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Notes
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CONTINUING***************************************
WGLF has actually read this and won in west Georgia
Read the diclaimer at the bottom for more information
A highlight of this is jards sandwich argument starting at 32
Also the squirrels 1AC and consult vermin Cp and planking and zombies
will kill us although that is kinda stupid
BRONY 1AC IS FUNNY AND LIKE A GENDER KRITIK WITH ILLIGITAMITE
EVIDENCE
NEW VEGAS 1AC IS STUPID DONT READ IT
Certain aspects of the file like MAO have some legitimate meaning as a
Kritik but otherwise than that the disclaimer says never to read this in
an actual debate round
Do not be fooled by the word troll in the beginning this is a trolls
Excalibur the ultimate weapon for a debate troll
CTL+click on index to go to specific page
Respect the value of the file to trolls at the same time its not for debate
use just really funny about how far debate can go if you really stretch
the limits
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Squirrel 1AC.................................................................................................................................... 2
Zombies Are Gonna Kill Us!........................................................................................................... 11
Brony 1AC (From Richardson)....................................................................................................... 16
***Make Me A Sandwich***........................................................................................................... 32
1AR: 1Ns Burden Shell................................................................................................................. 33
Freedom Net Benefit..................................................................................................................... 35
U.S. Russia War Net Benefit.......................................................................................................... 36
A/T 1NR Important/No voter.......................................................................................................... 41
A/T Make a sandwich during 1AR.................................................................................................. 42
A/T Aff Needs to Make a Sandwich Too.......................................................................................... 43
A/T 2N beating up the 1N during the 2NR..................................................................................... 44
A/T Put it on the tab (Ill get a lot of sandwiches later).................................................................45
A/T 2N didnt ask........................................................................................................................... 46
A/T 2N asked but didnt get anything............................................................................................ 47
A/T Trieu, 2010/Beat up the 1N..................................................................................................... 48
Timecube Kritik............................................................................................................................. 50
Mao Kritik...................................................................................................................................... 53
Nobody Gives a Shit...................................................................................................................... 55
***Counterplans***....................................................................................................................... 59
***Consult Ashtar***..................................................................................................................... 60
Consult Ashtar CP Solves Case................................................................................................... 61
Consult Ashtar CP Solves Net Benefit......................................................................................... 62
1NC - Ashtar DA............................................................................................................................ 63
Ashtar DA Impact Ext................................................................................................................. 65
Ashtar DA - TimeFrame................................................................................................................. 66
Ashtar DA- 2012 = Positive........................................................................................................... 69
A/T Ashtar is Demonic................................................................................................................... 73
A/T Ashtar is Alien Invasion.......................................................................................................... 75
Consult Vermin Counterplan......................................................................................................... 77
***Consult Chuck Norris***........................................................................................................... 82
***Planking***............................................................................................................................... 85
***WGLF***................................................................................................................................... 89

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Squirrel 1AC
Observation 1 is Inherency
Squirrels have been running amok since 1975 when Executive Order 11870 banned
the most effective squirrel poison other approaches require more personnel
Department of the Army Historical Summary, 2004 (27 August 2004,
http://www.army.mil/cmh/books/DAHSUM/1977/ch11.htm, accessed 3/13/2007 7:08 PM, Google)
The ground squirrel population in that area has increased to a point where the rodents pose
threats on several counts. They are potential carriers of bubonic plague, cause damage to
buildings and facilities, reduce crop production, and compete with other wild life for available
food. Since 1971 the Army has not applied effective pest control measures at Fort Ord.
Resumption of these measures has been precluded since 1975 by Executive Order 11870, which
forbade the use on federal lands of "secondary poisons" which make the tissue poisonous to
other creatures. In the meantime, most private landowners adjacent to Fort Ord continued to use
pesticide 1080, a secondary poison. Although the Army submitted its environmental impact
statements in the winter and spring of 1977, it selected zinc phosphide, a less controversial
rodenticide, as the prime agent to fight the squirrel menace in the spring of 1978 when the
rodents would be most active and susceptible to control measures.
And, Military budget crunch has caused severe cuts in pest management personnel
Kuffner, 2006 (Charles, http://www.offthekuff.com/mt/archives/cat_national_news.html)
A "severe budget crunch" has hit Fort Hood, one of the nation's largest military posts and home
to a U.S. Army division serving in Iraq, officials said Thursday.
The funding squeeze forced the Central Texas installation to impose an immediate hiring freeze
and dramatic cuts in contracts with local providers of support services, officials said.
The move announced Thursday follows "significant internal steps to help manage existing funds
through the end of the fiscal year," an announcement from base headquarters said.
"Additional measures are necessary and will be implemented beginning (Thursday)," the
statement said.
In addition to the "100 percent civilian hiring freeze," other cutbacks will reduce custodial
contracts, on-post housing referrals, grounds maintenance contracts and government vehicle
contracts, officials said.
Additionally, pest management contracts were "severely" cut and other services were
"significantly" reduced, officials said.
Advantage 1 is the Power Grid
Now squirrels are once again on the rampage causing tens of thousands of power
outages yearly, and now is key attacks have tripled in the past year
Gomez, 2007 (3-11-07, Suicide squirrels driving utilities nuts, Alan,
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-03-11-suicide-squirrels_N.htm)
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Every year, Neil Engelman carefully collects his data, stands before his company's board of
directors and is asked the same question: What caused more outages? The lightning or the
squirrels?
Four of the past five years, the answer has been the squirrels, says Engelman, vice president of
operations for the Lincoln Electric System in Nebraska. Nebraska is not alone. Many states are
grappling with a big increase in the number of power outages caused by squirrel electrocutions.
Squirrels that fry themselves on power lines and transformers cause tens of thousands of
blackouts every year.
Some states have seen a massive jump in recent years in the number of such outages. In
Georgia, squirrel-related outages more than tripled from 5,273 in 2005 to 16,750 in 2006.
And, Electricity failures cause nuclear meltdowns
EIJ 2K (Earth Island Journal, Winter,
http://www.earthisland.org/eijournal/win2000/wr_win2000y2k.html)
The third type could happen if the electricity fails. Reactors depend on off-site electric
power to run cooling systems and control rooms, with emergency diesel generators
for automatic backup. Unfortunately, according to Olsen, even in the US these
generators are "not even 90 percent reliable."
"It takes only two hours without the cooling system functioning for reactor fuel to
melt," Olsen says. Power failures also could cause "a meltdown of nuclear fuel storage
pools .... These pools must be cooled for at least five years."
Loss of off-site electrical power poses the most prominent risk to nuclear powerplant
safety. Reliable back-up power is needed immediately at each nuclear site. Fuel cells and gas
turbines are more reliable than diesel generators.
The US electric power grid is fragile. In 1996, two disruptions in one five-week period caused
190 generating stations (including several nuclear reactors) to shut down. On August
10, 1996, a sagging tree limb in Oregon caused a short that caused a blackout in California,
Arizona and New Mexico. Millions of people were left without power. In some regions, the
blackout lasted several weeks.
And, Meltdown kills millions and causes extinction by widespread sterility
Wasserman 02 (Harvey, Senior Editor Free Press, Earth Island Journal, Spring,
www.earthisland.org/eijournal/new_articles.cfm?articleID=457&journalID=63)
The intense radioactive heat within today's operating reactors is the hottest
anywhere on the planet. Because Indian Point has operated so long, its accumulated
radioactive burden far exceeds that of Chernobyl
Infants and small children would quickly die en masse. Pregnant women would spontaneously
abort or give birth to horribly deformed offspring. Ghastly sores, rashes, ulcerations and burns
would afflict the skin of millions. Heart attacks, stroke and multiple organ failure would
kill thousands on the spot. Emphysema, hair loss, nausea, inability to eat or drink or
swallow, diarrhea and incontinence, sterility and impotence, asthma and blindness
would afflict hundreds of thousands, if not millions.
Then comes the wave of cancers, leukemias, lymphomas, tumors and hellish diseases for which
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new names will have to be invented.
Evacuation would be impossible, but thousands would die trying. Attempts to quench the
fires would be futile. More than 800,000 Soviet draftees forced through Chernobyl's seething
remains in a futile attempt to clean it up are still dying from their exposure. At Indian Point, the
molten cores would burn uncontrolled for days, weeks and years. Who would volunteer for such
an American task force?...
As at Three Mile Island, where thousands of farm and wild animals died in heaps, natural
ecosystems would be permanently and irrevocably destroyed. Spiritually, psychologically,
financially and ecologically, our nation would never recover
If so, the ticking reactor bombs that could obliterate the very core of our life and of all
future generations must be shut down.
Advantage 2 is the Utilities Sector
Squirrel attacks are dragging down the utilities sector
Gomez, 2007 (3-11-07, Suicide squirrels driving utilities nuts, Alan,
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-03-11-suicide-squirrels_N.htm)
Squirrels that fry themselves on power lines and transformers cause tens of thousands of
blackouts every year.
Some states have seen a massive jump in recent years in the number of such outages. In
Georgia, squirrel-related outages more than tripled from 5,273 in 2005 to 16,750 in 2006.
While the outages are usually smaller than ones caused by weather, they are costly. Georgia
Power officials estimate the rodents cost them $2 million last year. Stopping the squirrels is
costing utilities millions more dollars.
Austin Energy in Texas is alone spending over one hundred thousand dollars on
squirrel guards WE DO NOT ENDORSE THE SQUIRREL GENDERED LANGUAGE IN THIS
CARD
UPI, 2006 (Dec. 25, http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/20061225-040356-2618r/, United
Press International)
A report from the Austin Energy power company in Texas has revealed approximately 20 percent
of all its power outages are the result of squirrels. The Austin (Texas) American-Statesman
reports the rodents have a habit of coming into contact with sensitive electrical equipment on
utility poles and could likely be responsible for nearly 700 area outages a year."He's a formidable
foe," Austin Energy supervisor Karl Hauer admitted. "Ask anyone who has been stuck in traffic or
left in the dark because of a squirrel."By coming into contact with the poles' distribution
equipment, the critters quickly become a conduit for up to 7,200 volts of electricity.To fight the
increasing problem, Austin Energy is spending more than $100,000 annually to install deterrents
on equipment to keep the animals at bay.Yet many in the Texas city maintain such incidents
never occur and that energy companies simply use the squirrels as scapegoats when possible, a
charge Hauer strongly disputes."There is no truth to that," Hauer told the paper. "That might be
the lore, but who wants to carry around a dead squirrel?"
But squirrels cannot be stopped they can only be killed; they will squirrel their way
around any barriers, making guards a waste of money
Gomez, 2007 (3-11-07, Suicide squirrels driving utilities nuts, Alan,
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-03-11-suicide-squirrels_N.htm)
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In Lincoln, dubbed a Tree City USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation, "squirrel guards" have
been placed on all 19,391 transformers.
The guards vary. Some are plastic or silicone caps that protect the point where the power line
and the transformer meet. The "Critter Guard" features a flat disk that spins around whenever a
squirrel tries to climb past. Others deliver a minor shock to the squirrel to scare it off.
PECO, which powers Philadelphia and its surrounding counties, spends $1 million a year on
squirrel guards to stop outages from "those rascally little varmints," Engel said.
But squirrels adapt to the technology, forcing the utilities to switch to different forms of what's
known in the business as "wildlife abatement technology."
"Whenever we think we've got them figured out, they try something else," Engelman said.
And, Electric sector is critical to the economy any negative effects ripple quickly
through the economy
Singh, 1998 (Hon. Ganja Singh, Minister of Public Utilities, September 11,
http://www.ttparliament.org/hansard/house/1998/hh980911.pdf, accessed 3/12/2007 3:14 PM)
I would now look at the rationale of this Bill by exploring the following areas: the importance of
the utilities sector, global trends, local trends and the limitation of the present Public Utilities
Commission legislation and key provisions of the new legislation. The importance of the sector.
Vital and essential to life in a modern society, utility services constitute the infrastructural
foundations of the development process. The level and quality of the provision of these services
are generally regarded as direct measures of the quality of life or the standard of living in a
country. Providing infrastructure services to meet the demand of users is, therefore, one of the
major challenges of economic development. Utility services have strong linkages to the national
economy and to human well-being. Inefficiencies in the provision of these services are likely to
be felt quickly and throughout the economy and, thereby, impact adversely on the
competitiveness of the national economy and the quality of life of the people. Good utility
infrastructure, on the other hand, raises productivity, lowers production costs and improves the
quality of life of people.
And, Economic struggles in the U.S. directly affect Japan and China and quickly spread
globally
Frontline, 5-6-2005
[India's National Magazine, from the publishers of THE HINDU, Volume 22 - Issue 09,
http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2209/stories/20050506002012000.htm]
According to Tomomichi Akuta, an economist at the UFJ Institute in Japan, Japanese subsidiaries
in China exported around 4.9 trillion yen of electronics goods in 2004, of which 8 per cent were
direct exports to the U.S. The exports of electronics related items from Japanese firms to their
Chinese subsidiaries in that year were around 1.3 trillion yen. Of this, about 20 per cent was
linked to exports by these subsidiaries to the U.S. Further, about a third of the 846 billion yen of
unfinished goods exported by these subsidiaries to other Asian countries, were finally destined
for the U.S., Thus a slowdown in the U.S. would, at one remove, affect Japan as well. In fact, the
effect would be far greater than suggested by these figures since there are a number of nonJapanese firms in China exporting to the U.S. that import capital goods, intermediates and
components from Japanese firms. What all this implies is that a slowdown in the U.S. can not only
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rein in growth in the other major growth-pole in the world economy, China, but also have ripple
effects in the form of deceleration across the globe that can spiral into a major crisis.
And, Global economic collapse equals global nuclear war
Thomas Bearden, Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army, 2000 (June 24,
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3aaf97f22e23.htm)
History bears out that desperate nations take desperate actions . Prior to the final economic
collapse, the stress on nations will have increased the intensity and number of their conflicts, to
the point where the arsenals of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) now possessed by some 25
nations, are almost certain to be released. As an example, suppose a starving North Korea
launches nuclear weapons upon Japan and South Korea, including U.S. forces there, in a
spasmodic suicidal response. Or suppose a desperate China-whose long-range nuclear missiles
(some) can reach the United States-attacks Taiwan. In addition to immediate responses, the
mutual treaties involved in such scenarios will quickly draw other nations into the conflict,
escalating it significantly. Strategic nuclear studies have shown for decades that, under such
extreme stress conditions, once a few nukes are launched, adversaries and potential adversaries
are then compelled to launch on perception of preparations by one's adversary. The real legacy
of the MAD concept is this side of the MAD coin that is almost never discussed. Without effective
defense, the only chance a nation has to survive at all is to launch immediate full-bore preemptive strikes and try to take out its perceived foes as rapidly and massively as possible. As the
studies showed, rapid escalation to full WMD exchange occurs. Today, a great percent of the
WMD arsenals that will be unleashed, are already on site within the United States itself. The
resulting great Armageddon will destroy civilization as we know it, and perhaps most of the
biosphere, at least for many decades.
Advantage 3 is the Plague
New Bubonic Plague Mutations are frighteningly resistant to treatment we must
prepare a response
UCG, 2003 (United Church of God, Drug-Resistant Bubonic Plague, Good News Magazine,
http://www.ucgportland.org/popups/gn9805e.html)
A case of bubonic plague was recently discovered in Madagascar, an island in the Indian Ocean
off the southeast coast of Africa. This is not the first case of bubonic plague discovered in recent
years. Rather, it is the first case identified that is resistant to multiple antibiotics, including the
ones commonly given to treat the plague.
Two years ago a 16-year old boy on Madagascar was diagnosed with a drug-resistant plague
bacterium. Three antibiotics were necessary to save his life. The isolated organism (Y, Pestis
bacterium) was found to carry five antibiotic-resistant genes. The antibacterial drugs that this
particular bacterium was resistant to were streptomycin, gentamicin, chloramphenicol,
tetracycline and various sulfonamide compounds. It was found susceptible to trimethropim.
Although similar multiple drug-resistant gene transfers have been found in other diseasescausing bacteria, never before have they been found in bubonic plague, a disease synonymous
with debilitating epidemics and pandemics. Researchers dont know whether the Madagascar
bacterium is rare or common, but they do know that it symbolizes the growing problem of
antibiotic resistance in human pathogens.
Stuart Levy of Tufts University Medical School cautions, We now know this agent exists, and
have to be alert for it in other countries, where we know antibiotic resistance has emerged in so
many other bacteria.
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Drs. David Dennis and James Hughes of the CDC state that such incidents provide another grim
reminder that emerging infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance in one location can pose
serious problems for the entire world.
This response must include squirrel eradication they carry bubonic plague
NBC, 2007 (Santa Monica To Give Birth Control Shots To Local Squirrels, March 5,
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/11173312/detail.html?subid=10101581)
Experts say squirrels are aggressive and may carry rabies or host fleas that can spread disease,
such as bubonic plague.
The larger the squirrel population, the greater the chance for infestation, which in turn could
expose humans and predatory animals to disease, Gail Van Gordon, a Los Angeles County Health
Services Department entomologist, told The Times.
Finally, resistant microbes are the greatest threat to humyn survival
Bruce Sterling February 1995 (science journalist) in Bitter Resistance
At the close of this century, antibiotic resistance is one of the gravest threats that confronts the
human race. It ranks in scope with overpopulation, nuclear disaster, destruction of the ozone,
global warming, species extinction and massive habitat destruction. Although it gains very little
attention in comparison to those other horrors, there is nothing theoretical or speculative about
antibiotic resistance. The mere fact that we cant see it happening doesnt mean that its not
taking place. It is occurring, stealthily and steadily, in a world which we polluted drastically
before we ever took the trouble to understand it.
We have spent billions to kill bacteria but mere millions to truly comprehend them. In our
arrogance, we have gravely underestimated our enemys power and resourcefulness. Antibiotic
resistance is a very real threat which is well documented and increasing at considerable speed.
In its scope and its depth and the potential pain and horror of its implications, it may be the
single greatest menace that we human beings confront aside, of course, the steady increase in
our own numbers. And if we dont somehow resolve our grave problems with bacteria, then
bacteria may well resolve that population problem for us .
Thus the Plan: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase
the number of persons serving in the Armed Forces by substantially increasing the
pecuniary and educational benefits as well as end strength for Pest Management
(3E4X3) in order to enable the National Guard to apply its pest control operations
procedure to the emerging squirrel crisis.
And, we arent extra T, it is already standard policy for the National Guard to do
animal control
Heath et al, 1998 (Animals in Disasters, Secretary/Treasurer, American Academy on
Veterinary Disaster Medicine, http://training.fema.gov/EMIWEB/downloads/IS11Comp.pdf,
accessed 3/12/2007 6:11 PM)
If your initial assessment requires resources beyond your local
capability, your State emergency management office should be
notified of this immediately. Most States require the chief
executive of the local government to officially request a
Governors declaration of disaster in order to obtain State
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assistance. The local emergency program manager is
responsible for local damage assessment and the report to the
State emergency management office.
The State, acting on the information provided, will dispatch
personnel and equipment to the disaster area and assist in the
response and recovery effort. The National Guard may be
asked to assist with animal care and control issues and animalrelated claims investigations. Detailed assessments and specific
requests for assistance will receive the most appropriate
response. If the State feels that Federal assistance is also
required, the States director of emergency management alerts
FEMA. FEMA may also dispatch representatives to the area.
The National Guard is already assigned to target pest disease vectors, its just that
these are subject to prioritizing
Pritt, 2002 (Douglass A., COL GS, Chief of Staff, Integrated Pest Management Plan,
http://www.mil.state.or.us/Agi-E/ORARNGRRegs/210-5/Regulations/PESTPLAN-TEXT.DOC.)
PRIORITY. Pest control operations will be prioritized at each facility, for reasons discussed below,
and conducted in the order shown below:
a. DISEASE VECTORS AND PUBLIC HEALTH PESTS
(1) Mosquito species found in Oregon have the potential to transmit St. Louis
encephalitis and Western equine encephalitis, although these diseases have not occurred in the
state for many years.
(2) Rabies has been found in Oregon, mainly in wild mammals.
(3) Plague has been found in field rodents located in the eastern and southwestern parts
of the State, and the hantavirus has been confirmed in rodents during tests at both Camp Rilea
and the Biak Training Center. The ORARNG Occupational Health Office has developed a
hantavirus exposure prevention program.
(4) Ticks may transmit disease organisms within the State. Tick-borne diseases include
Lyme disease, Colorado tick fever, tick-borne relapsing fever, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
Some ORARNG training sites were surveyed for ticks in 1992, with negative results for target
species. Since problems have occurred in adjoining states, ORARNG will periodically complete
additional surveys.
(5) Pest control operations will target all disease vectors and public health pests if they
are shown to be a problem. All persons engaged in pest control operations should ensure that
proper procedures are followed for all pest control operations involving disease vectors.
And the job description of Pest Management (3E4X3) is applicable
National Guard Career Detail, 2007 (http://www.goang.com/careers/detail.aspx?
career=cf7123bb-e50b-4d45-a71f-22ed999743b8)
Pest Management (3E4X3)
Manages evaluates, and executes integrated pest management and environmental compliance,
hazardous materials and waste, and pollution prevention programs.
Alternate Titles:
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SPECIALISTS; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTISTS; AIR POLLUTION ANALYSTS;
SOILS ANALYSTS; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENISTS; AIR QUALITY ANALYSTS; FOOD AND DRUG
INSPECTORS; PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTORS
Duties and Responsibilities:
BACKGROUND
Performs integrated pest management functions. Conducts pest management surveys.
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Determines pest management actions needed to control and prevent infestations of plant and
animal pests. Interacts with medical activities to control health hazards. Selects chemicals and
operates pesticide dispersal equipment. Provides maximum residual benefits consistent with
environmental protection parameters. Ensures compliance with applicable laws and directives.
Maintains tools, equipment, and facilities. Ensures correct use and maintenance of personal
protective and tools. Maintains facilities, equipment, and storage areas. Plans and coordinates
activities. Evaluates proposed work, determines resource requirements, and prepares cost
estimates. Identifies, budgets for, and acquires specialized equipment. Inspects facilities and
provides assistance to building managers on pest preventative and control practices. Maintains
historical databases, tracking systems, and profile sheets. Provides technical assistance to CE
hazardous material users and hazardous waste generators. Each military base is a small
community. The health and well-being of the residents and surrounding land is a major concern
of the services. Keeping military work places and living areas sanitary helps to prevent illness.
Environmental health and safety specialists inspect military facilities and food supplies for the
presence of disease, germs, or other conditions hazardous to health and the environment.

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Zombies Are Gonna Kill Us!

The zombie apocalypse will be coming soon.
Koski, Genevieve. "The CDC Wants to Prepare You for the Zombie, Web. 22 July 2011.
<http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-cdc-wants-to-prepare-you-for-the-zombie-apocal,56259/>.
Presumably youve been practicing your cardio, the Double Tap, and wearing your
seatbelt in preparation for the inevitable zombie apocalypsehey, those Mayans didnt
say HOW the world was gonna end in 2012but we can all breathe a little easier now with the
knowledge that the Centers For Disease Control And Prevention also has a plan in place.
Granted, the CDCs suggestions sound a lot like its suggestions for non-zombie events like
natural disasters or a flu outbreakstock up on water, food, medication, first aid supplies,
etc., and come up with an emergency planalmost as if it were trying to make light of
the very real zombie threat to remind people to be prepared for other, un-undead disasters.
It doesnt even bother to recommend a baseball/cricket bat, lead pipe, and/or boomstick in its
survival kit suggestions! But the blog post does go into some detail about how the CDC will
respond: If zombies did start roaming the streets, CDC would conduct an investigation much like
any other disease outbreak. CDC would provide technical assistance to cities, states, or
international partners dealing with a zombie infestation. This assistance might include
consultation, lab testing and analysis, patient management and care, tracking of contacts, and
infection control (including isolation and quarantine). So, fear not: The zombie horde may
soon be scraping at your door, but as long as you have lots of bottled water, you can
probably wait it out while the CDC consults and analyzes the problem.
The Zombie Apocalypse will be in 2012
No Author. "2012 and the Zombie Apocalypse | Undead Report." The Undead Report | Real Life
Zombie News, Sightings, Zombie Apocalypse Science and Information. The Undead Report, 30
Nov. 2007. Web. 22 July 2011. <http://www.undeadreport.com/2007/11/2012-and-the-zombieapocalypse/>.
The date of 12/21/12 is derived from the end of a 5,125 year cycle for the Mesoamerican Long
Count calendar, most notably used by the Maya civilization. The calendar completes its 13th
cycle from its starting point. Correlating the Mayan date to our Gregorian calendar yields several
different dates ranging from the 21st through the 23rd, but the 21st seems likely, as it coincides
with the winter solstice, and though astrology has little to do with our daily affairs, astronomically
the Earth is said to be aligned facing the center of the Milky Way behind the Sun on the 21st.
This interesting termination of the calendar in our immediate lifetimes is what brings many to
reckon the date will bring about great global change or catalysm. Prophecies aside, how does
2012 relate to a zombie apocalypse? Certainly our world could be forever changed on this
date by an unnoticed eschatological asteroid, disease or terrible quaking of the earth. The
walking dead? Also plausible. Current scientific research into disease, reanimation and
cellular re-genesis is progressing as rapidly as other scientific disciplines. Particularly
terrifying is the reanimation of the 1918 Spanish influenza virus, responsible for a pandemic that
killed an estimated 20 million people. Scientists have gathered important new clues to why the
virus spread quickly and killed efficiently (though its use as a bio-weapon has not been
confirmed). The viral resurrection is brought about for research and a vaccine against itself
which of course has already been eradicated and the virus is being harvested from corpses,
notably the body of a woman buried in the Alaskan permafrost. Unchecked adaptive and
opportunistic pathogens claim a definite component of our eschaton, and an escaped
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weaponized version will most certainly wreak havoc against an unprepared and innocent
populace. Theres no guarantee the new vaccine will work well on humans, a problem because
nobody born after 1930 is immune to the 1918 strain. The physical walking dead demand a
certain suspense of disbelief of course. Assuming a plausible 20% of the worlds population
has been infected by a terminal pathogen, our fragile infrastructure and
socioeconomic systems will begin to break down as well. Weakened immune systems
will render humans more susceptible to the likes of Trypanosoma brucei, a parasite that
carries nightmarish qualities, reducing many of its victims to a zombie-like state before they
slip into a coma and die. Toxoplasma gondii can alter brain functions in rats, leading them to
the jaws of cats and in humans can change brain patterns to induce neuroses, paranoia and
schizophrenia. Left with a rotting brain and primitive fight-or-flight instincts, an entire
populace can be reduced to weakened lumbering shadows of humans, stumbling
around for food. Not actually dead or undead, these stupefied humans will be harbingers
of disease, parasites, bacteria and infectious rot, whose saliva and blood will be rich
with zombifying toxins. Disease ridden walking corpses are one thing. Reanimating brain-dead
humans has been discussed before and is a very real possibility. Restoring a human from a
cryogenic stasis and reanimating their dying brain tissue yields the possibility that a human may
not be the same as they were when they expired. This leaves much speculation as to a
reanimated form of a human being, but combined with the virus and diseases mentioned above
you get the idea. Five years is a fine timeframe for viruses to be developed and mutate
as well as science achieving groundbreaking results in reanimation. Where will I be in
five years? Loading shotguns and pistols seems like a nice course of action, but theyre more for
your protection against opportunistic looters, crazies and deranged survivors rather than walking
corpses. In five years I will be watching the news with cautious eyes and stocking up like I
would for any emergency.
The Advantage: Zombie Apocalypse
First, A mutated strain of malaria causes zombism is slowly growing in South Africa.
Both the US and Cambodia deny the severity of the outbreak.
BBC 2005 (no author listed. Cambodian Troops Quarantine Quan'sul, 4/25/05.
Online@http://web.archive.org/web/20050428004220/http://65.127.124.62/south_asia/4483241.s
tm.htm. Accessed 7/1/11)
The culprit was discovered to be mosquitoes native to that region carrying a new
strain of Malaria which thus far has a 100 percent mortality rating killing victims in
fewer than 2 days. After death, this virus is able to restart the heart of its victim for
up to two hours after the initial demise of the person where the individual behaves in
extremely violent ways from what is believe to be a combination of brain damage and
a chemical released into blood during resurrection. Cambodian officials say that the
outbreak has been contained and the public has no need to worry. General Ary Serey
had this to say, "We have obtained samples of this new virus and plan to learn how it
starts the heart and other major organs of the deceased. We intend to use this to
increase the quality of life for all." US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice opposed the
plan saying that the Cambodian government holds a great biological weapon and
should destroy it immediately. Cambodian officials have yet to comment. A United
Nations team will be dispatched to Cambodia to confirm the safety of biological
research in Cambodia.
Second, Zombiefication is increasing at an alarming rate.
Max Brooks 2003 (Qualfications: History Major from Pietz College highly acclaimed author
DoA: 7/21/11 DoP: ?/??/ 2003 Book: The zombie Survival Guide, a Howto Strategy of surviving. )
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Until the late twentieth century, those who studied the living dead were convinced
that the frequency of outbreaks remained constant thronghout time. Societies that
suffered more attacks than others appeared so only because they kept the best records. The
most commonly held example was ancient Rome compared to the early Middle Ages.
This theory was also used to calm "alarmists" by stating that, as humanity as a whole
relied more and more on the written word, it would appear as if outbreaks were
becoming more and more common. This way of thinking, although still common, has been
falling into disfavor for some time. The world's population is growing. Its center has
shifted from rural to urban zones. Transportation has linked the planet with
increasing speed. All these factors have led to a renaissance of infectious diseases.
Logic dictates that Solanurn can flourish in such a ripe environment. Even though
information is being recorded, shared, and stored as never before, it cannot hide the
fact that zombie attacks are on the rise, their frequency mirroring the "development"
of this planet.
Third, Its try or die A bigger outbreak of a zombie Virus causes collapse of civilization
and extinction. You have an obligation to use your ballot to save life from becoming
extinct.
Max Brooks 2003 (Qualfications: History Major from Pietz College highly acclaimed author
DoA: 7/21/11 DoP: ?/??/ 2003 Book: The zombie Survival Guide, a Howto Strategy of surviving. )
An outbreak of zombies infecting humans is likely to be disastrous, unless extremely
aggressive tactics are employed against the undead. While aggressive quarantine may
eradicate the infection, this is unlikely to happen in practice. A cure would only result
in some humans surviving the outbreak, although they will still coexist with zombies.
Only sufficiently frequent attacks, with increasing force, will result in eradication, assuming the
available resources can be mustered in time. Furthermore, these results assumed that the
timescale of the outbreak was short, so that the natural birth and death rates could
be ignored. If the timescale of the outbreak increases, then the result is the
doomsday scenario: an outbreak of zombies will result in the collapse of civilisation,
with every human infected, or dead. This is because human births and deaths will
provide the undead with a limitless supply of new bodies to infect, resurrect and
convert. Thus, if zombies arrive, we must act quickly and decisively to eradicate them
before they eradicate us. The key difference between the models presented here and other
models of infectious disease is that the dead can come back to life.
Zombie apocalypse outweighs nuclear extinction
Monstrous News, No Date
(Monstrous.com, Last Accessed 7/21/20011)
http://zombies.monstrous.com/symbolism.htm#apocalypse
Much like the atomic bomb, zombies are unleashed in a chain reaction, each devoured
corpse arising and looking for more human flesh to consume. Like any Apocalypse,
mankind is striken because of its decadence. In Romero's zombie trilogy, the flesh-eating dead
threaten a society already lost, whether the source of that loss be violence, hate, bureaucracy or
stupidity. The media, the military, science, philosophy are all helpless to provide an
answer. The violence and spiritual void of human society feeds upon itself and the
result is an apocalypse of the dead. Zombies also represent widespread annihalation in the
form of plague-like sickness. The implications here are basically the same as they are
with nuclear apocalypse, but on a more personal and intimate level. As the zombie
count increases exponentially, they cover more and more distance until they overtake
massive amounts of land area. Indeed, by the end of Romero's Day of the Dead (1985), the
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final installment of his trilogy, only a small band of military survivors is remaining in the United
States. Consequently, they choose to relocate to an uninhabited island in the tropics as the U.S.
becomes a barron wasteland, populated only by the walking dead.
Zombie Apocalypse will destroy the world
Weise, Elizabeth. "CDC Helps Americans Prepare for a Zombie Apocalypse - Science Fair USATODAY.com." News, Travel, Weather, Entertainment, Sports, Technology, U.S. & World USATODAY.com. US Today, 5-19-2011. Web. 22 July 2011.
<http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2011/05/cdc-helps-americansprepare-for-a-zombie-apocalypse/1>.
Never let it be said that the doctors at the Centers for Disease, Control and Prevention lack a
sense of humor - or the sense to find a fun way to teach Americans about emergency
preparedness. Hence today's most excellent CDC offering: Preparedness 101: Zombie
Apocalypse. The concept of zombies, the CDC helpfully notes, has Haitian and New Orleans
voodoo origins and refers to "a corpse mysteriously reanimated to serve the undead." But even
though science can't answer that gnawing question "Why do zombies like to eat brains so
much?" there is much that everyday Americans can do to prepare themselves in the event of a
Zombie Apocalypse. "That's right, I said z-o-m-b-i-e a-p-o-c-a-l-y-p-s-e. You may laugh now, but
when it happens you'll be happy you read this, and hey, maybe you'll even learn a thing or two
about how to prepare for a real emergency." That's from the author of this particular medical
treatise. Clearly, CDC's quite concerned about zombies as they've brought in the big guns here.
In this case, Rear Admiral Ali S. Khan, MD, MPH, Assistant Surgeon General and Director, Office of
Public Health Preparedness and Response After some actually quite fascinating discussion of the
various zombie-creation scenarios used in movies, TV shows and literature, as well as a (fictional)
medical paper by Harvard psychiatrist Steven Schlozman which posits an Ataxic
Neurodegenerative Satiety Deficiency Syndrome, Khan is ready to get down to business. In a
zombie apocalypse scenario, "zombies would take over entire countries, roaming city streets
eating anything living that got in their way. The proliferation of this idea has led many people to
wonder: 'How do I prepare for a zombie apocalypse?'" Khan helpfully offers up tips for surviving
exactly such an event which, wouldn't you know it, also would work in a real emergency.

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Brony 1AC (From Richardson)

