Tournament: Winston Churchill | Round: Finals | Opponent: NA | Judge: NA
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Tournament: Strake Jesuit | Round: 2 | Opponent: Cy-Fair TW | Judge: Alberto Tohme

We begin with two different ways to evaluate a debate round:

Judgment: a metaphysical view harkening back to prophetic claims of judgment day, putting you in the position to decide between good and evil. This type of thinking is aligned with the empire of good.

OR

We say that you should evaluate our arguments as expressive of our life stories and views on life. Our strategy will be expressive of our genuine affirmation of destiny and sovereignty though our radical conception of speaking evil. This is opposed to the empire of good.

Use the ballot as a rupture in the form of a singularity into the banal debate system by a breaking-in of our critique and speaking evil into the machine.

Baudrillard in 98 ~Jean, dead french dude, Paroxysm, p. 51~
His singularity. Not Individuality, and not collectivity either, because this has become
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isn't a catastrophic fatality. Appearance and disappearance are the form of destiny.

So, we affirm Resolved: Public colleges and universities in the United States ought not restrict any constitutionally protected speech. 

Our affirmation comes about through our fatal strategy of thinking evil. We Affirm the resolution as it is affirming the evil from the resolution that exists in a way that does not attempt to make the world better.

To think evil means that we are complicit in everything that happens to us. Our participation in the intelligence of evil acknowledges that we are great enough for our own evil genius.

Baudrillard 05  ~Jean, dead french dude, The Intelligence of Evil, p. 151-154~

Then we shall
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Never explain, never complain. 

We draw a distinction between two types of strategies – the fatal and the banal. Critical theory is banal, always recycling the same notions of subjectivity, responsibility, and dialectical progress.

Our strategy is fatal – it is aligned with fate, and is desired to die. The subject and the object are reversible and irreconcilable. Our fatal strategy analyzes the world from the perspective of the object because that view diverts the system and object from its intended goal.

Debate has a fatal destiny, it was invented as a rational political medium, but that has been abandoned. Debate mirrored the political disenchantment for students through the civil rights era. It is now a magical medium, void of the real.

We are resolved to become resolution. The 1ac adopts the resolution as a strategy of destiny. We affirm the evil of the resolution, we put subjectivity back onto the path of disappearance that puts us on a chain of symbolic forms causing a transference of identity and destiny that makes life sovereign.

Baudrillard 5 ~Jean, dead french dude, The Intelligence of Evil, p. 207-212~
We have all been everywhere in some past life. This suprasensory reminiscence, this
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experience language as a kind of predestination - a kind of happy predestination. 

The fate of our current world is at an exponential stake, all of society is caught up in the condemnation and re-imbursement of misfortunes in a massive whitewashing of history and suffering. But this is were we are headed, let us not turn our heads abashedly. We can’t go back and change history. Instead we should transfer the whole terrorist battle for and against the system to the symbolic level where we as individuals capable of radical thought have the upper hand. Any combat or change that the lever of the real fails because it still participates in the fundamental nature of the modern world system. The empire of the good. The real is stuck in a cycle of misfortune and social violence that must be dislodged and put onto a different trajectory, at the symbolic level.

The evisceration of evil only exacerbates problems symbolically – this is why speaking evil is important. It teaches us to make symbolic problems disappear from the symbolic and is not involved in producing more economies of violence and misfortune.

Tournament: Colleyville Heritage | Round: 5 | Opponent: Westwood JA | Judge: Adesuwa Omoruyi

Part 1 is Framework

My value for this round is individualism.

Placing the individual above society is necessary to prevent oppression

Rawls 93. John Rawls, Philosopher at Harvard. POLITICAL LIBERALISM, 1993, p. 146
To this objection, we say that the hope of political community must indeed be
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the rejection of the oppressive use of the state power to overcome it. 

The criterion is protecting individual rights

Free speech as an individual right is a pre-requisite to any rational moral system- without it self-realization is impossible.

Eberle 94. Eberle, Law @ Roger Williams, 94  (Wake Forest LR, Winter)
The Court's decision in R.A.V. reaffirms the preeminence of free
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Accordingly, any suspicion or evidence of governmental censorship must be vigilantly investigated.

Observation 1:

Free speech facilitates the development of moral reasoning- restrictions should be prima facie rejected.

Dwyer 01. (Susan, Phil@Maryland, Nordic Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 2, No. 2 ® Philosophia Press 2001)
Direct Nonconsequentialism Let us return to the central topic: free speech. From the
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free speech in one place, we strengthen (protect) it everywhere.

Consequentially, Free speech is a gateway to every other impact.

