015, “The scientific status of psychoananalysis revisited”, Philosophy, Science, and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Meeting  SM)
A reservoir of … (Mills, ZIIJ7, p. 540)

Clinical studies also support psychoanalysis; Mahrer, Robinson, Dufresne, and most other critics are hacks – they have pre-existing biases against psychoanalysis without really understanding the theory.

Mills, Jon. "Reflections on the Death Drive." Process Psychology.com, 2006, www.processpsychology.com/new-articles2/Freud20on20Todestrieb.pdf. Accessed 25 Nov. 2016.  WC
Freud’s thesis on … to begin with.

Prefer this card because:

1.  Jon Mills has 6 degrees including 2 PhD’s, as well as post-doctoral training and international scholarly recognition.  He has more than 30 years of clinical experience, has published 12 books and over 100 other publications, is the editor of two international book series, a professor at the Adler School of Graduate Studies, the founding president of the Section on Psychoanalysis in the Canadian Psychological Association, and is the only psychologist in Canada with double board certification in clinical psychology and psychoanalysis.

2.  It’s specific to the theory of the death drive – hold any indicts to the same threshold.  Generic a2 psychoanalysis cards are based on specific instances that aren’t representative – like saying all medicine is a hoax because Dr. Oz is.  Psychoanalysis is a diverse field; we only defend the theory of the death drive.

And, we don’t defend Freud’s problematic rhetoric – it was a product of his historical situation, not inherent in his philosophical works.  The theory of psychoanalysis can thus be separated from Freud’s rhetoric, meaning you evaluate the kritik based on what we say, not on something that someone said hundreds of years ago.

McGowan 8 (Todd. Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. Lincoln, U of Nebraska P, 2013.) WC
The problem with …human society itself.

Tournament: Young Lawyers | Round: Octas | Opponent: Hunter AD | Judge: Panel
“Idiot” and “stupid” are ableist slurs.
Omum 14 (Omum22 is the pen name of a writer for the organization Small But Kinda Mighty, a website devoted to information related to ableism and ableist concepts. Small But Kinda Mighty: “Five things to consider before using ableist language” Published August 19th, 2014. Accessed July 25th, 2015. http://smallbutkindamighty.com/2014/08/19/five-things-consider-using-ableist-language/)TheFedora
One person who … supporters of stupidity.

Even if we do not realize it, ableist language is derogatory, excludes those with disabilities, and perpetuates otherization.
Kris 14 (Kris is a writer whose last name was not provided for confidentiality purposes. Kris has been professionally diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Panic Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder and General Anxiety Disorder. Dear Author: “Being crazy: An insider’s view on ableist language.” Published October 28th, 2014. Accessed July 25th, 2015. http://dearauthor.com/features/letters-of-opinion/being-crazy-an-insiders-view-on-ableist-language/)
Crazy, batshit, nuts… power. Words hurt.

Continued ableist assumptions in the academic space destroy education
Hehir ‘7 (Thomas Hehir is Professor of Practice and Director of the School Leadership Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Educational Leadership: “Confronting Ableism.” Published in February, 2007. Accessed July 20th, 2015. http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/feb07/vol64/num05/Confronting-Ableism.aspx)TheFedora
Negative cultural attitudes … students with disabilities.

The alternative is to recognize and challenge ableist assumptions in the educational space of debate by rejecting our opponents.
Hehir ‘7 (Thomas Hehir is Professor of Practice and Director of the School Leadership Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Educational Leadership: “Confronting Ableism.” Published in February, 2007. Accessed July 20th, 2015. http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/feb07/vol64/num05/Confronting-Ableism.aspx)TheFedora
The U.S. education … school and society.

And, the K comes first and is a drop-the-team issue because:

1.  Time skew.  We need to eradicate ableist language from the debate space, which will not happen if the ableism K is not a voter because teams won’t run ableism because it will only be a time skew.

2. Debaters need to be held accountable for their discourse – discursive irresponsibility creates exclusion.  Vincent 13

Vincent 13 – (Christopher Debate Coach, former college NDT debater “Re-Conceptualizing Our Performances: Accountability In Lincoln Douglas Debate
Charles Mills argues … community could have.

