Tournament: city classic | Round: 3 | Opponent: wdv | Judge: Travis henderson
The aff is a façade --- a pseudo-sign image of real progress --- this narcissistic reinforcement of power turns the case
Williams 2k (Christopher R. Williams, PhD, forensic psychology, professor and chairman of the Department of Criminal Justice Studies at Bradley University, Bruce A. Arrigo, PhD, administration of justice, professor of criminology, law, and society, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of North Carolina, Faculty Associate in the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, “The (Im)Possibility of Democratic Justice and the ‘Gift’ of the Majority,” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Vol. 16, No. 3, August 2000, pgs. 321-343)

They don’t access any solvency- the aff’s just a tool for their personal gain- reinforcing the power of the majority
Williams 2k (Christopher R. Williams, PhD, forensic psychology, professor and chairman of the Department of Criminal Justice Studies at Bradley University, Bruce A. Arrigo, PhD, administration of justice, professor of criminology, law, and society, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of North Carolina, Faculty Associate in the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, “The (Im)Possibility of Democratic Justice and the ‘Gift’ of the Majority,” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Vol. 16, No. 3, August 2000, pgs. 321-343)

Their demand for the ballot is trapped in a web of scheming --- this poisons their call for change
McGowan 09 (Todd McGowan, Associate Professor, film theory, University of Vermont, PhD, Ohio State University, studies the intersection of Hegel, psychoanalysis, and existentialism and cinema, “The Exceptional Darkness of The Dark Knight,” Jump Cut, No. 51, Spring 2009, http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc51.2009/darkKnightKant/text.html)

The alternative is to vote negative because the 1AC’s ethics are right --- to be the Dark Knight --- this is the only option for true heroism and substantive change
McGowan 09 (Todd McGowan, Associate Professor, film theory, University of Vermont, PhD, Ohio State University, studies the intersection of Hegel, psychoanalysis, and existentialism and cinema, “The Exceptional Darkness of The Dark Knight,” Jump Cut, No. 51, Spring 2009, http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc51.2009/darkKnightKant/text.html)

Tournament: NIles | Round: 3 | Opponent: Whitney Young | Judge: NA
Embargo sustains Cuba’s keystone biodiversity—Reverse causal
Canney 12 Alexis Canney, news correspondent, “The Threat of Lifting the US Embargo”, March 1 2012, http://pages.vassar.edu/cubantransitions/the-threat-of-lifting-the-us-embargo/
Cuba’s political isolation and economic … , the smallest bird in existence.

Biodiversity loss leads to extinction
Mittermeier ‘11
(et al, Dr. Russell Alan Mittermeier is a primatologist, herpetologist and biological anthropologist. He holds Ph.D. from Harvard in Biological Anthropology and serves as an Adjunct Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has conducted fieldwork for over 30 years on three continents and in more than 20 countries in mainly tropical locations. He is the President of Conservation International and he is considered an expert on biological diversity. Mittermeier has formally discovered several monkey species. From Chapter One of the book Biodiversity Hotspots – F.E. Zachos and J.C. Habel (eds.), DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-20992-5_1, # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011. This evidence also internally references Norman Myers, a very famous British environmentalist specialising in biodiversity. available at: http://www.academia.edu/1536096/Global_biodiversity_conservation_the_critical_role_of_hotspots)

Extinction is the gravest consequence … remaining” criterion to a genuine hotspot.

Tournament: Niles | Round: 2 | Opponent: NA | Judge: NA
1NC (short)

Plan’s coercive.
Rothbard 2 (Murray Rothbard, former teacher, Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, New Liberty – Involuntary Servitude, no date, p. http://www.mises.org/rothbard/newliberty4a.asp)

In a sense, the entire system … as its unpaid tax collectors? 

You know the lyrics
Petro, 74 (Sylvester, Professor of Law at Wake Forest University, University of Toledo Law Review, p.480)

However, one may still insist, … and resisted with undying spirit.
1NC (long) 

The plan is coercive, vote negative to protect liberty
Rothbard, 2  Dean of the Austrian School of economics (Murray N., “The Nature of the State”, excerpted from The Ethics of Liberty ch. 22-25, 2002, http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard160.html)//KG 

The State indeed performs many … the apologia for State rule.

Tournament: kentucky | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Westminster | Judge: na
The aff’s invocation of death impacts is necrophilia, a blind obsession with body counts that ends in extinction. Vote neg to reject death impacts—this is a gateway issue—if they win death impacts are good, the rest of the 1NC applies—we won’t cross-apply to prove links
Fromm 64’ Erich, was a Professor of Psychology at Michigan State and New York University. He held a Ph. D in Sociology from Heidelberg University, “Creators and Destroyers”, The Saturday Review, New York (04. January 1964), pp. 22-25jweideman

Tournament: State | Round: 4 | Opponent: Iowa City West | Judge: Daniel Gobberdiel
Link and impact: Capitalist production-desire perpetuates escalatory violence: their impacts are inevitable
Deleuze and Guattari 72 Gilles Deleuze=philosopher taught at the University of Vincennes in Saint-Denis and Felix Guattari= psychoanalyst trained under Jacques Lacan, 1972, “Anti-Oedipus CAPITALISM AND SCHIZOPHRENIA”, pg 144-145

the alt is to vote neg to recognize the flawed ontology of our psyche
Deleuze and Guattari 72 Gilles Deleuze=philosopher taught at the University of Vincennes in Saint-Denis and Felix Guattari= psychoanalyst trained under Jacques Lacan, 1972, “Anti-Oedipus CAPITALISM AND SCHIZOPHRENIA”, pg 139-140

Tournament: Valley | Round: Doubles | Opponent: CR wash | Judge: NA
The affirmatives fear of death causes endless war and is the root cause of their impacts
Kubler-Ross 69 Elisabeth, Swiss American … Death and Dying”, google books

Until now we have looked … with less irrationality and fear. 