D’Souza 96. (Frances, Prof. Anthropology Oxford, http://www.europarl.europa.eu/hearings/19960425/droi/freedom'en.htm?textMode=on)
In the absence of freedom of expression which includes a free and independent media,
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is needed to re-inforce government policies and intentions at every turn.

Part 2 is the Case Proper

Contention One

First amendment rights on college and university campuses are being violated.

Alexander 16 (11-25-2016, "University of Tennessee Police Violate Independent Media's Rights at Public Protest," Cop Block, http://www.copblock.org/168632/university-of-tennessee-police-violate-independent-media-rights/)
Free speech zones are illegal on public campuses. University of Tennessee Police Officers and
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commands in order to get more clarification and offer respect to the officer. 

Revolutionary thinkers will be most vulnerable to suppression under regimes that reserves the right to criminalize any unsatisfactory speech. It’s easy to think that restrictions will only be applied to those who legitimately pose some threat- like groups spewing hate speech- but this ignores the nature of politics and the current social climate.

Bernstein 03 (David E. Bernstein, Defending the First Amendment from Antidiscrimination Laws, 82 N.C. L. Rev. 223, 240-41 (2003). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract'id=489063  David E. Bernstein is the George Mason University Foundation Professor at the George Mason University School of Law)
Ironically, protecting freedom of expression from government regulation ultimately will benefit left-wing
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is a lesson that academic advocates of censorship would do well to learn.

This is especially true for students of color. Black students are unsure of their first amendment protections.

Newkirk 16. Vann R. Newkirk Ii, 4-7-2016, "Why Fears About Free Speech on College Campus Are Misguided," Atlantic, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/04/first-amendment-college-campus-millennials/477171/
Black students ~are~ seem to be less sure about First Amendment protections than
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how much students and older adults differ in their views of free speech.

Contention Two

Removing restrictions prevents prohibiting speech which is an essential freedom—restrictions in the status quo prevent people from acting on their agency no matter how miniscule the restrictions is.

Lambert 16 (Saber, writer @ being libertarian, "The Degradation of Free Speech and Personal Liberty," April 9, 2016, https://beinglibertarian.com/the-degradation-of-free-speech-and-personal-liberty//
Many individuals in society claim that they live in a free nation full of individual
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is often paralleled to a form of dictatorship – no matter how miniscule.

Lack of free speech re-create the majority/minority divide that means the minority loses out on having their voice heard.

Cartwright 3 (Will, "Mill on Freedom of Discussion," Richmond Journal of Philosophy 5 (Autumn 2003), http://www.richmond-philosophy.net/rjp/back'issues/rjp5'cartwright.pdf//
Though freedom of discussion was widely accepted even in Mill’s own day, he thinks
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balance of risks here makes this argument less persuasive than the other two.

Tournament: Colleyville Heritage | Round: 2 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll PD | Judge: Dino De La O

Part 1 is the Case

Campus restrictions of free speech are assumed to benefit the good of the student body; however, faith in liberal institutions such as the government or the university is a misguided belief based on a misunderstanding of how power operates. Power is not simply the exertion of the state or an individual’s will over a subordinated person, rather power exists in a field of relations and is not a traditional hierarchy of domination.

Status quo limitations on speech and current speech codes have destroyed higher education as a space for open dialogue. Reclaiming the university as space for open discourse is critical to our future. Only a paradigm shift to free speech can solve.

Giroux ’14:
Giroux, Henry A. "Austerity and the Poison of Neoliberal Miseducation." Symploke22.1-2 (2014): 15-19. Project MUSE ~Johns Hopkins UP~. Web. 19 Jan. 2017. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/566830/pdf.
Most importantly, higher education too often informs a deadening dystopian vision of corporate America
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as an integral thread in the ever-evolving fabric of living democracy. 

Speech codes operate under the guise of an oppressive ruse of resistance that privileges elites. This biopolitical control is utilized by structures to de-mobilize political and social dissent and create docile bodies.

Lippens and Crewe ‘09:
Lippens, Ronnie, and Don Crewe. Existentialist Criminology. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge-Cavendish, 2009. Print. (0:30)
Indeed, Foucault’s treatment of power, mobilized and activated through speech codes or even
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point at which the individual is thoroughly disciplined and rendered a docile body.

And, these fashioned docile bodies are exposed to extreme violence and dehumanization.

Dean ’01:
Mitchell Dean, Professor of Sociology at Macquarie University, 2k1 ("Demonic Societies: Liberalism, biopolitics, and sovereignty." Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State, ed. Hanson and Stepputat, p. 55-58) (0:30)
Consider again the contrastive terms in which it is possible to view biopolitics and sovereignty
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according to Foucault. in the functioning of the modern state (232).