3.  Punitive damages.  There needs to be a definite incentive to change ableist language, if there is no punishment no change will come.

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 3 | Opponent: Carmel Valley CC | Judge: Kris Kaya

Observation 1 - Framing

The standard is utilitarianism.  Prefer because:

1.  The resolutional question is based on weighing rights – this necessitates util.

Brandt, professor of philosophy @ U Mich. 1992
Richard.  Morality, Utilitarianism, and Rights.  Cambridge University Press.  Pg 199.
Before turning to ... in what circumstances). 

2.  Policy-making is based on an obligation to citizens’ interests that necessitates evaluating impacts.

Woller Gary, Economics Professor at BYU, “Policy Currents,” June, http://apsapolicysection.org/vol7_2/72.pdf
Moreover, virtually all ... advantage of society.

3.  Failure to evaluate impacts creates tunnel vision that generates evil and political irrelevance.

Isaac, PhD.Yale, Prof. PoliSci Indiana-Bloomington, dir. Center for the Study of Democracy and Public Life, 02
(Jeffrey C. Isaac, PhD.Yale, Prof. PoliSci Indiana-Bloomington, dir. Center for the Study of Democracy and Public Life, Spring 2002, “End, Means, and Politics,” Dissent Magazine, vol. 49, no. 2)
As writers such ... undermines political effectiveness.

Prioritize the smallest risk of extinction—the value of the lives saved is massive and outweighs.

 
Bostrom 13—philosophy @ University of Oxford (Nick, 2013, Global Policy, Volume 4, Issue 1, “Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority,” http://www.existential-risk.org/concept.pdf,)
Holding probability constant, ... such an action.10

Solving extinction is thus a pre-req to the Neg’s framework.

Contention 1 – Status Quo

College speech regulations on the rise and it’s a slippery slope – threatens journalism, academic freedom, and student expression.  Plan key to checking widespread censorship.

Sanders, Chris. "CENSORSHIP 101: ANTI-HAZELWOOD LAWS AND THE PRESERVATION OF FREE SPEECH AT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES." University of Alabama Law School, 2006, www.law.ua.edu/pubs/lrarticles/Volume2058/Issue201/ sanders.pdf. Accessed 22 Jan. 2017. WC 

*Edited for ableist language

Post-Hazelwood censorship ... in its wake.

We’re at the breaking point – censorship risks normalizing it in the real world.

Schuman 12-8 (Rebecca, http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2016/12/student_journalists_are_under_threat.html)
Well, here’s some ... censorship is acceptable.

It’s all or nothing – regulations inevitably spread and threaten freedoms in the real world – history proves.

Sanders 2 (Chris. "CENSORSHIP 101: ANTI-HAZELWOOD LAWS AND THE PRESERVATION OF FREE SPEECH AT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES." University of Alabama Law School, 2006, www.law.ua.edu/pubs/lrarticles/Volume2058/Issue201/ sanders.pdf. Accessed 22 Jan. 2017.) WC 

*Brackets for clarity.

Because Hazelwood, intentionally ... an earlier time.

This is a disad to all PIC’s – minor restrictions inevitably spread.

Plan

In the United States, public colleges and universities ought not restrict any constitutionally protected speech.

Advantage 1 – Journalism

College is a training ground for journalists – plan key to a responsible media.

Sanders 3 (Chris. "CENSORSHIP 101: ANTI-HAZELWOOD LAWS AND THE PRESERVATION OF FREE SPEECH AT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES." University of Alabama Law School, 2006, www.law.ua.edu/pubs/lrarticles/Volume2058/Issue201/ sanders.pdf. Accessed 22 Jan. 2017.) WC
Because Hazelwood, intentionally ... an earlier time.

Irresponsible media is the internal link to a host of impacts – Trump rise proves.