The alternative is to taste death as a passage into nothingness – only this opens up a space for an avoidance of violence
Hughes 98 Glenn, “The Denial of … -of-dyingandcatid=19:lecture-textsandItemid=35

As a cultural anthropologist, Becker was … in a mystery of eternal meaning.

Tournament: Michigan | Round: 1 | Opponent: Dowling WZ | Judge: NA
Will pass and pc key
Creamer 10/25 Robert Creamer, political strategist, “Four Reasons Why Shutdown Battle Increases Odds of Passing Immigration Reform”, 10/25/2013, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/four-reasons-why-shutdown_b_4162829.html
Yesterday, President Obama renewed his … factor. There are probably more.
parents. 

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Visas are key to science diplomacy
Redden ‘8 Elizabeth Redden is a staff writer for inside higher ed. ”Science Knows No Borders. But Funders Do.” July 16 2008 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/07/16/science// J. Weideman  

What scientists ….on that front.

Science diplomacy and cooperation key to solve the world’s most pressing issues
Federoff 8 (Nina, science and technology adviser to the Sec of State, , “International Science and Technology Cooperation”, transcript from a hearing before the subcommittee on research and science education, http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-110hhrg41470/html/CHRG-110hhrg41470.htm)
Chairman Baird, Ranking Member Ehlers, and distinguished members …..to advance U.S. interests in foreign policy.

Tournament: HOFLO | Round: 1 | Opponent: na | Judge: na
Rejecting the inevitable devalues life and collapses impact calculus
Saurette ‘96 Paul Saurette, PhD in political theory at John Hopkins U, in 96 "I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them': Nietzshce, Arendt and the Crisis of the Will to Order in INternational Relations Theory." Millenium Journal of International Studies. Vol. 25 no. 1 page 3-6 The Will to Order and Politics-as-Making The Philosophical Foundation of the Will to Truth/Order•. I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. A will to a system is a lack .of ! integrity."

And extinction is inevitable  
Vogt ‘2 D., is a writer, historical researcher, and manager of the Canadian History channel on Helium. He is a graduate student in history, and holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in international studies and history. http://www.helium.com/items/1885414-why-the-human-race-is-doomed-to-extinction 

The 1AC corrupts agency, attaching irrational response to unavoidable circumstance, vote negative to love life and accept personal freedom
Faulkner ‘8 Joanne Faulkner, ARC Research Fellow in the School of History and Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Spring/Autumn 2008, “The Innocence of Victimhood Versus the “Innocence of Becoming”: Nietzsche, 9/11, and the “Falling Man””, The Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Project MUSE, umn-rks

Tournament: State | Round: 3 | Opponent: na | Judge: na
Reforms make the plan inevitable but a quick transition breaks cuba
Piccone, 12 (Ted Piccone is a senior fellow and deputy director for Foreign Policy at Brookings. Piccone specializes in U.S.-Latin American relations; global democracy and human rights; and multilateral affairs. Piccone serves as an advisor to the Club of Madrid and has served on the National Security Council, at the State Department and Pentagon), Brookings, “Cuba Is Changing, Slowly but Surely,” January 19, 2012, http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2012/01/19-cuba-piccone

Engagement causes an unstable transition
Cruz 03 (current qualifications: PhD., Chief economist for Miami-Dade County) “Foreign Direct Investment in Post-Castro Cuba: Problems, Opportunities and Recommendations,” University of Miami, Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, Pg. 20, http://ctp.iccas.miami.edu/Research_Studies/RDCruz.pdf

Cuban instability causes biological warfare
Mastrapa 99 Armando F. Mastrapa, Department of Government and Politics, St. John's University, 1999, "Evolution, Transition And The Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces,"www.ascecuba.org/publications/proceedings/volume9/pdfs/mastrapa.pdf

Extinction
Sandberg 8 is a James Martin Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University; Jason G. Matheny, PhD candidate in Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and special consultant to the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Milan M. ?irkovi?, senior research associate at the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade and assistant professor of physics at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia and Montenegro, 9/8/8, “How can we reduce the risk of human extinction?,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/features/how-can-we-reduce-the-risk-of-human-extinction

Tournament: Caucus | Round: 2 | Opponent: NA | Judge: NA
Text:  The terrocrats should substantially increase affective economic engagement with Cuba
Observation 1:  It competes-it does not use the term Federal Government.
Observation 2:  It solves-the terrocrats carry out the exact same action as their fictitious representation of the government would.
Observation 3:  Net benefit.
True oppression stems not from our policy towards one country, fight against one system, or even through our us vs. them mentality. It stems from our collective desire to be governed. This obsession with “government” leads to the impacts of the 1AC.

Mann 98 Frederick, "The Nature of Government", Version 2, Originally Published in Terra Libra, 1994, http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/freebooks/neuro/govt.html

The human brain is an … out anything to the contrary. 

addiction to governance is used to coerce.  coercion leads to death, destruction, and unending violence.
Mann 95 Frederick, "Why You Must Recognise and Understand Coercion", http://www.mind-trek.com/reports/misc/coercion.htm

In its strongest form, coercion … lie to get your mind. 

Counter Plan solves-using the term terrocrat shows the underside of violence that the abstraction government covers.
Mann 98 Frederick, "The Nature of Government", Version 2, Originally Published in Terra Libra, 1994, http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/freebooks/neuro/govt.html

There is an "intermediate method" … the airwaves and in print!