Biopower is the enabling precondition that allows for racism to be inscribed and codified into law. This saturates civil society with violence, making war structurally inevitable. Only challenging normalizing assumptions can prevent us from this fate.

Mendieta ’02:
Mendieta, Eduardo. "‘To Make Live and to Let Die’ –Foucault on Racism." Pgs 7-8. Stonybrook.edu. APA Central Division Meeting, 25 Apr. 2002. Web. 25 Jan. 2017. http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/philosophy/people/faculty'pages/docs/foucault.pdf. (0:45)
This is where racism intervenes, not from without, exogenously, but from within
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of the living, then these threat and foes are biological in nature.

Thus, I affirm. Public colleges and universities in the United States ought not restrict any constitutionally protected speech.

We use the resolution as a starting point for a genealogy and an interrogation of the ways in which power operates through speech and speech codes.

Only individual rejections of bodies of knowledge by those bound up within them, as experts, can solve.

Edkins 06:
Jenny Edkins, International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 2006. "The Local, the Global and the Troubling," Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy Vol. 9, No. 4, 499–511 (0:30)
First, intellectuals are of course not as separate from political and social structures as
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effect, but through a slow re-building, brick by brick.

Critical analysis starting from the university is key. Only higher education sparks new political subjectivities capable of challenging normativity.

Evans and Pollard ’14:
Pollard, Tyler J. "Education, the Politics of Resilience, and the War on Youth: A Conversation with Brad Evans." Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 36.3 (2014): 193-213. Web. 25 Jan. 2017. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10714413.2014.917902?journalCode=gred20. (0:30)
Brad Evans ~hereafter referred to as BE~: I think a good place to
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method then I think it's basically just a retreat into a sovereign conceit.

====Our genealogy is an ongoing process that resists normalization. ====
Flyvberg and Richardon 2 – dept of development @ Aalborg University
(Bent, Aalborg University, Department of Development and Planning and Tim, University of Sheffield, Department of Town and Regional Planning, Planning and Foucault: In Search of the Dark Side of Planning Theory, http://flyvbjerg.plan.aau.dk/DarkSide2.pdf.) (1:00)
3. Towards Foucault Instead of side-stepping or seeking to remove the traces
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versus ‘constitution’ thinking, about struggle versus control, conflict versus consensus. 

Part 2 is Framework

Because power is concerned with structuring fields of action, fighting oppression comes in the form of critical analysis against normalization of power in our lives.

Taylor ’09.
Taylor, Dianna. "Normativity and Normalization." Foucault Studies 7 (2009): 59-63. Print. (0:40)
Habermas’s primary criticism of Foucault is that he engages in performative contradictions which throw him
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which shape but do not determine the nature of such acknowledgment and engagement.

This has 3 implications for the debate:

Traditional ethical theories fail as guiding principles because they can’t see the inherent harms within their framing
Critical analysis is necessary to enact policy as impacts are indeterminate without revealing structural violence
Rejection, even with action, is not enough to overcome harmful normalization. Only an environment fostering constant analysis can uncover structural violence.

Criticism is the ultimate responsibility of intellectuals, necessary to ensure that reforms and revolutions don’t replicate the problems they seek to address. The ballot represents an endorsement of a critical genealogy designed to unmask the ways in which power operates.

Michel Foucault, Professor, College de France, "Human Nature: Justice Versus Power," Noam Chomsky Debates with Michel Foucault, International Philosophers Project, 1971. Available from the World Wide Web at: http://www.chomsky.info/debates/1971xxxx.htm.
"It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as
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to see this class power reconstitute itself even after an apparent revolutionary process."

Tournament: Strake Jesuit | Round: 3 | Opponent: Christopher Colombus AT | Judge: Tom Evnen

Global capitalism has changed. We no longer exist within a structure that aims to exploit our physical labor. We now exist within an ever-growing structure of semio-capitalism, an economy and fetishization of knowledge, symbols, and academics. Semiocapitalism is now fueled by our cognition – our intellectual production is turned into fuel for neoliberal economics. No matter how radical the content of our work is, it ignores the form of debate as a semiotic economy which precludes its potential.

Bifo '7 (Franco Berardi, Professor of Social History of Communication at the Academia di belle Arti in Milan, and Founder of A/traverse, Technology and Knowledge in a Universe of Indetermination, SubStance ~#112, Vol. 36 no. 1, trans. Giuseppina Mecchia, pp. 68-72)
When we talk about the mental nature of the productive process we mean that the
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and causing a truly maddening paralysis ~destruction~ of cognition and affectivity.