Boyle, Ev. USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy, 2016, communicationleadership.usc.edu/news/ yes-the-media-bears-some-responsibility-for-the-rise-of-donald-trumpE2808A-E2 808Aheres-proof/. Accessed 23 Jan. 2017. Ev Boyle is the Associate Director of CCLP and the founding director of Civic Tech USC.  WC "Yes, the media bears some responsibility for the rise of Donald Trump—here’s proof."
Since announcing his ... other single candidate.

Trump is the tip of the iceberg – free, effective media key to checking the rise of even more dangerous demagogues.

Chotiner, Isaac. "Trump Is Unhinged. But A Better, Cooler, More Polished Demagogue Could Rise In His Wake.". Slate Magazine. July 22, 2016. Isaac Chotiner is the Executive Editor of The New Republic, LLC, an assistant editor and reporter-researcher at Bloomberg, and a contributor at Slate and the Washington Post. He has a degree in political science from UC Davis. WC
The fact that ... abuse of power.

Failure to check demagoguery guarantees environmental apocalypse and extinction.

Haraldsson, Hrafnkell, and Noam Chomsky. "Noam Chomsky Says GOP is the ‘Most Dangerous Organization in World History’." Politicus, 15 Nov. 2016, www.politicususa.com/2016/11/15/ noam-chomsky-gop-most-dangerous-organization-world-history.html. Accessed 24 Jan. 2017. WC
In an interview ... accept its consequences.

Advantage 2 – Psychoanalysis

Discrimination is inevitable – speech restrictions just force people to bottle up their feelings– drives hate under ground and re-entrenches prejudice.

Leonard 93 (Leonard, James. "Killing with Kindness: Speech Codes in the American University." Ohio Northern University Law Review 19 (1993): 759-782.. Jul  9 19:54:18 2016. Killing with Kindness: Speech Codes in the American University. Content downloaded/printed from HeinOnline (http://heinonline.org).DA=7/9/16.)  WC
 Perhaps the most ... rather than hide it.

This link turns your K’s and DA’s – speech is the only alternative to real world violence.

 
Schwartz 86
Schwartz, Joel. “Freud and Freedom of Speech.” The American Political Science Review, vol. 80, no. 4, 1986, pp. 1227–1248. www.jstor.org/stable/ 1960865. WC
In this essay ... is less adequate.

Contention 2 – Solvency

Counter-speech best solves hate – empirics.

Davis, Alexander. "The Freedom of Speech in Public Forums on College Campuses: A Single-Site Case Study on Pushing the Boundaries of the Freedom of Speech." Digital Commons, June 2016, digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/ viewcontent.cgi?article=1119andcontext=joursp. Accessed 26 Jan. 2017. WC
All experts agreed ... combat the issue.

Empirics go AFF – none of their hate speech args will include a comprehensive analysis of how speech codes have historically affected minorities.

Strossen ’90 (Nadine Strossen – ACLU; Professor of Law at NYU, Duke University School of Law,  “Regulating Racist Speech on Campus: A Modest Proposal?”, Duke Law Journal, Vol. 1990, No. 3, Frontiers of Legal Thought II. The New First Amendment (Jun., 1990), pp. 484-573, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1372555)
It is particularly ... religion of peace.

Resentment of speech codes kills their solvency.

Leonard 2 (James. "Killing with Kindness: Speech Codes in the American University." Ohio Northern University Law Review 19 (1993): 759-782. WC *Brackets for clarity)
In fact, the ... against university paternalism.

Speech codes cause racialized violence.

Leonard 3 (James. "Killing with Kindness: Speech Codes in the American University." Ohio Northern University Law Review 19 (1993): 759-782. WC *Brackets for clarity)
In the long ... of this attitude.
Restricting speech just glorifies it and turns bigots into martyrs – empirics prove.
Leonard 4 (James. "Killing with Kindness: Speech Codes in the American University." Ohio Northern University Law Review 19 (1993): 759-782. WC *Brackets for clarity)
A strategy of ... speakers into martyrs.

Hold CP’s to a high threshold – every card in this contention is a sufficient disad to kill their solvency.