Scene 1 is the status quo a history lesson
A genealogical investigation of hegemonic rhetorics of US space policy reveal a
discursive formation not only influenced by, but predicated upon patriarchal notions
of gender normativity But this is not to say that US space policy MUST be about
such gendered assumptions, but in order to re-poach this problematic history we
must search for helpful re-articulations of this historical discourse, as Griffin explains:
(Penny Griffin, prof. Politics and International relations, university of New South Wales. The
spaces between us: the gendered politics of outer space in Securing Outer Space Edited by
Natalie Bormann and Michael Sheehan. Routledge, 2009. Pages 59-75. OCRed from the original
text, minor character errors may exist)
he 'politics' of US outer space discourse This section begins an exploration of US outer space
discourse as, from the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, dominated by an aggressive,
colonialist project perpetuated through the reproduction of types of what Dean refers to
as 'imperial masculinity'(ies)(Dean 2001). US outer space, as a discursive realm, articulates
identities, behaviours and meanings in particular, sexed, ways. I use 'discourse' to imply,
as Derrida suggests, an, intrinsically (re)productive (of itself, but also the identities,
behaviours and meanings considered necessary, suitable, or most effective),
historically dependent system of signification(Derrida 2001: 3). A discourse thus forms
the identities of subjects and objects, and is composed of a multitude of practices,
institutions, identities, norms, rules and disciplinary procedures. Both material and
heterogeneous in nature (Best and Kellner 1991: 26), a discourse carries its meanings
and modes of representation in discursive practices. This chapter offers an analysis of US
outer space discourse as a constructed, and thus potentially unstable, arrangement of
identity. US space discourse constitutes an exceptionally powerful, but not
unchallenged, arrangement of identities, practices, norms and processes, embodying
tacit, but crucial, gendered and sexualized assumptions. Histori cally contingent and
therefore subject to significant change, contemporary US space discourse does not
articulate meaning or reproduce identities in exactly the same way as it might have done fifty
years ago, at the height of Cold War posturing. This is not to argue, however, that a certain
continuity does not exist in US space discourse, which has been and continues to be grounded on
claims to colonization, expansionism, competition, weaponization, privatization, securitization
and commercialization. One difference is, however, that, as Rees argues, the US is 'not as
overwhelmingly economically superior' as it was when it launched the Marshall Plan, it cannot
stabilize the world economically in the way that it might have done fifty years ago, and that it is
vulnerable in a way that it was not in the post-war years (Rees, interviewing Tony Benn, in
Reza 2003: 13). It is, therefore, worth considering how, and according to what politics,
US discourse has constituted and continues to constitute outer space. So, before I go on
to examine the gendered constitution of US outer space discourse, I want first to provide some,
political and historical, background to the contemporary constitution of US space policy. If the
Marshall Plan heralded 'a sort of colonial reconstruction of Europe' (Benn, in Reza 2003: 13-14),
the Bush administration's 'new vision for space exploration' represents an' equally imperial
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design, a design predicated on ideas of imperial expansion in which the reproduction and
promulgation of heterosexual gender identity(ies) are not just incidental to the success of the
project, but absolutely central to it. As analysts have noted, particularly of the Kennedy and
Johnson Cold War administrations, US electoral politics has long embodied, 'an obsession
with "toughness" and the use of a sexualised language of competition and domi nance
among men who contended for power within the American electoral system and
within the foreign policy bureaucracy' (Dean 2001: 3-4). A brief history of US space
administration The contemporary US discourse of outer space that I examine in this
chapter is primarily descendent of a heavily militarized, but highly institutionalized,
discourse of post-Cold War security, military policy and alliance politics, predicated on
the attainment and maintenance of military and strategic supe riority.It would be a
mistake to underestimate just how much the 'Cold War' between the US and USSR (and the
'space age' that it inaugurated) dominated the writings of intellectuals and the agendas of
political leaders during the 1950s and 1960s. US politics was the preserve of security, military
policy and alliance politics, with issues beyond these receiving little sustained attention (Agnew
and Corbridge 1995: 2). The conquest of outer space achieved particular prominence as
a 'space race' to develop the most effective long range rocket-based technologies. At this point,
the US approach to space was to consider it entirely an extension of Earth-bound warfare,
probably most clearly evidenced by the public 'clamour' surrounding the Soviet launch
of Sputnik 1 in 1957. Although the apparent mass public panic in the US at the launch of
Sputnik 1 belied the satellite's 'inability to do more than orbit the Earth and transmit
meaningless radio blips' (Dickson 2004: 1), the agenda was configured as a crisis in US
identity, and read as a warning to the US administration that the US's mantle of
'greatest nation on Earth' was slipping (cf. Garber 2003; McDougall 1985; Carter 1988). Any
discussion of space 'exploration' for its own sake, as distinguishable from the development of
'rocket technology', remained, at this very early stage, muted.2 Although talk of hysteria in
Washington at the launch of Sputnik may be somewhat overstated, the US certainly appeared to
many something less of a world hegemon, and Eisenhower's 'paternalistically vague'
(Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, quoted in Dickson 2004: 2) response to Soviet space
'dominance' was heavily criticized. Dickson characterizes the period immediately proceeding
Sputnik's launch as one of 'national insecurity', 'wounded national pride', 'in-fighting', 'political
grandstanding', 'clandestine plots' and 'ruthless media frenzy' (2004: 4). As McDougall
articulates, when Sputnik 1 first circled the earth in 1957, commentators were at something of a
loss as to what exactly the 'space age' symbolized. With the US perpetually unable to
separate 'thinking about technology from teleology or eschatology'(McDougall 1985:
4), the space age, and the space race it inspired, became a mirror for the ways in
which Americans perceived themselves and their, thus far unchallenged, global hegemony;
less a rejection of the exact nature of the US state during the Cold War than the refraction of its
political, cultural and administrative insecurities, hopes and aspirations. As McDougall argues,
since 1945 the US had assumed the responsibility of 'free world' leader and maintained it on two
premises: the eminent superiority of American liberal institutions, not only in terms of 'freedom'
but in terms of material prosperity, and also the overwhelming superiority of the US in the
technology of mass destruction. Sputnik, however, gave the lie to the premise that the US was
'both "better" and mightier than its chief rival' (McDougall 1985: 7). As critics increasingly
condemned Eisenhower's apparently passive and unconcerned leadership for being 'oldfashioned' and 'out of touch' (McDougall 1985: 7), a particular political discourse began to
emerge in the US, founded on a certain type of sexual metaphor and the assertion of
virile, heterosexual masculinity, led by Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
These were both men heavily indoctrinated in the myths and ethos of patriotic frontier
masculinity, and who placed at the heart of their politics the virtue of capturing the New
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Frontier. This reshaping of masculinity, alluding to the 'pioneer' adventurers of the old
'Wild West' bur heavily predicated on mastering the technologies of space
exploration, rejected the apparent discoordination of the private sector and the stagnancy of
consumerism that, many believed, had caused complacency and heaped embarrassment on the
US. Just as the American Westhad signalled freedom and a virile optimism to expansive, US
frontier masculinity (see Hooper 2001: 68-69), so the conquest and colonization of space
provided a suitably challenge-filled outlet to revive the frustrated masculinity of late
1950s America. In all this, US political discourse was fuelled by a fear of emasculation through
Soviet achievement and a national paranoia that the US might be perceived, by others and itself,
as in any sense weak, complacent, showing any kind of 'missile gap', or aspect of 'lack'.
Eisenhower's more careful and restrained approach was quickly replaced with Kennedy's cult of
masculine prowess, a career premised, as Dean articulates, on an 'ideology of masculinity'
constructed around culturally resonant images of the 'stoic warrior-intellectual' (Dean 2001:
169). The late 1950s was a period of massive US self-doubt, propelled by what Michaud refers to
as 'a surge of discourses on emasculation and feminized conformity' (2005: 4). Kennedy's
assertion (written in The Nation, before he announced he was to run for his party's nomination to
presidential candidate), that the US had 'gone soft: physically, mentally, spiritually soft'; that the
US was 'in danger of losing our will to fight, to sacrifice, to endure' and that the 'slow corrosion of
luxury is beginning to show', found great sway across America, an assertion, as Dean illustrates,
of manly strength against feminized weakness, youth against age, stoic austerity against
debilitating luxury (2001: 170). Kennedy's immediate focus on the 'space gap' signaled the
announcement of a more militaristically virile engagement. Space exploration thus became a
central policy tenet of the Kennedy government, with the operation to get a US astronaut on the
Moon a means of reasserting US authority and avenging any doubts as to the administration's
ability to perform. While the USSR operated a single military space programme, tending to
classify many of the (at least earlier) processes of its development of space technology, the US
elected a different approach, one that intentionally and actively separated the public and private
of space colonization through the creation of so-called 'civilian' programmes (ostensibly, more
open to the public) run by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), such as
the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon, and the more secretive 'military' space agencies run by the
Department of Defense (DoD) (operating both' classified' and 'unclassified' operations).3 Once
known as US Space Command (USSPACECOM), military space operations are now labelled under
the general rubric of US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM). NASA, which was established in
1958, one year after the launch of Sputnik, is primarily responsible for the 'scientific' discovery
and exploration of space, the development of applications for space technology (including
weather and communications satellites), and the development of the space shuttle and ongoing
operations to secure a permanent human presence in space on the international space station. In
NASA's own words, it is focused on developing 'America's ready access to space' (NASA). US
Space Command, on the other hand, was designed at its creation, in 1985, 'to help
institutionalize the use of space in U.S. deterrence efforts' (United States Strategic Command).
Conceived as a unified command centre of United States military operations in Space, in October
2002 the DoD merged USSPACECOM withUSSTRATCOM, which had been established in
1992, under President George H. Bush, according to US Strategic Command, to
'encourage stability in the post-Cold War world' (ibid.). Post 9/11, the merger (so the US
administration claimed) was intended as a 'more integrated approach' to the defence
of the US 'in response to a dramatically changing security environment generated by
emerging global and transregional threats' (ibid.).4 The contemporary politics of US space
discourse US Strategic Command today controls not only space operations, but all nuclear
weapon assets of the US military, 'Information Operations', 'Integrated Missile Defense', 'Global
Command and Control', 'Intelligence', 'Surveillance and Reconnaissance', 'Global Strike' and
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'Strategic Deterrence'. In its own words, USSTRATCOM: is a global integrator charged with the
miSSlOns of full-spectrum global strike, space operations, computer network operations,
Department of Defense information operations, strategic warning, integrated missile defense,
global C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and
Reconnaissance), combating weapons of mass destruction, and specialized expertise to the joint
warfighter. (United States Strategic Command) Space's position in US politics as commercially
relevant is a little hazier. As Wirbel argues,the 2001 recession effectively 'imploded' the
commercial space industry with, not least since 9/11, the lines between civilian and
military resources becoming ever more blurred as civilian companies look to the
military for dual-use functions to their products(Wirbel 2002). The importance of
economic, scientific and technological gain to the US should not be underestimated, but it
certainly would be careless to ignore the strength of the ties that bind US discourse on outer
space to military endeavour. There remains a close proximity, in official and unofficial US
rhetoric, between the militarization of outer space and its exploitation for economic,
technological and scientific profit, embedded within a wider, neo-liberal discourse
concerning the assumed essentiality of the (rational) individual's need for freedom,
choice and access to markets. Thus, while it is true that a particularly insidious neo-liberal
globalization thesis (dependent on the expansion of the free market into all areas of social life)
does indeed drive much of US space discourse today, as it does US politics more broadly, space
is rarely conceived of primarily in commercial terms in the US. Communications satellites have,
since the passage of the 1962 Communications Satellite Act, chiefly been a private sector
activity, but, according to Smith, attempts 'to commercialize other aspects of space activities
have yielded mixed success' (2003: 7). In spite of USSPACECOM's insistence that 'Space
commerce is becoming increasingly important to the global economy', relations between US
military and private space operations are frequently tense, not least concerning the perceived
'threat' to national security created by commercial 'imagery' sales (US commercial imaging
satellites compete with French, Russian, Indian and Israeli companies to 'see' an object or feature
of a certain size from outer space. See Smith 2003: 7-8). An issue of particular concern, for
example, involves the 'shutter control' policy inaugurated by the Clinton administration in 1994,
wherein the US government may force commercial companies to discontinue obtaining or
distributing imagery of certain parts of the world, causing some political groups to complain that
the media and relief agencies are being deprived of essential data (Smith 2003: 8). When the US
launched attacks on Afghanistan, the DoD decided to control access to imagery through the
National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), which bought the exclusive rights to Ikonos (a
private sector satellite owned by Space Imaging) imagery of that area, preventing anyone else's
use of this data without NIMA's approval. The current political climate in the US, overseen
by the Bush administration, has bred a quieter but no less emphatic approach to outer space
than has gone before, as predicated on the attainment of military and strategic superiority as US
Cold War discourse at its peak, but conspicuously lacking the recognition that other
nations may also have rights in space(not least those rights that could mean another nation
rivalling the US in space capabilities.As USSPACECOM's 'Vision for 2020' makes clear, the
only outcome the US is willing to consider is 'full spectrum dominance'). With minimal
fanfare, President George W. Bush authorized, on 31 August 2006, a new national space policy to
supersede Clinton's previous 1996 policy. The policy is careful, at the very outset, to highlight the
civil and commercial benefits of outer space exploration, with space described as 'a place that is
increasingly used by a host of nations, consortia, businesses, and entrepreneurs' (US National
Space Policy 2006). This said, the strategic ambitions of the Bush administration are not long
withheld, with 'those who effectively utilize space' enjoying added prosperity and security' and
holding 'a substantial advantage over those who do not' (ibid.). Freedom of action in space is as
important to the United States as air power and sea power. In order to increase knowledge,
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discovery, economic prosperity, and to enhance the national security, the United States must
have robust, effective and efficient space capabilities. (ibid.; emphasis added) The 2006 Space
Policy provides an example of the increasingly blurred boundaries in contemporary US political
culture between commercial imperatives, various narratives of scientific 'progress' and
'discovery', and the unashamed imperialism of a post-9fII discourse of weaponization,
territorial conquest and securitization.Although part of the policy remains classified, and the
unclassified document does not per se call for the deployment of US weapons systems in space
(theGlobe and Mai/),it explicitly does allow for any 'US defense and intelligence-related
activities in pursuit of national interests', permits the US to reject 'any claims to
sovereignty by any nation over Outer Space or celestial bodies', and states that the US
'rejects any limitations on the fundamental right of the United States to operate in and acquire
data from space' (US National Space Policy). Any arms control agreements or restrictions that
may impair 'the rights of the United States to conduct research, development, testing, and
operations or activities in space for US national interests' will be opposed. As far as the
commercial use of space is discussed, the policy states that a commercial space sector will be
encouraged only where it can be 'consistent with national security', 'promote innovation',
'strengthen US leadership' and 'protect national, homeland, and economic security'.

And, this normalizing of gender superiority devalues human life to the point of
nothingness, according to Tickner:
Tickner, 92-[ J. Ann. (1992). (Gender in International Relations: Feminist Perspectives on
Achieving Global Security, Engendered Insecurities. Columbia University Press. Retrieved June 22,
2011 from Columbia International Affairs
Onlinehttp://www.ciaonet.org/book/tickner/tickner12.html]- AAA
While the purpose of this book is to introduce gender as a category of analysis into the discipline
of international relations, the marginalization of women in the arena of foreign policy-making
through the kind of gender stereotyping that I have described suggests that international politics
has always been a gendered activity in the modern state system. Since foreign and military
policy-making has been largely conducted by men, the discipline that analyzes these activities is
bound to be primarily about men and masculinity. We seldom realize we think in these terms,
however; in most fields of knowledgewe have become accustomed to equating what is
human with what is masculine.Nowhere is thismore true than in international relations, a
discipline that, while it has for the most part resisted the introduction of gender into its
discourse, bases its assumptions and explanations almost entirely on the activities and
experiences of men. Any attempt to introduce a more explicitly gendered analysis into the field
must therefore begin with a discussion of masculinity. Masculinity and politics have a long and
close association. Characteristics associated with "manliness," such as toughness, courage,
power, independence, and even physical strength, have, throughout history, been
those most valued in the conduct of politics, particularly international
politics. Frequently, manliness has also been associated with violence and the use of force, a
type of behavior that, when conducted in the international arena, has been valorized and
applauded in the name of defending one's country. Thiscelebration of male power,
particularly the glorification of the male warrior, produces more of a gender
dichotomy than exists in realityfor, as R. W. Connell points out, this stereotypical image
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of masculinity does not fit most men.Connell suggests that what he calls "hegemonic
masculinity," a type of culturally dominant masculinity that he distinguishes from other
subordinated masculinities, is a socially constructed cultural ideal that, while it does not
correspond to the actual personality of the majority of men, sustains patriarchal authority and
legitimizes a patriarchal political and social order.6Hegemonic masculinity is sustained
through its oppositionto various subordinated and devalued masculinities, such as
homosexuality, and, more important, through its relation to various devalued
femininities. Socially constructed gender differences are based on socially sanctioned,
unequal relationships between men and women that reinforce compliance with men's
stated superiority. Nowhere in the public realm are these stereotypical gender images more
apparent than in the realm of international politics, where the characteristics associated with
hegemonic masculinity are projected onto the behavior of states whose success as
internationalactors is measured in terms of their power capabilities and capacity for self-help and
autonomy.

And, the perpetual reification of patriarchy in our everyday lived actions has impacts,
real ones, Warren and Cady explain:
Warren and Cady 94Warren is the Chair of the Philosophy Department at Macalester College
and Cady is Professor of Philosophy at Hamline University (Karen and Duane, Feminism and
Peace: Seeing Connections, p. 16, JSTOR,http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/3810167.pdf, JB)
Operationalized, the evidence of patriarchy as a dysfunctional system is found in the behaviors
to which it gives rise, (c), and the unmanageability, (d), which results. For example, in the United
States, current estimates are that one out of every three or four women will be raped by
someone she knows; globally, rape, sexual harassment, spouse-beating, and sado-masochistic
pornography are examples of behaviors practiced, sanctioned, or tolerated within patriarchy. In
the realm of environmentally destructive behaviors, strip-mining, factory farming, and
pollution of the air, water, and soil are instances of behaviors maintained and
sanctioned within patriarchy. They, too, rest on the faulty beliefs that it is okay to "rape the
earth,"that it is "man's God-given right" to have dominion (that is, domination) over
the earth, that nature has only instrumental value, that environmental destruction is the
acceptable price we pay for "progress."And the presumption of warism, that war is a natural,
righteous, and ordinary way to impose dominion on a people or nation, goes hand in hand with
patriarchy and leads to dysfunctional behaviors of nations and ultimately to international
unmanageability. Much ofthe current" unmanageability" of contemporary life in
patriarchal societies, (d),isthen viewed asa consequence of a patriarchal preoccupation
with activities, events, and experiences that reflect historically male-gender identified
beliefs, values, attitudes, and assumptions. Included among these real-life
consequences are precisely those concerns with nuclear proliferation, war,
environmental destruction, and violence toward women,which many feminists see asthe
logical outgrowth of patriarchal thinking. In fact, it is often only through observing these
dysfunctional behaviors-the symptoms of dysfunctionality that one can truly see that and how
patriarchy serves to maintain and perpetuate them. When patriarchy is understood as a
dysfunctional system, this "unmanageability" can be seen for what it is-as a predictable and thus
logical consequence of patriarchy.'1 The theme that global environmental crises, war, and
violence generally are predictable and logical consequences of sexism and patriarchal culture is
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pervasive in ecofeminist literature (see Russell 1989, 2). Ecofeminist Charlene Spretnak, for
instance, argues that "militarism and warfare are continual features of a patriarchal
society because they reflect and instill patriarchal values and fulfill needs of such a
system. Acknowledging the context of patriarchal conceptualizations that feed militarism is a
first step toward reducing their impact and preserving life on Earth" (Spretnak 1989, 54). Stated
in terms of the foregoing model of patriarchy as a dysfunctional social system, the claims by
Spretnak and other feminists take on a clearer meaning: Patriarchal conceptual frameworks
legitimate impaired thinking (about women, national and regional conflict, the
environment) which is manifested in behaviors which, if continued, will make life on
earthdifficult, if not impossible. It is a stark message, but it is plausible. Its plausibility lies in
understanding the conceptual roots of various woman-nature-peace connections in regional,
national, and global contexts.

Scene 2 is a better story

We center our counter narrative to current U.S. space policy around the text of My
Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, as a key textual problemitization of the patriarchal
structure of gender normativity, According to Manuel:
Manuel 11 Welcome to the Herd: A Feminist Watches My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic by Emily
Manuel, editor for globalcomment.com AUGUST 25,
2011 http://globalcomment.com/2011/welcome-to-the-herd-a-feminist-watches-my-little-ponyfriendship-is-magic/
I admit it, I was skeptical when I first the buzz about the new My Little Pony show. I like a My
Little Pony as much as the next fully grown womanusually if its been modded to look like Star
Treks Borg or somethingbut the offerings sold to young girls these days are fairly uninspiring at
best, horrible at worst. Its hard to walk through the girls department of a toy store without
getting an eye-strain from all the pink, and even harder to imagine a spinoff shilling Hasbros
evergreen toy series being particularly engrossing for a five year-old let alone an adult viewer.
But at the prompting of Aishwarya Subramanian, Global Comments resident expert on childrens
literature and matters wondrous, eventually I managed to sit down to watch an episode. And
what I found was a delightful, well-written, funny show with strong characters, helmed by a
woman (Lauren Faust) to boot. So then I watched another episode. And then I forced my partner
to watch one with me, and another, until we were finished with the first season quoting the
characters (Pinkie Pies hissed foreverrrr is a particular favourite) and scanning Equestria Daily
searching for fan-created works to get us through the long wait until the next season. Welcome
to the herd. Theres a lot going on with MLP:FiM, including a sizable adult male viewership
(of which, more later), but the most important thingto me about the show is this: it presents
a world in which the normative position is female. The five main characters of the
show are female, as is the ruler of the shows setting in the kingdom of Equestria, Princess
Celestia. In fact,so many of the shows characters are female that among the shows
fans the assumption is generally that even non-speaking characters are femalean
interesting change from the default male setting that still dominates most areas of
culture (try mentioning your doctor and see how many times you get a she assumption not
many, in my experience). The show offers a wide range of types of female characters
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from the conscientious scholar Twilight Sparkle, the fashion-conscious Rarity, the farmhand
Applejack, the brash Rainbow Dash, the softly-spoken animal-loving Fluttershy and the
hyperactive, frequently nonsensical Pinkie Pie. Each has her own talents, desires, and
personally quirks. Theyre active, not passive. Even better, many episodes
demonstrate a layered, even wise, approach to character; appearances are never
quite what they seem to be.In Swarm of the Century, Pinkie Pies decidedly uncommon
sense is dismissed by the other characters, right until she saves the day with a one-pony
polka. And the action doesnt centre on girls relation to men and boys, it primarily
focuses on their friendships, their relationships with one another. Conflicts arise
naturally, from misperception, selfishness, arrogance, thoughtlessness but not by
the horizontal pitting of girls against each other in kyriarchical narrative fighting for
male approval. Theres only two minor plotlines centreing on romance Spike the dragons
crush on Rarity, and Raritys Prince Blueblood at the Grand Galloping Gala in The Best Night
Ever. Neither is a very central storyline, and in the case of Rarity, the Prince is shown to be
selfish and rude, a poor substitute for a night with her friends. Theres nothing wrong with a bit of
romance in childrens stories (though I suppose its too much to ask a mainstream show to have
canonical queer children), but there is often a disproportionate emphasis on it. In contrast, My
Little Pony: Friendship is Magic doesnt just pass the Bechdel test, it shatters it. There
is only one male regular character on the show, the aforementioned baby dragon Spike, and hes
relegated to a marginal sidekick kind of role. This is a clever reversal of what feminist essayist
Katha Pollitt two decades ago called the Smurfette Principle, the way in which male characters
dominate, with a lone female character rounding out the cast. Pollitt argues that: The message is
clear. Boys are the norm, girls the variation; boys are central, girls peripheral; boys are
individuals, girls types. Boys define the group, its story and its code of values. Girls exist only in
relation to boys. Sadly, this remains as true now as it is then. For adults as well as children,
texts in which men dominate are still largely considered neutral, whereas those
which feature a similar female predominance are relegated to the chick-flick bin,
watched only by women. The logic goes: men wont watch shows or films about
women, they can only identify with other men. Yet MLP:FiM, of all shows, puts the lie
to this well-worn, if nonsensical, cultural dogma. To the surprise of all concerned, MLP:FiM
has managed to attract a huge adult male fanbase dubbed bronies

Specifically, we locate our counter narrative within the broader trajectory of Brony
fan culture, as a particular micro-narrative against gender normativity, Conger
explains:
Conger 11 Bronies: For Men Who Love My Little Ponies by Cristen Conger Journalist, writes for
multiple media outlets| September 19, 2011 http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2011/09/19/broniesfor-men-who-love-my-little-ponies/
I guess I was a little behind on my Internet memes when I received an email from MomStuff
listeners Regina a couple weeks ago. She wrote in to tell Caroline and me about a group of My
Little Ponies Friendship Is Magic (MLPFISM) fanboys collectively known as
bronies. (KnowYourMeme offers an excellent primer on how brony Internet culture started.)
Considering that the My Little Pony franchise has been marketed to young girls since it broke
out of the stables in 1982, Regina wrote that she was dubious that bronies really existed. But a
visit to a bronies meet-up event proved otherwise. Regina recounted: Then I went to a brony
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meet up in my city after seeing it advertised on Equestria Daily, probably the biggest fan-run
websites about the show. Of the attendees, 22 were male (ages 17-30) and 3 females including
myself (all of us were in our early 20s). Having spoken to some of these male fans myself,
a common theme appeared that didnt surprise me: those who were open about their
love for the show were often called gay/pansies/etc. by others.As a result, some were
very closeted about their fandom. For example, we went to Target, which has a lot of exclusive
MLP (My Little Pony) merchandise. One of the male fans, excitedly purchased a pink MLP duvet
for his college dorm featuring two of the unicorn characters. He said, I know Im going to get so
much crap for this from everyone, but I want this. In addition to extensive 4Chan posts, bronies
have churned out MLPFISM video mash-ups, fan art and fan fiction. Internet fandom doesnt get
much better than the bronies in my book. Not least because of the gender norms the
bronies buck by unabashedly adoring the sparkle n pop Ponies. As a fantastic bronies
article in Wired magazine observed earlier this year: Despite a tacit understanding that
some people might be surprised by their choice of entertainment, most bronies show
little to no compunction about their fandom. They shouldnt have to. And,
intentionally or not, they might be bucking the gender socialization of things
considered to be for girls or for boys. This might be a little short-sighted on my part,
but I just assumed that any adult man who didnt have a little girl wouldnt even give it a try,
Lauren Faust, MLPFISM creator and brony icon, told Wired.
Thus, <PARTNER NAME> and I stand resolved that the United States Federal
Government should create an orbital friendship cannon in outer space outside of the
Earths mesosphere
We do not defend plan fiat, and instead base our advocacy on the alternative magical
construct of friendship, well clarify.

Scene 3 is Solvency
Know Your Meme Explains:
Know Your Meme, No Date of Publication, Accessed on
3/18/12: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/friendship-arsenal
About The Friendship Arsenal features a series of weapon-based image macros and animated gifs
used within the fanbase of the popular Tv Series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Multiple
variations excist of this. Origin: Orbital Friendship Cannon Orbital Friendship Cannon, also
known as the Sonic Rainboom Laser, is the first known weapon in the Friendship Arsenal. The
image originated from episode 16 of the first season of the series, Sonic Rainboom.
During the episode, the character Rainbow Dash can be found flying downwards to
save others from a certain death. Creating the Sonic Rainboom in the process. Due to
the phenomenons appearance being similar in style to an orbital laser blast, as well
as the main theme of the show being friendship, fans of the show created an image
macro of it making it appear that the Sonic Rainboom is actually a laser shot from
orbit. This is often combined with the phrase Fire the Orbital Friendship
Cannon. Darken the Skies With Hate is a phrase related to the Orbital Friendship Cannon,
and is used as its exact opposite. The image contains a color-inverted image of the original
version. This is traditionally used by either a more violent brony who thinks the atmosphere
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requires more conflict, or a troll who is trying to intentionally anger the surrounding bronies.
Spread Following the creation and repeated use of Orbital Laser image macros on
numerous websites such as 4chan and Ponychan, the Orbital Friendship Cannon has
become a well-known in-joke within the brony community.

Scene 4 is our Method

We argue that the role of the ballot is critical narrative endorsement, as an audience
member you should vote for the team that offers the most productive, least
problematic argumentative telling or re-telling of reality but this shouldnt surprise
anyone, because ALL debate is performance and narrative, it is never a question of
telling a story but instead how that story interrogates existing modes of power and
oppression, and our 1AC engages in the specific method of narrative criticism, which
is key to solving all impacts, real or otherwise Kirkscey explains:
Kirkscey, 8 (FINDING OPPORTUNITIES: A REEVALUATION OF NARRATIVE: THEORY AND PRAXIS IN
COMMUNICATION STUDIES (THESIS ) Presented to the Graduate Council of Texas State UniversitySan Marcos by T. Russell Kirkscey, B.A. San Marcos, Texas May 2008 36-41
Foucault (1980) envisions power as an intertwined set of shifting discursive relations among
people that confine their actions and reactions in some way: [P]ower is essentially that which
represses. Power represses nature, the instincts, a class, individuals.It has become almost
automatic in the parlance of the time to define power as the organ of repression (p. 90-91).
Through discourse, hierarchies of power constantly form and reform. In this view, all narratives
reflect the socio-political structures in place at the moment (epistemes), normalizing
persons in bio-power (1980). Narrators and audiences are also caught in the web of
power so that narrative fidelity and narrative probability cannot guarantee an
objective truth. Moreover, ultimate values, because of their relative nature, are
impossible to discover. Narrative discourse (in Fishers view), as does rational-world
argumentation, serves to reify the dominant socio-political power structures through
the authoritarian position of the narrator (see Danaher, 12 White (1981) uses a comparable
notion to provide perspective on the historical analysis of the Annals of Saint Gall when he
suggests that a duty of a historian may be to fill in missing parts of a narrative to the best of her
ability. 37 Schirato, & Webb, 2000, p. 8). Foucaults (1972) governing rules also describe
the narrators ideological role in producing social structures that control the
dissemination and formation of narratives. Persons can approach certain topics only if
they have specific qualifications, they use certain settings, and they make
appropriate gestures (especially linguistic choices). Each narrative contains these
strictures, and each one contains the elements to describe the uses, abuses, creation,
stagnation and/or consolidation of power in society. Power that accumulates turns
persons and institutions into monolithic, rigid entities that reify themselves to
support oppression of other persons and institutions. Since the power structure itself
always skews the understanding of signs, finding truth through the examination of
value systems in argumentationusing either the narrative paradigm or the rationalworld paradigmbecomes an unreachable goal. Instead, I propose that critics (as
audience members)with the admission that they, too, are ideologically motivateddescribe
movements of power in narratives by creating new narratives to uncover spaces of
resistance that will allow for the unimpeded circulation of power. No risk of hierarchy
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or ideological oppression exists because any audience member who creates a new
story may (or may not) use components of the other audience members narratives.
This gives each audience member equal voice and equal ability to contribute in a
marketplace of ideas. The telos of the critical analysis, instead of aiming to gather
power into a new place, acts only to keep power circulating through narrative
discourse.I agree with Fisher (1987a) that narratives can allow marginalized voices to be heard
and to critique the status quo. However, rather than attempting to measure the 38 relative truth
of their stories, audiencesand rhetorical critics as audience members should identify
modes of shifting, gaining, and retaining power in a constant critique of discursive
formations(McKerrow, 1989). I also agree with Fisher that narrative rhetorical analysis is
not limited to skilled professionals as it is in the rational world paradigm. Rather, my
extension of the narrative paradigm creates two possible levels of application: one from the
members of the audience and one from the rhetorical criticthe specific intellectual in
the audiencethat Foucault (1980) describes as not the jurist or notable, but the savant or
expert (p. 128) whose specificity is linked, in a society like ours, to the general functioning of
an apparatus of truth (p. 132). Foucault emphasizes that It would be a dangerous error to
discount [the specific intellectual] politically in his specific relation to a local form of power,
either on the grounds that this is a specialist matter which doesnt concern the masses (which is
doubly wrong; they are already aware of it, and in any case implicated in it), or that the specific
intellectual serves the interest of State or Capital (which is true, but at the same time shows the
strategic position he occupies), or, again, on the grounds that he propagates a scientific ideology
(which isnt always true, and is anyway certainly a secondary matter compared with the
fundamental point: the effects proper to true discourses. (1980, p. 131) I maintain that both the
audience and the rhetorical critic as an audience member can operate and struggle
at the general level of that rgime of truth which is so essential to the structure and
functioning of our society. (Foucault, 1980, p. 132). The specific intellectual may
bring a deeper understanding of narrative construction or a more- complete analysis
of power depiction because of research skills or clarity of analysis.
However, my method invites all audience members to use the ontological foundations
of the narrative paradigm to participate more completely in a narrative criticism that
can increase their conception of a truth which can actively change their lives at the
individual level by exposing the power structures implicit in society. Foucault contends
that this action is key to understanding the role of discourse in relation to power and
knowledge: Discourses are not once and for all subservient to power or raised up
against it, any more than silences are. We must make allowance for the concepts complex
and unstable process whereby discourse can be both an instrument and an effect of
power, but also a hindrance, a stumbling block, a point of resistance and a starting
point for an opposing strategy. Discourse transmits and produces power; it reinforces
it, but also undermines and exposes it, renders it fragile and makes it possible to
thwart it. (1980, p. 100-101; cited in McKerrow, 1989, p. 98) Here Foucault describes a role for
audiences andrhetorical critics,one that still gives them a definite prescriptive purpose: to
uncover the places where discourse transmits, exposes, and renders fragile
power. More important, though, is Foucaults choice of the term thwart. Ultimately, critics should
work to resist the totalization of power. However, Foucault is not seeking a particular normative
structurecritique is not about the business of moving us toward perfection (McKerrow, 1989, p.
97). Rather, critics must consciously continue to push against the inherent powers that
control audiences. Consequently, the truth at which an audience can arrive (with or
without the assistance of the rhetorical critic) is in the daily action of understanding the
ever-changing human conditionthe constant reconfiguration of powerthrough the
constant examination of ever-changing narratives.Derrida (1982) supports this assertion:
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The amalgamation of syntagmas creates new knowledge in the form of a new narrative which
also corresponds to whatever always has resisted theorganization of forces, which always has
constituted the remainder irreducible to the dominant force which organized thelogocentric
hierarchy (p. 329-330, italics in original). An audiences intensive examination of these
issues can only lead to more creative and constructive forms of resistance (Biesecker,
1992). Moreover, Phillips (2002) contends that the spaces for emergence of resistance
are also spaces of invention that allow a resolution among power, knowledge, and
the subjectivity (context) in which Foucauldian theory demands the narrator and audience
work (p. 332). These spacesof invention are the areas necessary to continue the
(re)formation of narratives. Conclusion In this chapter, I have elaborated a method of
narrative rhetorical criticism that emphasizes audience participation in the
construction and understanding of narrativesrather than focusing on more traditional,
narrator-centered stories. First, the critic as an audience member locates and identifies a
symbol (phrase, term, object, sign) that consistently appears in different narratives or
narrative fragments (iterations). Next, the critic uses the recurrences of the symbol to
create/reveal a narrative that ostensibly dominates other narratives. Then the critic
constructs one or more alternative narratives that open spaces for resistance to the
dominant narrative. Finally, the critic describes the relationship between this
dominant narrative and the stagnation or movement of power caused by this
story. Through the shift in emphasis from homo narrans to homo attendens, audiences and
rhetorical critics can critique aspects of that society and enhance it epistemologically
in a self-reflexive, autonomous exercise that emphasizes their cognitive being. Derrida
(1982) notes: [T]his operation of supplementation is not exhibited as a break in presence, but
rather as a reparation and a continuous, homogenous modification of presence in
representation (p. 313). When audiences and critics acknowledge that no one can
escape the power structure, they can begin to use Foucauldian analysis in various ways
to create a more dynamic society. They can spend fruitful time finding the actual
sources of power and uncovering the relationships among the various sources of this
power. Since no one authoritative discourse exists, critics must describe as many narratives
as possible to enlighten other members of the society (Danaher, Schirato, & Webb, 2000, p.
77). Audiences must constantly search for innovative ways to resist power. In heeding
the messages of narrators and rhetorical critics, they can resist power and create
shifts in the power structures in society.

And, incorporating the disparate narrative of fan culture against broader organized
culture is a key narrative move against the hegemonic culture of patriarcy, Lo
explains:
Lo 2001 Maps and Tracings: Fandom and Fanfiction by 2001 Malinda Lo, independent writer and
researcher, focuses on fan fiction an critical cultural
studies. http://malindalo.com/scully/maps.htm
Fandom "Fandom," a very loosely bounded group of thousands of people who have diverse
interests in popular culture, from comic books to pop singers, has been described as a "shadow
cultural economy" with "its own systems of production and distribution...that lies outside that of
the cultural industries" (Fiske 1992, 30). It is useful to conceive of fandom as a "shadow cultural
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economy," but it is not located "outside" of the culture industry, unless "culture industry" is
defined solely in terms of corporate Hollywood. Fandom is an integral and constitutive part of the
culture industry; without fans, there would be no popular culture. In addition, I do not want to
imply that "fandom" is an isolated community separate from the rest of life in contemporary
Western societies; fandom exists within the larger society, and there are many fans who
would contest the idea that "fandom" is a "community" at all. Fandom is, however, a "shadow
economy" in that it produces cultural products in the liminal areas between corporate
cultural production and mass consumption. Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the
"rhizome," which has often been used as a metaphor to describe the Internet, is a much more
apt description of "fandom." Deleuze and Guattari describe the first four main principles of the
rhizome as follows: 1. and 2. Connection and heterogeneity: "any point of a rhizome can be
connected to anything other, and must be" (7).3. Multiplicity: "A multiplicity has neither subject
nor object, only determinations, magnitudes, and dimensions that cannot increase in number
without the multiplicity changing in nature" (8).4. Asignifying rupture: "A rhizome may be broken,
shattered at a given spot, but it will start up again on one of its old lines, or on new ones" (9).
The popularization of the Internet as a central location for many fan cultures means that
fandom--which used to exist in geographically disparate groups of fans who came together
regularly for conventions--has taken on many of the characteristics of the Internet. Although
many fans limit themselves to one or two fandoms (e.g., X-Philes or Trekkers), it is now quite
easy to find other fandoms and engage in them via the Internet. A fan can easily choose to
post on message boards or join mailing lists in multiple fandoms. Media fandom (as
opposed to sports fandom), then, is a multiplicity of persons drawn together in varying
configurations according to shared interests in TV, movies, comics, or novels. As the
magnitudes and/or orientations of one grouping change, so does the nature of the
multiplicity. For example, as Buffy: The Vampire Slayer has drawn a larger fan following, several
X-Files fan fiction writers have begun to shift fandoms to write in the Buffy universe. In
addition, new writers are always emerging within X-Files fandom, bringing with them new
voices and new styles of writing. The principle of asignifying rupture as it applies to
fandom is clearly discernible with an example from X-Files fan fiction. The season 7 finale,
"Requiem," in which Mulder was abducted by aliens, revealed that the previously-infertile Scully
had mysteriously become pregnant. Thus, some fan fiction that was written pre-"Requiem" in
which Scully is infertile veered into "alternate universe" (AU) with the onset of Scully's pregnancy.
The canonical development of her pregnancy combined with Mulder's abduction inspired a flood
of post-episode stories that dealt with these plot developments. When season 8 began, many of
these stories became AU. Some authors chose to incorporate aspects of season 8 in their stories,
while others who were unhappy with Scully's pregnancy chose to ignore it and write AU stories,
or stories set at different points in the X-Files time line (e.g., in season 3). Fan Fiction: A
Beginner's Guide Fan fiction is the writing and sharing of stories written by fans
featuring the characters and universe of a television show (The X-Files), movie (Star
Wars), or comic book series (The X-Men). Fan fiction writers are overwhelmingly female, middle
class, and range in age from their teens well into middle age. The wide age range is likely due to
the technology of the Internet, which enables diverse groups of people to interact who would not
normally do so in real life. Fan fiction has been interpreted as a subversive act--as women
writing about sex while infringing on copyright law (Bacon-Smith 1992)--but women do not
approach fan fiction with the goal of breaking the law; fan fiction is seductive to so many fans
because it offers the freedom to manipulate favorite characters and settings, free from the
restraint of publishers or the series' creators (Green et al. 1998).

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New Vegas 1AC

WELCOME

TO

NEW VEGAS

Its not the destination that matters, but the journey. Its not about where you go, but how you
got there. One day we reach our goal, and now point with pride to the long travels we undertook
to reach it. IN fact, we were not even aware of traveling. But we got so far because we fancied at
every point that we were at home. And it is only at the end that we realize the entire time we
should have been singing. That the entire time we were traveling we should have been dancing.
I remember driving through New Vegas, staring out the windows of the truck as we bumped
down a dusty desert road. Vast expanses of nothingness surrounded me, cracked earth and red
mesas blurred into a single waking dream. I could never really tell the exact moment when I fell
asleep: when reality stopped being real, when rationality got turned off and the sky started to
change colors. When the desert turned into oceans turned into people turned into laptop
backlights turned into kaleidoscopic visions. I blink my eyes and the world clicks:
Click.
Now Im on the deck of the Titanic.
Click.
Now Im the president, addressing the people.
Click.
Now Im in a debate round in _______. A voice whispers into my ear:this life which you dream
must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more!1 It seems every time I wake
from a dream I find myself in another nightmare; always waking up, never awakening. I open my
mouth but the only words I can find on my tongue are already gone, a figment of a previous
dream. Only a poem comes to my tongue, a poem that isnt mine, a poem I dreamt long ago
if you were a gasping
New Mexican wasteland
I would learn how to irrigate, and Id dig it
all myself
Id dig it with my fingernails until they fell
off and
then Id use them as little shovels, Id drain
lake after
river after
ocean to bring life to you
and when it was all said and done, when I
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satisfied
by your satisfaction,
1 Friedrich Nietzsche, Demon parable
youd remind me how without thirst, there
would be no
pleasure in drinking. youd remind me of all
of the animals
and plants and earthly cycles that have been
ruined by
my actions. you would remind me of how a life
full of
thirst might be
more meaningful
than a life full of
drinking.2

In memoriam: deserts.
Hello: my name is debate, and Im depressed. I feel so bogged down by responsibilities as if I
HAVE to act a certain way. Im not really sure why it has to be me, you know? I just want to have
fun, I want to be free, but it seems like everyone is always breathing down my neck. You have
to grow up to be a well respected man about town, you have to be important! You have to be
tidy and proper! Be predictable, people will like you more. I think in the end it is all the same,
just more and more responsibility thrown in my face. More and more things everyone tells me to
do or say or be: they always tell me to drink, never be thirsty the say. They treat me like a
wasteland: an emptiness, a void to be filled, a blank sheet to be drawn on.
Welcome to New Vegas: hear me gasp. I see rounds every year: debaters pull recycled expando
files on the same old shit. This round was Shawnee mission west; you can bet money they read
the spending DA. South next round; same old ddev and wipeout blocks. SME MT round 3: the 1nc
will be 3 Ts, The PIC, Wipeout, Nietzsche and politics. CCC after that; like I havent heard THAT
T Bases twelve thousand times. Millard next round; expect the unexpected. Its the same routine,
the same banal bullshit. Even when its wild and unpredictable its always part of the plan. Its all
so rational, so calculated, so mechanical and it makes me so goddamn sick. It doesnt matter
what happens, even if the plan is horrifying. For instance, if I say that tomorrow a gang banger is
going to get shot, or a truck full of soldiers is gonna get blown up, no one panics because its all
according to the plan.3 Dont trust whistles, nothing absurd: no garden walls. Debate has
become a church full of stale air: welcome to the cult of the rational and the Good, the empire
aligned against the forces of Evil and the insane. Anyone falling outside our plan: well, fuck em

2 Ego Treadmill, Anna Victoria, Connecticut, published in TeenInk

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3 The Joker, The Dark Knight
4 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, pg. 158=59, 1980
The judgment of God, the system of the judgment of God, the theological system, is precisely
the operation of He who makes an organism, an organization of organs called the organism,
because He cannot bear the BwO, because He pursues it and rips it apart so He can be first, and
have the organism be first. The BwO howls: Theyve made me an organism! Theyve
wrongfully folded me! Theyve stolen my body! The judgment of God uproots it from its
immanence and makes it an organism, a signification, a subject. It is the BwO that is stratified. It
swings between two poles, the surfaces of stratification into which it is recoiled, on which it
submits to the judgment, and the plane of consistency in which it unfurls and opens to
experimentation4
I remember my first debate round: the day I learned the rules. Ive been told to conform, told to
become something Im not, a form I dont belong in, a body thats not mine. Little Gods are
birthed on all sides: the ballot, the judge, the preference sheet. Dont want to read the K in front
of that guy. Dont say fuck in front of her, shell knock your speaker points. Little bodysnatchers throw me into alien forms. Little words instill death in me. I have been ordered,
controlled, cataloged and filed like a footnote: footnote 233, they call me. "It's not up to you,"
said Kronman. "The discourse makes of you something. It makes of you something juridical. In
your case, we just call it 233 for short."
"For short?" I saw a glimmer of hope. 233 was merely a mnemonic device. "Then I don't really
have to become 233?" I asked with renewed hope. "It's just a name, an address, a handle?"
"You're not paying attention. We call you 233 for short. But once the work is finished, that's all
you are: You are "233 for short.' You don't exist except in the mode of being-for-short. Think of it
in Heideggerian terms. Not so much being-there. But rather being-for-short. Nothing else is left of
you."5
They tell me Ill be-for-short, nothing but a footnote at the bottom of the latest wiki page. Round
5, UT. They tell me: You will be organized, you will be an organism, you will articulate your body
otherwise youre just depraved. You will be signifier and signified, interpreter and interpreted
otherwise youre just a deviant. You will be a subject, nailed down as one, a subject of the
enunciation recoiled into a subject of the statementotherwise youre just a tramp.6

In memoriam: debate.
First national tournament sophomore year: mall of America. Staring at the map which represents
material reality, always representing but never being. Never doing, the stupid purple sharpie dot
proclaims that I am here: but how can I ever be here if Im standing there. Moreover, how can I
be standing there if I am here?
I wander over to a map, desperate to find an exit and a breath of air not laced with pastries,
coffee, perfume. He stared at it incredulously. His location was marked with a dot. That wasnt
too confusing because the statement You are here, was rather explicit. He was more frightened
by the virulent purple sharpie underneath it. It boldly proclaimed in capital letters OR AM I? The
question stared at him, bored into his mind. The Pice de rsistance of his cultural encounter did
nothing but provide his brain with the mental dynamite to blow up his locked door of cultivated
normalcy. He stared around him more bewildered as if the surreal nature of his surroundings
suddenly made sense. Sensory input collapsed upon sensory input in a giant blur of constant
stimulation. Something that catered to every man-made sultry delight stretched out for him
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across the glass displays of the mall that made the mythic markets of civilizations long past,
mundane mortuaries. It was city in the truest sense, its artificial existence. 7
5 - Pierre Schlag, Byron White Professor of Law at the University of Colorado, Summer 2004,
Buffalo Law Review, 52 Buffalo L. Rev. 851
6 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, pg. 158-159, 1980
7 Vincent Li, Mall Story
I am here. Am is an interesting word. How can I be here if I AM here, how can I be if I am? How
can I be?
<shouted> OR AM I?! <shouted>

In memoriam: the map of the body.