The Academy has become the new factory for neoliberalism and is now a critical site in the circulation of semiotics, rendering us to a banal existence of intellectual social death within the academy.

Worker, 10. President of the University of California compares University to a graveyard. Student Activists largely take offense to being compared to corpses, yet they use dead strategies which certain anarchists want to go beyond. Yet it is no wonder students act like corpses, being that the University is a space for the manufacture of Social Death.  ~http://anarchistnews.org/content/university-social-death-and-inside-joke~~ Black Lavender

An unfortunate slip of the tongue found ~the~ University of California
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we know the inside joke of the matter: they are simply undead.

In order to break the endless cycle of demeaning academic slavery – The affirmative advocates to hijack the space of debate. The Role of the Ballot is to evaluate competing methodologies to better disrupting the academy.

Gavroche, 16. Julius Gavroche, writer for "Autonomies" - Autonomies is a space for exploring, analyzing and proposing possibilities for human freedom. ~http://autonomies.org/pt/2016/11/struggles-for-space-hijacking-spaces-of-authority-6/ ~ Black Lavender
Architecture is like a written language, and just like the letters on this page
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appropriation. A method of change as opposed to another revolutionary utopian ideal.

We ought not seek meaning, only squander it. In order to challenge the system, we must begin with the level of formnot its representational contents. Absent a poetic nullification of the traditional form - all attempts at resistance remain binary and terribly banal. We must challenge the semiotic medium through which the condition of political thought is filtered.

Pawlett 13. William Pawlett, senior lecturer in media, communications, and cultural studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, Violence, Society and Radical Theory : Bataille, Baudrillard and Contemporary Society, pg. 132
In recent sociological literature, hatred is understood as the result of an entrenched structure
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never, according to Baudrillard, come to pass (Baudrillard 1996a). 7

~Proceed to fuck shit up~

Tournament: Colleyville Heritage | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Westwood RS | Judge: Kris Wright

We begin in 1971, the U.S. sanctioned Counter Intelligence Program is terminated after the infiltration, surveillance, and disruption of political organizations is fully exposed to the public. The official history has rendered COINTELPRO a moment of the past, a ghost that the U.S. has put to rest in our new post-racial era – but while COINTELPRO died off, the superstructure that sustains the violence of such programs did not disappear; it simply found new conduits of power to exploit.

Restrictions on free speech have emerged as one of the new conduits of power for which dominant power exploits – restrictions have obscured our abilities to freely watch the police.

Larkin, 14.  "Filming the Watchmen: Why the First Amendment Protects Your Right to Film the Police in Public Places"   June 14, 2014. Larkin Jr. directs The Heritage Foundation’s project to counter abuse of the criminal law, particularly at the federal level, as senior legal research fellow in the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. This "overcriminalization" project is part of Heritage’s Rule of Law initiative. Black Lavender
The Supreme Court has consistently held that the First Amendment protects the right to gather
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had been the site of a recent inmate suicide and allegedly abusive conditions. 

Just as the Citizen’s Commission to Investigate the FBI broke into a field office to expose COINTELPRO, watching the watchers through sousvellience exposes the cracks of the courts and police in the name of resistance and justice.

Fiske 96 – (John Fiske, Spring 1996, "Black Bodies of Knowledge: Notes on an Effective History," Cultural Critique No. 33 p. 188 - 192)
Effective history emphasizes events, discontinuities, and multiplicities over the homogenizing trend of the
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strong knowledge systems overlook, that carry the effective truths of the disempowered.

The role of the ballot is to vote for the debater that best combats dominant visuality.

Thus we demand that public colleges and universities not restrict forms of free speech in the United States.

Sousvellience is a methodology for interrogating the way state domination and Antiblack violence projects through the state and that sets a framework that allows for remapping of society and a resurgence outside of the state. The affirmative’s starting point of the "Right to Look" is a necessary to reject the dismissal of rights and challenges the root cause of state domination.

Mirzoeff 11 (Nicholas, professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, "The Right to Look", Duke University Press 2011, CONCEPTUALIZING COUNTERVISUALITY)
Carlyle presented visuality as naturally authoritative while being aware not only of opposition, but
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that are not designed to preserve them and have not always done so.

Surveillance arose from the plantation. The slave was reduce to an object that was presenced through techniques such as oversight that positions black bodies as epistemological possessions

Mirzoeff 11. Nicholas, professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, "The Right to Look", Duke University Press 2011. The Ordering of Slavery
The deployment of visuality and visual technologies as a Western social technique for ordering was
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meaning the nomination of what was visible to the overseer on the plantation.