Underview

Interpretation

At the 2017 UNLV tournament in the LD division the Neg only gets PICs when the Aff doesn’t defend the whole resolution.

Net Bens

Ommitted

Tournament: Alta | Round: 1 | Opponent: Corner Canyon TB | Judge: Ashan Peiris
Observation 1 – Framing
Dehumanization is the root cause of every other impact – prioritize it as the greatest impact in the round.
Berube ‘97(David Berube, Ph.D. in Communications and Professor of Communication at South Carolina, "Nanotechnological Prolongevity: The Down Side", NanoTechnology Magazine, June/July 1997, p. 1-6, URL: http://www.cla.sc.edu/ENGL/faculty/berube/prolong.htm) 
This means-ends dispute … most powerful weapon. 

Critiquing everyday structural violence is key to combatting dehumanization – the system relies on ignorance to justify genocide.  Dehumanization begins in our minds, driven by a securitizing fear of the "other" – police are thus celebrated as hero figures, not in spite of their anti-Black violence, but because of it.  Exposing this system and creating a "call to alarm" is key to fight the structural genocide that is hidden in plain sight
Scheper-Hughes and Bourgois ‘4, (Prof of Anthropology @ Cal-Berkely; Prof of Anthropology @ UPenn) (Nancy and Philippe, Introduction: Making Sense of Violence, in Violence in War and Peace, pg. 19-22)
This large and … feelings of victimization.

The Role of the Ballot is thus to vote for the team that best methodologically challenges structural violence. 

The Role of the Ballot is best achieved through the marriage of critical theory and concrete analysis – any attempt to address structural problems without this combination invariably fails.
Keohane ‘98 (Robert. “Beyond Dichotomy: Conversations Between International Relations and Feminist Theory", Duke University. International Studies Quarterly 42, 193-198. 1998. synergy.com/action/showPdf?submitPDF=Full+Text+PDF+2889+KB29anddoi=10.11112F0020-8833.00076.)
The problem with …  system without states.

C1 –Status Quo

Police brutality is a form of structural violence based on the dehumanization of Black Americans.
Ragland ’16 (David. "Michael Brown and America’s Structural Violence Epidemic." Common Dreams, 14 Aug. 2014, www.commondreams.org/views/2014/08/14/ michael-brown-and-americas-structural-violence-epidemic. Accessed 3 Nov. 2016.)
I flew into … this national epidemic.

This structural violence has created a biopolitical police state that we sustain through ignorance and a lack of accountability.  This creates concrete conditions of suffering against which there is no defense.
Whitehead ’16 (John W. "All The Ways You Can Comply And Still Die During An Encounter With Police." Huffington Post, 6 Oct. 2016, www.huffingtonpost.com/john-w-whitehead/ all-the-ways-you-can-comp'b'12320364.html. Accessed 5 Nov. 2016. John Whitehead is an attorney, president of The Rutherford Institute, and author of ‘Battlefield America’.)
How do you … suspects and criminals?

Empirical analysis proves that the primary cause of this violence is a lack of accountability.
DOJ ’14 (United States Department of Justice. "United States Department of Justice" "Investigation of the Cleveland Division of Police"~. US Department of Justice, 4 Dec. 2014, www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/crt/legacy/ 2014/12/04/cleveland'summary'12-4-14.pdf. Accessed 2 Nov. 2016.)
Investigation of the … justify our finding. 

Lack of accountability can be attributed directly to qualified immunity – the term “clearly established” has created a condition of absolute immunity, destroying the only recourse against police brutality.
Chen ’16 (Alan.  "Qualified Immunity Limiting Access to Justice and Impeding Development Of The Law". Americanbar.org. N. p., 2016. Web. 1 Nov. 2016.)
In 2003, the … becoming clearly established. 

The Supreme Court’s 2009 ruling in Pearson v. Callahan has made this problem infinitely regressive – it requires that there be legal precedent, but makes it impossible to establish that precedent.
Chen ’16 (Alan.  "Qualified Immunity Limiting Access to Justice and Impeding Development Of The Law". Americanbar.org. N. p., 2016. Web. 1 Nov. 2016.)
Critics of qualified … denial of certiorari.