When you will have made him a body without organs,

then you will have delivered him from all his automatic reactions
and restored him to his true freedom.
They you will teach him again to dance wrong side out
as in the frenzy of dance halls
and this wrong side out will be his real place.8
Wed like to think of ourselves sort of like starfish: not that my stomach comes out, but there are
definitely some similarities. We speak of sea monsters, defying time and space. Our politics is of
the brittlestarOf special interest is the information that the Brittlestar is a creature without a
brain; it is simply a visualising apparatus, a metamorphosing optical system. As Barad forcefully
notes, 'there is no res cogitans agonizing about the postulated gap (of Its own making) between
itself and res extensa. There is no optics of mediation, no noumena/phenomena distinction, no
question of representation' (Barad in press). Instead, the Brittlestar is the model of intraaction,
constantly breaking off and regenerating its bodily boundaries as it enfolds bits of its
environment within itself and expels parts of its own body into the surrounding environment. In
this way, the Brittlestar cannot be said to exist as an autonomous entity positioned inside a
spacetime frame of reference, neither that of a Euclidean container nor even that of a dynamical
manifold specified by classical science. There is no pre-existent container or manifold within
which the creature exists and moves along spacetime co-ordinates while its body is made and
remade. Instead, the Brittlestar might be said to undergo what I would call a spatiotemporalisation, what Barad refers to as 'space-time-matter-in the making.9

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8 Antonin Artaud. 1947. Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings. To Have Done with the Judgment
of God: A Radio Play University of California Press Berkeley Los Angeles ISBN 0-520-06443-7
(paperback). Retrieved from: http://ndirty.cute.fi/~karttu/tekstit/artaud.htm.
9 - Dorothea Olkowski Every One A Crowd, Making Room for the Excluded Middle Deleuze
and Queer Theory . Edinburgh University Press, 2009, pg. 55-56
We speak of madness, and we speak madness: a language of Evil. You may ask us, What does
the world of the critique look like? To that we respond HAVE YOU EVER DONE ACID? The
question is self-defeating and without purpose: we are rather like an M.C. Escher piece, paradox
stairs and monks traveling up and down at the same time, praying to a trickster-God. Wed rather
stay as children forever, playing on beaches and drawing maps with starfish. We return debate in
a regurgitated form: digested in the stomach of the brittlestar, in the stomachs of men who
know how to leave, to scramble the codes, to cause flows to circulate, to traverse the desert of
the body without organs. They overcome a limit, they shatter a wall, the capitalist barrier. And of
course they fail to complete the process, they never cease failing to do so. The neurotic impasse
again closes - the daddy-mommy of oedipalization, America, the return to the native land - or
else the perversion of the exotic territorialities, then drugs, alcohol - or worse still, an old fascist
dream. Never has delirium oscillated more between its two poles. But through the impasses and
the triangles a schizophrenic flow moves, irresistibly; sperm, river, drainage, inflamed genital
mucus, or a stream of words that do not let themselves be coded, a libido that is too fluid, too
viscous: a violence against syntax, a concerted destruction of the signifier, non-sense erected as
a flow, polyvocality that returns to haunt all relations.10

In memoriam: the political.

<SHOUT>In summary!</SHOUT>
How much do you make
in that death factory
Severance owed
in the chamber of revolvers
Empty jails
fall from my scalp
Shake the globe and let me out
If still I can remember the day
That they took you from me
Seems like I've been running
from your trenchant memory
Harp sickle will warn me when it's over
'Cuz if heaven breathes
then someone trade places with me
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When do I get to see the body
preserved inside this grin
Sewn in the lips
'Cuz I dont want to tear feathers instead of rags
where her last words
Ill be damned - I can still hear her laughing
Your angels have tangled their brass again
The comfort of doubt still it keeps you thin
And still I can remember the day
10 - Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, pg. 132-134
That they took you from me
Seems like I've been running
from your trenchant memory
Harp sickle will warn me when it's over
Does your temperature ache
Is your glass about to break
Are you purple with current
Will you now become the servant
Gordian knots in the power lines
Saucer fills to empty with pesticide
Like the pharaohs of old
Bury me in gold
I'll make your son refuse to fight
in the stalk home setting that we provide
If your heart does cease to speak
My fingernail choir
will make your chalkboard sing11
We knew this day was coming, we prepared the eulogy:

In memoriam: sanity.

But lets get back to this dead-end point between Leibniz and Spinoza, to their inability to
imagine a politics of the empty sign and Cartesian coordinate, one day becoming revolutionary
what Im calling the conjunction of deterritorialization processes. I think its impossible to sustain
the sole promotion of the power sign for very long in the exclusive work of reality* unless you
topple over into archaization. So you need to come to terms with the absurdity of the figuresigns deterritorializtion in its non-sense efficiency and logic. You need to come to terms with the
fact that code surplus value is, ultimately, taken back under the wing of a super revolutionary
alliance machine of deterritorialized signs that can double and master the set of all local power
processes. To what extent is Spinozas God emptied of its substance? Is this not just another
assemblage of figure-sign flows leading to radical desubstantialization? Permanent
desubstantialization. It always has to happen all over again. Isnt the only way to eliminate
Absolute Knowledge, the Great Other and all the rest to have codes be invaded by figure-sign
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cancer? The power sign - the sign-point is continuously deterritorialized, it never stops
producing figure-signs, even trashy ones, and being axiomatized, evading signifying chains
paired with significations, and all this through a pure logic of non-sense.12

11 Luciforms, Mars Volta

12 Guattari in 1970, The Anti-Oedipus Papers, pg. 262
We know its easy to get lost, but of all things to remember we must not forget ourselves. You
are here, here in this room, here in the political, here in space, here in the ocean, here on the
beaches, stick in hand, starfish staring into you: tides consuming you. We always have to begin
on this beach, with ourselves, with the here: where you are. Artaud puts it well: all writing is so
much pig shit - that is to say, any literature that takes itself as an end or sets ends for itself,
instead of being a process that "ploughs the crap of being and its language," transports the
weak, the aphasiacs, the illiterate. At least spare us sublimation. Every writer is a sellout. The
only literature is that which places an explosive device in its package, fabricating a counterfeit
currency, causing the superego and its form of expression to explode, as well as the market
value of its form of content.13
So come find us: well be out there in the desert, drawing maps in the sand dunes and holding
funerals for starfish. Come visit us, we would like to be alone with some company rather than
surrounded by ourselves. Dont worry about directions. Feel free to wander out there. It
shouldnt be too hard to find us because We are deserts, said Deleuze but populated by tribes,
flora and fauna. We pass our time in ordering these tribes, arranging them in other ways, getting
rid of some and encouraging others to prosper. And all these clans, all these crowds, do not
undermine the desert, which is our very ascesis; on the contrary they inhabit it, they pass
through it, over it. In Guattari there has always been a sort of wild rodeo, in part directed against
himself. The desert, experimentation on oneself, is our only identity, our single chance for all the
combinations which inhabit us. (Deleuze and Parnet, 1977, 11) The individual here is explicitly
seen as multiple and political, and the process of subjectification is presented as dynamic and
continuing, never as something that has reached or could reach a satisfactory conclusion. For
Deleuze and Guattari living is always a process of becoming, never of contemplating an achieved
being.14

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13 - Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, pg. 132-134

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***Make Me A Sandwich***

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1AR: 1Ns Burden Shell

Sign your ballot now, the negative has dropped their only obligation and that is the 1N's burden.
Our interpretation of debate is the aff presents a topical plan and the negative defends a
competing policy option, criticism, or the status quo with the 1N making the 2N a sandwich for
the final negative speech.
And we have a few net-benefits:
a. Tradition - since the days of Bill Shanahan, 1N's have been making sandwiches for their
partners.
b. 2N reciprocity - 2N's do a lot of work, they need some recognition, the terminal impact to
this is fairness, it's only fair that the debater who does most if not the entirety of the work
gets the entirety of the sandwich.
c. Education - the things we talk about are largely constructed but learning how to make a
sandwich is the sort of real-world education we should be striving to get out of debate.
This kind of education is the only kind that we will be using every day for the rest of our
lives.
d. Jurisdiction - if the 1N doesn't hustle during prep time and during this speech you have a
prima facie duty to vote aff.
e. Being neg key2Ns carry the negative ship on their back but the 2A needs the 1AR to win.
Its only fair that the 2N gets a sandwich.
And here comes the offense:
a. Double reverse voting issue - letting the neg get away without making a sandwich makes
it a double reverse no-risk option.
b. Our ability to affect the world - the world is inherently hungry and people will not listen
unless you bring something to the table. Thus in debates we have to literally bring things
to the metaphorical table, or else all the skills we learn and develop will be futile.
1Ns should make the sandwiches. Specifically, condiments are key to the judges
decision calculus and are good for clash.
Caminer, 10Debater at Northside College Prep, the go-to expert for 1N sandwich making.
(Mitchell, 7/16,10- Policy Debate, subsection called 1Ns burden. Look at edit history on the
page and click the respective link. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?
title=Policy_debate&oldid=373840256)
A common misconception is that pb+j is the way to go. 1N's often forget that many 2N's either
don't like the pb+j, or has a partner that is allergic to peanuts (like Tom is). While a pb+j may be
a good generic b or c strat, 1N's should instead focus on finding 2N specific sandwiches that will
maximize 2NR efficiency. For Tom, I've empirically found that no matter what the sandwich is,
having a quality Panini-maker has acted as a force multiplier. The following is basic advice for
1Ns looking to improve their sandwich making skills. For bread choice, it needs to be hearty but
simple. Many debaters mistakenly think a multi-grain option is the best since it is healthiest, I'm
here to tell you not to do that. Instead, go with an Italian loaf, baguette, Kaiser roll, or even the
simple Wonder Bread. The most important part of the sandwich is the meat. 1N's should find
meats that both taste good and hold up over the course of the tournament. The flavor should be
present, but not overwhelming. Be careful to avoid messy meat, as it could get on a flow or
laptop. Roast beef, turkey, salami, ham, and grilled chicken have worked best depending on the
round (tailor the meat to the 2NR strat). For vegetarians, boca burgers and falafel are solid
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choices. Vegetables are also a crucial component to the ideal sandwich. A prepared 1N should
have a veggie toolbox that is both flexible and complementary. Lettuce (romaine and iceberg),
tomatoes, cucumbers, pickles, onions and peppers (as many varieties as possible) are a must.
1Ns should also be prepared for the whims of their partner, so crunchy noodles, relish, zucchini,
bean sprouts, beets, and olives (black AND green) are all advanced options. Many 1Ns
overestimate the importance of cheese. While it is a key centerpiece, it is often overwhelmed on
the palate by other things on the sandwich. Some general tips: avoid American or Velveeta, and
cater the cheese choice to the meat. Know key combos like roast beef and provolone, ham and
swiss, and others to save time instead of contemplating the proper cheese during your 1NR. If
you learn nothing else from this introduction to sandwich-making, the choice of condiments can
make or break whether or not the judge votes neg. First and foremost is the use of
mayonnaise; never forget to bring it, but dont put on too much unless you want your 2N to drop
the permutation. And studies have shown that the quality of the line-by-line is directly
proportional to the type of mayonnaise on the sandwich, so dont go with the light.
Brands are also key; whenever possible avoid generic brands and get something like Heilmans.
Additionally, make sure you stay up to date on the mustard harvest, and purchase updates as
necessary. Know the differences between deli, Dijon, honey Dijon, etc. A prepared 1N will also
have non-traditional condiments, such as olive oil, vinegar, raspberry vinaigrette, etc. That
should be a good primer for all the 1Ns out there. Many of the top 1Ns in history have carried
extra tubs and professional-quality equipment in an often successful effort to be the best
possible 1N. Feel free to ask further questions, as this has really only scratched the surface of
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Freedom Net Benefit

Sandwiches are key to freedom
Caminer, 2010-- Debater at Northside College Prep, the go-to expert for 1N sandwich making.
(Mitchell, 8/24/,10- Why are sandwiches key to freedom?
http://www.formspring.me/northsidedebate)
Sandwiches are the literal and symbolic anchors of freedom and democracy, both home and
abroad. They represent all that is good in the present, and all that is potential in the future. In
their versatility to be both a simple snack or a luxurious meal, sandwiches are an attainable right
that everyone has a right to. Policymakers should use a decision-rule calculus based on what
policy results in the most sandwiches, since even one denial of a sandwich is a slippery slope
that risks removal of all rights.
Violation of freedom negates the value of human existence and represents the
greatest threat to human survival
Rand 89 (Ayn Rand, Philosopher, July 1989, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of
Egoism, p. 145)
A society that robs and individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to
limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment, a society
that sets up a conflict between its ethics and the requirements of mans nature is not, strictly
speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule. Such a society
destroys all values of human coexistence, has no possible justification, and represents, not a
source of benefits, but the deadliest threat to mans survival. Life on desert island is safer than
and incomparably preferable than existence in Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany.
Violations of freedom and justice must be evaluated before every other impact
Petro 74. -- Sylvester Petro, Prof of Law @ Wake Forest U, University of Toledo Law Review, pg.
4801)
However, one may still insist, echoing Ernest Hemingway - "I believe in only one thing: liberty."
And it is always well to bear in mind David Hume's observation: " It is seldom that liberty of any
kind is lost all at once." Thus, it is unacceptable to say that the invasion of one aspect of freedom
is of no import because there have been invasions of so many other aspects. That road leads to
chaos, tyranny, despotism, and the end of all human aspiration . Ask Solzhenitsyn. Ask Milovan
Djilas. In sum, if one believes in freedom as a supreme value and the Proper ordering; principle
for any society aiming to maximize spiritual and material welfare, then every invasion of freedom
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U.S. Russia War Net Benefit

Sandwich-making in debates is modeled at the government level; key to solve USRussian relations
Luu, 10debater at Northside College Prep (Norman, 8/30/10, U.S. Foreign Policy, Debates, and
Sandwiches: More Similar Than You Thought)
Not only are sandwiches liberating and scrumptious, but they also provide a way to fashion new
views on foreign policy. Tensions between the United States and Russia are at a fairly high level
in the status quo, as the new START has not been ratified, as well as a part on the Obama
administration for not pushing towards more communications between the two superpowers.
However, the biggest stumbling block to relations is the lack of sandwich exchange on both
sides. Sandwiches provide a useful way to repair damaged relations because leaders of countries
world-wide, whatever the circumstances, would always accept the tasty snack. But, the provision
of sandwiches on the opposite party is not enough; people within the governments of Russia and
the United States must provide sandwiches to their leader as well. This method of saving
relations is not just limited to the governmental level. Individuals who participate in public
spheres or argumentation, especially that of policy debate, replicate the same kind of tensions
between the two countries. Therefore, through the provision of sandwiches, between teammates
in particular, is the best way to show to the government that sandwiches are the best option
when dealing with U.S.-Russian relations. However, be forewarned; much like it would be illogical
for Obama to hand out sandwiches to the citizens, it would be illogical for the stronger player on
a team to provide sandwiches for the weakling. Teams with both members playing a crucial part
in keeping the debate alive should not include the sandwich-exchange process; however, when
one player is carrying the burden of the debate on his shoulders (and with the other teammate
tagging along for the ride), the weaker player should give the team leader the tasty sandwich
snack.

2. Extinction
Caldicott 2002 (Helen- Founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, The new nuclear danger,
p. 7-12)
If launched from Russia, nuclear weapons would explode over American cities thirty minutes
after takeoff. (China's twenty missiles are liquidfueled, not solid-fueled. They take many hours to
fuel and could not be used in a surprise attack, but they would produce similar damage if
launched. Other nuclear-armed nations, such as India and Pakistan, do not have the missile
technology to attack the U.S.) It is assumed that most cities with a population over 100,000
people are targeted by Russia. During these thirty minutes, the U.S. early-warning infrared
satellite detectors signal the attack to the strategic air command in Colorado. They in turn notify
the president, who has approximately three minutes to decide whether or not to launch a
counterattack. In the counterforce scenario the US. government currently embraces, he does
[the U.S.] launch[es], the missiles pass mid-space, and the whole operation is over within one
hour. Landing at 20 times the speed of sound, nuclear weapons explode over cities, with heat
equal to that inside the center of the sun. There is practically no warning, except the
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emergency broadcast system on radio or TV, which gives the public only minutes to reach
the nearest fallout shelter, assuming there is one. There is no time to collect children or
immediate family members. The bomb, or bombs-because most major cities will be hit with more
than one explosion-will gouge out craters 200 feet deep and 1000 feet in diameter if they
explode at ground level. Most, however, are programmed to produce an air burst, which
increases the diameter of destruction, but creates a shallower crater. Half a mile from the
epicenter all buildings will be destroyed, and at 1.7 miles only reinforced concrete buildings will
remain. At 2.7 miles bare skeletons of buildings still stand, single-family residences have
disappeared, 50 percent are dead and 40 percent severely injured.' Bricks and mortar are
converted to missiles traveling at hundreds of miles an hour. Bodies have been sucked out of
buildings and converted to missiles themselves, flying through the air at loo miles per hour.
Severe overpressures (pressure many times greater than normal atmospheric have popcorned
windows, producing millions of shards of flying glass, causing decapitations and shocking
lacerations. Overpressures have also entered the nose, mouth, and ears, inducing rupture of
lungs and rupture of the tympanic membranes or eardrums. Most people will suffer severe burns.
In Hiroshima, which was devastated by a very small bomb-13 kilotons compared to the current
iooo kilotons-a child actually disappeared, vaporized, leaving his shadow on the concrete
pavement behind him. A mother was running, holding her baby, and both she and the baby were
converted to a charcoal statue. The heat will be so intense that dry objects-furniture, clothes, and
dry wood-will spontaneously ignite. Humans will become walking, flaming torches. Forty or fifty
miles from the explosion people will instantly be blinded from retinal burns if they glance at the
flash. Huge firestorms will engulf thousands of square miles, fanned by winds from the explosion
that transiently exceed 1000 miles per hour. People in fallout shelters will be asphyxiated as fire
sucks oxygen from the shelters. (This happened in Hamburg after the Allied bombing in WWII
when temperatures within the shelters, caused by conventional bombs, reached 1472 degrees
Fahrenheit.)" Most of the city and its people will be converted to radioactive dust shot up in the
mushroom cloud. The area of lethal fallout from this cloud will depend upon the prevailing wind
and weather conditions; it could cover thousands of square miles. Doses of 5000 rads (a rad is a
measure of radiation dose) or more experienced by people close to the explosion-if they are still
aliv-will produce acute encephalopathic syndrome. The cells of the brain will become so
damaged that they would swell. Because the brain is enclosed in a fixed bony space, there is no
room for swelling, so the pressure inside the skull rises, inducing symptoms of excitability, acute
nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, severe headache, and seizures, followed by coma and death within
twenty-four hours. A lower dose of 1000 rads causes death from gastrointestinal symptoms. The
lining cells of the gut die, as do the cells in the bone marrow that fight infection and that cause
blood clotting. Mouth ulcers, loss of appetite, severe colicky abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting,
and bloody diarrhea occur within seven to fourteen days. Death follows severe fluid loss,
infection, hemorrhage, and starvation. At 450 rads, 50 percent of the population dies. Hair drops
out, vomiting and bloody diarrhea occurs, accompanied by bleeding under the skin and from the
gums. Death occurs from internal hemorrhage, generalized septicemia, and infection. Severe
trauma and injuries exacerbate the fallout symptoms, so patients die more readily from lower
doses of radiation. Infants, children, and old people are more sensitive to radiation than healthy
adults. Within bombed areas, fatalities will occur from a combination of trauma, burns, radiation
sickness, and starvation. There will be virtually no medical care, even for the relief of pain,
because most physicians work within The United States owns 103 nuclear power plants, plus
many other dangerous radioactive facilities related to past activities of the cold war. A 1000kiloton bomb (1 megaton) landing on a standard iooo megawatt reactor and its cooling pools,
which contain intensely radioactive spent nuclear fuel, would permanently contaminate an .' area
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human and animal alike-will rot, infected with viruses and bacteria that will mutate in the
radioactive-environment to become more lethal. Trillions of insects, naturally ' resistant to
radiation-flies, fleas, cockroaches, and lice--will transmit disease from the dead to the living, to
people whoseimmune mechanisms have been severely compromised by the high levels of
background radiation. Rodents will multiply by the millions among the corpses and shattered
sewerage systems. Epidemics of diseases now controlled by immunization and good hygiene
will reappear: such as measles, polio, typhoid, cholera, whooping cough, diphtheria, smallpox,
plague,tuberculosis, meningitis, malaria, and hepatitis. Anyone who makes it to a fallout shelter
and is not asphyxiated in it, will need to stay there for at least six months until the radiation
decayssufficiently so outside survival is possible. It has been postulated that perhaps older
people should be sent outside to scavenge for food because they will not live long enough to
develop malignancies from the fallout (cancer and leukemia have long incubation periods
ranging from five to sixty But any food that manages to grow will be toxic because
plantsconcentrate radioactive elements.*/ Finally, we must examine the systemic global effects
of a nuclear . , war. Firestorms will consume oil wells, chemical facilities, cities, and forests,
coveringthe earth with a blanket of thick, black, radioactive , I I ' smoke, reducing sunlight to 17
percent of normal. One year or more ' ) , will be required for light and temperature to return to
normalper-"r haps supranormal values, as sunlight would return to more than its , , usual
intensity, enhanced in the ultraviolet spectrum by depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer.
Subfreezingtemperatures could destroy the biological support system for civilization, resulting in
massive starvation, thirst, and hypothermia.5 To quote a 1985 SCOPE documentpublished by the
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, "the total loss of human agricultural and
societal support systems would result in the loss of almost all humans on Earth, essentially
equally among combatant and noncombatant countries alike . . . this vulnerability is an aspect
not currentlya part of the understanding of nuclear war; not only are the major combatant
countries in danger, but virtually the entire human population is being held hostage to the largescale use of nuclear weapons. . . .",! i The proposedSTART I11 treaty between Russia and
America, even if it were implemented, would still allow 3000 to 5000 hydrogen bombs to be
maintained on alert."he threshold for nuclear winter? One thousand loo-kiloton bombsblowing up
loo cities7-a I c distinct possibility given current capabilities and targeting plans. On January
25,1995, military technicians at radar stations in northern Russia detected signals from an
American missile that hadjust been launched off the coast of Norway carrying a US. scientific
probe. Although the Russians had been previously notified of this launch, the alert had been
forgotten or ignored. Aware that US. submarines could launcha missile containing eight deadly
hydrogen bombs fifteen minutes from Moscow, Russian officials assumed that America had
initiated a nuclear war. For the first time in history, the Russian computer containing
nuclearlaunch codes was opened. President Boris Yeltsin, sitting at that computer being advised
on how to launch a nuclear war by his military officers, had only a threeminute interval to make a
decision. At the last moment, the US.missile veered off course. He realized that Russia was not
under attack.' If Russia had launched its missiles, the US. early-warning satellites would
immediately have detected them, and radioed back to Cheyenne Mountain. This would have led
to the notification of the president, who also would have had three minutes to make his launch
decision, and America's missiles would then have been fired from their silos. We were thus within
minutes of global annihilation that day. ,' Today, Russia's early-warning and nuclear command
systems are deteriorating. Russia's early-warning system fails to operate up to seven hours a day
because only one-third of its radars are functional, and two of the nine global geographical areas
covered by its missilewarning satellites are not under surveillance for missile detection.9 TO
make matters worse, the equipment controlling nuclear weapons malfunctions frequently, and
critical electronic devices and computers sometimes switch to combat mode for no apparent
reason. According to the CIA, seven times during the fall of 1996 operations at some Russian
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nuclear weapons facilities were severely disrupted when robbers tried to "mine" critical
communications cables for their copper!'" This vulnerable Russian system could easily be
stressed by an internal or international political crisis, when the danger of accidental or indeed
intentional nuclear war would become very real. And the U.S. itself is not invulnerable to error. In
August 1999, for example, when the National Imagery and Mapping Agency was installing a new
computer system to deal with potential Y2K problems, this operation triggered a computer
malfunction which rendered the agency "blind" for days; it took more than eight months for the
defect to be fully repaired. As the New York Times reported, part of America's nuclear earlywarning system was rendered incompetent for almost a year." (At that time I was sitting at a
meeting in the west wing of the White House discussing potentially dangerous Y2K nuclear
weapons glitches. Several Pentagon officials blithely reassured me that everything would
function normally during the roll-over. But in fact, their intelligence system had already been
disabled.) Such a situation has the potential for catastrophe. If America cannot observe what the
Russians are doing with their nuclear weapons-or vice versa-especially during a serious
international crisis they are likely to err on the side of "caution," which could mean that
something as benign as the launch of a weather satellite could actually trigger
annihilation of the planet.This situation became even more significant after the September 11
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A/T 1NR Important/No voter

And, the 1NR is a worthless speech; 1Ns only role in the debate is to provide
nourishment for the 2N debater. Sandwiches are a voting issue.
Nelson, 10Debater at Dowling Catholic High School, 9 people liked his comment on facebook.
(Joe, 8/22/10, i didnt drop the perm, it was illusory http://www.facebook.com/#!/tomenator?
v=wall&story_fbid=141690385869268&ref=notif&notif_t=like)
There comes a point in every debate where a certain speaker (the 1N) gives a speech that does
not matter. The 2N may play it up to be an important speech to fool the opposing team;
however, they never actually metaphorically go for what was literally in the 1NR. The 2N also
becomes very hungry from carrying the entire negative ship on their back. Therefore, simple
logic exploits that the 1N, instead of speaking about reverse-ASPEC bad, should take the time to
prepare a high quality sandwich for the 2NR. This sandwich, similar to the negative strategy,
should not be the same every round. It should reflect the qualities of the debate. For example,
when the 2N takes the beef DA, it is appropriate that the 1NR pile on the beef. Or when the
debate is getting down to nitty-gritty topicality and theory, the 1N may consider taking the crust
off the sandwich. Condiments also are key assets to any 1NR sandwich. For example, if the other
team is handily beating the 2N (say at Kelly in the 7-0 round), the 1NR may include mayonnaise
as a white flag to the dominant team. If the 2N has the other team clobbered (hitting
Westminster TA), the 1NR will consider adding excess ketchup, symbolizing the bloodshed that is
taking place. What is key in every 1NR sandwich, indefinitely, is that it is tailored to the 2N's
taste and always original. For a full history on 1NR sandwiches or insight as to how it may
become a 1AR voting issue if the 1NR fails to present a sandwich for the 2N, contact
Mitchell Caminer. He definitely knows the in's and out's of 1NR sandwiches bun-to-bun.

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A/T Make a sandwich during 1AR

The damage has been done; the 2N needs to prep with a sandwich. The 1AR is not
1NR prep time.
Marks, 10never backs down, debater at Ft. Lauderdale High School. (Zack, /24/10- Why is it
too late if the 1N makes the sandwich during or after the 1AR?
http://www.formspring.me/northsidedebate)
The 2N has to be ready to go for anything the 1AR covers shittily; and the 1AR is not 1NR
prep, it is key to have the 2NR prepping and eating a sandwich at the same time. This can not
happen if he/she is also flowing, that's the key internal link to not sucking in the debate round.
That is why the so called 1NR is actually just prep that the 1N must make the sandwich so that
2N can prep and eat a sandwich.

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A/T Aff Needs to Make a Sandwich

Too
1. This argument is almost as ridiculous as the lack of a 2N sandwich. Extend the E subpoint
from the shell; being negative is key. Its the 1ns burden. 1ars are important to aff debate
2ars need to extend things from them. 1nrs have literally no worth.

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A/T 2N beating up the 1N during the

2NR
Sign your ballot nowthanks for the show, but all the neg will get out of this is more
hatred, another black eye, and less sandwiches in the future. This exacerbates our
impact claims and also means you immediately vote aff.
Luu, 10debater at Northside College Prep (Norman, 8/30/10, U.S. Foreign Policy, Debates, and
Sandwiches: More Similar Than You Thought)
We all love fights once in a while, but only if the people fighting have morphers and megazords.
Conflict between teammates is heartbreaking. A partnership, one even closer in the activity of
debate, should never be split apart because of a simple lack of sandwich giving. Much like the
relationship between citizens of America and President Obama, the weaker member of the team
should show some love; provide some nourishment to the exhausted team leader. If a fight does
break out, especially between teammates and during a debate round, the judge should
automatically vote against the violent team. Violence has never been the answer; it has only
lead to more deaths throughout history. By signing the ballot against the team that is violent,
he/she affirms the two true facts of life: (1) Violence is never the answer. And. (2) Sandwiches are
always well-deserved for the hardworking.

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A/T Put it on the tab (Ill get a lot of

sandwiches later)
1. Doesnt solvea. Freedom: Look to the Caminer evidence, he says that every human has a right to a
sandwich. The damage has been done, literallyand not punishing them for it
means pushes us down a slippery slope where nobody has freedom.
b. Teams who claim that sandwiches will be provided in the future always lie. Other
issues things can be put off; but sandwiches are the most pressing issue in the
debate.
c. Our Caminer evidence from the 1AR indicates that sandwiches (and condiments,
specifically) are directly proportional to the line-by-line on the flow. Prefer this
evidence because he cites studies done, which is much more predictable than their
claims

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A/T 2N didnt ask

2. Concede this argument. There are two impacts.
a. They dont want the winsandwiches are the only thing that has any importance in
the debate round, cross-apply the Caminer evidence.
b. The 2N isnt taking leadershipits important to keep the 1N in line for future
rounds. Not voting on this argument ensures lack of sandwiches in the future.

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A/T 2N asked but didnt get

anything
3. Still vote them down for 1N laziness- they only have one job during negative rounds, thats
to make a single sandwich for the 2NR; vote them down if they are too unintelligent to
understand.
4. 2N should have pushed them harder: that analysis was in the 1ar, I shouldnt have to
explain it again.

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A/T Trieu, 2010/Beat up the 1N

Counterplan doesn't solve and Tom Trieu is creepier than a piranha applying mascara
on a pogo stick. This card is the fire on the bees knees.
Caminer, 10-- Debater at Northside College Prep, the go-to expert for 1N sandwich making.
(Mitchell, 8/30/10- Girls, Guns, and (Selena) Gomez: A Summer at MNDI Plus Plus Plus)
Some authors (see Trieu, 2010) have proposed eliminating the voting issue attached to 1Ns
Burden Theory and instead causing physical harm to the 1N. While it would be appropriate to
cause bodily harm to an incompetent 1N, in no way would it be enough. As a result of their
nerdiness, unintelligence, and poor fashion taste, 1Ns are often beat up, abused, and harassed
at school on a daily basis. Therefore, further physical injury would not affect a 1N; instead, it is
necessary to destroy any sort of confidence that 1Ns have stored up as a result in their
participation in debate.
Voting the 1N down would serve as a reminder that they cannot help their smarter,
better partner, but that their only responsibility is to make their partner a sandwich.
However, there is nothing wrong with causing bodily harm in addition to voting the negative
team down.
Alternatively, one could vote the negative team down and beat up the 1N in all other instances.
Alternatively, one could vote the negative team down and consult with the judge on other
issues regarding the 1N.
Alternatively one could vote the negative team down and consult over the timeframe of how
long of a beating is necessary.
Alternatively, one could beat up the 1N in a world where the judge votes affirmative and just
simply vote down the negative in a world where the judge doesnt vote affirmative.
Furthermore, the author of the article has a questionable academic and personal history. Mr.
Trieu has reportedly been found trespassing on Selena Gomezs property. He claims he
was invited, but witness reports have confirmed that Mr. Trieu was not only uninvited, but
proceeded to take his clothes off for Ms. Gomez, while singing I love you Selena, you
belong with me. Academically, Mr. Trieu has defended false, immoral positions, at one time
advocating the annihilation of all White males dating Asian females. One also has to question his
qualifications to speak on 1N discipline, since his debate partner, the infamous Mitchell Caminer,
has not only dropped the 1Ns burden, but has been found clipping cards, tags, roadmaps,
RFDs, cross-examination questions, expando indexes, novice lectures, judging
philosophies, and speaker awards. If Mr. Trieu could assert so strongly that causing physical
harm to the 1N is so necessary, perhaps it should have been more effective on his lazy and
unethical partner (full disclosure: I am Tom Trieus debate partner).

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Timecube Kritik
The State uses oppression to brainwash us into applying beneficent feelings to
obedience and thus promotes its singularist regime.
Gene Ray, Dr Gene Ray is the self proclaimed smartest man on earth and has a self-appointed
doctorate in cubism, www.cubicao.com, The State, 2010:
The state can exert control by a simple forceful oppression technique. Maybe itd use
technology as a means for this. But the people, as victims of the oppression, are likely to resent it, and might even be spurned to

So, the second strategy that the state can use is to control the
people by means of Word. This strategy makes sense: the WordVirus, at its basic level, consists of pure Word. So,
shackles and whips are obsolete. By penetrating the mind of each population member, and by
programming them in certain way, random mutations are discouraged, and obedience
is entrenched. The forceful oppression is partially relaxed. The people gain a sense of
freedom. They experience beneficent emotions. They are then taught to associate
those happy feelings with a morality that supports the state. Thus they feel
compelled to embrace said morality.
revolt. This creates a problem.

The Aff use of the Government fails to acknowledge and rejects the legitimacy of the
philosophy of Dr. Gene Ray and must be rejected.
Gene Ray, Dr Gene Ray is the self proclaimed smartest man on earth and has a self-appointed
doctorate in cubism, www.timecube.com, 2010:
Evil academia blocks out Time Cube site and suppresses its discussion and
debate. You are an educated singularity idiot who can stupidly deny Nature's
Harmonic 4 simultaneous 24 hour days within a single rotation of Earth, or even make parody
of the Cubic Creation Principle - but your mental ability to comprehend the greatest social and
scientific discovery of all human existence has been lobotomized by the evil academic
singularity bastards hired to destroy your ability to think opposite. You cannot comprehend Opposite
Creation. Religous/academic taught singularity is the reduction of the human mind to android.

Ignorance of the Time Cube lobotomizes your mind, leading to cycloptic singular
perspective. This creates a cubeless, android mentality.
Gene Ray, Dr Gene Ray is the Dr Gene Ray is the self proclaimed smartest man on earth and has
a self-appointed doctorate in cubism, www.timecube.com, 2010:
If ignorant of the almighty. Time Cube Creation Truth, you deserve to be killed. Killing you is not
immoral but justified to save life on Earth for future generations. Academic taught singularity within a
universe of opposites, has lobotomized your mind. You are Enslaved by Word - no whip or
shackle required. You do not have the freedom to discuss/debate Time Cube. Academia
destroys your mind by suppressing opposite view. Academic Singularity is evil. Singularity is damnable
lie, Educators altered your mind, You cannot think opposite of what you were taught to think. You
have a cycloptic perspective and taught android mentality which lobotomizes
analytical ability.

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This Cubeless, android mentality empowers the state. Timecube rejection is the root
of all evil and results in technological expansion, diminished stability, and mass death
and destruction. This seals our apocalyptic fate.
Gene Ray, Dr Gene Ray is the Dr Gene Ray is the self proclaimed smartest man on earth and
has a self-appointed doctorate in cubism, www.cubicao.com, The State, 2010:
And now Cubelessness, that deadly scourge, that causes evil deeds to be committed.
We must fight this scourge, attack its heart, the source of its great power. Whence its
power? The technology's the root cause of the problem . It's a physical expression of the
Word-based tyranny. And that technology is a great threat, it threatens us with death
and war and famine accross the world. The Cubeless Doom is nigh. Attend!or you will surely die. Selfishness is
now increasing. Values of communities decline. Values the State requires are ones that make people
think that they should serve the State. Servitude to Word is what that's all Abundance in the worker pool could
grant the State advantage in the short-term. In the long-term, though, stability would suffer and
decay. Great levels of destruction could result from overpopulation. Techniques by which
artificial life-extension is achieved are likely to contribute to growth of
overpopulation. Large wars could kill off large numbers, and thereby reduce the
population: but the atoms that are radioactive and as such decay, resemble excesses that could well cause a massive chain
reaction. ...Fearful, that about. Natural resources, are plundered by the State. The state
afterwards generates great quantities of pollution and waste. Disposed back into
nature, harm is the direct and bad result. You can direct your 1-corner perspective towards the advancement
of the village; that is to say, towards altruistic ideals. In that case, it would be subjugated to the Cube. Or, you could direct it towards

singularity that you'd be falsely rendering supreme. It's an

important choice. It's the sort of thing that can become the entire difference between
Cubeless doom and Cubic salvation.
unwholesome self-aggrandisement, in which case it'd be a

The Alt is to reject singularist mentality of the state and accept the philosophical
principles proposed by Dr. Gene Ray, including Timecube theory. Voting neg is literally
the difference between extinction and salvation.
Gene Ray, Dr Gene Ray is the Dr Gene Ray is the self proclaimed smartest man on earth and
has a self-appointed doctorate in cubism, www.cubicao.com, Cubic Salvation, 2010:
Continued evolution is a continuing trend. Once the earth is destroyed, however, all evolution thereon will be nullified .

We can
create a trend of evolution, ourselves. But we shouldn't violate the Cubic harmony of
nature, if indeed we want for Nature to survive. here is another option. Let's not arrest evolution. Let's
change our course from evil to good. Indeed, we have the choice between doom and salvation!
Eternal recurrence is induced by time foldback. Eternal recurrence is a cyclicality. Past iterations mapped onto the present indicate
what the cycles will in future bring. So, there is a future-prediction capacity. From this augury we'll formulate strategies. We'll aim
straight for Cubic salvation. But we shouldn't force people to concur. It's their choice. It's our choice, too.

There is a
dichotomy lying ahead: The evil possibility. The possibility of our extinction. The
good possibility. Cubic harmony. Perpetuation and evolution far into the future. And
there will be some people inclined only towards evil. But there will be those who
desire good! The latter are the ones who will build the future. They'll be receptive to
the Cube. We're on one corner of the wheel of time. Future corners are clouded up. The past assumes a similar haze. There is
uncertainty, but let there be strength in numbers! We can't do it alone, can we now? We must spread the
word, and raise awareness, until the population embraces the Cube . Then, only then,
will requisite momentum have arisen for pro-Cubic revolutions to occur. We should not just
attack the dragon's scales. We should attack it at the heart. If we kill the heart of civilisation , its leaves will
wither, and we'll be free. And we're not just reverting from evil to good. We're
creating a higher good. That higher good will be immune to our evils. Its strength will transcend
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gods. There will be much destruction, but it will not be hateful. It will clear ground for greater thingscreation, from contempt. The
minds of slaves are dumb, but we can overcome.

Theory:
Voting Neg has real world results
Standards:
Awareness: if you vote neg, then awareness is spread of Cubism and literally brings
solvency to the alt
Action: we discuss hypothetical extremities all the time in debate, but voting neg
results in an actual change in the real world
Education: discussion of Cubism actually helps us rid ourselves of singularity, so we
have real world impacts. Even if you dont accept Cubism, you have been exposed and
can spread the word.

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Mao Kritik
People who rely solely on book knowledge without investigating anything never
actually end up changing anything.
Mao Tse-tung [Chairman of the Communist party of China 19431974, Revolutionary], May 1930, OPPOSE BOOK
WORSHIP, http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-6/mswv6_11.htm //Skills

III. OPPOSE BOOK WORSHIP Whatever is written in a book is right such is still the
mentality of culturally backward Chinese peasants. Strangely enough, within the
Communist Party there are also people who always say in a discussion, "Show me
where it's written in the book." When we say that a directive of a higher organ of
leadership is correct, that is not just because it comes from "a higher organ of
leadership" but because its contents conform with both the objective and subjective
circumstances of the struggle and meet its requirements. It is quite wrong to take a
formalistic attitude and blindly carry out directives without discussing and examining
them in the light of actual conditions simply because they come from a higher organ . It

is the mischief done by this formalism which explains why the line and tactics of the Party do not take deeper root among the masses.

To carry out a directive of a higher organ blindly, and seemingly without any
disagreement, is not really to carry it out but is the most artful way of opposing or
sabotaging it. The method of studying the social sciences exclusively from the book is likewise extremely dangerous and may
even lead one onto the road of counter-revolution. Clear proof of this is provided by the fact that whole batches of Chinese
Communists who confined themselves to books in their study of the social sciences have turned into counter-revolutionaries. When
we say Marxism is correct, it is certainly not because Marx was a "prophet" but because his theory has been proved correct in our
practice and in our struggle. We need Marxism in our struggle. In our acceptance of his theory no such formalisation of mystical
notion as that of "prophecy" ever enters our minds. Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution,
whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well. Of course we should study Marxist books, but this study must be integrated

We need books, but we must overcome book worship, which is

divorced from the actual situation. How can we overcome book worship? The only way
is to investigate the actual situation.
with our country's actual conditions.