The State and FBI have named and categorized counter watching as domestic terrorism with the same logic that created COINTELPRO – Only by filming the police can we protect organizations against state abuses of power.

Bernd, 14. Candice Bernd is an editor/staff reporter at Truthout. With her partner, she is writing and producing Don't Frack With Denton, a documentary chronicling how her hometown became the first city to ban fracking in Texas, and its subsequent overturn in the state legislature. She is also a contributor to Truthout's anthology on police violence, Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?
When communities attempt to police the police, they often get, well... policed
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charges of interference or failing to identify themselves during their cop watching activities. 

Technologies of surveillance can be used to reveal hidden aspects of the surveillance state and foster resistance and activism that is necessary to reverse the conduits of state power.

Garrido 15 ~Miguelangel, Berlin Forum on Global Politics, Germany. "Contesting a Biopolitics of Information and Communications: The Importance of Truth and Sousveillance After Snowden," Surveillance and Society Vol. 13 No. 2~
The previous section explained that global mass surveillance is a state and/or corporate
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considering the implications of these new technologies. (Snowden 17th July 2014)

Tournament: University of Texas | Round: 1 | Opponent: McNeil KP | Judge: Clement Agho Otoghile
We begin in 1971, the U.S. sanctioned Counter Intelligence Program is terminated after the infiltration, surveillance, and disruption of political organizations such as the Black Panthers is fully exposed to the public. The official history has rendered COINTELPRO a moment of the past, a ghost that the U.S. has put to rest in our new post-racial era – but while COINTELPRO died off, the superstructure that sustains the violence of such programs did not disappear; it simply found new conduits of power to exploit. 

Qualified immunity is one of these new conduits of state power – It has obscured the 1st Amendment, which creates limitations on our ability to freely watch the police.
Chen 15 (Qualified Immunity Liming Access to Justice and Impeding Development of the Law”, Vol. 41 No. 1, Alan K. Chen, the William M. Beaney Memorial Research Chair and professor of law at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where he teaches courses in constitutional law, federal courts, and public interest law, American Bar Association, http://www.americanbar.org/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/2015~-~-vol~-~-41-/vol~-~-41~-~-no~-~-1~-~~-~-lurking-in-the-shadows~-~-the-supreme-court-s-qui/qualified-immunity-limiting-access-to-justice-and-impeding-devel.html) Black Lavender
What this means is that in cases involving cutting-edge issues of constitutional law
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(2010) (Ginsburg, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari).

Just as the Citizen’s Commission to Investigate the FBI broke into a field office to expose COINTELPRO, watching the watchers through counterwatching exposes the cracks of the courts and police in the name of resistance and justice.  K – Haaris
Fiske 96 – (John Fiske, Spring 1996, “Black Bodies of Knowledge: Notes on an Effective History,” Cultural Critique No. 33 p. 188 - 192), Black Lavender
Effective history emphasizes events, discontinuities, and multiplicities over the homogenizing trend of the
AND
strong knowledge systems overlook, that carry the effective truths of the disempowered.

Countervisuality is a methodology for interrogating the way state domination and Antiblack violence projects through the state that sets a framework that allows for remapping of society and a resurgence outside of the state. The affirmative’s starting point of the “Right to Look” is a necessary performance that rejects the dismissal of rights and challenges the root cause of state domination.
Mirzoeff 11 (Nicholas, professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, "The Right to Look", Duke University Press 2011, CONCEPTUALIZING COUNTERVISUALITY) Black Lavender
Carlyle presented visuality as naturally authoritative while being aware not only of opposition, but
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that are not designed to preserve them and have not always done so.

Surveillance arose from the plantation. The slave was reduce to an object that was presenced through techniques such as oversight that positions black bodies as epistemological possessions  
Mirzoeff 11. Nicholas, professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, “The Right to Look”, Duke University Press 2011. The Ordering of Slavery
The deployment of visuality and visual technologies as a Western social technique for ordering was
AND
meaning the nomination of what was visible to the overseer on the plantation.

The State and FBI have named and categorized counter watching as domestic terrorism with the same logic that created COINTELPRO – Only by filming the police can we protect ourselves against state abuses of power.
Bernd, 14. Candice Bernd is an editor/staff reporter at Truthout. With her partner, she is writing and producing Don't Frack With Denton, a documentary chronicling how her hometown became the first city to ban fracking in Texas, and its subsequent overturn in the state legislature. She is also a contributor to Truthout's anthology on police violence, Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? – Black Lavender
When communities attempt to police the police, they often get, well... policed
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charges of interference or failing to identify themselves during their cop watching activities.