The tipping point is now – limiting immunity is critical to stop an irreversible descent into a militarized police state where structural violence is inevitable.
Whitehead ’16 (John. "Killer Instincts: When Police Become Judge, Jury And Executioner." Huffington Post, 11 Aug. 2016, www.huffingtonpost.com/ john-w-whitehead/killer-instincts-when-pol_b_11407458.html. Accessed 7 Nov. 2016.)
Any police officer … the average citizen.

Thus I affirm that the United States ought to limit qualified immunity for police officers.  In the interest of a stable advocacy, I will defend the Supreme Court overturning the Pearson v. Callahan ruling and reinstating the precedent set by Saucier v. Katz.

To clarify, this advocacy is a way of meeting the Role of the Ballot – by proposing real world solutions, we bring about concrete analysis of modes of structural violence that creates a starting point for real world action independent of post-fiat solvency, as indicated in both the Scheper-Hughes and Keohane evidence.

C2 – Solvency

Limiting immunity is key to creating accountability and fighting misconduct while maintaining a reasonability standard.
Wright ’16 (Sam. "Want to Fight Police Misconduct? Reform Qualified Immunity". Above the Law. N. p., 2016. Web. 18 Oct. 2016.)
Under Arrest Recently…make it happen.

Increased accountability solves – fosters trust, improves police performance, and reverses the “us-against-them” mentality that reproduces police violence through cycles of animosity.
DOJ ’14 (United States Department of Justice. "United States Department of Justice" "Investigation of the Cleveland Division of Police". US Department of Justice, 4 Dec. 2014, www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/crt/legacy/ 2014/12/04/cleveland_summary_12-4-14.pdf. Accessed 2 Nov. 2016.)
Finally, CDP’s failure … safely and effectively.
This link turns any DA’s – we improve police performance and decrease the need for lawsuits.

The Aff best meets the Role of the Ballot – the very act of questioning the system opens the door to real-world change.
Glasser ’97 (Ira.  "Fighting Police Abuse: A Community Action Manual". American Civil Liberties Union. 1997. Web. 7 Nov. 2016.  Ira Glasser is the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union.)
Nonetheless, even one … in every city.