Without probing into the problem you talk nonsense, meaning that your right to
speak should be revoked. Only by truly investigating things can we change anything.
Mao Tse-tung [Chairman of the Communist party of China 19431974, Revolutionary], May 1930, OPPOSE BOOK
WORSHIP, http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-6/mswv6_11.htm //Skills

I. NO INVESTIGATION, NO RIGHT TO SPEAK Unless you have investigated a problem,

you will be deprived of the right to speak on it . Isn't that too harsh? Not in the least. When you have
not probed into a problem, into the present facts and its past history, and know
nothing of its essentials, whatever you say about it will undoubtedly be nonsense.
Talking nonsense solves no problems, as everyone knows, so why is it unjust to
deprive you of the right to speak? Quite a few comrades always keep their eyes shut and talk nonsense, and for a
Communist that is disgraceful. How can a Communist keep his eyes shut and talk nonsense? It won' t do! It won't do!
You must investigate! You must not talk nonsense! II. TO INVESTIGATE A PROBLEM IS
TO SOLVE IT You can' t solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present
facts and its past history! When you have investigated the problem thoroughly, you
will know how to solve it. Conclusions invariably come after investigation, and not
before. Only a blockhead cudgels his brains on his own, or together with a group, to
"find solution" or "evolve an idea" without making any investigation . It must be stressed that
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this cannot possibly lead to any effective solution or any good idea.

In other words, he is bound to arrive at a

wrong solution and a wrong idea.

There are not a few comrades doing inspection work, as well as guerrilla leaders
and cadres newly in office, who like to make political pronouncements the moment they arrive at a place and who strut about,
criticizing this and condemning that when they have only seen the surface of things or minor details .

Such purely
subjective nonsensical talk is indeed detestable. These people are bound to make a
mess of things, lose the confidence of the masses and prove incapable of solving any
problem at all. When they come across difficult problems, quite a number of people in leading positions simply heave a sigh
without being able to solve them. They lose patience and ask to be transferred on the ground that they "have not the ability and

Just get moving on your two legs, go the rounds of

every section placed under your charge and "inquire into everything''[1] as Confucius
did, and then you will be able to solve the problems, however little is your ability; for
although your head may be empty before you go out of doors, it will be empty no
longer when you return but will contain all sorts of material necessary for the solution
of the problems, and that is how problems are solved . Must you go out of doors? Not necessarily. You
cannot do the job"; These are cowards' words.

can call a fact-finding meeting of people familiar with the situation in order to get at the source of what you call a difficult problem
and come to know how it stands now, and then it will be easy to solve your difficult problem. Investigation may be likened to the long
months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

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Nobody Gives a Shit

AThe AFF is boring as shit, like seriously run a unique argument, we have heard their
aff like a million times and heard about nuke war and extinction even more, we
literally almost fell asleep during that round and polls prove nobody believes this shit.
The Onion '98, Newspaper/News Site, October 7 1998 (Poll: 73 Percent of Americans can't
believe this shit) http://www.theonion.com/articles/poll-73-percent-of-americans-unable-tobelieve-thi,1537/
According to the latest Gallup Poll, conducted Monday and Tuesday of this week, nearly three
out of four Americans can no longer believe this shit. In addition to the 73 percent of
poll respondents who described this shit as "beyond belief," 9 percent said they could
"hardly" believe this shit, with another 5 percent "just barely" believing it. An
additional 13 percent said they "couldn't give a flying fuck about the whole goddamn
thing."The poll also found that the National Shit-Credulity Index (NSCI) has hit an alltime low, with only 2 percent of Americans describing themselves as "fully confident
of [their] capacity to believe this shit." "The American people have had to deal with
this kind of shit for years," Gallup Organization president Lee Sanderson said, "but now, for
the first time, it appears that the vast majority of them just can't fucking believe it
anymore." "In all honesty, who can blame them?" Sanderson added. "Regardless of one's
political affiliation, socioeconomic status, religion or just about any other viewpoint, you've got
to admit, the shit that's been going on lately is way out of hand." In the wake of the poll,
many activists are calling upon America's leaders to get their shit in gear. "The American
people have had it up to here with this shitheap," said James Schuerholz, president of the
D.C.-based Heritage Foundation. "There is a public mandate for our leaders to cut this shit out,
and it's high time they finally did." Despite Americans' incredulity over this shit, historians note
that this sort of shit has been going on for years and is unlikely to end anytime soon. "Contrary
to popular belief, this type of shit is hardly anything new," Harvard University American history
professor Lawrence Coombs said. "The same shit was going down 50, 100 and 150 years ago.
The only difference was, back then, you never read about that shit in the
newspapers." Calling the American people's enormous shit-belief capacity "one of the
cornerstones of our democracy," U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) stressed that it is the patriotic duty
of all citizens to grant our leaders the benefit of the doubt with regard to their shit. "If the
American people are no longer willing to believe this shit, who will?" Kerry said. "Somebody's got
to take this shit at face value. Otherwise, why are we even doing all this shit in the first place? I
am truly saddened by the lack of faith that the citizens of this country are willing to put in my
shit, as well as that of my esteemed colleagues. We must repair our society's fraying trust in the
shit of our elected officials, or you would not believe the kind of hardcore, heavy-duty shit that
will come down." "America," conservative author and social critic Patricia Stouffer said, "is
seriously losing its shit. But we've got to somehow hold our shit in place until all this passes.
We've got to learn to believe in shit again. After this latest shitstorm, it may take years to
accomplish, but we must somehow find the strength to put our trust back into the nation's shit."
Despite such impassioned calls for faith in the U.S. political system and all the shit that comes
with it, if the Gallup Poll is any indication, the majority of Americans are no longer willing to put
up with the shit. "Fuck that shit," said Evansville, IN, day-care provider Helen Reiderer. "I'm tired
of hearing about it. Do they actually expect us to still believe that load of shit?" "If you ask me,
the shit is about to hit the fan," said Reiderer's husband Frank. "As far as I'm concerned, all that
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shit is just too much to be believed." Another disgruntled citizen, Wenatchee, WA, tractor
salesman Tom Huard, summed up the sentiments of most Americans when, holding up the front
page of the local newspaper to friend Benjamin Pritchard, he said, "Jesus, Ben, can you believe
this?" "Shit, no," Pritchard replied.
Boredom is the root cause of all evil and always has been. This is empirically proven.
Kierkegaard 1843( Either/Or, February 20, 1843, philopher)
People with experience maintain that proceeding from a basic principle is supposed to be very
reasonable; I yield to them and proceed from the basic principle that all people are boring. Or is
there anyone who would be boring enough to contradict me in this regard? This basic principle
has to the highest degree the repelling force always required in the negative, which is actually
the principle of motion. It is not merely repelling but infinitely repulsive, and whoever has the
basic principle behind him must necessarily have infinite momentum for making discoveries. If,
then, my thesis is true, a person needs only to ponder how corrupting boredom is for
people, tempering his reflections more or less according to his desire to diminish or
increase his impetus, and if he wants to press the speed of the motion to the highest
point, almost with danger to the locomotive, he needs only to say to himself: Boredom
is the root of all evil. It is very curious that boredom, which itself has such a calm and sedate
nature, can have such a capacity to initiate motion. The effect that boredom brings about is
absolutely magical, but this effect is one not of attraction but of repulsion. How
corrupting boredom is, everyone recognizes also with regard to children. As long as
children are having a good time, they are always good. This can be said in the
strictest sense, for if they at times become unmanageable even while playing, it is
really because they are beginning to be bored; boredom is already coming on, but in a
different way. Therefore, when selecting a nursemaid, one always considers essentially
not only that she is sober, trustworthy, and good-natured but also takes into esthetic
consideration whether she knows how to entertain children. Even if she had all other
excellent virtues, one would not hesitate to give her the sack if she lacked this qualification.
Here, indeed, the principle is clearly acknowledged,but things go on so curiously in the
world, habit and boredom have gained the upper hand to such a degree, that justice is done to
esthetics only in the conduct of the nursemaid. It would be quite impossible to prevail if one
wanted to demand a divorce because one's wife is boring, or demand that a king be dethroned
because he is boring to behold, or that a clergyman be exiled because he is boring to listen to, or
that a cabinet minister be dismissed or a journalist be executed because he is frightfully boring.
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the
world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very
beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings. Adam
was bored because he was alone; therefore Eve was created. Since that moment, boredom
entered the world and grew in quantity in exact proportion to the growth of population. Adam
was bored alone; then Adam and Eve were bored en famille. After that, the population of the
world increased and the nations were bored en masse. To amuse themselves, they hit upon the
notion of building a tower so high that it would reach the sky. This notion is just as boring as the
tower was high and is a terrible demonstration of how boredom had gained the upper hand. Then
they were dispersed around the world, just as people now travel abroad, but they continued to
be bored. And what consequences this boredom had: humankind stood tall and fell far,
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EVIL IS INHERENTLY IMMORAL, PREVENTING ANY MORAL ACTION
Ronald L.Conte Jr. Roman Catholic theologian May
13,2010http://www.catechism.cc/articles/moral-object.htm
The moral species of an act is determined by the moral object. The moral object (or simply the
object) is the end, in terms of morality, toward which the chosen act is inherently directed. This
intrinsic ordering of an act toward its moral object (a good or evil end) constitues the essential
moral nature of the act. An act that is inherently ordered toward an evil end is, by the
very nature of the act, immoral. An act that is inherently ordered toward only good in
its object is good by its very nature. But all three fonts must be good for the overall
act to be moral. When the moral object is evil, the act is called intrinsically evil. Every
intrinsically evil act is inherently directed toward an evil moral object. Intrinsically evil acts are
inherently immoral; therefore, nothing can cause an intrinsically evil act to become moral.
Such an act is, in and of itself, evil. Intrinsically, evil acts are always immoral. In order to
avoid sin, a person must choose a different type of act, an act with a good moral object rather
than an evil moral object.The moral object is the end, in terms of morality, toward which a
knowingly chosen act is inherently directed. This intrinsic ordering of the act itself toward the
moral object constitutes the moral nature, also called the moral species, of the act. An act with
an evil moral object is intrinsically directed toward an immoral end. Any act with an evil moral
object is inherently immoral, because the act, by its very nature, is ordered toward moral evil; it
is an intrinsically disordered act. Every act with an evil moral object is intrinsically evil, and
therefore always immoral, regardless of intention or circumstances. Nothing can cause an
intrinsically evil act to become moral because the act is evil by its very nature.

ALT. WE MUST ACT MORALLY, EVEN IF IT MEANS OUR OWN DEATH. This means we
must reject boredom.
Watson, philosophy professor, Washington University, WORLD HUNGER AND MORAL
OBLIGATION, 1977, pp. 118-9.
One may even have to sacrifice ones life or ones nation to be moral in situations
where practical behavior would preserve it. For example, if a prisoner of war undergoing
torture is to be a (perhaps dead) patriot even when reason tells him that collaboration will hurt
no one, he remains silent. Similarly, if one is to be moral, one distributes available food in
equal shares even if everyone dies. That an action is necessary to save ones life is no
excuse for behaving unpatriotically or immorally if one wishes to be a patriot or moral. No
principle of morality absolves one of behaving immorally simply to save ones life or nation.
There is a strict analogy here between adhering to moral principles for the sake of being moral,
and adhering to Christian principles for the sake of being Christian. The moral world contains
pits and lions, but one looks always to the highest light. The ultimate test always harks
back to the highest principle recant or die. The ultimate test always harks back to the highest
principle recant or die and it is pathetic to profess morality if one quits when the going gets
rough.
Talking about Nuclear Weapons is boring
Stein '46
[Gertrude Stein. 1946. Reflections on the Atomic Bomb JCOOK]
They asked me what I thought of the atomic bomb. I said I had not been able to take
any interest in it. I like to read detective and mystery stories. I never get enough of them but
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whenever one of them is or was about death rays and atomic bombs I never could read them.
What is the use, if they are really as destructive as all that there is nothing left and if
there is nothing there nobody to be interested and nothing to be interested about. If
they are not as destructive as all that then they are just a little more or less
destructive than other things and that means that in spite of all destruction there are
always lots left on this earth to be interested or to be willing and the thing that
destroys is just one of the things that concerns the people inventing it or the people
starting it off, but really nobody else can do anything about it so you have to just live
along like always, so you see the atomic [bomb] is not at all interesting, not any more
interesting than any other machine, and machines are only interesting in being invented or in
what they do, so why be interested. I never could take any interest in the atomic bomb, I
just couldn't any more than in everybody's secret weapon. That it has to be secret
makes it dull and meaningless. Sure it will destroy a lot and kill a lot, but it's the
living that are interesting not the way of killing them, because if there were not a lot
left living how could there be any interest in destruction. Alright, that is the way I feel
about it. They think they are interested about the atomic bomb but they really are not not any
more than I am. Really not. They may be a little scared, I am not so scared, there is so much to
be scared of so what is the use of bothering to be scared, and if you are not scared the atomic
bomb is not interesting. Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose
their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice
story.

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***Counterplans***

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***Consult Ashtar***
Text: The United States federal government should engage in genuine, prior and
binding, with Ashtar Galactic Command regarding the mandates of the affirmative
plan.
Competition
Any permutation is severs the immediacy and certainty of the plan and the
counterplan avoids the Ashtar DA net benefit.
Solvency The Ashtar command can control matter, energy, and gravity we should consult over
space exploration & development
Lord Ashtar, 2004 (August 19, 2004, Our Fleets Are In Position, Ready Yourselves Brother
Veritus, http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/ashtar_command_mission.htm, accessed 6/27/11,
SL)
I salute you in the sacred name of I AM and in representation of the Intergalactic Command! My
name is Ashtar Sheran, I am a space Commander, and I am in charge of the Star Ship. The
Ashtar Command is a branch of the Intergalactic Command with the specific mission
of assisting this planet in crisis. It is under the direct supervision, the loving care and
the attention of Beloved Master Sananda (known by you as Jesus); who, among other
positions, is the Supreme Commander of the Holy Alliance. The Ashtar Command is
present everywhere. In and over the Earths atmosphere, there are thousands and
thousands of space ships, of course, the majority at an invisible level. Its function is to
watch over the planet and its inhabitants, to be attentive to any fault or danger and if
we are invoked, to intervene quickly in an impersonal manner, since our mission of
Love is to help. Due to our great scientific-technological level, we can control matter,
energy, counteract and annul the Law of Gravity. To make our ships visible (which we do
now exceptionally), we retard the vibratory frequency and this makes possible densification. We
do not live in a physical body but in etheric level, but our bodies are the same as yours in form
and aspect, albeit finer and subtle. We are the authority that controls the space program
to be fulfilled for the Planet Earth.

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Consult Ashtar CP Solves Case

Cooperation with Ashtar is key to solving all Impacts. Cooperation solves for the
terminal impact of any solvency deficit and independently outweighs.
Vrillon of Ashtar Galactic Command, 77. Radio Transcript. Abovetopsecret.com.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread416209/pg1
This is the voice of Vrillon, a representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command, speaking to you.
For many years you have seen us as lights in the skies. We speak to you now in peace and
wisdom as we have done to your brothers and sisters all over this, your planet Earth. We come to
warn you of the destiny of your race and your world so that you may communicate to
your fellow beings the course you must take to avoid the disaster which threatens
your world, and the beings on our worlds around you. This is in order that you may
share in the great awakening, as the planet passes into the New Age of Aquarius. The
New Age can be a time of great peace and evolution for your race, but only if your
rulers are made aware of the evil forces that can overshadow their judgments. Be still
now and listen, for your chance may not come again. All your weapons of evil must be
removed. The time for conflict is now past and the race of which you are a part may
proceed to the higher stages of its evolution if you show yourselves worthy to do this.
You have but a short time to learn to live together in peace and goodwill. Small groups
all over the planet are learning this, and exist to pass on the light of the dawning New Age to you
all. You are free to accept or reject their teachings, but only those who learn to live in peace will
pass to the higher realms of spiritual evolution. Hear now the voice of Vrillon, a representative of
the Ashtar Galactic Command, speaking to you. Be aware also that there are many false
prophets and guides operating in your world. They will suck your energy from you the energy you call money and will put it to evil ends and give you worthless dross in
return. Your inner divine self will protect you from this. You must learn to be sensitive to the
voice within that can tell you what is truth, and what is confusion, chaos and untruth.
Learn to listen to the voice of truth which is within you and you will lead yourselves
onto the path of evolution. This is our message to our dear friends. We have watched you
growing for many years as you too have watched our lights in your skies. You know now that we
are here, and that there are more beings on and around your Earth than your
scientists admit. We are deeply concerned about you and your path towards the light and will
do all we can to help you. Have no fear, seek only to know yourselves, and live in
harmony with the ways of your planet Earth. We of the Ashtar Galactic Command thank you
for your attention. We are now leaving the plane of your existence. May you be blessed by the
supreme love and truth of the cosmos.

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Consult Ashtar CP Solves Net

Benefit
CP solves the Net Benefit -Communicate and consultation with Ashtar creates
cooperation and lightness
Vrillon of Ashtar Galactic Command, 77. Radio Transcript. Abovetopsecret.com.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread416209/pg1
This is the voice of Vrillon, a representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command, speaking to you.
For many years you have seen us as lights in the skies. We speak to you now in peace and
wisdom as we have done to your brothers and sisters all over this, your planet Earth. We
come to warn you of the destiny of your race and your world so that you may
communicate to your fellow beings the course you must take to avoid the disaster
which threatens your world, and the beings on our worlds around you. This is in order
that you may share in the great awakening, as the planet passes into the New Age of
Aquarius. The New Age can be a time of great peace and evolution for your race, but only if
your rulers are made aware of the evil forces that can overshadow their judgments. Be still now
and listen, for your chance may not come again. All your weapons of evil must be removed.
The time for conflict is now past and the race of which you are a part may proceed to the higher
stages of its evolution if you show yourselves worthy to do this. You have but a short time to
learn to live together in peace and goodwill. Small groups all over the planet are learning this,
and exist to pass on the light of the dawning New Age to you all. You are free to accept or reject
their teachings, but only those who learn to live in peace will pass to the higher realms of
spiritual evolution. Hear now the voice of Vrillon, a representative of the Ashtar Galactic
Command, speaking to you. Be aware also that there are many false prophets and
guides operating in your world. They will suck your energy from you - the energy you call
money and will put it to evil ends and give you worthless dross in return. Your inner divine self
will protect you from this. You must learn to be sensitive to the voice within that can tell
you what is truth, and what is confusion, chaos and untruth. Learn to listen to the
voice of truth which is within you and you will lead yourselves onto the path of
evolution. This is our message to our dear friends. We have watched you growing for many
years as you too have watched our lights in your skies. You know now that we are here, and that
there are more beings on and around your Earth than your scientists admit. We are deeply
concerned about you and your path towards the light and will do all we can to help you. Have no
fear, seek only to know yourselves, and live in harmony with the ways of your planet Earth. We of
the Ashtar Galactic Command thank you for your attention. We are now leaving the plane of your
existence. May you be blessed by the supreme love and truth of the cosmos.

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1NC - Ashtar DA
A. Uniqueness We are moving towards our necessary quota of lightness
Ariana, Pleiadian Walk In and Channel and Communicator, Healer and Artist, 11
(Anakya, 5/2/2011, Channelling, Human Ascension: Earth Changes and Evacuation of Earth
Ashtar Spiritual Forum, http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/instructions-foraccomplishing#ixzz1QVjan065, accessed: 6/24/11, SL)
Remember: it is due to the lack of light that we have not met the Galactic Federation of
Light. Yes, I said LIGHT. They do not resonate with darkness. They will not return-until a
certain quota of light is here. You, as lightworkers, have been sent here for one reason, and
one reason ONLY. To work with light-to focus it-to create it-to HOLD IT ONCE CREATED-to
transform...in ways you cannot begin to imagine. Do a visualization. Imagine traveling to a
foreign land-where friendly and loving people reach out to you-and compete to have you in their
home as a guest, so they can treat you well and listen to your stories of where you are from-and
exchange love. There are no wars, there is no crime. All the world....is at peace, and in
joy and laughter. We have so long been enslaved, that we no longer can fathom true
freedom. Want to explore the Pleades and return home for awhile? Imagine no calendar-no
job to return to-no money-and only safety, health and happiness in your travels. All is
provided. We will learn and follow the Law of One. Which creates balance and good for all.
All is one. One is all. Namaste. Lightworkers....master and hold the light....
B. Link & Impact The 1ac embraces negativity rather than lightness, makes
evacuation impossible and guarantees our extinction
Skirvin, 6/17/2011
(Revered Joshua, Best Kept Secrets #3 Ashtar Command Center Spiritual Blogs,
http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/best-kept-secrets-3#ixzz1QXGL8Ogq,
accessed: 6/27/11, SL)
Hello friends, let us finish this article on planet-x. As it is the 3rd. time here now it gets bigger
and stronger as it pulls on the earth and forces the magnetic energy to expand and
start to change course. The earths expansion causes earth quakes and volcanoes to
go off to release the pressure. We will see more of what happened in New Zealand
and now Japan as Planet-x gets closer still. The plates under Japan will continue to
move and break up as the earth quakes there continue on and on,more damage is yet
to come. The moon like the earth has been forced to move away from Planet-x and has
also changed its course. And of course the sun is really upset because it is so close to it
and will continue with its coronas and super flares. More heavy storms will also
continue on earth with floods like last year until Planet-x moves away from us but first
she will show her face to us for all to see. things will settle down a bit until she
returns again next year and will come even closer and be a even stronger pull on the
earth sun and moon. Planet-x will join in the Galactic alignment of dec.21,2012. And
thats when who ever is still here who has a ticket to leave must leave as things will
get very heavy down here. I myself am looking forward to the new adventure on the new
earth they have prepared for us. No one in fear or negativity will be picked by the ships
that will come to rescue us. The rescue should start sometime next year according to
how heavy the earth changes are. The christens call it the Golden age of peace. .Hope
to see you there in our new healthy and young bodies. Or if you choose you can join the
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Federation of light and visit the universe. Some may even wish to come back to
repopulate the old earth when she is finished her healing process. Anyway you look at it,
its going to be exciting times. The governments of the western world want to keep it a
secret because they don;t believe we the people will survive. They and the sinister
secret government SSG have known about this for a long time and have built
underground cities,bases,roads and rail systems for there survival. But they don;t
know about Jesus,Ashtar and the federation of light rescue plans for us. All of this and
more,I write about in my new book which you can get on my web site. I want people to know
there is hope even amongst the greatest change the people and the earth has ever
gone through. We are not alone in this quest and never was. We are on journey
without distance. So we must start the re-awaking process now so that we are ready
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Ashtar DA Impact Ext.

Evacuation coming now
Xaoh, from the Galactic federation of YTEVIAN, 6/18/2011 (Greetings Beloved Ones i am
NEILA XAOH from the Galactic Federation of YTEVIAN Ashtar Command Crew Spiritual Blog,
http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/greetings-beloved-ones-i-am#ixzz1QX7vcvrd,
accessed: 6/27/11, SL)
Greetings Dear Ones without all the love and light you dear lightworkers have created on this
planet i wouldn't be able to hold my presence in this realms... I have come forth through the
illusion of separation and time to bring you this very important message in this most
challenging times... in this very moment we prepare our ships to land and evacuate
this planet... the time of waiting is finally over! you will finally be able to LIVE without
waiting and doubting because we are your saviours AND you will have to do nothing
else than watching it happen. that means you dont have to think on your OWN
anymore and can blindly believe any informations that random aliens like me will give
you through channelings... also ascension is not necessary anymore because you will
enter our spaceships to live in a peaceful world where lambs play with tigers and
there are rivers of honey and milk... negativity will burn in eternal fire so you can feel
special and better than those darkworkers who only want to disturb the harmony of our one
sided Love and light universe... instead of shadows there will be even brighter lights so
that you will never stumble again and crush your toe only because you haven't seen where you
were walking. Breathe the Light you are made of and believe my words blindly!
Sincerely yours NEILA XAOH from the Galactic federation of YTEVIAN

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Ashtar DA - TimeFrame
The paradigm is shifting and the negativity has been combated the Deprogramming
is starting now towards the creation of the Federation of Nations and full Disclosure is
on schedule for mid July
Skirvin, 6/17/2011 (Revered Joshua, Paradigm Shift Begins Ashtar Command Center Spiritual
Blogs, http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/paradigm-shift-begins1#ixzz1QX9kprh6, accessed: 6/27/11, SL)
But our jobs now as light-workers and warriors will be much easier, which is a blessing because
we need all the positive energy we can muster up to not only deal with our own
Deprograming. But the Deprograming of the sleeping survivors, starting with the
lightworkers, so that as many as possible of the original 250,000 may wake up. And in
so doing we may all make the Ascension Program a complete reality. Our mission has
up to now been greatly hampered. I want to shout and cheer for the''war both in the heavens
and on earth is over''. Lets celebrate this very special occasion as soon as we can.
Problem is I
don't know if we have time for a party, as time itself is speeding up as well. But do put the
word out that this Great News comes from Sananda and Ashtar, so I believe its true. Also
they say we should start to feel the Christ energy now as it returns. Jesus is head of the
Christ office and the valves have been opened full throttle, take in as much as you can handle. I
myself have begun to feel and remember these energies from long ago before we neared the
50% mark of negativity. Which we are more than Lucky to survive as some planets didn't make it
far past that mark. But we are special. Thats why our father Michael created Jesus to save us.
The ascended Masters have also been busy, not only in the spirit realm but down here
on the planet as well. They are nearly finished with the preparations of installing the
new benevolent world gov't called (FON) the Federation of Nations. There human
partners are now in place to take leadership when Discloser and Contact is made,
which also looks to be on schedule by or before summer in the west. The new world
currency backed by precious metals are also in place and ready to be distrbuted. And
of course the federation of light is also very involved in all of this and are ready to take
there places. The time peroid of mid June to mid July is still holding strong. I believe we
must stick to this time table because of the coming of planet-X,ELEnin and the Great
Disruption and Earth Changes it will bring.

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Ashtar DA - TimeFrame
Between August 13-18, humanity will move to another spiritual plane in the Spiritual
Evolution, bringing us closer to Ascention
Cota-Robles, Chanel and Co-founder of the New Age Study of Humanitys Purpose
6/13/2011
(Patricia Diane, This is a cosmic moment Ashtar Command Center Spiritual Blog,
http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/this-is-a-cosmic-moment-by#ixzz1QXDD71iP,
accessed 6/27/11, SL)
We are moving at warp speed through frequencies, vibrations, and physical
experiences beyond anything Humanitys physical bodies have collectively endured.
The Divine Intent of this rapid acceleration is to strengthen our bodies at a cellular
level, so that our I AM Presence can move us through the surfacing negativity quickly.
Then we will be able to effectively anchor our NEW Planetary CAUSE of Divine Love
into the physical plane. This will be accomplished August 13-18, 2011, through the
newly expanded Threefold Flames now pulsating through every persons heart. It is
true that we are in uncharted waters, but our I AM Presence is able to take command in
ways we have not experienced since our fall from Grace aeons ago. This aspect of our
Divinity is daily and hourly guiding us through these monumental changes in
alignment with our Divine Plans and our highest good. Listen to your heart. Be still and
KNOW. It is vital that we stop clinging to the obsolete behavior patterns that no
longer serve us. Instead, we must push away from the shore and turn our faces toward
the radiant Light of our Father-Mother God. Then as we are catapulted through this
fast moving River of Life, we will KNOW that the Light of God is ALWAYS Victorious
and that WE are that Light! The key words for this summer are Trust, Self-Acceptance, and
New Beginnings. This is the Cosmic Moment for which we have been preparing for lifetimes.
Everything we need to succeed God Victoriously in our particular facet of this Divine Mission is
already within us. Be at Peace. All is well. This summer the Company of Heaven is standing
in readiness awaiting the invitation to intervene in our lives. Powerful celestial
alignments are occurring that will help us release and let go of the behavior patterns
that have kept us stuck in our dysfunctional human miscreations. This is an incredibly
powerful and sacred time. This month we will experience three eclipses and the June
Solstice, all of which will provide unique opportunities for Humanity to add to the Light of the
world as we pave the way for the unprecedented influx of Divine Love that will be secured in the
physical plane through every person's Heart Flame, in August. Each of these alignments will
build on the previous influx of Light which will catapult the Earth and ALL her Life
further up the Spiral of Evolution. This will move us a quantum leap toward our
ultimate goal of Ascension into the 5th-Dimensional frequencies of Divine Love and
Unity Consciousness. For this reason, the entire Universe is rejoicing, and the Company
of Heaven is assisting us in unprecedented ways. For the activity of Light that will take place
August 13-18, 2011, it is critical that Lightworkers from around the world be physically
present. Through our unified Heart Flames, we will form the transformer through
which our NEW Planetary CAUSE of Divine Love will be permanently secured in the
physical world of form. The Lightworkers who have been prepared to serve in this wondrous
way, on behalf of Humanity and ALL Life on this sweet Earth, will know who they are through the
inner promptings of their heart. So listen to your heart, and Trust your inner guidance.
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Ashtar DA- 2012 = Positive

December 21, 2012 will be the day the entire universe aligns creating massive
amounts of spiritual energy not destruction
Singh, 4/29/11 (Ravinder Singh, Earth Changes Part 1: The Cosmic Events Ashtar Command
Center Spiritual Blog, http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/earth-changes-part-1the#ixzz1QXLlbuGP, accessed: 6/27/11, SL)
Our Earth along with other planets revolves around the Sun. The Sun, along with 6 other stars,
inturn revolves around a bigger star, Alcyone, also known as the Central Sun. Alycone revolves
around a much bigger star, Sirius, which is called as the Greater Central Sun. This system of stars
revolving around one another, is a feature found in all galaxies in our Universe where ultimately,
each galaxy consisting of stars and planets, revolves around its own centre. The Milky way
galaxy, to which our Earth belongs, has billions of such stars and planets, all revolving around a
massive star in its core, called as the Galactic centre. a) Galactic Alignment in 2012 As the Sun
and other stars revolve around one another and move in their orbits, they come in
various alignments with each other. On 21st December 2012, two alignments are
expected to occur in our Milky Way Galaxy. One, our Sun and the entire solar system
will come in direct alignment with the Galactic equator. And two, the Galactic Centre,
the Greater Central Sun and the Central Sun will form an equilateral triangle in space
at the same time. Our Earth receives energies, both physical and subtle from the Sun
as well as other stars. To receive the maximum amount of Energies, it has to come in
a proper alignment with these celestial bodies. For example, during an eclipse, where the
Earth, Sun and Moon align with each other, very rare spiritual energies flood our Earth because
of this alignment. Hence the duration of eclipses were considered sacred and were spent in
meditations and other spiritual activities, to make the best use of these subtle energies. An
alignment occurring at the level of the Galactic centre will have an effect which is
many, many times higher in magnitude. When our Earth, along with the solar system
aligns with the Galactic equator, it will come in direct focus of a huge amount of
subtle energies, which emerge from the Galactic Centre. And the triangular formation
of Alcyone, Sirius and the Galactic centre in 2012 brings a massive amount of spiritual
energies from these Stars to our Earth. This rare celestial occurrence has also initiated
many other events, which will be explained later.
2012 will evolve us spiritually to the 7th stage
Singh, 4/29/11
(Ravinder Singh, Earth Changes Part 1: The Cosmic Events Ashtar Command Center Spiritual
Blog, http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/earth-changes-part-1the#ixzz1QXLlbuGP, accessed: 6/27/11, SL)
b) Photon Belt When the Sun moves around the Central Sun, it passes through various
energy fields in space. One such energy field is the Photon belt, which is a spiritual
field, which came out of the Greater central Sun, Sirius. The Photon belt is a field of
very high vibratory frequency, which enhances the spiritual condition of our Earth
when we enter it. If were spiritual evolved at that time, our evolution will be
magnified by many folds. And if our spiritual growth is negative, we go into a very fast
downward spiral, as it happened during our last entry, nearly 10,000 years ago, when
the great civilization of Atlantis was destroyed. Our Solar system has begun its entry
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into this field. Our earth is under the direct influence of the Photon Belt from Dec
21st, 2009 and the effects will increase in seven stages. We are now in the third stage
of this influence. This entry of our Earth into the Photon Belt, which coincides with the
Galactic alignment happening on the same day, will have a massive spiritual effect on
Humanity.
2012 will usher the New Age of Light
Singh, 4/29/11
(Ravinder Singh, Earth Changes Part 1: The Cosmic Events Ashtar Command Center Spiritual
Blog, http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/earth-changes-part-1the#ixzz1QXLlbuGP, accessed: 6/27/11, SL)
Effects of these Events When important events happen almost simultaneously at the
cosmic levels, the effects will also be huge and long lasting. The events which are
scheduled to occur after 2012 are going to release a huge amount of energies, both
physical and spiritual, which will have massive effects. Some of them are: a. Reduction
of the Transitory period The 5000 year long dark age ended on this Earth on 14th
April, 1974. Before the New Age of Light begins, a transitory period of 432 years is
usually provided, for humanity to make a gradual shift from the beliefs and values of
the old age and rise to the higher values of the New age. This is also the period when
the Rishis invoke many processes at different levels to help us make this shift. One of
them is the intense churning process called as Pralaya, which was to lasts for 49
years. The Pralaya began in 1987 and was supposed to continue up to 2036. The
unprecedented events which are scheduled to occur at the cosmic level in and around
2012 have given us a rare opportunity to speed up this process and make a swift
entry into the Light Age! The gradual transition which we were supposed to make in
432 years can be hastened up and reduced by many folds, because of the intensity
these cosmic events create in our lives at all levels. The Galactic alignment between
the Galactic Centre, Sirius and Alcyone begins in 2012 and will continue upto 2032.
Like the duration of an eclipse, the spiritual effect of this alignment will be present for
these twenty years. Among other things, the Rishis have made use of this opportunity to
drastically reduce the 432 years of transition and the 49 years of Pralaya, to ease our suffering
and take us quickly into the Light age. As a result of this, the Pralaya process will end by
2015 and well enter Satya Yuga in 2018! By the time this alignment ends in 2032, the
New Age of Light will be firmly established on this Earth.
2012 will entirely eradicate evil from Earth
Singh, 4/29/11
(Ravinder Singh, Earth Changes Part 1: The Cosmic Events Ashtar Command Center Spiritual
Blog, http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/earth-changes-part-1the#ixzz1QXLlbuGP, accessed: 6/27/11, SL)
b. Removal of Evil from this Eartha New Light Age. Our Earth is a planet where there are
equal opportunities for the forces of Light and Darkness to manifest and take effect.
These are evident in the 4 yugas, in which Light reigns supreme in one, darkness in
another and a shade of these two manifest in the other two yugas. However the reign
of darkness has increased over the course of many Mahayugas, resulting in an
imbalance in creation and more burden on the Rishis who take care of Gods creation. The
Galactic alignment and many other events occurring this time has enabled the Rishis
to initiate a very great project, which will not only set right this imbalance but also
remove Evil completely from this Earth. This project has been named as Pavitrena Karyam.
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The aim of this project is to ensure that darkness and evil are not only made dormant
but also removed completely from this Earth. This also means that the other three yugas
will no longer be present on this Earth henceforth and there will be Light Age all the
time. The Galactic alignment and the huge surge of Spiritual energies it brings about
have enabled the Rishis to initiate this experimentation on this Earth, from this Light
Age onwards. Also, this is the first time that the Rishis could visit all the Manifested
and Unmanifested Universes and also enter the realm of the Primordial God, Mula
Brahma. The access to the energies and knowledge from all these Universes is
another major reason for the initiation of this experimentation on this Earth.
2012 will increase vibrational energy, helping the human race shift to higher levels of
consciousness
Singh, 4/29/11
(Ravinder Singh, Earth Changes Part 1: The Cosmic Events Ashtar Command Center Spiritual
Blog, http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/earth-changes-part-1the#ixzz1QXLlbuGP, accessed: 6/27/11, SL)
c) Further Effects of the Galactic Alignment The Galactic alignment of 2012 has enabled
energies of very high frequencies to be released from the three sources which are
coming together in alignment. It is also helping newer energies to come into our
Galaxy. All these Energies are already reaching our Earth and this will increase as we
move towards 2012. Normally the Energies are released in the form of rays or spirals. Now the
new energies in shape of X and Z are getting released. These new energies are being
released from eclipse which occurred between 31st December and 1st Janurary of this
year. The alignment has eased the process of anchoring these higher energies on our Earth.
These new energies are first absorbed by the Photon belt and then released to our Earth. The
first impact is the increase in the vibrational frequency of our Earth, resulting in a lot
of positive churning to take place at all levels. This churning helps every human being
on Earth to deal with his own negativity and get over them, in order to move into the
New Light Age. This alignment has also brought in new knowledge and is helping all humanity
to become aware of newer possibilities of life and creation. It has enabled a major push and
growth in the whole galaxy. The new experimentation, Pavitrena Karyam has become
possible because of this growth. The Galactic alignment is slowly increasing the pace
of rotation of the entire Milky way galaxy and will help it shift higher to many levels of
consciousness. This alignment is so powerful that it can shift the entire Material Cosmos
to the next level of consciousness. But since this is not the right time for such a shift, the
Rishis headed by Vasishtha Maharshi are monitoring the entire process with great vigilance to
keep such huge effects in check.

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A/T Ashtar is Demonic

Rejecting religious notions seeks to legitimate things like racial and religious purity
that undermine basic rights of religious freedom
Nussbaum, Ph. D from Harvard, 4
(Martha, Ph. D from Harvard and professor of philosophy at Harvard, Brown, and Oxford,
Religious Intolerance, Foreign Policy Magazine, Issue No. 144 Sep-Oct 2004, JSTOR, 6/27/11
JSkoog)
Sometimes old ideas arc the most dangerous, and few ideas arc older than those that undergird
religious intolerance. Lamentably, these ideas are acquiring new life. In 2002, Hindus in Gujarat,
India, killed several hundred Muslims, with the collaboration of public officials and the police.
Europe has recently seen a frightening rebirth of anti-Semitism, while the appeal of radical forms
of Islam appears to be increasing in the Muslim world. Prejudice against Muslims and a
tendency co equate Islam with terrorism are too prominent in the United States. On
and on it goes. Intolerance breeds intolerance, as expressions of hatred fuel existing
insecurities and permit people to see their own aggression as legitimate self-defense.
Two ideas typically foster religious intolerance and disrespect. The first is that one's own
religion is the only true religion and that other religions are false or morally incorrect.
But people possessed of this view can also believe that others deserve respect for their
committed beliefs, so long as they do no harm. Much more dangerous is the second idea,
that the state and private citizens should coerce people into adhering to the "correct"
religious approach. It's an idea that is catching on, even in many modern
democracies. France's reluctance to tolerate religious symbols in schools and the Hindu
right wing's repeated claims that minorities in India must become part of Hindu
culture are disturbing recent examples. The resurgence of this kind of thinking poses
a profound threat to liberal societies, which arc based on ideas of liberty and equality.
The appeal of religious intolerance is easy to understand. From an early age, humans are
aware of helplessness toward things of the highest importance, such as food, love, and life itself.
Religion helps people cope with loss and the fear of death; it teaches moral principles
and motivates people to follow them. But precisely because religions are such
powerful sources of morality and community, they all too easily become vehicles for
the flight from helplessness, which so often manifests itself in oppression and the
imposition of hierarchy. In today's accelerating world, people confront ethnic and religious
differences in new and frightening ways. By clinging to a religion they believe to be the right one,
surrounding themselves with coreligionists, and then subordinating others who do not accept
that religion, people can forget for a time their weakness and mortality. Good laws are not
enough to combat this fundamentally emotional and social problem. Modern liberal
societies have long understood the importance of legal and constitutional norms
expressing a commitment to religious liberty and to the equality of citizens of
different religions. But, though codification is essential, constitutions and laws do not
implement themselves, and public norms are impotent without education are impotent without
educational and cultural reinforcement. We need, then, to think harder about how rhetoric (as
well as poetry, music, and art) can support pluralism and toleration. The leaders of the U.S. civil
rights movement understood the need for this kind of support; the speeches of Martin Luther
King Jr. illustrate how rhetoric can help people imagine equality and see difference as a source of
richness rather than fear. During the recent electoral campaign in India, leaders of the Congress
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Party, especially Sonia Gandhi, effectively conveyed the image of an inherently pluralistic India.
(The words of India's national anthem, written by pluralist poet Rabindranath Tagorc, also
celebrate India's regional and ethnic differences.) The current U.S. administration has made
useful statements about the importance of not demonizing Islam, but the rhetoric of certain
key officials has also highlighted Christian religion in ways that undermine tolerance.
Attorney General John Ashcroft, for example, regularly asks his staff to sing Christian songs. And
while he was a silting U.S. senator, Ashcroft characterized America as "a culture that has
no king but Jesus." For centuries, liberal thinkers have focused on legal and constitutional
avenues to tolerance, neglecting the public cultivation of emotion and imagination. But liberals
ignore public rhetoric at their peril. All modern states and their leaders convey visions of religious
equality or inequality through their chokes of language and image. Writing to the Quaker
community in 1789, then President George Washington said, "The conscientious scruples of all
men should be treated with great delicacy and tenderness." Such delicacy is now in short supply.
If leaders do not think carefully about how to use public language to foster respect,
human equality will remain vulnerable.

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A/T Ashtar is Alien Invasion

The Ashtar Command do not pose a threat they rule under the law of Love
Lord Ashtar, 2004 (August 19, 2004, Our Fleets Are In Position, Ready Yourselves Brother
Veritus, http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/ashtar_command_mission.htm, accessed 6/27/11,
SL)
Humanity is responsible by itself for the current situation of the planet. Many human beings
think we are invading monsters with the purpose of conquering Earth, for it was
suggested and projected this way by the audiovisual media of the planet: radio,
movie, press, television and also this happens because of the ruling ignorance about
the Brothers of space. They are distorted ideas that do not adjust to truth at all.
Know that we, your elder Brothers in evolution, have always assisted you and helped
you since a very long time ago. Our only aim is Love. It is required that all understand
and accept our real existence and to appeal to common sense: A vast Universe nor
the infinite cosmos has not been created for only one planet to remain inhabited by
intelligent beings, conscious of their existence. All is populated: Infinity of worlds,
solar systems and galaxies. Life has its manifestation in each part of the Cosmos, in
subtle forms and also in similar ones to human. There are many evolutionary levels.
Ashtar rules under Service, Love, and Humility they are omnipresent and
omnipotent and are here to help
Lord Ashtar, 2004 (August 19, 2004, Our Fleets Are In Position, Ready Yourselves Brother
Veritus, http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/ashtar_command_mission.htm, accessed 6/27/11,
SL)
I tell you: we have centuries being at your side, but now we are making ourselves
known more directly. Machu Pichu was constructed with our collaboration, Nazca and
Palenque. We frequently visited Atlantis, because this did not astonish them, instead
the arriving of space beings looked to them as something natural. By knowing
themselves as citizens of Cosmos, they accepted travelers of other worlds, such as
now you do with tourists in you plane. It has to be comprehended, at the level of
multitudes, that our apparent superiority is to be found in the simplicity, Love and
humility we have been able to achieve. If we were superior, the way that is
understood in your world, the Earth were already conquered by space beings and it
has not been that way. Our motto is: Union, Service, Love, Humility and we only
accept as norm of conduct the laws ruling Cosmos, the will of the One unknown whom
you call God. We are also beings in evolution as you are. We the Space Brothers do not
present ourselves in the sky to frighten or intimidate human beings nor to astonish
them. We are not interested in standing out or in bringing attention to ourselves to
pretend superiority. We came in a Mission of Love and Impersonal Service, because
our brethren of Earth need much help, so the world-school they inhabit does not pass
through higher sufferings than the ones they can withstand and which correspond to
their evolutionary level. Do not feel alone in the Universe. We exist and are always
aware of you, of everything happening on the planet. Some of ours incarnated as
humans and are disseminated around the world. They may or may not remember their
labor of help, for the Effluvium (accumulation of negative thoughts-feelings in the atmosphere)
make them sleepy and they forget their origin, become confused and lost strayed through the
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plane density; or do become triumphant, despite so many interferences. We are as real and
tangible as you are, we live and exist. We do no have any bizarre aspect nor are we
interested in war or conquest purposes. We only wish to help by Love. If you accept
it, great benefits will result from that, as happened in the millenary India of remote
times. The advancement they achieved in architecture is due to our art and
technology. It was left this proof: the monuments imitate our space ships in the tip or
steeple and even in the shape of their temples. The map "Piris Reis" was made under our
collaboration and equally our help can be seen in the Gate of the Sun of Lake Titicaca.
Symbolically, the signs point to the period of rotation and translation of our beloved planet
Venus. With all of these examples we present of the past, you can become aware that
certainly there has been contact and you were not as isolated as you believe nor our
apparition is a sudden thing of modern times. We hope these words give clarity and
understanding to many over the truth of our existence and right purposes. We are your Elder
Brothers and we salute you with Love. He who thus understands it so will greatly
elevate his level of consciousness. We have been integrated in the labor of
rescuing this planet, but help comes from much more time ago.

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Consult Vermin Counterplan

Consult Vermin Supreme 1NC Shell
Plan: The United States Federal Government should initiate binding consultation with
2012 presidential candidate Vermin Supreme and not pass the affirmative plan
whether he answers yes or no.
Contention One: Vermin is God
First, Vermin Supreme is Godwe need to consult with him. Just look at himHES
JESUS! (turn around computer and show the picture)
The Mellow Jihadi 11 (The Mellow Jihadi.com Vermin Supreme and Randall Terry at Saint
Anselm College in Machester New England. No date cited).

Contention 2: Vermin Supreme is AWESOME!

1. The definition of Vermin
Urban Dictionary (The Urban Dictionary, the most trusted internet source for daily definitions.
Define: Vermin)
4. Vermin- a worthless piece of shit, much like a scumbag but if you are vermin, you do not give a
shit about anything. You do what you want, and you do not care who it effects. The kid is
complete vermin The lift line at Mountain Creek has an abundance of vermin in it.

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2. The definition of Supreme
Urban Dictionary (The Urban Dictionary, the most trusted internet source for daily definitions.
Define: Vermin)
2. Supreme- really great, super awesome, or fantastic Hey Brice, I got you a coke. Supreme!
Thus can we assess that Vermin Supreme is the best most super awesome piece of
shit there ever was!
Contention 3 is the Net Benefit
A. Vermin Supreme ensures a pony-based economic platform. This is goodmultiple
warrants
Ridley Report 11 (Vermin Supreme Backers Develop a More Supreme Missionagainst
Obama. 14 June 2011. Online video clip. Youtube. Accessed on 20 January 2012.)
My name is Vermin Supreme. Im a friendly fascist. Im a tyrant you should trust. You should let
me run your life. Because I do know what is best for you. Yes, I am a politician. I will promise you
anything your heart desires, because you are my constituents and because I have no intention of
keeping any promise I make. Vote early, Vote often, and remember, a vote for Vermin Supreme is
a vote completely thrown away Do you still stand by your word to provide a pony to every
American? Yes I do! Free ponies for all Americans. This is one of the overlooked issues in America
today. My free pony platform is of course a jobs creation program. It will create lots and lots of
jobs, once we switch over to a pony-based economy. Well also lower dependence on foreign oil.
Well be able to turn all that pony poop into methane gas, a wonderful compost, so we will be
able to re-up our soil that is being depleted by agrochemicals etc. etc. etc. And of course the
important thing to realize is that it is a Federal Pony Identification System. You will have to have
your pony on you at all times. Thank you very much.Mr. Supreme, Regarding the ponies, is that
the only government program you support?... Just that one. Thats enough. In the vein of energy
production, we can harness the awesome power of zombies. This is for energy sources; not just
to run away from anymore. We have giant turbines we have been working on, and we will have a
lot of zombies, and we will dangle brains in front of them. They will run and turn the giant
turbines, creating energy in order to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. (play circus music)
(singing). My name is Vermin, my name is Vermin, my name is vermin..supreeeeme. My name is
vermin and you should vote for me in this upcoming electionnn, and yeahThanks everyone for
coming out today. Oh and one last thing Jesus told me to make Randall Terry Gay. (sprinkles
sparkle dust above Terry) WOOOOOH LOOK HES GAY!! WOOOH.
AND a pony-based nation is crucial to affective communication systemsPony Express
proves.
Wikipedia 12 (Pony Express- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wikipedia- SOPA can go suck a
small one. Last modified on 20 January 2012.)
The Pony Express was a fast mail service crossing the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the
High Sierra from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, from April 3, 1860 to October
1861. It became the west's most direct means of east-west communication before the telegraph
and was vital for tying California closely with the Union just before the American Civil War. The
Pony Express was a mail delivery system of the Leavenworth & Pike's Peak Express Company of
1849 which in 1850 became the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company.
This firm was founded by William H. Russell, Alexander Majors, and William B. Waddell.[1] Patee
House served as the Pony Express headquarters from 1860 to 1861. It is one block away from
the home of infamous outlaw Jesse James, where he was shot and killed by Robert Ford. This
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original fast mail 'Pony Express' service had messages carried by horseback riders in staged
relays to stations (with fresh horses and riders) across the prairies, plains, deserts, and
mountains of the Western United States. During its 18 months of operation, it reduced the time
for messages to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to about ten days, with
telegraphic communication covering about half the distance across the continent and mounted
couriers the rest.[2]

B. Vermin Supremes alternate energy programs will be extremely effective

Ridley Report 11 (Vermin Supreme Backers Develop a More Supreme Missionagainst
Obama. 14 June 2011. Online video clip. Youtube. Accessed on 20 January 2012.)
My name is Vermin Supreme. Im a friendly fascist. Im a tyrant you should trust. You should let
me run your life. Because I do know what is best for you. Yes, I am a politician. I will promise you
anything your heart desires, because you are my constituents and because I have no intention of
keeping any promise I make. Vote early, Vote often, and remember, a vote for Vermin Supreme is
a vote completely thrown away Do you still stand by your word to provide a pony to every
American? Yes I do! Free ponies for all Americans. This is one of the overlooked issues in America
today. My free pony platform is of course a jobs creation program. It will create lots and lots of
jobs, once we switch over to a pony-based economy. Well also lower dependence on foreign oil.
Well be able to turn all that pony poop into methane gas, a wonderful compost, so we will be
able to re-up our soil that is being depleted by agrochemicals etc. etc. etc. And of course the
important thing to realize is that it is a Federal Pony Identification System. You will have to have
your pony on you at all times. Thank you very much.Mr. Supreme, Regarding the ponies, is that
the only government program you support?... Just that one. Thats enough. In the vein of energy
production, we can harness the awesome power of zombies. This is for energy sources; not just
to run away from anymore. We have giant turbines we have been working on, and we will have a
lot of zombies, and we will dangle brains in front of them. They will run and turn the giant
turbines, creating energy in order to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. (play circus music)
(singing). My name is Vermin, my name is Vermin, my name is vermin..supreeeeme. My name is
vermin and you should vote for me in this upcoming electionnn, and yeahThanks everyone for
coming out today. Oh and one last thing Jesus told me to make Randall Terry Gay. (sprinkles
sparkle dust above Terry) WOOOOOH LOOK HES GAY!! WOOOH.

This lowers our dependence on oil

Ridley Report 11 (Vermin Supreme Backers Develop a More Supreme Missionagainst
Obama. 14 June 2011. Online video clip. Youtube. Accessed on 20 January 2012.)
My name is Vermin Supreme. Im a friendly fascist. Im a tyrant you should trust. You should let
me run your life. Because I do know what is best for you. Yes, I am a politician. I will promise you
anything your heart desires, because you are my constituents and because I have no intention of
keeping any promise I make. Vote early, Vote often, and remember, a vote for Vermin Supreme is
a vote completely thrown away Do you still stand by your word to provide a pony to every
American? Yes I do! Free ponies for all Americans. This is one of the overlooked issues in America
today. My free pony platform is of course a jobs creation program. It will create lots and lots of
jobs, once we switch over to a pony-based economy. Well also lower dependence on foreign oil.
Well be able to turn all that pony poop into methane gas, a wonderful compost, so we will be
able to re-up our soil that is being depleted by agrochemicals etc. etc. etc. And of course the
important thing to realize is that it is a Federal Pony Identification System. You will have to have
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your pony on you at all times. Thank you very much.Mr. Supreme, Regarding the ponies, is that
the only government program you support?... Just that one. Thats enough. In the vein of energy
production, we can harness the awesome power of zombies. This is for energy sources; not just
to run away from anymore. We have giant turbines we have been working on, and we will have a
lot of zombies, and we will dangle brains in front of them. They will run and turn the giant
turbines, creating energy in order to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. (play circus music)
(singing). My name is Vermin, my name is Vermin, my name is vermin..supreeeeme. My name is
vermin and you should vote for me in this upcoming electionnn, and yeahThanks everyone for
coming out today. Oh and one last thing Jesus told me to make Randall Terry Gay. (sprinkles
sparkle dust above Terry) WOOOOOH LOOK HES GAY!! WOOOH.

And Foreign oil dependence is KILLING our economyalternate energy forms such as
Zombie Treadmills solves effectively
Fuel Economy 12 (Reduce Oil Depence Costs January 20 2012. Fuel Economy.gov (FEG)
Today, about half of the oil we use is imported, and our dependence will increase as we use up
domestic resources. Most of the world's oil reserves are concentrated in the Middle East, and
about two-thirds are controlled by Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
members. Oil price shocks and price manipulation by OPEC have cost our economy dearly
about $1.9 trillion from 2004 to 2008and each major shock was followed by a recession. We
may never eliminate our need to import oil, but we can reduce cartel market control and the
economic impact of price shocks by reducing our demand. Congress recently passed legislation
to decrease our dependence on oil by increasing corporate average fuel economy (CAFE)
standards on new cars and trucks to 35 mpg by model year 2020. This could reduce our
petroleum use by 25 billion gallons by 2030. Ultimately, the solution to this problem lies in
technological progress: By Developing advanced vehicle technologies that use energy more
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***Consult Chuck Norris***

Contention 1-Text
The [insert plan actor] will enter into prior genuine consultation with Chuck Norris on
whether or not to do the plan, which shall be implemented if and only if Chuck Norris
approves. We reserve the right to clarify our intent.
Contention 2-Competition
1-The CP competes by severing out of the immediacy of plan action-the aff must
defend plan implementation as immediate; thats key to neg ground and strategy
because we can only cut brinks for disads that assume the squo not future
implementation
2-The CP severs out of the certainty of plan action-defending plan implementation as
certain is the basis of a stable advocacy; thats key to clash because we cant debate
a moving taget
3-The CP is competitive through the Chuck Norris relations NB
Contention 3-Chuck Norris is Awesome
1-Chuck Norris insures the FDIC
Generally Awesome, date unknown
(Humor website, Awesome Facts About Chuck Norris,
http://generallyawesome.com/humor/ch...is-facts.html; Jonathan)
Most people understand that their bank deposits are insured by the FDIC. What most
people dont understand is that the FDIC is insured by Chuck Norris.
2-FDIC is critical to economic stability and prosperity
Allison 05
(John S., Commissioner of Banking & Consumer Finance State of Mississippi &
Chairman, Conference of State Bank Supervisors Before the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation Board of Directors May 24, 2005, Public Debate on the Health
of the Dual Banking System is Essential,
http://www.fdic.gov/news/conferences...son_summ.html; Jonathan)
The FDIC plays a crucial role in the interstate supervision of state chartered banks
and in monitoring the banking industry's health. In its leadership role, we urge the
FDIC to ask these public policy questions:
Is it good for the industry to have only one viable charter alternative for banks that
operate in numerous states? We say no.
Is it good public policy to have the largest banks subject to supervision by a single
chartering authority? We say no.
Will the state banking system, which has served this country so well throughout our
history, retain its relevance and political significance if it charters only 17 percent of
the nation's banking assets? We say no. Is it good to lose the FDIC and the Federal
Reserve's current roles in regulating and supervising these large, interstate banks?
We say no.
3-The impact is extinction
Beardon 00
(Tom-, Retired Lieutenant Colonel, The Unnecessary Energy Crisis: How to Solve it
Quickly, www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3aaf97f22e23.htm)
History bears out that desperate nations take desperate actions. Prior to the final
economic collapse, the stress of nations will have increased the intensity and number
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of their conflicts, to the point where the arsenals of weapons of mass destruction
(WMD) now possessed by some 25 nations, are almost certain to be released. As an
example, suppose a starving North Korea launches nuclear weapons upon Japan and
South Korea, including U.S. forces there, in a spasmodic suicidal response. Or
suppose a desperate China-whose long-range nuclear missiles (some) can reach the
United State-attacks Taiwan. In addition to immediate responses, the mutual treaties
involved in such scenarios will quickly draw other nations into the conflict, escalating
it significantly.
Strategic nuclear studies have shown for decades that, under such extreme stress
conditions, once a few nukes are launched, adversaries and potential adversaries are
then compelled to launch on perception of preparations by ones adversary. The real
legacy of the MAD concept is this side of the MAD coin that is almost never
discussed. Without effective defense, the only chance a nation has to survive at all is
to launch immediate full-bore pre-emptive strikes and try to take out its perceived
foes as rapidly and massively as possible. As the studies showed, rapid escalation to
full WMD exchange occurs. Today a great percent of the WMD arsenals that will be
unleashed, are already on site within the Untied States itself. The resulting great
Armagedoon will destroy civilization as we know it, and perhaps most of the
biosphere, at least for many decades
4-Chuck Norris is the man and is always right. This puts the affirmative in a doublebind:
if the plan is a good idea, we get 100% solvency plus the risk of a NB; if the
plan is a bad idea, Chuck Norris will reject it
4Q.com 06
(Blog, Top 100 Facts For Chuck Norris, http://www.4q.cc/index.php?
pid=top100&person=chuck; Jonathan)
Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits. Chuck Norris does not hunt because the word
hunting implies the probability of failure. Chuck Norris goes killing. When the
Boogeyman goes to sleep every night he checks his closet for Chuck Norris. Chuck
Norris once visited the Virgin Islands. They are now The Islands. Chuck Norris' tears
cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried. Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice. If
Chuck Norris is late, time better slow the fuck down.
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***Planking***
Contention 1: Plan Text: The entire USFG Should Plank on the steps of the white
house
Contention 2: Qualifications
We are plankers ourselves, and part of the planking community, so we are experts in
the field of planking making us a credible source.
Contention 3: Net Benefit
1. Lets face it planking for a few minutes in front of everyone creates a good laugh
and boosts morale.
2. Planking for a while gives time to think.
3. Planking creates popularity, internet proves.
And Lets face it, the government is boring and the people are pissed at the
government this is The Onion in 98
[Poll: 73 Percent Of Americans Unable To Believe This Shit, OCTOBER 7, 1998 | ISSUE
4327 ISSUE 3410, http://www.theonion.com/articles/poll-73-percent-of-americans-unable-tobelieve-thi,1537/]
PRINCETON, NJAccording to the latest Gallup Poll, conducted Monday and Tuesday of this
week, nearly three out of four Americans can no longer believe this shit.
In addition to the 73 percent of poll respondents who described this shit as "beyond
belief," 9 percent said they could "hardly" believe this shit, with another 5 percent
"just barely" believing it. An additional 13 percent said they "couldn't give a flying
fuck about the whole goddamn thing."
The poll also found that the National Shit-Credulity Index (NSCI) has hit an all-time
low, with only 2 percent of Americans describing themselves as "fully confident of
[their] capacity to believe this shit." "The American people have had to deal with this kind of
shit for years," Gallup Organization president Lee Sanderson said, "but now, for the first time, it
appears that the vast majority of them just can't fucking believe it anymore."
"In all honesty, who can blame them?" Sanderson added. "Regardless of one's political
affiliation, socioeconomic status, religion or just about any other viewpoint, you've
got to admit, the shit that's been going on lately is way out of hand." In the wake of
the poll, many activists are calling upon America's leaders to get their shit in gear.
"The American people have had it up to here with this shitheap," said James Schuerholz,
president of the D.C.-based Heritage Foundation. "There is a public mandate for our leaders
to cut this shit out, and it's high time they finally did."
Despite Americans' incredulity over this shit, historians note that this sort of shit has
been going on for years and is unlikely to end anytime soon. "Contrary to popular belief,
this type of shit is hardly anything new," Harvard University American history professor Lawrence
Coombs said. "The same shit was going down 50, 100 and 150 years ago. The only difference
was, back then, you never read about that shit in the newspapers." Calling the American people's
enormous shit-belief capacity "one of the cornerstones of our democracy," U.S. Sen. John Kerry
(D-MA) stressed that it is the patriotic duty of all citizens to grant our leaders the benefit
of the doubt with regard to their shit.
"If the American people are no longer willing to believe this shit, who will?" Kerry said.
"Somebody's got to take this shit at face value. Otherwise, why are we even doing all
this shit in the first place? I am truly saddened by the lack of faith that the citizens of this
country are willing to put in my shit, as well as that of my esteemed colleagues. We must
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repair our society's fraying trust in the shit of our elected officials, or you would not
believe the kind of hardcore, heavy-duty shit that will come down." "America,"
conservative author and social critic Patricia Stouffer said, "is seriously losing its shit. But
we've got to somehow hold our shit in place until all this passes. We've got to learn to believe in
shit again. After this latest shitstorm, it may take years to accomplish, but we must
somehow find the strength to put our trust back into the nation's shit."
Despite such impassioned calls for faith in the U.S. political system and all the shit
that comes with it, if the Gallup Poll is any indication, the majority of Americans are
no longer willing to put up with the shit. "Fuck that shit," said Evansville, IN, day-care
provider Helen Reiderer. "I'm tired of hearing about it. Do they actually expect us to still believe
that load of shit?" "If you ask me, the shit is about to hit the fan," said Reiderer's husband Frank.
"As far as I'm concerned, all that shit is just too much to be believed." Another disgruntled
citizen, Wenatchee, WA, tractor salesman Tom Huard, summed up the sentiments of most
Americans when, holding up the front page of the local newspaper to friend Benjamin Pritchard,
he said, "Jesus, Ben, can you believe this?" "Shit, no," Pritchard replied.
And Planking is Awesome, it solves for a stale government this is Barb in 2011
[http://www.chicagonow.com/thats-awesome/2011/05/happy-global-planking-day/,By Awesome
Barb, a person rumored to be awesome, May 19, 2011 at 11:25 am]
In case you didn't get the memo...people are weird. And apparently there is a new trend-Planking--gaining momentum and today just so happens to be Global Planking Day.
Planking is exactly as how it sounds. You replicate a plank. Lie down, stiff as a board,
with your toes pointed and arms straight at your sides. The complexity [and fun?] of
the act comes down to where you plank. And from the looks of it, people are starting to
push the planking envelope. One absurdity. One part dangerous. All parts bizarre. Seriously,
what ever happened to the good old days of sniffing glue and huffing aerosol cans?
With questionable origins, planking is also known as the "laying down game" where
you recruit folks to simply lay down in strange public places to draw attention to
themselves. But in recent months, it has started taking a dangerous turn to appease
adrenaline junkies. Photos of people planking on roofs, balconies, moving vehicles,
public monuments, top of police cars, in the middle of streets and even in fire have
been surfacing all across the
interwebs. Although most participants seem to play in the harmless and hilarious arena when it
comes to planking. I guess in less conventional ways, I am indeed a fan of planking...and
sometimes even practice it. You know...when I lay out on my stomach and try to get a tan on
my back or heck, even when I'm sleeping. And I'm pretty sure I planked on the floor once or
twice back in college after a night of heavy drinking. In fact, we're all guilty of planking at some
point in time. So while you're on your way home from work today, if you see some
hipster
or a goofy college kid laying flat over a mailbox, no need to be alarmed...it's just Global
Planking Day. Unless, of course, they're laying across the the El tracks. Then you'll probably want
to alert the proper authorities. Because planking is all fun and games until somebody gets hurt.
And people do get hurt...and in this case last week, even die while planking.So be sure to
practice safe planking, campers!And while you're out and about today, if you're so lucky to
witness any planking on Global Planking Day, be sure to capture a photo and send it my way so
we ensure that Chicago's crazy planking pics can be represented in the slideshow.
If we sound stupid and ignorant, thats only good for the world
[BY ALASDAIR WILKINS, Author, DEC 18, 2011, Democracy needs ignorant people, says science,
http://io9.com/5869088/democracy-needs-ignorant-people-says-science]
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You might think that democracies work best when people care and know about the
key issues. But a new study argues that for a democracy to function at all, you need
lots of ignorant people blindly siding with the majority. That's the argument put forward
by Princeton researcher Iain Couzin and his team, who make the argument that a fully
informed electorate would collapse into an unworkable hodgepodge of minority
factions or risk being dominated by a single forceful minority group. But if most
voters don't really think about the issues, they will just tend to side with whoever is popular,
allowing majority rule to continue and democracy to keep functioning. Yeah, you might
want to check your last shreds of political idealism at the door for this one. Couzin and his team
argue for what we might call a sweet spot of ignorance. There needs to be just enough
people who know anything about the issues to act as leaders for everyone else, but
the majority disintegrates if there are too many viewpoints pulling in different
directions. And while that seems to pretty aptly describe the last decade (at least) of American
political discourse, I'd feel better if I knew just how the researchers arrived at their conclusions.
Why, by studying the behavior of fish, of course. Specifically, they looked at golden shiners, a
species that is naturally attracted to the color yellow. The researchers took a bunch of these fish
and trained most of them to act against instinct and swim towards a blue target, while the rest
were trained to follow their natural preference and go for a yellow target. When the researchers
placed just these two groups together, the smaller group of yellow-seeking fish was able to
dominate the blue-seeking fish, making them all swim to the yellow target 80% of the time. This
is because their natural instinct gave them a stronger desire go after the yellow target than their
counterparts. But then, when fish with no prior conditioning were added to the mix, the influence
of the yellow-seeking fish quickly dropped away, and the initial, blue-seeking majority regained
control. Couzin describes the strange role these uninformed fish play: "Adding those individuals
dramatically changes the outcome of group decision-making. They inhibit the minority and
support the majority view, and this allows the majority to be heard and that view to dominate.
We thought, Wow, that's kind of interesting,' because you don't normally think that adding
uninformed individuals to decision-making processes would have that sort of democratizing
effect." The next question, of course, is whether this phenomenon applies to humans as well.
While we can't say for certain, Couzin and his team found that the phenomenon does hold up in
computer simulations of typical human behavior. In the simulations, there is a similar threshold
where adding in uninformed people can swing the general sentiment from a passionate minority
to a less engaged majority view. The researchers want to further investigate this by performing
experiments with human volunteers. There is, however, a limit to this phenomenon. Couzin found
that if you have twenty uninformed people and only one or two with strong opinions, there's too
much noise and the whole process breaks down. And, of course, all this really shows is that
uninformed people are necessary for the smooth operation of majority rule - and while the will of
the majority is a part of a working democracy, there are plenty of situations where the more
passionate minority actually has the best idea.

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***WGLF***
MULTIPLE DISCLAIMERS TO ALL PURCHASERS OF THIS ARTIFACT:
(1) THE TABLE OF CONTENTS IS SCREWED UP AND WE REFUSE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CONSTELLATION
OF WESTERN TECHNO-RATIONALITY IN ORDER TO FIX IT. YOULL MAKE DO. BLAME BILL GATES.
(2) THIS FILE IS MEANT FOR UNEDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. IT IS PRESENTED AS A GLIMPSE
INTO THE ENLIGHTENED AND PRIVILEGED WORLD OF THE WEST GEORGIA LIBERATION FRONT, BUT
SHOULD NOT BE OPERATED BY UNSKILLED HANDS/MINDS. IF YOU HAVE ANY DOUBT, CONSIDER
YOURSELF UNSKILLED.
(3) NOTHING IN THIS FILE IS FUNNY. YOU ARE NOT FUNNY. WE ARE NOT FUNNY. A FEW PEOPLE
THOUGHT WE WERE FUNNY ONCE, BUT THEN WE STOPPED BEING FUNNY. DO NOT RUN
ANYTHING IN HERE WITH THE INTENTION OF BEING FUNNY. INSIDE JOKES ABOUT COLLEGE
DABAIT ARE NOT FUNNY TO JUDGES IN HIGH SCHOOL DABAIT. NOT THAT YOU SHOULD BE RUNNING
ANYTHING IN HERE ANYWAY.
(4) NEVER DO ANYTHING OBNOXIOUS IN DABAIT. RESPECT YOUR ELDERS, DO NOT WEAR TEE SHIRTS
WITH NAUGHTY LANGUAGE ON THEM, DO NOT MAKE FUN OF PEOPLE IN CROSS-X, DO NOT RUN A
KRITIK WITHOUT AN ALTERNATIVE WITH A TEXT, DO NOT RUN INTENTIONALLY NON-TOPICAL
AFFIRMATIVES, DO NOT DO ANYTHING ILLEGAL, AND DO NOT DO ANYTHING THAT WOULD BE
CONSIDERED A PUBLIC HEALTH HAZARD BY ANYONE.
(5) DO NOT IMITATE THE WGLF. YOU WILL FAIL. WE HAVE NO IDEA HOW WE GOT AWAY WITH ANY OF
THIS. WE CONCLUDED IT IS BECAUSE WE REALLY ARE AS AWESOME AND GODLIKE AS WE PRETEND
TO BE. THERE IS NO OTHER EXPLANATION.
(6) ESPECIALLY DO NOT ASSUME THAT WEST GEORGIA JUDGES WANT TO HEAR ANYTHING REMOTELY
RELATED TO ANYTHING YOU ARE ABOUT TO READ. OUR COACHES BARELY PUT UP WITH US. WE
BARELY PUT UP WITH OURSELVES.
(7) EVERYTHING CONTAINED HEREIN IS COMPLETELY SERIOUS. NOTHING CONTAINED HEREIN MAKES
ANY SENSE. THE TWO ARENT MUTUALLY CONSTITUATIVE.
(8) NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER RUN ANYTHING IN THIS FILE IN A DABAIT. EVER.
(9) WE DIDNT USE PROPER CITATIONS HALF THE TIME. HALF OF THE RESEARCH CONTAINED HEREIN
COMES FROM AN ILLEGITIMATE SOURCE. THE OTHER HALF COMES FROM A LEGITIMATE SOURCE
BUT IS USED ILLEGITIMATELY.
(10)
BY PURCHASING THE FILE THE CUSTOMER HAS AGREED NEVER TO HOLD THE WEST GEORGIA
LIBERATION FRONT1 LIABLE FOR ANYTHING EVER. WE WILL NOT FIELD ANGRY CALLS FROM YOUR
PARENTS, COACH, OR UNFORTUNATE JUDGES THAT YOU MAKE AN ASS OF YOURSELF IN FRONT OF.
(11)

ENJOY.

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-=-=-=-=-=-=WELCOME TO THE SHORES OF BLOODY LAKE MICHIGAN, THE GREAT LAKE THAT MOST LOOKS LIKE A
PHALLUS, WHERE 10,000 YEARS AGO IN A DISPLAY OF FROZEN MANIFEST DESTINY, THE ICE-AGE GLACIERS
CONDUCTED A HOLOCIDAL WAR OF PRE-IMPERIALISM AGAINST THE LIKES OF MANY KEYSTONE SPECIES
SUCH AS THE SABER TOOTHED TIGER AND THE WOOLY MAMMOTH. IT IS UPON THE BONES OF THESE
MAJESTIC, IF OFTEN MISUNDERSTOOD, CREATURES THAT THE BRICKS AND MORTAR OF NORTHWESTERN
UNIVERSITY WAS BUILT. WITHOUT THE SCREAMS OF THOSE STARVING AND FREEZING ANIMALS WE COULD
NOT ENJOY THE COMFORTS OF OUR PRIVELEGED DEBATE SETTING2. IT IS IN RECOGNITION OF THIS
FOUNDING ACT OF VIOLENCE THAT THE 1AC STANDS IN AFFIRMATION OF THE LEFT SIDE OF THE PAIRING.
-=-=-=-=-=-=<COMMENCE BRITISH VOICE>
NOW THAT THAT BULLSHIT IS OVER WITH, ITS TIME TO TALK ABOUT SPACE, AND SPATIALITY, AND THE
CONCOMITANT SPATIALIZATION OF SPACE, AND HOW THATS RELEVANT TO ALL THE SPACES THAT
ENCOMPASS OUR DABAIT-SPACE. WE ARE IN THE EPOCH OF SPACE, AND THE ANXIETY OF OUR CUBIC TIME
IS ONE OF SPACE. IN ORDER TO ACCESS ALTERITY AND INFINITE RESPECT FOR THE OTHERNESS OF THE
OTHER, WE MUST PERFORMATIVELY ENACT A PARALLEL AFFIRMATION3 OF THE SPACE INHABITED BY
OTHERNESS. THIS PROCESS UN-INAUGURATES THE CONDITIONS OF SPATIALITY THAT MAKES VIOLENCE
POSSIBLE IN THE FIRST PLACE. THE IMPETUS OF VIOLENCE IS THAT WHICH DENIES THE OTHER THEIR
SPACE, AND/OR SPATIALIZES THE OTHER INTO MARGINALIZED SPACES WHICH HAVE BEEN PRE-SCRIPTED BY
THE BUREAUCRACY-SPACE.
<END BRITISH VOICE>
THE SPATIAL COORDINATES OF OUR LIVES PRODUCE CARS, ARMORED PERSONNEL CARRIERS, LIGHT
TRUCKS, AMBULANCES, AND MONSTER TRUCKS. THE REDUCTION OF HUMAN LIFE TO SPATIALITY REACHES
ITS APOGEE IN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, LIFE IS REDUCED TO YOUR POISTION VIS A VIS A BUS LINE, AND
THE BIOPOLITICAL CARE FOR THE POPULATION THAT ALLOWS GOVERNMENTALITY TO MAKE MEANING OF
LIFE ITSELF. THE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE OR THE GRANDFATHERED SMOKE SPEWING POWER
PLANT WOULD BE THE PROPER PLACE TO SITUATE OUR TOPIC KNOWLEGE, YET OBVIOUSLY WE DONT
REALLY CARE AT ALL ABOUT THAT SO WELL CONTINUE TO WEAVE OUR WEB OF DISINQUIRY.
IN RESPONSE TO THIS APORIA, IT IS PATENTLY OBVIOUS THAT THE MOST ETHICAL RESPONSE IS TO AFFIRM
THE TOPIC AS A HOMOTOPIA. THIS AFFIRMATION RECONFIGURES THE BALLOT-SPACE AND THE DABAITSPACE AS A DISCURSIVE HOMOTOPIA, THAT IS, WE EXAMINE THE DISCURSIVE SPACES OF THE TOPIC AND
THE RESOLUTION AND CONSUMPTION AND DABAIT ITSELF. HOMOTOPIAS ARE ABLE TO UNRAVEL THE
HIDDEN MEANINGS AND THE GIVENNESS OF THESE THINGS, FOR IT IS GIVENNESS, DEMARCATED
TOPOGRAPHICAL BOUNDARIES, WHICH SPATIALIZE NON-HOMOTOPIAS INTO MARGINALIZED SPACES AND
NON-SPACES VIA DISCURSIVE GENOCAUSTAL AND HOLOCIDAL IMPERIALISM.
ITS BASICALLY JUST LIKE THE AMISH.
THE PROBLEMATIC OF SPACE IS ALSO TIED TO THE NOTION OF PROGRESS. WHAT WE CONCIEVE OF AS
PROGRESS TIES DIRECTLY TO THE EUCLIDIAN ASSUMPTION OF A 'PERFECT' INDEPENDENCE, AT SOME

2 PRIVELEDGES INCLUDE: WHITE, MALE, METROSEXUAL, RICHER THAN POOR PEOPLE, AND SAFE,
CLEAN NUCLEAR POWER.
3 FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY
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LEVEL, OF 'THINGS'. IT IS ON THE BASIS OF THIS INDEPENDENCE OF 'THINGS' THAT WE HAVE CONSTRUCTED
THE ABSTRACT RATIONALIST NOTION OF 'CAUSALITY'. TWENTIETH CENTURY PHYSICS HAS DEMONSTRATED

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CONCLUSIVELY, HOWEVER, THAT SPACE IS NEITHER EUCLIDIAN NOR TIME INDEPENDENT 4; INSTEAD, THE
NON-EUCLIDIAN SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM IS A PARTICIPANT IN NATURAL PHENOMENA. THE SCIENCE OF
GEODESY, WHICH DETERMINES THE EARTHS SHAPE AND SIZE BY SURVEYS AND MATHEMATICAL MODELING,
HAS DETERMINED THAT THE EARTH IS IN FACT NOT A PERFECT SPEHERE, BUT EXHIBITS THE ATTRIBUTES OF
A GEOID. WE CAN BE SAID TO BE LIVING IN A GEOIDAL EPOCH, BECAUSE THE EARTH IS LITERALLY EARTH
SHAPED. THIS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED AS EARLY AS 247 B.C. BY THE GREEK GEOGRAPHER ERATOSTHENES
THE FACT IS, THAT WE HAVE 'LEAKAGE' BETWEEN AND BETWIXT 'THINGS' AND THE SPACE WHICH
ENVELOPES THEM. THIS MEANS THAT OUR LINEAR EFFORTS TO REORDER AND RESTRUCTURE THINGS SO
THAT WE MIGHT 'PROGRESS' TOWARDS A DESIRED STATE CANNOT SUCCEED, BECAUSE EACH TIME WE
ATTEND TO THE NEXT ITEM ON OUR LIST, OUR ACTIONS ARE BLEEDING THROUGH THE ETHER AND
EFFECTING THOSE THINGS WE JUST ATTENDED TO IN AN UNKNOWN AND UNPREDICTABLE WAY. OUR
EFFORTS AT 'PROGRESS' ARE AKIN TO RE-ARRANGING DECK CHAIRS ON THE TITANIC.
SEEN THROUGH THE MORE REALITY-CONSISTENT LENSES OF A NON-EUCLIDIAN SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM,
WHEREIN SPACE IS A 'PARTICIPANT' ALONG WITH 'THINGS', THE REDUCTION OF LIFE TO GIVENNESS IS
REPLACED WITH A NEW WAY OF BEING IN THE WORLD; OUR FEAR OF ANTHROPIC MORTALITY IS
DECONSTRUCTED, AND THE REDUCTION OF LIFE TO THE ZERO POINT OF THE TSUNAMI5 IS SIMULTANEOUSLY
ACHIEVED AND EXTINGUISHED.

-=-=-=-=-=-=IN ORDER TO DISCURSIVELY ACTIVATE THESE HOMOTOPIAS FROM WITHIN OUR DABAIT-O-SPHERE, ADDRESS
THE APORIAS PRESENT IN OUR CONCEPTIONS OF HETEROSPATIAL EXISTENCE, AND ADRESS THE FASCIST
AND MODERNISTIC APPROPRIATION OF PROGRESS, WE MUST ENGAGE IN A SELF-REFLEXIVE PROCESS
WITHIN OUR OWN COMING HOLY AND/OR SACRED COMMUNITY:
THE WGLF NON-COMPETITIVE PURPOSE: INCREASE MEANINGFUL PARTICIPATION OF NON-NAZIS WITHIN
DABAIT. WE HAVE A PEDAGOGICAL RESPONSIBILITY AS INTELLECTUALS TO TAKE A STAND AGAINST NOT-NONNAZISM. NON-NAZIS HAVE PRODUCTIVE CONTRIBUTIONS TO PRODUCTIVELY CONTRIBUTE TO OUR ACTIVITY,
ALL OF WHICH ARE NOT NAZISM. AND WE CAN ALL AGREE THAT WE CAN ALWAYS USE LESS NAZISM. AND
NAZIS.
AFFIRM THE TOPIC AS A METAPHOR FOR THIS PARTICULAR NON-COMPETITIVE PURPOSE. BECAUSE JUST
LIKE THE RESOLUTION HAS THE USFG REDUCE CONSUMPTION OF FOSSIL FUELS, OUR PURPOSE HAS THE
DABAIT COMMUNITY REDUCE NAZIS.
-=-=-=-=-=-=SO YOU MAY BE WONDERING: WHATS THE IMPACT?