Tournament: Alta | Round: Doubles | Opponent: - | Judge: -
Capitalism is no longer defined by material class relations, instead being controlled by its primary logic – debt.  Systems of semiocapitalism have created a social debt to the state – it taxes us in order to “protect” us through institutions such as the police. This makes the state a mechanism of capitalism –  we can not challenge it because our very existence is defined by our indebtedness to it.  The continuation of this logic destroys value to life, turning us into machinic slaves to the system.
Tanguay ‘15 /Laine, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Houston—Victoria, Ph.D. the University of Manchester. She has taught at Lakehead University and Acadia University in Canada, “Governmentality in Crisis: Debt and the Illusion of Liberalism” Symploke Vol. 23, Nos. 1-2 (2015) ISSN 1069-0697, 459-468/
Critiques of Classical ... present just that.
The police have become a force of capitalism – militarising in order to protect semiocapitalism’s hegemonic control over our reality.
MacDonald, Michael. "Towards A Critical Public Pedagogy of Affect in the Era of Semiocapitalism." The Hampton Institute, 2 Apr. 2015, www.hamptoninstitution.org/rainbow-family-of-living-light.html#.WEGuY6IrIfM. Accessed 2 Dec. 2016. Michael MacDonald is a professor at MacEwan University.  WC
The Missoula, Montana ... love with terror.
The system of semiocapitalism created and structured by debt ensnares life in a form of machinic enslavement to capitalism, bound to a form of sadomonetarism which can lead to nothing but the absolute destruction of all life.
Wiltgen ‘5 /James, Latin American cinema and history in the School of Critical Studies at CalArts, "Sado-Moneatrism or Saint Fond – Saint Ford", in Consumption in the Age of Information, ed. Cohen and Rutsky, BERG, New York, p. 107-106/
How does digital ... and complex oscillations.
The Role of the Ballot is thus to endorse the team that best challenges semiocapitalism within the debate space.
The alternative is a genealogical critique of social debt – we limit immunity for police officers, refusing to ignore how they keep us indebted to the state, making us believe we need them to protect our freedoms, while crushing the very movements that attempt to free us from the hegemonic logic of semiocapitalism.  
Genealogical incision into the logic of social debt affirms a complete re-articulation of the creditor-debtor relationship. Attempts to institutionally regulate the “regime of truth” surrounding finance will only end in self-destructive ressentiment and terrible debate rounds – this turns any cede the polital args.
De Goede ‘5 /Mariek, lecturer in political history and international relations at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam, Virtue, Fortune, and Faith: A Genealogy of Finance, Borderlines Vol. 24, University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis pg. 145-176/
There is no ... modern credit practices.
We solve the Role of the Ballot – our critique allows us to find value outside of the hegemonic logic of semiocapitalism.
MacDonald, Michael. "Towards A Critical Public Pedagogy of Affect in the Era of Semiocapitalism." The Hampton Institute, 2 Apr. 2015, www.hamptoninstitution.org/rainbow-family-of-living-light.html#.WEGuY6IrIfM. Accessed 2 Dec. 2016. Michael MacDonald is a professor at MacEwan University.  WC
Michael Hardt (1999) has ... we are alone.
The AFF is a practice of radical freedom which is capable of resisting and transforming the violence resulting from modern subject formation and teleolog.. Only our attack on the prefabricated subject of modernity is capable of transforming life into a work of art that can challenge the crystallization of power into war and suffering. The method of genealogical critique is capable of resisting the process of subjectivization which lies at the heart of all violence.
Clifford 2001 /Michael. Professor of Philosophy @ Mississippi State, Political Genealogy After Foucault: Savage Identities. London, GBR: Routledge, p.143-147/
A typical, if ... we presently are.

Tournament: Alta | Round: 1 | Opponent: Corner Canyon TB | Judge: Ashan Peiris
Observation 1 – Framing
Dehumanization is the root cause of every other impact – prioritize it as the greatest impact in the round.
Berube ‘97(David Berube, Ph.D. in Communications and Professor of Communication at South Carolina, "Nanotechnological Prolongevity: The Down Side", NanoTechnology Magazine, June/July 1997, p. 1-6, URL: http://www.cla.sc.edu/ENGL/faculty/berube/prolong.htm)
This means-ends dispute … most powerful weapon. 

Critiquing everyday structural violence is key to combatting dehumanization – the system relies on ignorance to justify genocide.  Dehumanization begins in our minds, driven by a securitizing fear of the "other" – police are thus celebrated as hero figures, not in spite of their anti-Black violence, but because of it.  Exposing this system and creating a "call to alarm" is key to fight the structural genocide that is hidden in plain sight
Scheper-Hughes and Bourgois ‘4, (Prof of Anthropology @ Cal-Berkely; Prof of Anthropology @ UPenn) (Nancy and Philippe, Introduction: Making Sense of Violence, in Violence in War and Peace, pg. 19-22)
This large and … feelings of victimization.

The Role of the Ballot is thus to vote for the team that best methodologically challenges structural violence. 

The Role of the Ballot is best achieved through the marriage of critical theory and concrete analysis – any attempt to address structural problems without this combination invariably fails.
Keohane ‘98 (Robert. “Beyond Dichotomy: Conversations Between International Relations and Feminist Theory", Duke University. International Studies Quarterly 42, 193-198. 1998. synergy.com/action/showPdf?submitPDF=Full+Text+PDF+2889+KB29anddoi=10.11112F0020-8833.00076.)
The problem with …  system without states.

C1 –Status Quo

Police brutality is a form of structural violence based on the dehumanization of Black Americans.
Ragland ’16 (David. "Michael Brown and America’s Structural Violence Epidemic." Common Dreams, 14 Aug. 2014, www.commondreams.org/views/2014/08/14/ michael-brown-and-americas-structural-violence-epidemic. Accessed 3 Nov. 2016.)
I flew into … this national epidemic.