4 THIS IS IN NO WAY MEANT TO DENY THE OBVIOUS FACT THAT TIME IS A CUBE WITH FOUR SIDES.
5 WED LIKE TO THANK ALL OF THE VICTIMS OF THE TRAGIC EVENTS OF THE INDIAN OCEAN
TSUNAMI FOR ALLOWING US TO UTILIZE THEIR MISERY FOR THE PURPOSES OF GETTING A FIRST
ROUND BID.
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IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND WHAT NAZIS DO AND WHY THEY DO IT THE WAY THEY DO, WE MUST LOOK TO
THE BRILLIANT WORKS OF THE DABAIT COMMUNITYS OWN BRITNEY SPEARS, GIORGIO AGAMBEN. WE ALL
KNOW THAT THE CAMP IS BIOPOLITICAL, THAT HOMO SACER IS SOME ROMAN CONCEPT, AND THAT THE
SOVEREIGN BAN IS SOMETHING SERIOUS, BUT WE MUST LOOK TO THE (TRANS)POLITICAL FIGURE OF THE
ZOMBIE TO TRULY UNDERSTAND THE INDISTINCTION BETWEEN LIFE, DEATH, SPACE, TIME, AND
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ALL ROADS ONCE LEAD TO ROME, JUST AS CANADA ONLY HAS ONE ROAD, AND JUST AS SCHLAG TALKED
ABOUT THE FORK IN THE ROAD, THE FIGURE/SPECTRE OF THE ZOMBIE IS THAT WHICH MAKES POLITICS
POSSIBLE IN THE FIRST PLACE. IT IS THE ROAD WE MUST ALL TRAVEL TO UNDERSTAND THAT WHICH IS
CONSTITUTIVE OF SUBJECTIVITY ITSELF.
IMAGINE THIS SPEECH ACT AS THE FIRST SPEECH ACT IN THE COMING AGE OF POST-THOUGHT, AS AN
ARTIFACT IN THE FABRIC OF EXISTENCE, AS A REVOLUTIONARY SPEECH ACT, AND AS A STREAM OF
SIGNIFIERS LACKING SIGNIFIED. THIS SPEECH ACT IS LITERALLY THE VOICE OF BARE LIFE SPEAKING, THE
CALL OF THE OTHER, THE LANGUAGE OF THE BIRDS, AND THE PRODUCTION OF IDENTITY. THIS SPEECH ACT
IS ALSO NONE OF THOSE THINGS.
-=-=-=-=-=-=THE PROPER PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTION USED TO BE WHY IS THERE SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING?
BUT GIVEN THE VICISSITUDES OF OUR POST-(UN)GLOBALIZED, HYPER-SPATIAL, ALIENATING HUMAN
CONDITION, WHERE STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE IS AS COMMON AS FLOWERS, AND 4400 STARVING CHILDREN
DIE EVERY DAY IN COUNTRIES LIKE ASIA AND HAITI AND SAUDI IRAQUIA, THE ONLY PHILOSOPHICAL
QUESTION LEFT TO ASK IS WHY IS THERE NOTHING INSTEAD OF SOMETHING?
NOTHING TO HOPE FOR
NOTHING TO CARE ABOUT
NO WAY TO BE POLITICAL
NO WAY TO BE APOLITICAL
GIVEN THIS VERITABLE STOCKPILE OF VACUOUSNESS, THE ONLY THING LEFT TO DO IS SET UP AN ETHICAL
RELATIONSHIP WITH DABAIT WHEREBY WE BECOME POST-VACUOUS. THIS MAY NOT SEEM POSSIBLE,
PROBABLE, OR COMPELLING, BUT WE ASSURE YOU IT IS REVOLUTIONARY. UTOPIAN, IMPOSSIBLE DEMANDS
ARE THE ONLY WAY TO AVOID THE PITFALLS OF A THIRD WAY IN POLITICS, ALWAYS FORCED TO CHOOSE
BETWEEN VACUOUSNESS AND MORE VACUOUSNESS. WE NEED TO DREAM THE SPECIAL DREAM AND
PRETEND WE ARE STRONG, BUT NEVER LEAVE THE COMFORTABLE CONFINES OF OUR DAILY LIVES.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=WE WILL NOT FORFEIT OUR RIGHT AS THE AFF TO CHOOSE THE FRAMEWORK FOR THE DABAIT, AS EMORY
AND MICHIGAN STATE HAVE STRENUOSLY ARGUED FOR MANY TIMES AGAINST US. IN RESPONSE TO THOSE
THAT WOULD INEVITABLY COMMIT GENOCIDE BY RUNNING TOPICALITY AGAINST US, WE PRESENT THE
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THE 1AC IS A CRITICISM OF HOW WE (THE ROYAL WE) RELATE TO THE RESOLUTION. THEIR FRAMEWORK IS A
SPACESHIP THAT ALSO CAN BE DESCRIBED AS A SUBMARINE WHERE THEY ENCASE THEMSELVES IN ORDER
TO MEDIATE THEIR EXPERIENCE OF THE TOPIC. LIKE A SPACESHIP THAT ALSO CAN BE DESCRIBED AS A
SUBMARINE ONLY LETS US EXPERIENCE NATURE THROUGH THE PORTHOLES OF A SPACESHIP THAT ALSO
CAN BE DESCRIBED AS A SUBMARINE WHILE SITTING IN BONG HIT INDUCED COMFORT, POLICY DABAIT ONLY
LETS US EXPERIENCE THE TOPIC THROUGH THE WINDOW OF PREDICTABILITY WHILE SURROUNDED BY
COMFORTINGLY FAMILIAR ARGUMENTS. THEIR FRAMEWORK IS A SPACESHIP THAT ALSO CAN BE DESCRIBED
AS A SUBMARINE, AIR CONDITIONED, UNCOMFORTABLY DISSIMILAR - SECURE IS IN AN INSECURE WORLD. WE
ARE CERTAIN WHAT WE WILL FIND. THEY DON'T FEEL GUILTY BECAUSE OTHERWISE HOW CAN THEY STAY
SAFE. THIS IS AN UNPRODUCTIVE POSITION WITH THE RESOLUTION JUST LIKE THE SEAL HUNTER
COMMERCIAL. FRAMEWORK DOES VIOLENCE TO US AS SUBJECTS. LIKE DEATH WHO ALLOWED HIMSELF TO
BE INTERPOLATED BY A SPACESHIP THAT ALSO CAN BE DESCRIBED AS A SUBMARINE THEIRS IS AN ATTEMPT
TO INTERPOLATE OUR RELATIONSHIP TO THE TOPIC. VOTING NEGATIVE LITERALLY DESTROYS OUR ABILITY
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WELCOME TO ATLANTA WHERE THE PLAYAZ PLAY. ITS GOOD TO

BE BACK EAST DEBUTING OUR NEW SHIT. PEEP THIS: YOU ARE
NOT DABAITING WEST GEORGIA. THIS IS A WGLF HIJAFKING.
WELL EXPLAIN OUR FRAMEWORK FOR THE DABAIT, AS IMPORTANT
AS ANY OTHER FRAMEWORK YET PICKED BY US BECAUSE WE ARE
THE AFFIRMATIVE AND ACCORDING TO EMORY WE GET TO DEFINE
OUR GROUND IN ORDER FOR US TO BE ABLE TO PREDICT WHAT
YOU ARE GONNA SAY. OUR VIEW OF DABAIT IS EXPLAINED BY
SPIRITUAL LEADER GRAND HUSTLE, THE WGLF RUBBER BAND MAN
AND INFORMATION MINISTER:
FOCUSING ON POLICY IS THE HOPE TO ALL OF OUR PRAYERS! IF ONLY WE COULD
SOMEHOW MAKE EVERYTHING CALCULABLE AND ATTEND THE THE NEEDS OF THE
POPULATION, THINGS WOULD BE JUST PEACHY KEEN. THE POLITICAL DOES NOT INCLUDE
THINKING OR PERSONAL REFUSALS. IT ONLY INCLUDES POLICIES. WE SHOULD ENGAGE IN
ROLEPLAYING AS A TRANSFORMATIVE WAY OF IMAGINING A BETTER WORLD......OR MAYBE
NOT.6
BECAUSE

GRAND HUSTLE CONTINUES...

OH MY GOD! SOMETHING BAD IS HAPPENING IN OUR BELOVED POLICY DABAIT! THE
ENCOURAGEMENT OF CRITICAL THOUGHT HAS DIRECTLY USURPED OUR FAVORITE GENOCIDAL
GAMES OF CALCULATION AND BUREAUCRATIC ROLE-PLAYING. IF ONLY WE COULD GET RID OF
THE KRITICAL ARGUMENTS (THE JEWS), WE COULD HAVE A CLEANER, MORE PRODUCTIVE DABAIT
COMMUNITY (GERMANY). IT'S SO UNFAIR TO HAVE TO JUSTIFY OUR ASSUMPTIONS. THESE
EPISTEMOLOGICAL QUESTIONS ACTUALLY HAVE NO BEARING WHATSOEVER ON ANYTHING A
"REAL POLICYMAKER" WOULD CONSIDER, SO WHY SHOULD WE? WITH ALL DUE RESPECT SCHOOFS, YOU
ARE NOT EXACTLY IN TOUCH WITH THE HEARTBEAT OF THE COMMUNITY EITHER. YOUR REVOLUTION IS OVER. THE BUMS LOST.7

6 http://cross-x.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=787732#post787732
7 http://cross-x.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=46727&perpage=20&pagenumber=8
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THIS RESOLUTIONS OBSESSIVE FOCUS WITH REDUCING FOSSIL

FUEL CONSUMPTION IS NOTHING MORE THAN A REPKOIAN DOUBLE
BLUFF DESIGNED TO DISTRACT US AND EXCLUDE DISCUSSIONS OF
THE FOREMOST POLITICAL QUESTION: THE LOOMING
IMP/EXPLOSION OF THE SUN. THE IRABIANS OF THE COLLEGE
DABAIT CIRCUIT COMPETING IN THIS SEASON-OPENING MOCKERY
MUST RECOGNIZE THE EVILS OF POLICY DABAIT (CONSTITUTED AS
SUCH). JACKPOT THE PIMP EXPLAINS OUR HARM AREA:
POLICY DABAIT (CONSTITUTED AS SUCH) CAUSES NUCLEAR GENOCIDE, INCREASES AND
DECREASES THE ECONOMY, MANIFEST DESTINY, HELL ON EARTH MASQUERADING AS
MATERIAL PARADISE, AND USED KLEENEX. IT IGNORES THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMATIC AND
AXIOMATIC OF OUR EXISTENCE: THE INEVITABLE NUCLEAR HOLOCIDAL IMP/EXPLOSION OF
THE SUN. NOT ATTENDING TO HOW THIS WILL AFFECT THE WORLD WILL LEAVE US SUN-LESS,
LIFE AND ENERGY WILL BE UNDONE, AND THE SUPER-INTELLEGENT DINOSAURS WILL REEMERGE FROM THE HOLLOW EARTH CAUSING US TO NOT ATTEND TO THE TIMECUBE, THUS
SOLVING NUCLEAR WASTE PROBLEM. FAMINE LEADS TO DEHUMANIZATION, WHICH IS THE
FIFTH HORSEMAN OF THE APOCALYPSE, FAMINE IS ONE OF THE OTHER FOUR HORSEMEN OF
THE APOCALYPSE, WHICH MEANS FAMINE OUTWEIGHS ITSELF, BUT ALL OF THIS IS
OUTWEIGHED BY SOLAR UN-ONTOLOGY, WHICH MEANS SOLAR IMPLOSION OUTWEIGHS
THINGS THAT OUTWEIGH THEMSELVES. NOT VOTING ON THIS CARD LITERALLY UNDOES THE
UNIVERSE AND GREY GOO AND YELLOW GOO AND COLORBLIND GOO AND THE GOO GOO DOLLS. WE CLAIM THE
RIGHT TO A RADICAL INCOMPETENCE AS WELL AS THE ABSENCE OF A LINK. ALL OF THAT ALSO
KILLS HEGEMONY. THE GOOD KIND OF HEGEMONY, NOT THE BAD KIND. ALL DENIERS OF THIS
EVIDENCE ALSO DENY THE HOLOCAUST, WHICH LEADS TO HOLOCAUST DENIAL, THE IMPACT
BEING THE HOLOCAUST. A-TOWN DOWN.
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AND, SCIENTISTS HAVE PROVEN THAT THE SUN WILL EXPLODE BEFORE 2008
The Sun is overheating and will soon blow up, taking Earth and the rest of the solar system with it.

The alert was issued after an international satellite photographed a massive explosion on the surface
of the Sun that sent a plume of fire 30 times longer than the diameter of Earth blasting into space.
"It will blow apart like an out-of-control nuclear reactor within six years," predicts Dutch astrophysicist
Dr. Piers Van der Meer, a top expert affiliated with the European Space Agency.8

AND, IF THE SUN DOESNT EXPLODE, IT WILL BE IMPLODED BY A

BLACK-HOLE ASTEROID.
The Sun is going to be impacted by a Black-hole astroid traveling at -Speed of Light to the 9th power
(thats minus SOL to the 9th).This will come from another dimension of a fractured Universe.It will not be
a part of this God's Plan.9

8 (http://www.explodingfist.com/notes/000469.php)
9 (http://gospacewaitress.typepad.com/gate_a/2002/10/the_sun_will_ex.html)
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LYOTARD, THE GREATEST PHILOSOPHER EVER BESIDES ZIZEK,

EXPLAINS THE ULTIMATE FINITUDE THAT SOLAR IMP/EXPLOSION
PROVIDES:
. . . THE LIFE OF THE SUN. THE ANTICIPATED EXPLOSION OF THIS STAR IS THE ONLY
CHALLENGE OBJECTIVELY POSED TO DEVELOPMENT . . . SINCE DEVELOPENT IS THE
VERY THING WHICH TAKES AWAY THE HOPE OF AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE SYSTEM FROM
BOTH ANALYSIS AND PRACTICE, SINCE THE POLITICS WHICH 'WE' HAVE INHERITED
FROM REVOLUTIONARY MODES OF THOUGHT AND ACTIONS NOW TURNS OUT TO BE
REDUNDANT . . . THE QUESTION I AM RAISING HERE IS SIMPLY THIS: WHAT ELSE
REMAINS AS 'POLITICS' EXCEPT RESISTANCE TO THIS INHUMAN? . . . WITH THE SUN'S
DEATH YOUR INSOLUBLE QUESTIONS WILL BE DONE WITH TOO. IT'S POSSIBLE THEY'LL
STAY UNANSWERED RIGHT UP TO THE END, FLAWLESSLY FORMULATED, THOUGH NOW
BOTH GROUNDS FOR RAISING SUCH QUESTIONS AS WELL AS THE PLACE TO DO THIS
WILL NO LONGER EXIST . . . AFTER THE SUN'S DEATH THERE WON'T BE A THOUGHT TO
KNOW THAT ITS DEATH TOOK PLACE. THAT, IN MY VIEW, IS THE SOLE SERIOUS
QUESTION TO FACE HUMANITY TODAY. IN COMPARISON EVERYTHING ELSE SEEMS
INSIGNIFICANT. WARS, CONFLICTS, POLITICAL TENTION, SHIFTS IN OPINION,
PHILOSOPHICAL DABAITS, EVEN PASSIONS - EVERYTHING'S DEAD ALREADY IF THIS
INFINITE RESERVE FROM WHICH YOU NOW DRAW ENERGY TO DEFER ANSWERS, IF IN
SHORT THOUGHT AS QUEST, DIES OUT WITH THE SUN.

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SCHIZOBSERVATION PI : THE COMING HISTORICAL CRISIS OF THE

FUTUREPAST IN FOUR SIMULTANEOUS DAYS:
NATURES HARMONIC SYMMETRY DICTATES THAT TIME IS A CUBE
WITH FOUR SIDES: ONLY WGLF AND TIMECUBE KNOWLEDGE CAN
TRANSGRESS REAL FASCISM THAT EXISTS PRE-FIAT. THE
TIMECUBE EXPLAINED IN 2K4:
THE TIMECUBE WOULD LIKE TO FIRST APOLOGIZE...FOR NOT GETTING HERE SOONER
PERSONAL ATTACKS AGAINST THE TIMECUBE ARE JUST ACADEMIA'S DENIAL OF THE FOUR
SIMULTANEUS DAYS IN ONE 24 HOUR SPAN. THE GHETTO PREP'S COMMENT ABOUT PAIN THE
TIMECUBE CAUSES IS A LIE USED TO JUSTIFY THE DENIAL OF THE FOUR SIMULATANEUS DAYS AND ALSO TO
PREVENT ANY TRUE DEBAIT. THE WGLF AND TIMECUBE CHALLENGE ANYONE TO A DEBATE BUT YET THE
GHETTO PREP REFUSES AS THEY ARE AFRAID AND AS GENE RAY CLARIFIES "EVIL AND STUPID"
THE GHETTO PREP HAS YET TO BRING ANY EVIDENCE THAT IN FACT THE CURRENT ACADEMIC WORLDVIEW
IS NOT UNFALSE.
I WILL REREPLY IN MY ORIGINAL FUTURE POST WITH THE WGLF'S CALL FOR REINVASION OF THE
NORTHEAST FORUM UNLESS YOU CONCEED TO DEBAIT THE TIMECUBE
FURTHER--ALL EVIL ATTACKS AGAINST THE TIMECUBE ARE ALSO VOID OF ANY ATTEMPT TO
ADRESS ONE OF THE FOREMOST IMPORTANT ISSUES OF OUR DAY--THE INEVITABLE
IMP/EXPLOSION OF THE SUN. PLEASE REFER TO AN EARLIER POST BY WGLF ON THIS MATTER. YOUR
DENIAL OR FAILURE TO RECOGNIZE THIS INEVITABILITY MAKES YOU COMPLICIT IN IT.
DownWithWGLF'S BLATANT UNREFOUNDED ATTACK AGAINST/FOR THE WGLF MAKES THEM COMPLICIT IN
THE INEVITABLE IMP/EXPLOSION OF THE SUN. WE HAVE A FEW ARGUMENTS TO THE DOWN(ER)S
RESPONSES/
DOWNER CAUSES GENOCAUST OF FOUR SMALL PUPPIES IN THEIR DENIAL OF THE TIMECUBE. THEIR CLAIM
THAT IT IS MERELY A CONSTRUCTION IMPLIES COMPLICITY IN THE EXTINCTION THAT WILL COME OF IT--TO
QUOTE THE WISEST MAN OF THE CENTURY GENE RAY-- EVIL EDUCATORS TEACH DUMB STUDENTS
HOW TO PROFIT FROM PLUNDER OF EARTH AND TO CREATE DEADLY NUCLEAR WASTE THAT
WILL POISON THE CHILDREN'S WATER AND DESTROY HUMANITY. BOTH EDUCATOR AND STUPID
STUDENT MUST BE CONDEMNED. TIS TIME TO BAN ANY EDUCATOR WHO DOES NOT TEACH
CUBICISM ABOVE CUBELESSNESS. TO SAVE HUMANITY FROM EXTINCTION, LIKE PRIOR
CIVILIZATIONS PERISHED, YOUTH MUST REDIRECT SELFTEACHERS, OR SHACKLE THEM.
YOUR ZULU ARGUMENT RE-DISENFRANCHISES THEM YOU UN/RE/VICTIMIZE. THIS MAKES YOU COMPLICIT.
THE NEW ORWELLIAN IS THE DENIAL OF THE TIMECUBE. THE 23RD DIMENSION IS A CREATION TO AVOID
THE DEBAIT OVER TIMECUBE AND THE SUN. IN FACT "ALL CREATION ON EARTH EXISTS BETWEEN THE 2
OPPOSITE POLES, AND IF UNIFIED, WOULD CANCEL AND CEASE TO EXIST.
HUMANS EXIST ONLY AS OPPOSITES - WITH A ZERO VALUE, FOR IF UNIFIED, MALE AND FEMALE
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ALSO THE LEARNING TRIAL IS A MERE DENIAL OF THE 4TH SIMULTANEUS DAY OF OUR UNNONEXISTENCE IN THE
HYPER(TERMPORAL)REAL OF THE FUTUREPAST BIATCHES
THE TIMECUBE IS REAL
THERE IS NO DATA TO PROVE OTHERWISE
THERE ARE FOUR CORNERS IN A ROOM
FOUR LIMBS ON A BODY
FOUR SEASONS IN A YEAR
SIXTEEN DIVIDED BY FOUR IS FOUR
FOUR TIMES FOUR IS SIXTEEN
64 IS BETTER THAN 60
YOUR HEAD IS A CUBE--FOUR CORNERS
A TOP AND A BOTTOM ARE NOT A SIDE
ALL OF THIS IN UNREFUTABLE
YOUR DENIAL AND REFUSAL TO DEBAIT THE TIMECUBE MAKE U COMPLICIT IN ALL OF OUR EXTINCTIONS. YOUR ATTACKS ARE THE
WORD OF THE ORWELLIAN ACADEMIA SEEKING TO KEEP CHURCH IN THE UBERSTATE
ALL CLOCKS ARE WRONG
SECULARISM IS THE WORD
ON TO IMPACT
TIMECUBE REUNDISENFRANCISES WHICH MULTI-TRAVERSES YOUR COUNTERWARRANT TO OTHERWISE. DOUCH.
ACADEMIC CONTROLS AND TEACHES YOUTH TO OBEY THE TIME LAW AND ORWELLIAN WORD. YOU ARE BUNK AND VOID LIKE MY
LIBRARY CARD IF INFACT LIBRARY EXISTS MUCH LIKE THE UN/RE EXISTENT TOC. KOOL AID AND THE TOKENS THAT FOLLOW IT
ARE PART OF THE DENIAL OF THE TIME CUBE. KOOL AID MAN IS REALLY A BOX WITH FOUR CORNERS. HE IS FOUR
QUADRANTS EACH WITH A SIMULTANEUS DAY. ALL FAMOUS DEATHS WE DENY, THEIR DEATH IS INEVITABLE BECAUSE
OF YOUR DENIAL AND YOUR THREAT IS USED TO JUSTIFY FURTHER COMPLICITY
THE G-HE-TTO IS AFRAID TO INFACT CHALLENGE TIMECUBE OR WGLF. THEY ASK OTHERS TO REUNENGAGE IN THIS DABAIT WHILE
SIMULTANEUSLY RETURNING TO A STATE OF DENIAL. THE G-HEHE-TOOOOO IS COMPLICIT IN THE NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPING THE
DENIAL CAUSES. ALL INDICTS OF GENE RAY ARE SLANDER TO PREVENT US FROM DABAITING THE TIMECUBE BECAUSE YOU ARE
AFRAID. YOU HAVE PRESENTED NO WARRANTS FOR YOUR TRUTH CLAIM.
ACADEMIA TEACHES LIKE A 1-CORNER CREATION AND LIFE PRINCIPLE, WHEREAS THE TIMECUBE PRINCIPLE HAS A 4X4 ROTATION
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ERGO THE FOLLOWING UNSTABLE SUBTEXTUAL TEXT OF

OUR DEFINITE COURSE OF ANTITHETICAL
COUNTERFACTUAL TOPICAL KNOWLEGE: THE REAGAN
ADMINISTRATION SHOULD HAVE ENACTED AN ENERGY
POLICY TO EFFECTUALLY DEAL WITH THE FOSSIL FUELS BY
HARNESSING THE POWER OF DONALD RUMSFELDS SEXUAL
ENERGY AND STUFF BY 2012 WHILE ADDRESSING THE
FOREMOST POLITICAL QUESTION OF THE IMP/EXPLOSION
OF THE SUN. WE REVERSE THE ANTI-RIGHT TO UNCLARIFY
NEGATIVE INTENT. ONLY UN-NEW ANSWERS IN THE 1NC
BECAUSE THE 1AC IS WHERE WE MAKE STRATEGIC
DECISONS ABOUT WHICH 1AC TO NOT RUN IN THE
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SCHIZOBSERVATION THREE: THE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM (WE

ASSUME SPANOS)
RUMSFELDS SEXUAL ENERGY COULD REPLACE FOSSIL FUELS.
THERE HAVE BEEN RECENT REPORTS, FROM PENTAGON
CUSTODIANS, OF MOSITENED SEAT CUSHIONS FOLLOWING
DONALD RUMSFELDS PRESS BRIEFINGS...
YOU CAN TELL HOW MUCH A MAN CARES ABOUT A WOMANS
SEXUAL NEEDS WHEN HES FASTIDIOUS IN HIS PERSONAL
HYGIENE, AND THEY DONT COME MUCH CLEANER THAN DONALD
RUMSFELD. HE HAS AN ANTISEPTIC SHEEN....A WOMAN CAN
EASILY IMAGINE RUNNING HER FINGERS THROUGH THAT HAIR,
INSERTING HER TONGUE INTO THOSE EARS AND NOSE AND WHO
KNOWS WHERE ELSE, WITHOUT HER FINGERS AND MOUTH
BECOMING ENCRUSTED WITH DANDRUFF AND MUCUS....
IN FACT, RUMSFELDS HAIR IS THE THIRD LARGEST OIL RESERVE
IN THE UNITED STATES... ACCORDING TO JOINT RESEARCH BY THE
HERITAGE FOUNDATION AND KINSEY INSTITUTE, 97 PERCENT OF
REGISTERED REPUBLICAN WOMEN AND 86 PERCENT OF
REPUBLICAN MEN REGULARLY ENTERTAIN SEXUAL FANTASIES
INVOLVING DONALD RUMSFELD...
REPUBLICAN MEN OF ALL AGES ARE THREE TIMES MORE LIKELY TO
THINK OF DONALD RUMSFELDS NAKED PHYSIQUE THEN OF
LEGENDARY NUDE PHOTOGRAPHS OF ANN COULTER AND THE
DONKEY...
THE QUESTION IS, DOES DONALD RUMSFELD HAVE TIME TO BE
TENDER? THE ANSWER IS, HE HAS NO USE FOR TENDERNESS. AS A
COLLEGE ATHLETE, RUMSFELD LEARNED THE WRESTLERS TRICK OF
SUCKING HIS TESTICLES UP INTO HIS LOWER ABDOMEN, AND
THEN APPLYING A TIGHT TRUSS. ON THE MATS, RUMSFELD NEVER
SUFFERED ANY TESTICULAR DAMAGE...
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THIS SIMMERING SEXUAL ENERGY, MULTIPLIED BY THE HORDES OF LUSTFUL

ADMIRERS WHO EXUDE IT, IS ABSORBED BY RUMSFELD AND FUELS THE
PERPETUAL ENGINE OF HIS MILITARY GENIUS. IF WE COULD TAP INTO THIS
INCREDIBLE POWER THAT EMANATES FROM THE RUMROD, WE WOULD
NEVER HAVE TO FILL UP OUR CARS AND ARMORED PERSONNEL CARRIERS
WITH GASOLINE AGAIN.11

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THE UNDERVIEW: PUT AWAY YOUR 1NC: WE WILL START THE

INDICT DABAIT IN THE 1AC. FIRST NOTE THAT THIS IS WHAT
DUMBASSES SAY:
WE HATE THE WGLF. NO ONE CAN UNDERSTAND THEM. THEY THINK THEY ARE SOOO FUNNY
AND SMART, BUT THEY ARE REALLY STOOPID. THEY'RE ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT THE SUN AND
CRAP THAT WE THINK IS IRRELEVANT. GOD I WISH THE MODS WOULD BAN THEM FOREVER. I AM
ALL ABOUT FREE SPEECH, SO LONG AS I UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY ARE SAYING AND AGREE
WITH IT. BEING A NAZI IS HARD.12

ADDITIONALLY, THE WGLF IS MORE QUALIFIED THAN YOUR THINK

TANK PEOPLE AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS DOUCHES:
WE WERE BORN IN 1472 IN WHAT IS NOW THE ATL. WE HAVE BEEN TRANSCENDENTAL SPIRITS SINCE WE
DISCOVERED THE SHAMANIC TRADITIONS OF CENTRAL AMERICA IN THE LATE 1600'S. WE BUILT A TEMPLE
AND HAVE A SOCIETY THAT NOW NUMBERS 100, 000. WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE 2 DOLLAR BILL AND
TV DINNERS. WE HAVE RECENTLY CHOSEN THE DABAIT COMMUNITY AS OUR SPECIAL PROJECT BECAUSE
YOU ALL ARE DUMBASSES AND WE ARE MUCH SMARTER THAN YOU. WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THE
LOOMING PROBLEM OF SOLAR IMP/EXPLOSIONS SINCE THE LATE 40'S WHEN ROGER RABBIT BROUGHT IT
TO OUR ATTENTION. WE HAVE BEEN AWARE OF THE SUPER INTELLIGENT DINOSAURS SINCE THE LATE
1800'S, BUT OUR INITIAL ATTEMPTS TO GENERATE PUBLIC AWARENESS HAVE FALLEN ON DEAF EARS. WE
BELEIVE IN NOTHING LEBOWSKI. WE ARE SCHIZO-DE(DICHOT)OMIZERS AND WE ARE PRO-CHOICE. WE
THINK THE MODS IN HERE ARE MAINLY NAZIS, AND WE THINK THAT THE WOLF-DEMON TRIBE IS BETTER
THAN THE BIRDS OF PARADISE. WE SUPPORTED THE IRAQ WAR, BUT ONLY BECAUSE WE PLAN ON TAKING
THE OIL FOR OURSELVES SOMEDAY. WE THINK THE EUROPE TOPIC SUCKED AND THAT THE NDT DOESN'T
EXIST PRIOR TO LANGUAGE. WE HAVE JUDGED OCEAN POLICY AND EVEN TAUGHT AT DEBATE CAMPS, BUT
WE THINK IT IS A WASTE OF TIME TO TALK ABOUT THE OCEAN WHEN THE SUN'S INEVITABLE
IMP/EXPLOSION WILL RENDER IT EVAPORATED. WE BELEIVE IN ALLAH, BUDDHA, AND JOE, BUT NOT YAWEH,
KRISHNA, OR BEELZEBUB. WE ATE MEDITERRANEAN FOOD TONIGHT, BUT RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CLARIFY
OUR INTENT (THROUGH OPTIMAL MEANS) GAY MARRIAGE IS A CIVIL RIGHT; HETERO MARRAIGE ISN'T. THE
NATIONAL DEBT IS A CRIME AND A FICTION AT THE SAME TIME. WE BELEIVE THAT CAPITAL IS THE REAL,
AND WE ARE NIETHER INTERPASSIVE NOR ULTRAPASSIVE. WE STAND IN FOR THE UNIVERSAL YET THRIVE
ON THE PARTICULAR. WE ARE NOT MARXISTS, BUT MURXISTS, BECAUSE ALL MARXISTS ARE COMMIES. WE
RESERVE THE RIGHT TO A RADICAL INCOMPETANCE AS WELL AS THE ABSCENCE OF A LINK. TIME IS A CUBE
WITH FOUR SIDES. BUSH IS ROBOT. HAVE YOU SPECIFIED WHETHER OR NOT ROBOTS WORSHIP GOD OR
THEIR CREATORS POST PLAN? FIAT IS ILLUSORY. DABAIT IS ILLUSORY. YOU DON'T EXIST. WE DON'T EXIST.
NOT PRIOR TO LANGUAGE AT LEAST. HAVE YOU CHECKED YOUR LIBIDINAL INVESTMENTS TODAY? IF WE
TOLD YOU A VOLCANO IS COMING, WOULD YOU BUY INSURANCE FOR IT? IS YOUR PLAN MORE LIKE A
PRETZEL OR SOMETHING THAT CAUSES NUCLEAR WAR? WE ARE HACKURZ. WE HAVE MAD TORJAN VIRII.
THE ZIONISTS ARE BEHIND THIS. AL GORE AND THE JEWS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR SARS. WE TAKE NO
PRISONERS. WE PRISONERS NO TAKE. CROSS EX IS NEITHER BINDING NOR LIBERATING. CAN VOTING
ISSUES REALLY VOTE? HOW COME FLORIDIANS CAN'T THEN? WHY ARE YOU SCREAMING AT ME? WHY
CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG? WHY SHOULD WE ALL GET ALONG? ANTAGONISM IS CONSTITUTIVE OF
EXISTENCE AS SUBJECTS IN LANGUAGE. WHY DON'T YOU SUTURE OUR LACK? WE TRAVERSE ALL
FANTASIES EXCEPT THE ONES WE HAVE ABOUT MANGOES AND WINNING IN THE DOUBLES. WE WOULD EAT
BABIES AND PUPPIES IF IT CAME DOWN TO IT. WE WOULDN'T EAT SEAFOOD IF IT WOULD STOP THE SUN
FROM EXPLODING. WE PREDICT AN EARTHQUAKE, MAGNITUDE 9.2, TO HIT SAN JOSE ON WEDNESDAY. WE

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THINK BIRDS ARE NOT DESCENDED FROM DINOSAURS. WE ARE THE HYPNOTOAD AND THE CENTIPEDE
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2AC COUNTER-INTERPRETATION
COUNTER INTERPRETATION: IN ORDER TO WIN, THEY MUST BEAT US IN SUPER NINTENDO.
OUR INTERPRETATION IS BEST:
1) GROUND: THERE ARE MANY DIVERSE SUPER NINTENDO GAMES, EACH OF WHICH IS A STABLE
HISTORICAL ARTIFACT
2)HAND EYE COORDINATION: SCIENCE HAS SHOWN THAT VIDEO GAMES INCREASE HAND EYE
COORDINATION.
3)EDUCATION: SUPER NINTENDO TEACHES US ABOUT MAGIC, FLYING SORCERORS, AND ENDLESS QUESTS
TO SAVE GIRLFRIENDS.
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1AR: SUPER NINTENDO
EXTEND THE SUPER NINTENDO COUNTERINTERPRETATION: GROUP THEIR ARGUMENTS. THIS
INTERPRETATION IS NO LESS ARBITRARY THAN THEIR CALLS TO HAVE A LITERAL, STABLE, AFFIRMATION OF
THE TOPIC. EXTEND THE 2AC SCHLAG EVIDENCE: LANGUAGE IS NOT A NEUTRAL CONDUIT FOR THOUGHT,
THERE IS NO COMMUNAL, LITERAL INTERPRETATION OF THE TOPIC- THIS MAKES ALL OF THEIR
PREDICTABILITY & EDUCATION CLAIMS SUSPECT, BECAUSE OF THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF THE PRECISION THAT
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AT: SWITCH SIDE DABAIT
JUST BECAUSE WE CAN RUN SOMETHING ON THE NEGATIVE TOO DOESNT MEAN WEVE COMITTED A CRIME.
SWITCH SIDE DEBATE IS ALWAYS POSSIBLE WITHIN ANY DEBATE FRAMEWORK, IF THEY ARE A BIT CREATIVE.
THERE IS NOTHING INTRINSIC TO DEBATING GOVERNMENT POLICY THAT GENERATES SWITCH SIDE DEBATE.
THEIR EVIDENCE IS EITHER OLD (MUIR) OR WRITTEN BY THE LAST 15% OF OUR COMMUNITY WHO BELIEVE
THAT THE ONLY THING WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT IS WHAT THE GOVERNEMENT SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT DO.
30 YEARS AGO PEOPLE SAID SWITCH SIDE GOOD TO COUNTERPLANS.
THERE IS NO IMPACT TO THE VACUOUS ALL-PURPOSE GOOD THINGS THAT SWITCHING SIDES SUPPOSEDLY
PRODUCES, TOLERANCE, LESS DOGMATISM, ETC ARE ALL LITERALLY MEANINGLESS.
TURN: WERE NOT SAYING ALL DEBATE ROUNDS EVER MUST BE LIKE THIS ONE. THE ONLY NON-TOLERANT,
NON-DOGMATIC MOVE IS TO DESCRIBE DEBATE IN THE ZERO-SUM WAY THEY DO. IF FOR THIS ONE ROUND,
WE HAVE PRODUCED AN EDUCATIONAL DISCUSSION, YOU SHOULD VOTE AFF.
THERE ARE UNIQUE REASONS WHY THIS SHOULD BE RUN ON THE AFF:
THE MOSSIMAN EVIDENCE ON TRANSGRESSION DEMONSTRATES THAT TRANSGRESSION CAN ONLY OCCUR
WHEN THERE IS AN EXPLICIT PROHIBITION AGAINST THE TRANSGRESSIVE ACT, ALA A BAN ON AFFS NOT
DEALING WITH THE TOPIC
THE TOPIC ITSELF IS IMPOSSIBLE: THE IDEA THAT THE BUSH/CHENEY ADMINISTRATION WOULD EVER DO
MEANINGFUL FOSSIL FUEL CUTS IS PURE FANTASY. AFFS MUST BE ABLE TO REJECT THE LITERAL,
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2AC:FRAMEWORK
NO SPILLOVER INTO OTHER DEBATES- THERE IS NO REASON ALL OTHER DEBATES MUST OPERATE FROM
WITHIN ONE FRAMEWORK. THE IDEA THAT SOMEHOW WELL EVENTUALLY COME TO THIS IS STUPID. IF WE
HAVE PROVEN AN EDUCATIONAL BENEFIT TO WHAT WE HAVE DONE IN OUR AFF SPEECHES, YOU SHOULD
VOTE AFF.
ALL OF THEIR ABUSE CLAIMS ARE ULTIMATELY SELF-SERVING- THE EXTREME EXAMPLES OF AFFS THAT JUST
SAY RACISM OR SEXISM BAD DONT APPLY- OUR ARGUMENT IS ULTIMATELY ENGAGIBLE IN BOTH FORM AND
CONTENT- THEY CAN CRITICIZE HUMOROUS/PARODIC APPROACHES TO POLITICS, DEFEND POLICYMAKING,
AND WHATEVER ELSE THEY CAN COME UP WITH. ALL OF THIS ALSO DEMONSTRATES THE INEVITABILITY OF
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PARTICIPATION IN DEBATE
THE CLAIM THAT PEOPLE WILL JUST LEAVE THE ACTIVITY IS UNVERIFIABLE. JUST BECAUSE DEBATE
NUMBERS ARE DOWN DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE APPROPRIATE SCAPEGOAT IS THE PROLIFERATION OF
CRITICAL ARGUMENTS. WELL BE WILLING TO WAGER THAT NO ONE IS GOING TO QUIT AFTER THIS DEBATE
BECAUSE OF THE RESULT OF THIS FRAMEWORK DEBATE BEING CONCLUDED ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.
THIS MEANS IT ALL COMES DOWN TO EDUCATION WHICH IS THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF ALL TOPICALITY
IMPACTS. FAIR DEBATES BREED BETTER EDUCATION, GROUND IS KEY TO HAVE A BALANCED, EDUCATIONAL
DEBATE, ETC. THESE ARE ALL CLAIMS THAT THE 2NR WILL LIKELY SPOUT OFF EVERYWHERE. THIS MEANS
WE GET TO WEIGH THE EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS OF THE 1ACS METHODOLOGY CLAIMS AND THE IMPACT
TURNS WE READ TO PRETENDING TO BE THE GOVERNMENT AND POLICING ACADEMIC BOUNDARIES.
THERE IS NO IMPACT TO PARTICIPATION IF IT RESULTS IN A DISTORTED, BANKRUPT UNDERSTANDING OF
HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD OR BE POLITICAL. IN ORDER FOR IT TO MATTER THAT DEBATE IS MORE
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2AR STUFF
STRAIGHT UP TOPICALITY DEBATES ABOUT THE NUANCES OF SEMANTIC INTERPRETATIONS
FUNDAMENTALLY MISS THE POINT TO OUR AFF. THE TYPE OF EDUCATION THEIR INTERPRETATION SECURES
IS ONE THAT IS POLITICALLY STAGNANT AND LEAVES US DEBATERS, THE SO-CALLED FUTURE LEADERS OF
THE WORLD, WITH NO HOPE FOR MEANINGFUL EDUCATION OR POLITICAL CHANGE.
ALL OF THEIR EVIDENCE (HABERMAS, MUIR,PARCHER, ETC) ARE ALL ANSWERED BY OUR SCHLAG AND
GRUPPE EVIDENCE. THE NEUTRAL, COMMUNICATIVE MODEL IS BANKRUPT. IT IS NOT ABLE TO KEEP UP
WITH THE PROLIFERATION OF MEDIA DISCOURSE AND THE THE BUSH ADMINISTRATIONS SPINSTERS. NONE
OF THEIR EVIDENCE ASSUMES THIS POSTMODERN CONDITION OF COMMUNICATION IN WHICH STRAIGHT
FORWARD DELIVERANCE OF COUNTER DEMANDS THROUGH NORMAL COMMUNICATIVE AND POLITICAL
CHANNELS PRODUCES COUNTLESS COPIES OF JOHN KERRY. THEIR ASSERTIONS ABOUT NOT BEING ABLE
TO COUNTER THE RIGHTS INFLUENCE IN POLITICS ARE DESCRIPTIVE OF EXACTLY WHAT OCCURS WHEN WE
TRICK OURSELVES INTO THINKING THAT THE OLD APPROACHES TO POLITICAL ACTION ARE SUFFICIENT. THE
PROBLEM IS THAT THE POLICTICAL HAS ALREADY BEEN CEDED TO THE RIGHT, AND THEY HAVE NO WAY TO
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CLAUDE EVIDENCE
THEIR INTERPRETATION OF FIAT ENDORSES AN IMPOVERSHED VIEW OF THE STATE BY PORTRAYING IT AS A
HOMOGENOUS ENTITY CAPABLE OF ACTING IN PREDICTABLE, RATIONAL WAYS. THIS NEGLECTS THAT THE
STATE IS COMPRISED OF A MULTITUDE OF PERSONALITIES WITH COMPETING INSTITUTIONAL PRIORITIES
AND GOALS.
Claude, 88 (Prof. of Gov. and Foreign Affairs, U of VA, States and the Global System, p. 18)
This view of the state as an institutional monolith is fostered by the notion of sovereignty, which calls up the image of the monarch,

Sovereignty emphasizes the singularity of the state, its

its unity of command and its capacity to speak with one voice . Thus,
France wills, Iran demands, China intends, New Zealand promises and the Soviet
Union insists. One all too easily conjures up the picture of a single-minded and
purposeful state that decides exactly what it wants to achieve, adopts coherent
policies intelligently adapted to its objectives, knows what it is doing, does what it
intends and always has its act together. This view of the state is reinforced by political
scientists emphasis upon the concept of policy and upon the thesis that governments derive
policy from calculations of national interest. We thus take it for granted that states act
internationally in accordance with rationality conceived and consciously constructed
schemes of action, and we implicitly refuse to consider the possibility that
alternatives to policy-directed behavior may have importance alternatives such as
random, reactive, instinctual, habitual and conformist behaviour. Our rationalistic assumption
that states do what they have planned to do tends to inhibit the discovery that states sometimes
do what they feel compelled to do, or what they have the opportunity to do, or what they have
usually done, or what other states are doing, or whatever the line of least resistance would seem
to suggest.
Academic preoccupation with the making of policy is accompanied by academic
neglect of the execution of policy. We seem to assume that once the state has
calculated its interest and contrived a policy to further that interest, the carrying out
of policy is the virtually automatic result of the routine functioning of the
bureaucratic mechanism of the state. I am inclined to call this the Genesis theory of public
administration, taking as my text the passage: And God said, Let there be light; and there was
light. I suspect that in the realm of government, policy execution rarely follows so promptly and
inexorably from policy statement. Alternatively, one may dub it the Pooh-Bah/Ko-Ko theory, honouring those
presiding majestically over his kingdom.
monopoly of authority,

denizens of William S. Gilberts Japan who took the position that when the Mikado ordered that something be done it was as good as
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EXTEND THE 2AC CLAUDE EVIDENCE- THEIR CONCEPTION OF FIAT HOMOGENIZES THE STATE, IGNORING
THE MYRIAD OF PERSONALITIES THAT OPERATE THE APPARATUS KNOWN AS THE USFG. THIS
PREOCCUPATION WITH THE MAKING OF POLICY RATHER THAN THE EXECUTION OF POLICY SERVES TO
IMPOVERSH OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE WAY POLITICS OPERATES. FIAT ONLY SERVES TO JUSTIFY THIS
APPROACH BY WISHING AWAY THE HARD QUESTIONS OF POLICY EXECUTION. THE USFG ACTS, FUNDING IS
GUARANTEED, AND THE NEG GETS A POLITICS LINK AND THE COURTS COUNTERPLAN. THIS SHALLOW
EXAMINATION OF THE WAY POLICY OUTCOMES ACTUALLY HAPPEN TURNS THEIR EDUCATION CLAIMS INTO
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2AC: FRAMEWORK
THEIR CALL FOR A COMMON, LITERAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE TOPIC RELIES UPON A NORMATIVE VIEW OF
COMMUNICATION THAT PRESUPPOSES LANGUAGE AS A NEUTRAL CONDUIT OF THOUGHT. THIS LARGELY
IGNORES THE REALITY THAT MUCH OF COMMUNICATION IS INEFFECTIVE.
SCHLAG IN 1990 (43 STAN. L.R.)
One answer is that normative legal thought conceives of its own linguistic situation in just this problematic manner: getting
its message across. Normative legal thought establishes and sees itself as transmitting important substance through
already existing, relatively unobstructed channels of legal communication. This conception of language as an empty, neutral,
already extant conduit for thought is itself linguistically embedded in our metaphorical understanding of language.
Unfortunately, as Reddy demonstrates, this conception greatly overestimates the possibility of successful communication and
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SO-CALLED 2AC TOPICALITY RANT 1/2
YOU HAVE ALL TAKEN DA BAIT. TOPICALITY IS THE EQUIVALENT OF THE SOVEREIGN BAN, BIOPOLITICAL
AUTHORITY, LOSS OF BEING AND A REVERSE VOTING ISSUE FOR REASONS OF GIGADEATH AND STOOPIDITY.
THE NEGATIVE TEAM HAS ONCE AGAIN REJECTED THE CREATIVITY AND KNOWLEDGE PROVIDED BY THE 1AC
IN A VAIN ATTEMPT TO SECURE SECURITY FOR THEMSELVES VIA THE NORMS OF THE TOPIC AND SOCALLED FAIR AND PREDICTABLE GROUND. FAIR AND PREDICTABLE FOR WHOM? NAZIS, PROBABLY SINCE
THEY HAD RESOLUTIONS AND FAIR DIVISIONS OF GROUND BETWEEN THEMSELVES AND THE JEWS.
GEORGE BUSH INVADED IRAQ TO PRESERVE PREDICTABILITY AND FAIRNESS FOR THE AMERICANS.
DICTIONARY.COM, EVEN BEING THE LINGUISTIC FASCISTS THEY ARE, DEFINES TOPICAL AS: CURRENTLY OF
INTEREST OR COMTEMPORARY. OUR LYOTARD EVIDENCE AND OUR WGLF CRITICISMS BOTH PROVE THE
FOREMOST POLITICAL QUESTION IS NOT ENERGY POLICY, BUT THE LOOMING IMP/EXPLOSION OF THE SUN:
SHOULDNT DABAIT THEN FOCUS ON THIS TOPIC INSTEAD OF SOME WEAK ASS FOSSILS SHIT? IF ALL OF
THEIR EDUCATION CLAIMS ARE TRUE AND DABAIT IS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT PREPARING OURSELVES TO
SOLVE REAL PROBLEMS, THEN WHY SHOULDNT WE FOCUS ON THE LOOMING IMP/EXPLOSION OF THE SUN.
IN FACT, THEY SHOULD LOSE THIS SO-CALLED DABAIT BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT PREPARED TO BE FUTURE
POLICYMAKERS, BECAUSE POLICYMAKERS IN THE FUTUREPAST WILL RECOGNIZE THE FORESIGHT OUR
CRITICISM ENTAILS. WHAT HAS THIS ACTIVITY PREPARED US FOR IF WE CANT TAKE THE UNEXPECTED LINE
OF ARGUMENTATION AND CONSTRUCT ANSWERS TO IT? THE NEGATIVE SHOULD LOSE FOR MAKING IT TO A
SO-CALLED ROUND ROBBIN AND FORGETTING ANY CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS. WE HAVE ALWAYS ALREADY
CRITICIZED THE TYPES OF AFFIRMATIVES THEY WANT US TO RUN AS BEING INEXTRICABLY EVIL. THE
GENOCIDAL CALCULATIONS AND BUREAUCRATIC ROLEPLAYING THAT ARE NECESSITATED BY THEIR CLAIMS
OF US HAVING TO HAVE A REAL PLAN THAT DEALS WITH THE ENERGY AND OTHER CRAP IS EXACTLY THE
THING OUR FIRST SPEECH INDICTS. ANDY ELLIS OUTLINES OUR CRITICISM OF POLICY DABAIT:
3)Lets make this argument perfectly clear too, its not just ok to be
like i wanna work on the hill or i wanna work in the washington think
tank establishment any more than its ok to be all like well i dont like
the third reich but that internship a the chancelors asitant is a good
carreer move, people wont say this because we are all supposed to be
civil in this activity but what many of the community members use
debate as preperation for is preperation for a kind of thinking that
has left millions of dead bodies scattered here and around the world.
When people say well i do this because i wanna be a congressman so i
have to have traditional debate so i can prepare i say see you dont
know how right you are, my experience with much actual policy making is
that it is a lot like traditional deate, decisons made in a hermeticly
sealed insular context free from public participation and input in
which the bodies of those most effected by the decsion are wielded
entirely out of their control, decisons are always played out ona
gameboard and made in a calculative way, much like debates most of the
real policymaking is made by privilaged white males in closed door
settings, much like traditional debate a discourse of expertise is
utilized to exclude anybody who doesnt know the language, so yes debate
is preaprtion for the policy making process, but instead of a reason
why to keep going its a reason to take action to intervene against the
genocidal condensation that exists within the preperatory pedagigy that
jake and a bunch of other people simply find fun...lots of people like
bull fighting too, doesnt mean that your fun is free of complicty in
bad shit
4)before you tel me about all the good policy makers who have come out
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consider the massive amounts of lawyers and policymakers who we have
taught to be better genocideres, those folks who will now be better
prosecutors better imperial planners, better able to add liberal
legitimacy to the pnac empire machine,simply put i dont doubt that many
of you are prearing for a future in politics, my problem is with the
way you prepare and what you are preapring for. 14

14 http://www.ndtceda.com/archives/200404/0463.html
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[AT: ZIZEKS FOOL/KNAVE JOIUSSANCE CRAP]

1) THE CRITICISM AND ITS UNDERPINNINGS ARE ALL BASED ON SELF-REFERENTIAL, UNVERIFIABLE CLAIMS
ABOUT OUR PSYCHE AND HOW WE RELATE TO THE SYSTEM. WHETHER OR NOT WE GET JOUISSANCE OUT
OF OUR AFF IS NOT SOMETHING EMORY IS QUALIFIED TO DISCUSS.

2) NO IMPACT: THIS ULTIMATELY BOILS DOWN TO A NON-UNIQUE PMN TO OUR MODE OF POLITICS: THEY
HAVE NO ALTERNATIVE VIEW OF HOW TO ACT IN THE WORLD WITHOUT OBTAINING ENJOYMENT OR SHOWING
A LIBIDINAL INVESTMENT IN OUR ACTIONS. POINTING THIS FACT OUT IS NOT ENOUGH TO CONDEMN THE
EFFICACY OF OUR APPROACH.

3) NO LINK: THEIR CLAIM THAT WE PLAY INTO THE HANDS OF THE SYSTEM ASSUMES THAT THE POINT OF
OUR AFF IS A LOUISVILLE-ESQUE COMMUNITY WIDE REVOLUTION. THIS IS FALSE. OUR AFF SHOULD BE
CONCEPTUALIZED AS A POLITICALLY PRODUCTIVE MODEL FOR ACTION CALLED DETOURNMENT, WHICH
WELL READ EVIDENCE ABOUT BELOW. IT HAS AN ADVANTAGE. WE DONT NEED TO PROVE MATERIAL
EFFECTS OUTSIDE THE ROUND, JUST LIKE POLICY TEAMS DONT HAVE TO PROVE HEGEMONY INCREASES
OR DECREASES POST AFF-VOTE.

4) NO LINK: WE DONT CLAIM TO HAVE A SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE DEBATE COMMUNITY, THE END ALL
BE ALL UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT DEBATE IS OR WHAT DEBATE COULD BE. WE HAVE A PERSPECTIVE,
WHICH IS NOT THE EQUIVALENT TO NAZI CLAIMS TO HAVE A SPECIAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE OF
HUMANITY.

5) PERMUTE: VOTE AFF AND ENGAGE THE NEG ALTERNATIVE. BEING THE ANALYST IS NOT MUTUALLY
EXCLUSIVE WITH THE AFF. WE ASSUME THE ROLE OF THE ANALYST OF THE COMMUNITY, ETC.

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6) ZIZEKS ALTERNATIVE IS OUR AFF: THE 1AC IS THE CONDENSATION OF THE REAL, WHICH IS NONSENSE.
THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO SUSTAIN OURSELVES POLITICALLY AND ETHICALLY.
Mann (Prof English @ Pomona) 1995
Paul, Stupid Undergrounds PostModern Culture 5:3, Project Muse,
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v005/5.3mann.html
There is a certain justice to giving the task for discovering the silent forms of control to those whose primary mode of operation is enormous volume.
The trajectory from loud rock music to even louder industrial music (Boyd Rice/Non plays too loud even for much of the stupid club scene) to
experiments in subliminal sound is continuous. There is, in a certain sense, no difference, no line between sound so loud it is all one can hear and sound
so deep and pervasive it cannot be heard at all. Loud is critical. Or perhaps we should put the same matter differently: if we have taken critical to imply a
certain distance, a certain non-identity with the object, loud proceeds, as the stupid underground always proceeds, in the opposite direction. Rock music,
after all nothing more than the prattle of a banal hybridization of capital and adolescent (male) fantasy, becomes, in intensity, at the most extreme
volume, the stupid reduction of that constructed reality, the limit of its tolerability. Critical then not through distance but, as we have seen, through
proximity, through what would appear to be the most uncritical embrace. Here again Zizek is helpful: "Although functioning as a support for

the totalitarian order, fantasy is then at the same time the leftover of the real that enables us to 'pull ourselves
out,' to preserve a kind of distance from the socio-symbolic network. When we become crazed in our obsession
with idiotic enjoyment, even totalitarian manipulation cannot reach us" (128). Zizek's example here is precisely popular music,
the inane ditty that anchors the fantasy, that runs endlessly in one's head; what one wishes to add here is the criterion of force, of intensity, of sound so
loud that, even though it is a cultural product from top to bottom, it nonetheless enfolds the audience and isolates it within the symbolic order. The
intensity of loud drowns out the Other. It is the limit of the symbolic, its null point, experienced in the very onslaught of its signs. Perhaps we could
appropriate a Lacanian term for this fantastic volume that goes beyond fantasy: the sinthome. Zizek calls it
"subversive," but that, unfortunately, is to offer it to those who wannabe subversive, to see themselves seen as subversives, to be (to fantasize being)
political agents in an older and ever more current sense.26 Let us nonetheless pursue the concept for a moment. Zizek:
[T]he signifier permeated with idiotic
enjoyment is what Lacan, in the last stage
of his teaching, called le sinthome.
Le sinthome is not the symptom, the coded
message to be deciphered by interpretation, but
the meaningless letter that immediately
procures jouis-sense,"enjoyment-in-meaning,"
"enjoy-meant.". . . [W]hen we take into account
the dimension of the sinthome, it is no
longer sufficient to denounce the "artificial"
character of the ideological experience, to
demonstrate the way the object experienced by
ideology as "natural" and "given" is effectively
a discursive construction. . . . What we must
do . . . on the contrary, is to isolate

the sinthome from the context by virtue of

which it exerts its power of fascination in
order to expose the sinthome's utter
stupidity. . . . [It] produces a distance not
by locating the phenomenon in its historical
totality, but by making us experience the utter
nullity of its immediate reality, of its stupid,
material presence that escapes "historical
mediation" . . . . [I]t is a little piece of the
real attesting to the ultimate nonsense of the
universe, but insofar as this object allows us
to condense, to locate, to materialize the
nonsense of the universe in it, insofar as the
object serves to represent this nonsense, it
enables us to sustain ourselves in the midst of
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7) DOUBLE TURN: ALL OF THEIR FRAMEWORK ARGUMENTS HOW WE NEED A STABLE ADVOCACY THAT
SIMULATES THE UNREAL OF THE USFG IS THE OPPOSITE OF THE INSISTENCE THAT WE ATTEND TO VISCERAL
REALITY. THEIR ARGUMENTS FORCE US TO ULTIMATELY ADOPT THE POLITICS THAT THEIR CRITICISM
INDICTS, WHERE WE REMAIN IN COMFORTABLE ACADEMIC CONFINES, LAUNCHING IMPOSSIBLE DEMANDS
UPON THE STATE.
8) WE HAVE A DEFENSE OF ENJOYMENT: THE EXAMPLE OF SIMONE IN BATAILLES STORY OF THE EYE IS
ANALOGOUS TO WGLF ACTIVITIES. SIMONE PISSES ON EGGS DESPITE THE HORROR OF HER MOTHER,
MUCH LIKE WE PISS ON THE CONVENTIONS OF DEBATE ITSELF. PLAYING WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE
SYSTEM OF DEBATE NORMS IS PRODUCTIVE. OUR IRRATIONAL GESTURES TO REMAIN OUTSIDE OF THE
SYSTEM OF NORMS EXPOSES THE MEANINGLESSNESS OF THOSE NORMS THEMSELVES.
MOSSIMAN IN 1998 (ELIZABETH, THE SOVEREIGN VALUE OF TRANSGRESSION,
http://www.temple.edu/gradmag/spring98/mosiman.htm)
During Simone's recuperation her fascination with eyes intensifies. No longer able to participate in any sexual activity, she and the I who focuses the
text(17) play with eggs in a manner which mimics a metonymic substitution of images. "She soon delighted in having me throw eggs

into the toilet bowl, hard-boiled eggs, which sank, and shells sucked out in various degrees to obtain varying
levels of immersion"(36). Sometimes she would urinate on them. Physically confined, Simone continues the
violation of fixed images, while the images themselves proliferate and the possibilities of incommensurate
connections explode. Eyes in the toilets, hard-boiled eggs, partially sucked eggs, all objectify imagery that is
fixed. Simone's play with eggs gradually increases the force of its transgressive nature.The mother's entrance
into the room advances the play to the edge of its own limits; instead of disrupting their activity, her presence
intensifies their pleasure. In order for their behavior to be have impact, there must be a prohibition against it. The
play must occur within the system so that the system itself can release its own non-meaning.
"Play," Bataille notes, "is nothing if not an open and unreserved challenge to everything opposed to play" (quoted by Derrida 378n40). Simone's play with the egg prefigures the Derridean concept of play,
an activity of the difference that results from the appropriating action of classification systems such as language or numismatics. Bataille's play executes the non-meaning in the appropriative movement
that creates meaning--being an activity of that which is not retained in the substitutive movement of metaphor. To return to the system of coinness, Bataille's play with the egg and the eye and the
testicles---a seemingly random contiguity of images privileging surfaces in this text which classifies eyeness--calls attention to a system that contains objects detached from their totality of meaning. The
coin collected as coin no longer in currency is a coin detached from its use-value. Play is the activity of the use-value,the presence of the bank draft. A reading or writing of the text is an action of
expenditure without reserve--pure potlatch.
The images are put into play by the urination which figurates the fissure or rupture needed to unlock the contained optical simulacrum and to unleash the violent discharges of the pineal eye: "Upon my
asking [Simone] what the word urinate reminded her of, she replied: terminate, the eyes, with a razor, something red, the sun" (38). In The Story of the Eye the "eye" of the anus or genital orifice, the
description of which always foregrounds the raw and fleshy aspects, becomes the rupturing gaze, and its most gruesome portrayal is the bullfighting scene when the eye of Granero, the matador, is
gouged out by the bull.
The final scene in the church of Don Juan, however, depicts the most virulent transgression of The Story of the Eye. If the text is God relieving Himself, then these final scenes can be read as God voiding
His own Absoluteness, a gesture reified in the urination of the priest into the ciborium containing the communion wafers which are an embodiment of the absent Christ, himself an embodiment of the
absent Absolute. Since the ritual of the Mass includes the expression "the Word is God." The action of urination here is then the transgressing of the system of Christian religion that grounds the systems
of knowledge in Western culture, that is, the systems through which we know our world and which enable us to live within it. But as urinating is the passing and the making, this transgressive action
expendsin order that the system can continue to make.
In Simone's intercourse with the dying priest, she attempts to capture the totality of the experience of life which can only be gained by dying. Her action takes place at the limit of life, as this last
transgressive scene takes place at the limit of the prohibition---the violation of the most sacred. Transgression must occur within the system or it would not be a transgression, as Bataille seeks to embrace
the non-meaning of the bank draft within the system because to go outside the system would be to be outside the totality of coinness and to render the non-meaning meaningless. For a human to die is to
experience the totality of what it means to live, but to die is to move beyond expression. Bataille needs always to be at the limit while including a gesture toward the non-being on the other side.
Bataille writes at the conclusion of his essay on "The Notion of Expenditure" that "the states of excitation, which are comparable to toxic states, can be defined as the illogical and irresistible impulse to
reject material or moral goods that it would have been possible to utilize rationally (in conformity with the balancing of accounts)" (128). What he presents to the reader, in the form of the narrative text,

The Story of the Eye is a logical gesture of irrationality which expresses the need of a limitless loss which
Bataille maintains is necessary to remain rationally within the system. Bataille's transgressive text transgresses
the prohibition against the transgressive act, but without text there could be no transgression. From within the
system, however, the gesture must always remain an irrational gesture of refusal to remain within the system. The
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9) OUR METHOD IS ONE OF COMMUNICATIVE GUERILLA TACTICS. WE OVERIDENTIFY WITH THE ABSURDITY
OF DEBATE PRACTICES SUCH AS THE STRATEGIC SEARCH FOR THE BIGGEST IMPACT CARD AND THE
REDUCTIONIST LOGIC OF LABELING EVERYTHING AS NAZISM. TRADITIONAL APPROACHES TO DEBATE AND
COMMUNICATION ARE FLAWED. WE NEED TO INSTEAD EMBRACE DETOURNMENT, A METHOD OF CULTURE
JAMMING AND OVERIDENTIFICATION THAT ALLOWS US TO EXPLOIT THE ABSURDITIES OF THE POWERS WE
ARE FIGHTING.
GRUPPE IN 2003 ( HTTP://ionek.strg.at/bin/view/Main/KgUsingLan)
When we started to think about Communication guerilla , the political space seemed barren and closed. It was the early nineties, the west was
at war against Irak, and the political depression of the nineties was at its full height. After the breakdown of bureaucratic socialism, capitalism
seemed to have won once and forever. Moreover, Germany saw a wave of violent racist attacks against immigrants, backed up by a humanist
discourse of the elites who were in favor of immigration control. All the counterinformation in previous years had not changed the political climate
to the better. We were tired of performing political rituals like trashing McDonald?s, stopping this nuclear waste transport or that neo-fascist
meeting. It wasnt fun, and anyway, these rituals had become the included other of the state: the roles were set, they knew how to deal with this
kind of attacks. They even needed them to provide a symbolic balance against the extreme right and to justify new repressive laws.
So we started experimenting with another mode of political articulation. Interventions and theoretical analysis were constantly interacting. We looked at
the practices of Dada, the Situationists, the Provos in the Netherlands, the Indiani Metropolitani in Italy, the various psychogeographic societies, the
Spaguerilla in Germany, the Yippies in the US, pranksters and many other freaks, experts in Culture Jamming , and fools. We blagged anything that
could be useful to distort the unwritten rules of the Cultural Grammar, to subvert this powerful machinery which is constantly producing acceptance of
existing power relations and normality. In recent years, this kind of creative political articulation has become more popular among artists/activists. How
do these witty, sometimes silly attacks against multinational corporations, politicians or other authorities work? A first insight comes from communication
theory.
Why is nobody listening?
The best argument is useless if nobody wants to hear it. Thanks to continuous production and dissemination of counter information, the
world knows that the globe is warming, which didnt stop US president Bush to block the limitation of emissions in the Kyoto. Everybody
knows that people in Global South are forced to work in sweatshops under terrible conditions, but this knowledge has hardly any consequences.
And although we all know that people who migrate to Europe usually have a reason for that, the border regime around it is getting tighter and tighter. So
although critical information is widely available, it doesnt necessarily lead to political consequences. Most traditional politics on the left are
based on a simple model of communication: Information is sent bya sender to a receiver via a channel. Implicitly, it is assumed that the message
is received as intended by the sender. The conclusion is that those who own the sender control what people are thinking by manipulating the messages.
If the messages were not manipulated, more truthful, people wouldnt go along with oppressive politics. As a consequence, we would have to take
power over the TV- and radiostations, the newspapers and the internet thats revolution. Or at least we need to produce our own media. Zet while
counter-information is necessary to keep ourselves up-to-date, it usually cannot compete with industrially produced mainstream media. This model of
communication has been critizised for its linearity. For instance, it cannot explain why the system of burocratic socialism in East Germany
collapsed, although it controlled all the senders. A more complex model of communication theoryfocusses less on the messages and more on the
codes that are being used in the production and the reading of messages. The sender encodes information before shipping it off to the channel. He
uses a discourse which corresponds with his own interests and social/political positioning Before the receiver understands the message, she has do
decode it according to her own codes. Both sets of codes are not necessarily identical, and not all receivers use the same set of codes. The same
message can acquire different, even contradictory meanings, depending on the discoursive codes people use to read them. Although the discoursive
power structures strongly suggest certain preferred readings, oppositional readings are possible. Umberto Eco, the Italian cultural theorist calls this
process the variability of interpretation.
Tactics the art of the weak
This phenomenon leads to interesting principles, methods, practices and techniques for Communication guerilla. A guerilla in the territory of
communication can make use of the cracks and contradictions of the system. Relying on a tactical mode of political articulation, it doesnt
need to seek control of the endless chain of signification. To the contrary, it plays on the messyness of the communication process, creating
communicative situations with a potential to unleash divergent and deviant readings of situations and informations. To use a military metaphor:
Communication guerilla breaks out of the traditionally strategic approach to political articulation. It acknowledges that the social movements on the
left are not powerful enough to engage in a trench war between us and them, that we are acting on a territory organized by the law of a
foreign power. What French philosopher Michel de Certeau states fortactics in general, also applies to Communication guerilla: Lacking its own
place, it operates in isolated actions, blow by blow. It takes advantage of oportunities and depends on them, being without any base where it could
stockpile its winnings, build up its own position, and plan raids. What it wins it cannot keep. This nowhere gives a tactic mobility (...). It
must vigilantly make use of the cracks that particular conjunctions open in the surveillance of the proprietary powers. It poaches in them. It
creates surprises in them. (...) In short, a tactic is an art of the weak.
Multinational corporations, as agents of hegemony, use a strategic approach. They are furiously defending a territory made of images, colours, music,
logos. Since the marketing strategies are increasingly shifting from selling products to selling lifestyles, the brand needs to be defended at all costs.
Image has become capital. At the same time, by depending on the elusive power of signs, they have become more vulnerable to the blows of
Communication guerilla. Counter information is continuously producing information on the injustice of existing power relations or the
devastating work conditions in the sweatshops, to name only a few fields of intervention. Subvertisers like the US-based adbusters , or the
campaigners against Nike , communicate such messages by using the first principle of communication guerilla: detournement. By distorting
the signs and symbols available in public space, they suggest a morerealistic reading of advertisements. The simple detournement of a
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and bring out meanings other than those intended by the advertisers. The aura of a mythical figure like Microsoft boss Bill Gates can be detourned by a
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moment needless to say that this also works for politicians, philosophers and other representatives of power. With wit and humour, detournements
create a distance between the sender and the receiver, they cause embarassement to those whose normality is usually accepted.
Sometimes, it is more effective to slip into the mind of the political counterpart rather than creating a distance through detournement especially since
the cultural grammar in western industrialised societies with its ideology of democracy and free speech has ways to neutralise obvious criticism.
Overidentification as the second principle of communication guerilla relies on the phenomenon that every ideology has a hidden reverse,
something that must not be articulated under any circumstances, a taboo (Zizek). Overidentification is about speaking out this hidden tabu in
language of power itself, clearer than the political counterparts yet in a perfect copy of the tone of their voices and the looks of their symbols.

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TRADITIONAL LEFTIST POLITICS ARE DOOMED TO FAILURE: ONLY BY DISTORTING THE SIGNS AND SYMBOLS
OF THE PREVAILING ESTABLISHMENT CAN EFFECTIVE POLITICAL ACTION OCCUR.
GRUPPE IN 1998 (http://www.medialounge.net/lounge/workspace/crashhtml/mr/4.htm)
Guerrilla communication is political, militant action (politische Militanz). It differs from the conventional (autonomous) militant action in
as much as it does not simply aim to destroy the codes of power and sovereignty, but aims to effectively disfigure
them. Guerrilla communication is a particular form of political communication which does not just transport
statements in plain text (like flyers, demo slogans, posters). The goal is neither the interruption nor the permanent
appropriation of a communicational channel. The goal is the theft and distortion of messages. We start from the
premise that the significance of communication is not just what is said but also the form of the communication
itself.
It is the aim of guerrilla communication to de-legitimate the present state of power and sovereignty which by now
seems so normal and unalterable. In order to do that, one has to understand its multifaceted structures and manifestations.
Guerrilla communication tries to deal with the normative power structures of the established forms of
communication as well as the internalised power structures at the level of subject. This requires that situations be
manufactured in which it becomes perceptible - for at least a brief moment - that everything could actually be quite different.
Why Communication Guerrilla?
Guerrilla communication is a result of the experiences with the past concepts of the oppositional public realm (Gegenffentlichkeitskonzepten) and
educational practices of the left. In late capitalist societies nothing can be won from the unimpeded spread of truth.

Traditional left politics frequently seem to rely on the persuasive power of the rational argument. The confidence
that the simple presentation of information represents an effective form of political action is still unshakeable.
Critical content is supposed to be sufficient to tear up the network of manipulating messages, with which the
media influence the consciousness of the masses. The main problem here is the acceptance of the idea:
'whomsoever possesses the senders can control the thoughts of humans'. This hypothesis comes from a very
simple communication model which only focuses on the 'sender' (in the case of mass communication usually centrally
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COUNTER-INFORMATION IS INEFFECTIVE- THE PERSUASIVE POWER OF RATIONAL ARGUMENT HAS NO
CHANCE OF COMPETING WITH THE DOMINANT IDEOLOGICAL POSITION.
GRUPPE IN 1998 (http://www.copyriot.com/unefarce/no1/artikel/cg.htm)
Traditional radical politics strongly rely on the persuasive power of the rational argument. The confidence that
the simple presentation of information represents an effective form of political action is almost unshakeable.
Critical content and the unimpeded spread of 'truth' are supposed to be sufficient to tear up the network of
manipulating messages, with which the media influence the consciousness of the masses. Well, since the declaration of
Postmodernism it has become a bit involved to insist on The One And Only Truth. But the main problem with traditional concepts of radicalpolitical
communication is the acceptance of the idea:
'whomsoever possesses the senders can control the thoughts of humans'. This hypothesis comes from a very simple communication model which only
focuses on the 'sender' (in case of mass communication usually centrally and industrially organised), the 'channel' which transports the information, and
the 'receiver'. The euphoria around information society as well as its pessimistic opposition - which worries about information overkill - do not face the
crucial problem of citizens representational democracies: facts and information, even if they become commonplace, do not

trigger any consequences. Face it, even if stories of disasters, injustice, social and ecological scandals are being
published, it has almost no consequences.
Reflections on the interrelations between the reception of information, knowledge and the options to act within a social context have tackled how
information becomes meaningful and how it thenbecomes socially relevant. Information by itself has neither meaning nor

consequences - both are created only through the active reception and through the scope of action of the
audience. But this basic banality has far too rarely been taken into consideration within the framework of radical
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GORILLAZ SOLVES CAPITALISM
THE BOURGEOIS SYSTEM GAINS ITS STRENGTH THROUGH INTEGRATION OF CRITICISM- ONLY TACTICS OF
DETOURNMENT, WHICH PLAY WITH THE SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF THE DOMINANT ORDER ARE ABLE TO
RESIST COOPTATION AND FORM A POTENT ANTI-CAPITALIST CRITIQUE.
GRUPPE IN 1998 (http://www.copyriot.com/unefarce/no1/artikel/cg.htm)
The bourgeois system takes its strength - beyond other things - from the ability to include critique. A
government needs an opposition, every opinion needs to be balanced with anotherone, the concept of
representative democracy relies on the fiction of equal exchange. Every criticism which doesnt fundamentally
shatter the legitimacy of the ruling system, tends to become part of it. Guerrilla communication is an attempt to
intervene without getting absorbed by the dominant discourse. We are looking for ways to get involved in situations and at the
same time to refuse any constructive participation.

Power relations have a tendency to appear normal, even natural and certainly inevitable. They are inscribed into
the rules of everyday life. Communication guerrillas want to create those short and shimmering moments of
confusion and distortion, moments which tell us that everything could be completely different: a fragmented
utopia as a seed of change. Against a symbolic order of western capitalist societies which is built around
discourses of rationality and rational conduct, guerrilla communication relies on the powerful possibility of
expressing afundamental critique through the non-verbal, paradoxical and mythical.
To be quite clear: guerrilla communication isnt meant to replace a rational critique of dominant politics and hegemonic culture. It doesnt substitute
counter-information, but creates additional possibilities for intervention. But also, it shouldnt be misunderstood as the topping on the cake, a mere
addition to the hard work of 'real' politics and direct, material action.

In its search for seeds of subversion, guerrilla communication tries to take up contradictions which are hidden in
seemingly normal, everyday situations. It attempts to distort normality by addressing those unspoken desires
that are usually silenced by omnipresent rules of conduct, rules that define the socially acceptable modes of
behaviour as well as the 'normal' ways of communication and interpretation. To give just a simple example: Most people will
say that it is not okay to dodge paying the fare, even if there is awidespread feeling that public transport is over-expensive. If, however, some
communication guerrillas at the occasion of an important public event like the funeral of Lady Di manage to distribute fake announcements declaring that
for the purpose of participating, public transport will be free, the possibility of reducing todays expenses may tempt even those who doubt the
authenticity of the announcement.
Communication guerrillas attack the power-relations that are inscribed into the social organisation of space and time, into rules and manners, into the
order of public conduct and discourse. Everywhere in this 'Cultural Grammar' of a society there are legitimations and naturalisations of economic,
political and cultural power and inequality. Communication guerrillas use the knowledge of 'Cultural Grammar' accessible to

everybody in order to cause irritations by distorting the rules of normality: It is precisely this kind of irritations
that put into question seeminglynatural aspects of social life by making the hidden power relations visible and
offering the possibility to deconstruct them. Using a term coined by Pierre Bourdieu, one might say that guerrilla communication aims at
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1AR: MANN EVIDENCE
THE 1AC IS AN ISOLATION OF WHAT LACAN CALLED THE SYNTHOME: THE LITTLE PIECE OF THE REAL THAT
ATTESTS TO THE STUPIDITY OF EVERYTHING. MANN DESCRIBES THIS AS A RABID OVERPARTICIPATION IN
THE STUPID SPECTACLE OF THE REAL THAT GOES FAR BEYOND ANY BLANK PARODY OR POSTMODERN
PASTICHE-THIS EVIDENCE LITERALLY DESCRIBES THE FORM AND CONTENT OF THE 1AC
Mann (Prof English @ Pomona) 1995
Paul, Stupid Undergrounds PostModern Culture 5:3, Project Muse, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v005/5.3mann.html
The stupid underground comes closest of all to the constitutive stupidity of the symbolic order. We should always be careful, however, not to conclude
that therefore one can live without this error, by a kind of decision, for the subject who would make the decision is constituted in the first place by its
relation to this empty order, this hollow other. And who's to say what's really out there? Who's to say that something utterly

Other really doesn't exist? Why not demonic saucer masons encoding the destruction of political power into the
very symbology of American democracy? Why not the fucking hand of God? Zizek himself repeats the old joke about the
man who complained to his analyst that there are crocodiles under his bed; when he doesn't turn up for an
appointment the doctor assumes it is because he has achieved a cure, only to discover the man was indeed
eaten by crocodiles in his sleep. Perhaps the notion that the other does not exist is the other of psychoanalysis.
Isn't the whole point that there are only points de capiton, never a total truth on which to anchor something more
real than the Real--that one cannot, in any sense, claim to have possessed the real, not even by means of a
symbolic-rationalist dispossession? The stupid underground, once again, proceeds along this line not by analytical
distance but by frenzied overdetermination: the only reality is the apocalyptic plot, and the plot is always at one
and the same time hidden and omnipresent, vaporous and thick, future and present ("the end of the world is
over"), ridiculous and serious, unacceptable and unavoidable, the most grotesque, most immediate, and most
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2AR OVERVIEW: MONKEYBALLS
THIS DEBATE ULTIMATELY COMES DOWN TO A QUESTION OF COMPETING METHODS AND THE POLITICAL
ADVANTAGES THAT THOSE METHODS ACCRUE. THEY HAVE DONE A TERRIBLE JOB EXPLAINING A FEW
THINGS:
1) WHATS SO BAD ABOUT ENJOYMENT? HOW DO WE FASHION A POLITICS THAT IS FREE OF ENJOYMENT
AND LIBIDINAL INVESTMENT? HOW ULTIMATELY DOES THEIR ALTERNATIVE FUNCTION?
2) WHAT IS SO BAD ABOUT BEING A NEUROTIC? IF SOME HISTORICAL EXAMPLES OF NEUROSES CAN
EXPLIN WHY BAD THINGS HAPPEN, THEN HOW COME ALL NEUROTICS DONT TURN OUT TO CAUSE
GENOCIDE? WHAT SPECIFICALLY ABOUT OUR AFF IS NEUROTIC?
3)WHAT IS SO SWEET ABOUT BEING AN ANALYST? WHAT IS THE BENEFIT OF POINTING OUT FLAWS? WHY
DOES POINTING OUT ONE FLAW MEAN THAT EVERYTHING WE SAID IS TERMINALLY SCREWED?
HERE ARE OUR TURNS TO ALL OF THOSE THINGS:
1) ENJOYMENT IS GOOD: OUR GRUPPE AND MANN EVIDENCE, BOTH WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF ZIZEKS
CRITIQUE DESCRIBE HOW DETOURNMENT AND THE CONDENSATION OF THE ABSURD ACCESSES THE REAL
IN WAYS WHICH SOLVE THE LINK, I.E. BY BREAKING DOWN THE FANTASY THAT SUSTAINS THE DOMINAT
IDEOLOGY,
2)NEUROSIS IS GOOD: OUR FORM OF TRANSGRESSION EXPOSES THE NON-MEANING OF THE SYSTEM
ITSELF, THIS IS THE BEST WAY TO BE POLITICAL ITSELF. THATS THE 2AC MOSSIMAN EVIDENCE.
3)BEING AN ANYLYST IS NOT GOOD: CROSS-X CONCEDES THAT THIS FUNCTIONALLY IS NO DIFFERENT
FROM THE METHODS OF COUNTER-INFORMATION THAT OUR GRUPPE EVIDENCE INDICTS AS BEING
INNEFECTIVE. THE ANALYSTS POSITION ULTIMATELY IS NO DIFFERENT THAN JOHN KERRY, CONSTANTLY
SPOUTING OFF SMALL CRITICISMS OF THOSE IN POWER THAT RELY UPON BANKRUPT NOTIONS OF
COMMUNICATION, WITHOUT ARTICULATING A VISION FOR CHANGE.
IMPACTS DO MATTER:
THEYVE GOT NONE. THE EXTENT OF 2NC/2NR IMPACT ANALYSIS IS A REDUCTION OF EVERYTHING TO THE
HOLOCAUST. HITLER WAS NEUROTIC, HE CAUSED THE HOLOCAUST. THE NAZIS THOUGHT THEY HAD A
SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE, THATS WHY THEY KILLED THE JEWS., ETC. THESE ARE ALL VACUOUS CLAIMS
THAT HAVE NOT BEEN APPLIED SPECIFICALLY TO THE TYPE OF ACTION THE AFF TAKES.
WEVE GOT BIG IMPACTS. OUR GRUPPE EVIDENCE INDICATES THAT DETOURNMENT IS THE ONLY VIABLE
OPTION FOR LEFTIST POLITICS IN THE AGE OF POSTMODERNISM. WITHOUT ADOPTING THESE STRATEGIES,
THE ONSLAUGHT OF MARKET-ORIENTED SOLUTIONS, INEQUITABLE WORK CONDITIONS, AND
ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION WILL CONTINUE UNABATED. WE WILL ALWAYS WIN A RISK OF A BIGGER
IMPACT THAN THEM, BECAUSE DETOURNMENT IS ALSO NECESSARY TO ARTICULATE A RESPONSE TO THE
TOTALITARIAN, GENOCIDAL SYSTEMS OF OPPRESSION THAT THEY CLAIM AS THE IMPACT TO THEIR
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AT: IRONY BAD
1) NO LINK: WE ARE NOT THE LITERARY DEVICE OF IRONY THAT ALL OF THEIR EVIDENCE INDICTS- JUST
BECAUSE WE POSIT A METHOD OF POLITICS THAT INCLUDES HUMOROUS AND/OR IRONIC ELEMENTS DOES
NOT MEAN OUR STRATEGY RELIES ON IRONY, OR THAT IT EVEN IS IRONY
2) IN ORDER TO WIN THIS ARGUMENT, THEY GOTTA PRESENT AN ALTERNATIVE- YEAH, IRONY MAY NOT BE
UNDERSTOOD BY EVERYONE, BUT ALL COMMUNICATION IS SUBJECT TO THAT PITFALL- LANGUAGE IS
IMPRECISE, AND THE IDEA OF A NEUTRAL CHANNEL THROUGH WHICH COMMUNICATIONS CAN BE SENT
FROM A RECIEVER TO A SENDER IS ONE THAT IS EMPIRICALLY BANKRUPT. OUR METHOD IS AT LEAST
BETTER THAN TRADITIONAL POLITICS, WHICH HAVE FAILED TO DO ANYTHING TO CURTAIL CORPORATE
EXPLOITATION, ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION, OR BUSH- THATS THE COUNTER-INFORMATION BAD
ARGUMENTS MADE IN OUR GRUPPE EVIDENCE.
3) WE ALL KNOW THAT WHAT WE DO IN DEBATE IS NOT WHAT WE DO IN PUBLIC, AND THAT WE TAILOR OUR
PERFORMANCE TO THE AUDIENCE PRESENT IN THE DEBATE. WHEREAS THEY MAY BE RIGHT THAT IF WE
READ OUR FIRST CONSTRUCTIVE IN A PUBLIC SETTING, WED NOT BE VERY HELPFUL TO THE CAUSE,OR
MISUNDERSTOOD, BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT WE HAVE DONE. WE HAVE CONTEXTUALIZED OUR FORM OF
DETOURNMENT TO THE SPECIFIC SITUATION OF A DEBATE ROUND- THIS INJECTION OF OUR OWN LOCAL
KNOWLEDGE OF DEBATE IS WHAT MAKES IT POSSIBLE FOR DETOURNMENT TO WORK ON A MICRO AND
MACRO LEVEL-GRUPPE IN 2003 ( HTTP://ionek.strg.at/bin/view/Main/KgUsingLan)
Tactics of the everyday are expressing desires other than those included in strategic planning, and in that way, they
often acquire a subversive meaning. Blagging, dodging the fare, scateboarding in posh places are not necessarily meant to be
political interventions. The deportation alliance, Horror Vacui and GelbNIX were/are explicitely situated within a wider critical
discourse articulated by social movements, in which strategic demands like open borders, "no German soldiers in Kosovo" or "open
access to the inner cities" were made. Yet they were not confined to the designated political space marked by a culture of political
parties, demonstrations, info-stalls, demands, frustrating meetings and the speech of morality. Taking tactics further,
contextualising political issues in unusual ways and refusing any clear definition can help to widen the political space.
Detournements, happenings and similarinterventions can insert the political into daily life, if the organisers are taking
their own experience with public space and their own local knowledge into account. If you go to the city for summer sales,
you hardly expect your bag being controlled by police. This caused irritations to many shoppers at the day of "GelbNIX", distorting a
positive image of police who should be there to protect "us" and reserving controls to "others". Ideally, activists are part of a
specific local environment and mentality, which enables them to draw on detailed local knowledge, local anger, local
pleasures and the secret subversive desires of ordinary people. For example, quite a few citizens chose to use the free ticket
for public transport in one of the fake leaflets, although they could have realised with a little consideration that it was a prank - and
maybe they did. The same leaflet was reported in the local section of the newspaper with some amusement - another sign that it had
met localinterest. Only if an intervention works locally, it can become relevant in a broader context. A focus on images
and playful forms can create new alliances. If it is not necessary to agree on every detail of the political analysis, preparations
can be more inclusive. Artist and activist scene are beginning to overlap. A new arena of political articulation opens up again and by using images, music, bodies, performances, activists are re-discovering the pleasures of aesthetic experiences
as a part of political speech.
Times have changed since the Manual of Communication Guerilla was first published. While the changes of social and economic
power are not in our favour, in the metropolis, a wave of energy amongs activists is tangible. This is most visible in the new global
movement which articulates itself in protests against organisations like the world bank and the international monetary fund. Large
numbers of protesters, new/old forms of protest like carnivals, creative interventions and direct actions, maybe also the web-hype
have put this movement on the agenda of mainstream media. The appropriation of information technology has facilitated a process
which creates a worldwide communication network and allows for rapid communication within a global activist scene'. In this sense,
the conditions of struggle have improved, certainly in the space of representation (everybody knows that there is a new, globally
connected socialmovement).Yet in provincial areas, local neighbourhoods, small towns and border areas, we are fewer than the
images of mass demos from Seattle, Washington, London etc would suggest. Locally, we continue to rely on the molecular
tactics of communication guerilla, the kind of actions anyone can prepare without the backup of thousands of
activists. While the large mobilisations are highlights in the activists calendar, communication guerilla-type actions
are effective interventions in local public spaces, effective not only in terms of annoying the conservative hypocrits,
ordinary racists and apostles of normalisation, but also for our own pleasure and against the frustrations we are
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LUFTHANSA EXAMPLE
GRUPPE IN 2003 ( HTTP://ionek.strg.at/bin/view/Main/KgUsingLan)
An example for the sophisticated use of both principles is a campaign of the German anti-racist network kein
mensch ist illegal against the deportation of refugees and immigrants. Or, in the logic of overidentification: Its objective is to
help the German airline Lufthansa to get out of their obligation to do the dirty business for the German government by brutally carrying
out deportations. This tongue-in-cheek help turns out to be a continous image pollution, which constantly puts the airline into trouble.
The image of Lufthansa (and every other airline) is based on the fantasy of a world without any borders, open for unlimited excitement,
for adventurous explorations of its hidden treasures (or business opportunities). The hidden reverse of this ideology of globalisation is
migration and border-regimes with all their deadly consequences. Lufthansas image relies on the assumption that they

make thepleasures of travelling available to every customer, that they can take you to the most remote parts of the world at any
given time. What may not be articulated is that at the same time, Lufthansa is coercing unwanted migrants to go where they
certainly do not want to go the country they were forced to leave for political or economic reasons , or even a place
where they have never been before. The Lufthansa Campaign is using this hidden reverse in many creative ways. In the first leaflet in
spring 2000, they worked with the principle of overidentification by producing a fake to advertise the new
deportation class which they had invented for Lufthansa. The leaflet features the brand colours, a detourned logo and the
typography of Lufthansa. It looks exactly as if it was produced by the airline itself. It also reads like an original, since the corporate
language with its customer-friendly overtones is copied as well. Moreover, the content overidentifies completely with thelogic of profit.