This structural violence has created a biopolitical police state that we sustain through ignorance and a lack of accountability.  This creates concrete conditions of suffering against which there is no defense.
Whitehead ’16 (John W. "All The Ways You Can Comply And Still Die During An Encounter With Police." Huffington Post, 6 Oct. 2016, www.huffingtonpost.com/john-w-whitehead/ all-the-ways-you-can-comp'b'12320364.html. Accessed 5 Nov. 2016. John Whitehead is an attorney, president of The Rutherford Institute, and author of ‘Battlefield America’.)
How do you … suspects and criminals?

Empirical analysis proves that the primary cause of this violence is a lack of accountability.
DOJ ’14 (United States Department of Justice. "United States Department of Justice" "Investigation of the Cleveland Division of Police". US Department of Justice, 4 Dec. 2014, www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/crt/legacy/ 2014/12/04/cleveland'summary'12-4-14.pdf. Accessed 2 Nov. 2016.)
Investigation of the … justify our finding. 

Lack of accountability can be attributed directly to qualified immunity – the term “clearly established” has created a condition of absolute immunity, destroying the only recourse against police brutality.
Chen ’16 (Alan.  "Qualified Immunity Limiting Access to Justice and Impeding Development Of The Law". Americanbar.org. N. p., 2016. Web. 1 Nov. 2016.)
In 2003, the … becoming clearly established. 

The Supreme Court’s 2009 ruling in Pearson v. Callahan has made this problem infinitely regressive – it requires that there be legal precedent, but makes it impossible to establish that precedent.
Chen ’16 (Alan.  "Qualified Immunity Limiting Access to Justice and Impeding Development Of The Law". Americanbar.org. N. p., 2016. Web. 1 Nov. 2016.)
Critics of qualified … denial of certiorari.

The tipping point is now – limiting immunity is critical to stop an irreversible descent into a militarized police state where structural violence is inevitable.
Whitehead ’16 (John. "Killer Instincts: When Police Become Judge, Jury And Executioner." Huffington Post, 11 Aug. 2016, www.huffingtonpost.com/ john-w-whitehead/killer-instincts-when-pol_b_11407458.html. Accessed 7 Nov. 2016.)
Any police officer … the average citizen.

Thus I affirm that the United States ought to limit qualified immunity for police officers.  In the interest of a stable advocacy, I will defend the Supreme Court overturning the Pearson v. Callahan ruling and reinstating the precedent set by Saucier v. Katz.

To clarify, this advocacy is a way of meeting the Role of the Ballot – by proposing real world solutions, we bring about concrete analysis of modes of structural violence that creates a starting point for real world action independent of post-fiat solvency, as indicated in both the Scheper-Hughes and Keohane evidence.

C2 – Solvency

Limiting immunity is key to creating accountability and fighting misconduct while maintaining a reasonability standard.
Wright ’16 (Sam. "Want to Fight Police Misconduct? Reform Qualified Immunity". Above the Law. N. p., 2016. Web. 18 Oct. 2016.)
Under Arrest Recently…make it happen.

Increased accountability solves – fosters trust, improves police performance, and reverses the “us-against-them” mentality that reproduces police violence through cycles of animosity.
DOJ ’14 (United States Department of Justice. "United States Department of Justice" "Investigation of the Cleveland Division of Police". US Department of Justice, 4 Dec. 2014, www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/crt/legacy/ 2014/12/04/cleveland_summary_12-4-14.pdf. Accessed 2 Nov. 2016.)
Finally, CDP’s failure … safely and effectively.
This link turns any DA’s – we improve police performance and decrease the need for lawsuits.

The Aff best meets the Role of the Ballot – the very act of questioning the system opens the door to real-world change.
Glasser ’97 (Ira.  "Fighting Police Abuse: A Community Action Manual". American Civil Liberties Union. 1997. Web. 7 Nov. 2016.  Ira Glasser is the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union.)
Nonetheless, even one … in every city.