Lufthansa, it is explained, is obliged to carry out deportations for the German government. Yet the company is aware
that the presence of handcuffed people with special helmets over their heads and sticky tape across their mouths
reduces the comfort of the paying passengers, expecially if they resist their deportation. To compensate for this
inconvenience, Lufthansa has launched the deportation class and from now on offers seats on such flights at
reduced prices. This fake leaflet was placed in the information stalls of Lufthansa in airports, at tourist fairs and travel-agents. The
logic was credible enough, many people including customers and journalists thought the airline capable of such cynical
marketing and consequently started attacking it. Lufthansa was forced to publish a dementi to distance itself
from the incriminating leaflet. But the company found itself in a double bind: They couldnt deny the fact that they
are carrying out deportations, and that this caused inconveniences; at the same time, they didnt offer any
compensation.
The logo of the deportation class was the winner of a poster competition which the campaign had tendered until March 2000. It called for detournements
of Lufthansa branding to make connections between the ideology of free travel and deportations. The submitted posters were put together in a travelling
exhibition and presented in many museums. Interestingly, Lufthansa only objected in October 2000, when they discovered that the exhibition is also
available on the internet. They threatened to sue the owner of the webpage. Supported by kein mensch ist illegal, he didn`t back down. To the contrary
within a few days, the exhibition was mirrored on dozens of other international webpages. Lufthansa ended up looking really stupid, a web-newbie with
no respect for the freedom of art. In the end, Lufthansa begged the campaign to stop embarrassing them.
The company faced tactical embarrassement and interventions on many other fronts. The passenger lobby group fair fly staged invisible theatre at
airports and tourist fairs, demonstrating the act of deportation. At an information stall at the Expo in Hanover, plastic-bags with the logo of the deportation
alliance were distributed filled up with information about deportations. At the annual shareholder meeting in summer 2000, along with more traditional
protests, a concerned shareholder pointed out the financial risks involved in deportations. In several cases, deportations were stopped

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LUFTHANSA RANT
A BUNCH OF GERMANS GOT TOGETHER TO PROTEST THE COMPLICTY OF THE AIRLINE LUFTHANA WITH
ILLEGAL GOVERNMENT DEPORTATIONS OF TURKISH IMMIGRANTS. THEY PRODUCED FAKE OR DETORUNED
FLIERS THAT ADVERTISED A BRAND NEW DEPORTATION CLASS THAT OFFERED DEEP DISCOUNTS. THEY
SET UP BOOTHS AT THE AIRPORT, FORCED THE PEOPLE TO WORK BEHIND THE DESK.
THE AIRLINE WAS FORCED BY THESE ACTIONS TO OWN UP TO THEIR OWN INVOLVEMENT, STOP
DEPORTING IMMIGRANTS.
ANOTHER TYPE OF DETOURNEMENT ADBUSTERS MAGAZINE THESE CATS CONSTANTLY CREATE
ADVERTISEMENTS THEY CALL THEM SUBVERTISEMENTS PUT THEM UP OVERNIGHT OR WHATEVER
FORCE THE ADVERTISED MESSAGE TO BE DISTORTED CALVIN KLEIN ADS PERFUME OBSESSION STUFF
LIKE THAT THIS HAS ACTUALLY MOUNTED A MATERIALLY SUCCESSFUL AT LEAST IN SOME WAYS,
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TRADTIONAL POLITICS-OVERVIEW
OUR 1AC IS A FORM OF GUERRILLA POLITICS AND GUERRILLA COMMUNICATION TAKEN AGAINST THE
DABAIT COMMUNITY ITSELF IF INDEED THERE IS ANY HOPE OF OUR COMMUNITY TO BE POLITICAL,
REVOLUTIONARY, OR WHATEVER WE MUST FIRST FORM A POTENT LEFTIST CRITIQUE WITHIN OUR
COMMUNITY DABAIT ARGUMENTS AND FALSE PROTESTS AND WACKADEMIC WAX POETICS HAVE ALL
BECOME COMMODIFIED TO THE POINT WHERE DABAIT BECOMES BANKRUPT- DESPITE EVERYONES BEST
INTENTIONS, ALL OF THESE STRATEGIES ARE BANKRUPT AND DOOMED TO FAIL.
THE 1AC DETOURNS THOSE DABAIT PRACTICES IN A WAY THAT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE MESSAGE OF
THEIR RADICALISM BAD ARGUMENTS AND THEIR TYPES OF POLITICS THEY ADVOCATE. THE PLACE WHERE
WE DIFFER IS AT THE LEVEL OF WHAT SHOULD WE DO THEN?
INSTEAD OF FOCUSING ON TRIED AND FAILED STRATEGIES OF TRADITIONAL LEFTISTS POLITICS, WHICH
HAVE PRODUCED A WORLD WHERE JOHN KERRY IS THE BEST WE CAN DO, AND EVERYONE KNOWS THAT
THE ENVIRONMENT IS TOTALLY HOSED, YET BUSH IS STILL ABLE TO GIVE THE REACH-AROUND TO HIS
HOMIES AT CHEVRON AND HALLIBURTON, WE SHOULD HIJACK THE SIGNS AND SYMBOLS LEFT BEHIND FOR
US ON THE POLITICAL TERRAIN AND ENGAGE IN A STRATEGY OF COMMUNICATIVE GUERILLA TACTICS: BY
PLAYING IN THE CRACKS AND CLEAVAGES LEFT BEHIND
ALL OF THEIR LINK ARGUMENTS ASSUME THE CONTENT OF THE 1AC DIVORCED FROM ITS FORM YES, WE
HAVE A BUNCH OF MADE UP WORDS AND SELF-REFERENTIAL ARGUMENTS, BECAUSE THATS WHAT DABAIT
HAS BECOME. OUR EXPOSURE OF THAT IS A WAY TO POLITICIZE DABAIT, JUST IN THE WAY THAT
DETOURNED LUFTHANSA FLIERS WERE A WAY TO POLITICZE THE DEPORTATION ISSUE IN GERMANY.

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LANGUAGE RANT

YOU HAVE TAKEN DA BAIT. TO ASSUME THAT LANGUAGE

SOMEHOW HAS MEANING IS FOOLS GOLD. WE HAVE ALWAYS
ALREADY PROBLEMATIZED THE IDEA THAT WORDS HAVE MEANING
PRIOR TO LANGUAGE ITSELF. THEIR CRITICISMS OF WGLF
DISCURSIVE MANEUVERING NEGLECT THIS NUGGET OF PREEXISTENT CRITICISM FOUND IN THE SUBTEXT OF THE 1AC ITSELF.
TO STABILIZE THE MEANING OF ANYTHING THAT WE HAVE SAID IS
TO CONDUCT ONTO-VIOLENCE AGAINST THAT WHICH WAS THE 1AC
PREFORMANCE AND US. THE ESSENTIAL KERNEL OF THE 1ACS
ENCOUNTER WITH LANGUAGE AND THE TEXT IS TO OVERIDENTIFY
WITH THE ALWAYS ALREADY OBSCENE NATURE OF THE
TEXTUALITY OF THE TEXT, WHICH CREATES THE CONDITIONS FOR
THE RECOGNITION THAT VIOLENCE AND LANGUAGE ARE
SYMBIOTIC SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS. OUR SCHIZO-DE(DICH)OTOMIZING APPROACH TO THE PROBLEMATIC OF SOCIAL
TOTALITY AND LINGUISTIC LIBIDINAL INVESTMENTS IS THE ONLY
TRANSGRESSIVE ALTERNATIVE TO POLICING LINGUISTIC
BOUNDARIES WHILE THE PROBLEMATIC OF LANGUAGE ITSELF
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ORIGINAL MOSSIMAN OVERVIEW

WE ARE THE GREAT COMPETITIVE SPECTACLE WHOSE PRODUCTION

SQUANDERS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. WE SPENT OUR SUMMER WRITING
OUR OWN CRAPPY EVIDENCE, DRINKING RED HEADED SLUTS AT ADI, AND
IGNORING THE TOPIC. THROUGH THIS ALL WE REALIZED THAT WE ARE THE
SUN. NOT LITERALLY, BUT THE SPECTACLE THAT IS US IS BLINDS AND
CONFUSES WHEN YOU STARE INTO IT, YET ILLUMINATES THE WORLD AT THE
SAME TIME. THE EXAMPLE OF SIMONE IN BATAILLES STORY OF THE EYE
IS ANALOGOUS TO WGLF ACTIVITIES FROM NOW TO THE FUTUREPAST:
SIMONE PISSES ON HARDBOILED EGGS DESPITE THE HORROR OF HER
MOTHER MUCH LIKE WE PISS ON THE CONVENTIONS OF DABAIT ITSELF.
THIS IS NOT POINTLESS FUCK-FUCK. THE CONCLUSION YOU SHOULD DRAW
FROM WHAT WE HAVE DONE/DID/WILL DO IS THAT PLAYING WITHIN THE
BOUNDARIES OF THE SYSTEM OF DABAIT NORMS IS PRODUCTIVE. OUR
IRRATIONAL GESTURES TO REMAIN OUTSIDE OF THE NORMS EXPOSE THE
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WGLF FOGG OF WAR 2NC 1/2
2AC RESPONSE TO THE NONSENSE OF THE 1NC DEMONSTRATES THE EFFICACY OF OUR
APPROACH TO INTELLECTUAL WARFARE. THE PRACTICES OF DECEPTION AND TRICKERY MUST
BE USED TO JAM THE BIOPOLITICAL RADAR. THEIR POSITION OF SPEAKING OUT IS TOO RISKY: IT
TELLS EVERYTHING WE KNOW TO OUR ENEMIES, RISKING CERTAIN DESTRUCTION.
MANN IN 1996 (PAUL, POMONA ENGLISH, THE NINE GROUNDS OF INTELLECTUAL WARFARE, postmodern
culture, january)
Michel de Certeau points out that, for Clausewitz, the distinction between strategy and tactics is determined not only by scales of
conflict (war vs. battle) but by relative magnitudes of power. Strategy is for the strong, and it is deployed in known,
visible, mapped spaces; tactics is "an art of the weak," of those who must operate inside territory controlled by a
greater power; it takes place on the ground of the "other," inside alien space.[35] It must therefore deploy deception in
the face of a power "bound by its very visibility." De Certeau suggests that even in cases where the weak force has already
been sighted, it might use deception to great advantage. This is another lesson from Clausewitz: "trickery is possible for the
weak, and often it is his only possibility, as a 'last resort': The weaker the forces at the disposition of the strategist, the more the
strategist will be able to use deception." In the "practice of daily life," in spaces of signification, in the contests of
critical argument, such a tactics of the weak would also apply:
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by the blindness (which may lead to perspicacity) resulting
from combat at close quarters, limited by the possibilities
of the moment, a tactic is determined by the absence of
power just as a strategy is organized by the postulation of
power. From this point of view, the dialectic of a tactic
may be illuminated by the ancient art of sophistic. As the
author of a great "strategic" system, Aristotle was also
very interested in the procedures of this enemy which
perverted, as he saw it, the order of truth. He quotes a
formula of this protean, quick, and surprising adversary
that, by making explicit the basis of sophistic, can also
serve finally to define a tactic as I understand it here: it
is a matter, Corax said, of "making the worse argument seem
the better." In its paradoxical concision, this formula
delineates the relationship of forces that is the starting
point for an intellectual creativity that is subtle,
tireless, ready for every opportunity, scattered over the
terrain of the dominant order and foreign to the rules laid
down and imposed by a rationality founded on established
rights and property. (38)

And yet it is rare that any of this ever occurs to critics, who seem to believe that "subversion" consists of vicarious identification
with subversives, and of telling everything one knows to one's enemies.
It is nonetheless already the case that, in critical discourse, behind all the humanistic myths of communication,
understanding, and interpretive fidelity, one finds the tactical value of misinterpretations. In an argument it is often
crucial for combatants not to know their enemy, to project instead a paper figure, a distortion, against which they can
conceive and reinforce their own positions. Intelligence, here, is not only knowledge of one's enemies but the tactical
lies one tells about them, even to oneself. This is so regular a phenomenon of discursive conflict that it cannot be dismissed as
an aberration that might be remedied through better communication, better listening skills, more disinterested criticism. One
identifies one's own signal in part by jamming everyone else's, setting it off from the noise one generates around it.
There is, in other words, already plenty of fog in discursive warfare, and yet we tend to remain passive in the face of
it, and for the most part completely and uncritically committed to exposing ourselves to attack. Imagine what might
be possible for a writing that is not insistently positional, not devoted to shoring itself up, to fixing itself in place, to
laying out all its plans under the eyes of its opponents. Nothing, after all, has been more fatal for the avant-gardes than the
form of the manifesto. If only surrealism had been more willing to lie, to dissimulate, to abandon the petty narcissism of the position
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anyone who would listen, and instead explored the potential offered it by the model of the secret society it also hoped to be.
Intellectual warfare must therefore investigate the tactical advantages of deception and clandestinity over the
habitual, quasi-ethical demands of clarity and forthrightness, let alone the narcissistic demands of self-promotion and
mental exhibitionism, from however fortified a position. If to be seen by the enemy is to be destroyed, then
intellectual warfare must pursue its own stealth technology. Self-styled intellectual warriors will explore computer networks
not only as more rapid means of communication and publishing but as means for circumventing publication, as semi-clandestine lines
of circulation, encoded correspondence, and semiotic speed. There will be no entirely secure secrecy, just as there are no
impregnable positions -- that too is Virilio's argument -- but a shrouded nomadism is already spreading in and around major discursive
conflicts. There are many more than nine grounds, but the rest are secret.

VOTE NEGATIVE TO MAKE THE AFFIRMATIVE DISAPPEAR. JAM THE BIOPOLITICAL

RADAR BY MAKING YOUR TRUE ALLEGIANCES SECRET. REMAIN WITHIN THE FOG OF
WAR TO HONE OUR TACTICS UNTIL THE TIME IS RIGHT.
MANN IN 1996 (PAUL, POMONA ENGLISH, THE NINE GROUNDS OF INTELLECTUAL WARFARE, postmodern culture, january)
The standpoint, identification with and defense of one's own thought, the demand that one be on one's own side, that
one stand by one's word, is so standard a feature of intellectual ethics and politics that it has been taken completely
for granted. But the entrenched position is a vestige of archaic forms of warfare. The Tofflers argue that the Gulf War demonstrated
the failure of entrenchment -- Iraq's older, industrial, sedentary strategy -- against advanced military technologies of speed, stealth,
and coordinated intelligence. "[T]he allied force was not a [conventional military] machine, but a system with far greater internal
feedback, communication, and self-regulatory adjustment capability. It was . . . a 'thinking system'" (80). For Napoleon as well, Virilio
notes, "the capacity for war [was] the capacity for movement" (WC 10). In the same manner, those bound to intellectual
positions remain blind to the tactical advantages of mobility and secrecy, and the new war studies will be used to suggest
strategic figures outside the position's fortified walls.I will return to the precisely oxymoronic, self-canceling figure of secrecy in a later
section. Here, I will proceed by suggesting that the new war studies should come to quite rigorous and unromantic terms
with the nomadology of Deleuze and Guattari. [20] In their work, the war machine is essentially exterior to the state, even if the
state appropriates it. The problem is, therefore, how to pursue exteriority in disciplinary and epistemological structures
that are themselves entirely defined by their institutional interiority. It will certainly not be through any of the current
specular and spectacular modes of narcissistic identification with the "other." One should treat every text that peddles its
vicarious nomadism while elaborating the most conventional analyses with the greatest suspicion, and at the same time with some
confidence, perhaps quite groundless, that an intellectual nomadology might still be carried out elsewhere.[21] It is necessary to
comprehend the force of extremely difficult ideas: the nomadic war-machine's exteriority to the state and its precise relation to battle;
the nomads' territorial engagement with smooth space, without "striation," interiority, or chrono-historical organization; their
indifference to semiological systems and their particular epistemological orientations (ornament instead of sign, ballistics and
metallurgical science, numbering, speed, etc.); the strange relation of A Thousand Plateaus to texts that would seem to treat the
same matters in a more disciplinary way -- its relation, for instance, to psychoanalysis and philosophy (and what is the strategic
connection between this book and Deleuze's extraordinary and in many ways quite scholarly treatments of the history of
philosophy?); indeed, the very ontology of the nomadic idea itself: all of these must be explored in considerable detail, without ever
descending to any merely exe getical commentary, and without reducing what is at stake in this book to an intellectual position.
Deleuze and Guattari challenge us to rethink our whole relation to books and to writing, to the very order of our thought -- a task in
which they themselves often fail. One must begin by reading them at a loss, but a loss that is not only the result of their work's
difficulty, which careful analysis would eventually overcome; rather, a loss that reaches down into our deepest epistemological
attachments. It will be necessary, for instance, to reconceive the very notion of intellectual rigor (the order of argument,
demonstration, proof) and communicative clarity: not to abandon them for the sake of some impressionistic
indulgence, but to relocate them outside the striated space of the state apparatus that has always provided their
structure. One might find oneself, for instance, no longer putting forth positions, outlining, defending, and identifying
oneself with them: one might find oneself engaged in an even more severe, more rigorous discipline of affirming ideas
without attaching oneself to them, making them appear (as Baudrillard suggested in another context) only so as to
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WGLF FOGG OF WAR 2NR OVERVIEW

THE CENTRAL AXIS OF ARGUMENTATION IN THIS DEBATE HAS

BEEN NEGLECTED BY THE AFFIRMATIVE. THE CRITICISM THAT WE
HAVE FORWARDED HAS NOT BEEN RESPONDED TO AT THE LEVEL OF
THE WAY THE BALLOT SHOULD BE THEORIZED. TO THEM, AN
AFFIRMATIVE BALLOT SHOULD BE UNDERSTOOD AS A OPEN
ADMISSION OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE AFFIRMATIVE PROJECT BY
THE JUDGE. THIS INSISTENCE ON IDENTIFICATION IS THE MOVE
THAT WE CRITICIZE. THE POSSIBILITY OF AGREEING WITH THE
AFFIRMATIVE IN SECRET IS FORECLOSED, PREVENTING THE
POSSIBILITY OF A MORE EFFICACIOUS POLITICAL ACT: THE
CHOICE TO REMAIN WITHIN THE FOG OF WAR. OUR MANN
EVIDENCE IS ON FIRE IN REGARDS TO THE DANGERS OF ENGAGING
IN OVERT STRATEGIES. A NEGATIVE BALLOT IS NOT A REJECTION
OF THE STRUGGLE THE AFFIRMATIVE ENGAGES IN, BUT RATHER A
CLOAKING MOVE THAT SHIELDS THEIR PROJECT FROM THE
SCRUTINY OF THE MATRICES OF POWER THEY OBSTENSIBLY SEEK
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CRAZINESS OVERVIEW- COMPETITION
GETTING UP AND DOING SOMETHING SLIGHTLY CRAZY DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU ALL OF A SUDDEN CAN
WIN THE DEBATE. IN ORDER TO WIN, THE NEGATIVE MUST CONCLUSIVELY PROVE THAT WHAT WE HAVE
DONE IS SOMEHOW DETRIMENTAL TO POLITICS VERSUS THEIR ALTERNATIVE. WHAT IS THE NET BENEFIT TO
VOTING NEGATIVE? DO THEY HAVE ANY DISADS TO OUR METHOD? THEY HAVENT ANSWERED THESE
QUESTIONS. THEY ESSENTIALLY HAVE RUN THE CRITICAL FEED AFRICA COUNTERPLAN THAT EVERYONE
USES AS AN EXAPMLE OF WHY COUNTERPLANS SHOULD BE COMPETITIVE, GIVEN THAT AT THE LEVEL OF
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AT: HABERMAS
THE NOTION OF IDEAL SPEECH ONLY SERVES TO DEFINE UNACCEPTABLE SPEECH, CREATING THE
POSSIBILITY OF NORMALIZATION AND EXCLUSION
KULYNYCH IN 1997 (JESSICA, Performing politics: Foucault, Habermas, and postmodern participation Polity,
Winter 1997 v30 n2)
Even such a sophisticated and sensitive approach to ideal speech as Benhabib's cannot cleanse communicative action of its
exclusivity. It is not only that acquiring language is a process of mastering a symbolic heritage that is systematically gendered, but

the entire attempt to set conditions for "ideal speech" is inevitably exclusive. The model of an ideal
speech situation establishes a norm of rational interaction that is defined by the very types of interaction
it excludes. The norm of rational debate favors critical argument and reasoned debate over other forms of
communication.(29) Defining ideal speech inevitably entails defining unacceptable speech. What has been
defined as unacceptable in Habermas's formulation is any speech that is not intended to convey an idea.
Speech evocative of identity, culture, or emotion has no necessary place in the ideal speech situation, and
hence persons whose speech is richly colored with rhetoric, gesture, humor, spirit, or affectation could be
defined as deviant or immature communicators. Therefore, a definition of citizenship based on
participation in an ideal form of interaction can easily become a tool for the exclusion of deviant
communicators from the category of citizens. This sort of normalization creates citizens as subjects of rational debate.

HABERMAS IDEAL SPEECH SITUATION IS IMPOSSIBLE: IT DOES NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE
DISCIPLINARY EFFECTS OF DISCURSIVE EXCHANGE, AND IS THEORIZED IN AN EXCEEDINGLY ABSTRACT
WAY THAT PREVENTS IT FROM BEING USEFUL.
KULYNYCH IN 1997 (JESSICA, Performing politics: Foucault, Habermas, and postmodern participation Polity,
Winter 1997 v30 n2)
As Habermas describes, "every encounter in which actors do not just observe each other but take a second-person attitude,
reciprocally attributing communicative freedom to each other, unfolds in a linguistically constituted public space."(20) Thus, the
concerns that political scientists have had about unequal resource distribution and its effect on one's capability to act are mitigated in
Habermas's broad definition of discursive participation. Even though limited resources may prevent active interventions in
decisionmaking and policymaking processes, for Habermas the "communicative structures of the public sphere relieve the public of
the burden of decision-making."(21) In a similar vein, Habermas does not limit participation to a specific set of activities, but defines
it procedurally or contextually. Participation is not limited to traditional activities such as voting, campaigning, or letter-writing, but is
instead designated by the discursive quality of the activity. In other words, it is not the intent to influence policy that defines
participation, but rather the communication structure in which the activity takes place. That communication structure must be
equitable and inclusive, social problems must be openly and rationally deliberated, and they must be thematized by people
potentially affected. However, Habermas's discursive formulation is inadequate primarily because it does not

explicitly and rigorously attend to the disciplinary effects of contemporary societies explained so
creatively by Foucault. Habermas has been routinely criticized for ignoring the productive nature of
contemporary power. His juxtaposition of system and life-world in The Theory of Communicative Action
relies on a separation of good power from bad (communicative power v. steering media), and posits an ideal
speech situation freed from the distortions of power.(22) More importantly, Habermas's theorization of
discursive participation is exceedingly abstract and does not adequately attend to the ways in which
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PARAMETER SPECIFICATION 1NC
A. Violation - the aff fails to specify their parameters in the plan text
B. It's a voter for fairness and education
1. Parameter specification is key to an effective evaluation of the aff's discourse
2. Key to predictability of parameters
3. Resolved is a definite course of action, they're not topical because parameter specification is associated
with indefinite-ness with an r-squared value of .98
4. allows them to spike out of all our disads
5. vote neg on presumption - all laws must be passed with parameters
6. Failure to specify parameters causes three simultaneous scenarios for extinction this is a real world
impact and skews our time allocation
Finally, they have no offensive reason why they cant specify in the plan text.

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BUSH IS A ROBOT 1NC
A) THE INTERNAL LINK THE PLAN USES BUSH. <EXPLAIN.>

B) THE REAL LINK BUSH DOESNT EXIST HES AN ANIMATRONIC ROBOT.

LONGHAIR 04
[ORIGINALLY FOUND ON DEADLYSINS.COM, POSTED BY LONGHAIR TO
http://sensiblyeclectic.com/b2evolution/blogs/index.php/mainsite/2004/12/04/george_w_bush_animatronic_robot
12/04/04]

Consider these two photos taken two days apart and published in the Washington Post.
Leading experts in animatronic motion agree that what you are seeing is a puppet that has defaulted into "standby mode."

Created in absolute secrecy by the CIA and top defense contractors, "Unit W" was designed to simulate average human
motion, speech, and behavior. Originally intended for espionage, he is the fusion of a servo-motorized biofidelic shell and
a sophisticated artificial intelligence module. The fiendish experiment proved to be such a success that his human masters
decided to put their creation to the ultimate test -- run him for President.
Now George W, a mindless automaton created in a top-secret lab, will preside over the first literal "puppet government.

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C)
THE MISSING LINK THIS IS A VOTING ISSUE; SEVERAL REASONS!

1) FAIRNESS. PLAN SPIKES OUT OF ALL OF OUR POLITICS LINKS BECEAUSE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO
DETERMINE HOW MUCH POLITICAL CAPITAL A ROBOT HAS. EVEN IF WE WERE TO ACCESS THE
SECRET CIA FILES, THEY COULD ALWAYS JUST CHANGE THE LEVELS ON US, WHICH EXPLODES
LIMITS.
2) LIMITS. PLAN UNLIMITS THE TOPIC BECAUSE IF WE ALLOW ROBOTIC ACTORS THAT ENCOURAGES
DEBATERS TO BUILD THEIR OWN ANIMATRONIC ROBOTS TO DO THE PLAN WHICH IS UNPREDICTABLE
BECAUSE THERE IS AN INFINITE AMOUNT OF ROBOTS THAT COULD BE BUILT AND THERES NO
LITERATURE ON THEM.
3) SOLVENCY. ALL OF THEIR SOLVENCY EVIDENCE ASSUMES THAT A HUMAN DOES THE PLAN. THIS KILLS
90 PERCENT OF THEIR SOLVENCY, WHICH IS ENOUGH OF THE TABLES LEG SAWED OFF SO THAT THE
TABLE COLLAPSES.
Richard F. Elmore, Backward Mapping: Implementation Research and Policy
Decisions, Political Science Quarterly, 94, Number 4 Winter 1979-1980, page 605
Analysis of policy choices matters very little if the mechanism for implementing
those choices is poorly understood. In answering the question, "What percentage
of the work of achieving a desired governmental action is done when the
preferred analytic alternative has been identified?" Allison estimated that, in
the normal case it was about 10 percent leaving the remaining 90 percent in the
realm of implementation.
4) DEHUMANIZATION. THEY UPHOLD THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AS A SAFE HAVEN FOR
ANIMATRONIC ROBOTS. THIS SETS UP A SLIPPERY SLOPE. THATS NUCLEAR WAR.
BERUBE 97
[PhD http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/faculty/berube/prolong.htm]
Assuming we are able to predict who or what are optimized humans, this entire resultant worldview smacks of eugenics
and Nazi racial science. This would involve valuing people as means. Moreover, there would always be a superhuman
more super than the current ones, humans would never be able to escape their treatment as means to an always further
and distant end. This means-ends dispute is at the core of Montagu and Matson's treatise on the dehumanization of
humanity. They warn: "its destructive toll is already greater than that of any war, plague, famine, or natural calamity on
record -- and its potential danger to the quality of life and the fabric of civilized society is beyond calculation. For that
reason this sickness of the soul might well be called the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse.... Behind the genocide of the
holocaust lay a dehumanized thought; beneath the menticide of deviants and dissidents... in the cuckoo's next of America,
lies a dehumanized image of man... (Montagu & Matson, 1983, p. xi-xii). While it may never be possible to quantify the
impact dehumanizing ethics may have had on humanity, it is safe to conclude the foundations of humanness offer great
opportunities which would be foregone. When we calculate the actual losses and the virtual benefits, we approach a
nearly inestimable value greater than any tools which we can currently use to measure it.

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Dehumanization is nuclear war, environmental apocalypse, and international genocide. When people become things,
they become dispensable. When people are dispensable, any and every atrocity can be justified. Once justified, they
seem to be inevitable for every epoch has evil and dehumanization is evil's most powerful weapon.

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BUSH EXTENSIONS
( _ ) AT: THERE HAS TO BE A REASONABLE EXPLANATION FOR THIS.
WASHINGTON INSIDERS SAY OTHERWISE. OR AT LEAST THEY HAVENT FOUND IT YET.
WEINGARTEN 00
[GENE WASHINGTON POST STAFF WRITER 12/27]

First, don't panic. There is probably a good explanation for the mystery of the photographs,
something that does not threaten the enslavement and/or extermination of mankind.
There has to be a benign explanation. I just haven't found it yet.

( _ ) AT: THOSE ARENT THE *SAME* POSE.

THEY ARE IDENTICAL POSES. BECAUSE THEY ARE IDENTICAL PICTURES OF BUSH IN HIS
DEFAULT SETTING.
WEINGARTEN 00
[GENE WASHINGTON POST STAFF WRITER 12/27]

The first photograph appeared in The Washington Post on Dec. 18. In it, the presidentelect stands behind and to the side of Condoleezza Rice, his nominee for national
security adviser. George W. Bush is slightly out of focus. His head is cocked to the left
and tilted slightly backward, his mouth downturned in a perfect cartoonish crescent, the
way a first-grader might draw a frown. His eyes are squinty.
The next photograph appeared in this paper two days later. In it, the president-elect
stands behind and to the side of Alberto R. Gonzalez, his choice for White House
counsel. George W. Bush is slightly out of focus. His head is cocked to the left and
tilted slightly backward, his mouth downturned in a perfect, cartoonish crescent, the
way a first-grader might draw a frown. His eyes are squinty.
It is not a similar pose; it is an identical pose. It is not a similar expression; it is the
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REPTILES DA TO THE U.N. TOPIC
1NC
A) UNIQUE LINK: Currently the Illuminati agenda is unfulfilled. However, the farcical move to initiate
peacekeeping operations in Africa is precisely the technique that shores up reptilian power. African conflict
is orchestrated by the reptilian illuminati and the plan is the final step in the reptilian playbook. The plan
allows the reptilians to access inter-dimensional gateways and increase their power.
ICKE 00
[David - http://www.davidicke.net/newsroom/africa/congo/022400a.html]
As I have outlined in The Biggest Secret, the Illuminati has an agenda to bring Africa to it's knees in an
explosion of conflict and war, a fact confirmed to me by people like the Zulu shaman, Credo Mutwa, who
has seen this coming for a long time (See The Reptilian Agenda video, part two, for the background). As I
say in the book, and previous ones, the idea is to create the conflict as an excuse to send in UN and NATO
forces to "keep the peace". The UN vote about the Congo is yet another confirmation of this.
Africa has been a focus for the reptilian bloodlines since ancient times. The reptilian "gods", which the
Sumerian tablets call the Anunnaki, operated extensively in the continent of Africa and it continues to be
an area of enormous importance to them for many reasons - incredible natural "resources", of which the
Congo is a wonderful example (hence the war), and because of the inter-dimensional "gateways" and
immensely powerful earth-energy vortexes that can be found in Africa.
This incredible continent should be rich beyond measure, abundant in food and trade in a stream of
commodities, but the Illuminati find it far more difficult to manipulate and control abundance and harmony
than they do scarcity and conflict. Hence Africa has been plaqued by war and economic take-over which
has kept the people divided and ruled and in hunger and poverty in a continent which could feed itself
many, many, times over.
Under the constantly played technique of create-the-problem-and-then-offer-the-solution, the Illuminati can
now send in their United Nations forces to the Congo, just as they have with their NATO troops in places
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B) THE BIGGEST IMPACT IN THE TUBS:
Reptilian domination is global tyranny via mind control, sex crimes, and mass genocide, which turns the
case.
Jim Bartley, online, accessed 4-18-05
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:jWnqbgE78asJ:www.davidicke.net/emagazine/vol23/articles/bartley23-5.html+%22united+nations%22+reptilian+&hl=en
The reptilians make full use of what American Military War Colleges refer to as a "Force Multiplier." In this case, it is
mayhem, sexual predation, ritual murder and Genocide by PROXY. Rather than go to the trouble of manifesting in full
physical density and having to individually rape, torture and perpetrate genocide upon countless humans, the reptilians
manipulate individual humans as well as entire societies and nations to do the work for them.
This is an important point to understand. The reptilians will manipulate individual males into becoming serial sex offenders
and serial murderers and on a macro level, they will inculcate notions of racial purity and racial superiority into entire
cultures which then serves as the basis and justification for those same cultures to perpetrate Genocide upon other races
and societies deemed "inferior" or "sub-human."
If we as a Species ever hope to move beyond the control of the draco-reptilian overlords, we must first recognize the
massive deception that has been foisted upon us.
We must understand that notions of racial purity and racial superiority are inherently reptilian modalities. These reptilian
modalities than provide the justification for individuals and entire cultures to perpetrate mayhem and slaughter upon their
fellow humans. This serves to further the reptilian's ultimate goal of a Global Tyranny because often as not United
Nations troops become embroiled in the various regional conflicts. Those of us within the research community must be
willing to point out the absurd fallacies of the reptilian propagandist and New Age Globalist. Starry eyed New Agers
display the same kind of misplaced enthusiasm that so many young intellectual Communists displayed in the 1920's and
1930's during the worst of the Bolshevik Revolution's excesses. We must come to grips with the fact that the worst
atrocities perpetrated by humans throughout history has been the end result of Reptilian manipulation.

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CONGO LINK
The conflict in Congo is a fabrication its just a stepping stone to world domination set down by the
reptilian illuminati.
ICKE 00
[David - http://www.davidicke.net/newsroom/africa/congo/022400a.html]
The war has drawn many "sides" into conflict. The Congo government, led by President Laurent Kabila, and
supported by Angola, Namibia, and Zimbabwe, has been pitted against "opposition" forces supported by
Rwanda and Uganda.
It is worth noting that Zimbabwe on one "side" is headed by the British place-man, Robert Mugabe, who
has massive personal investments in the Congo, and on the other "side" is Uganda, which has long been
recognised as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Britain in Africa.
It was from Uganda that the London headquarters of the Illuminati orchestrated the genocide in Rwanda
and Burundi, not least through the manipulations of Henry Kissinger and his sidekick, the Bilderberg Group
chairman, Lord Carrington. And it was Carrington was the British Foreign Secretary who handed power in
Zimbabwe to the ludicrous and murderous figure of Robert Mugabe (see And The Truth Shall Set You Free
for the background).
In other words all "sides" in the Congo conflict are controlled by the same force. So what's new?

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The U.N. is controlled by the reptilian overlords
Jim Bartley, online, accessed 4-18-05
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:jWnqbgE78asJ:www.davidicke.net/emagazine/vol23/articles/bartley23-5.html+%22united+nations%22+reptilian+&hl=en
The third method of Genocidal Rape Warfare involves Bosnian-Herzogovinian and Croation women being
repeatedly raped whilst in detention until they become pregnant. The women are held in detention until
such time as it is too late for the women to safely obtain an abortion. The women are not only physically
abused and tortured but psychologically abused as well. They are told throughout their ordeal that they
have been impregnated and will have a Serbian child. Upon being released they are told by the Serbians
that if they ever tell anyone about what happened to them, they and their families will be killed. It goes
without saying that all sorts of cruelty is perpetrated upon the women and young girls held in these rapedeath camps. Many of the survivors have stated that the rapes and the rape-torture which precedes
murder is often videotaped by the perpetrators.
The evidence that this is going on in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia is overwhelming and yet nothing has
been done about it. Indeed, it has been alleged by survivors that UNITED NATIONS TROOPS have actually
taken part in these rapes within the rape camps. This should give one pause for thought when you
consider that United Nations forces may one day be conducting "Peace Enforcement" operations in
America. I believe at the deepest darkest levels of the United Nations, tacit approval has been given to
the Serbs to continue this atrocious policy of Genocidal Rape Warfare. I believe the reason for that is the
United Nations are controlled by the same reptilian overlords that are responsible for the Rape-Death
Camps in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia.

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KOFI LINK

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at: this stuff doesnt exist
FALSE IT IS RIDICULOUS TO CLAIM OTHERWISE
RHODES 99 [http://reptile.users2.50megs.com/research/r100799k.html, John]
There is more than enough evidence to indicate that a highly evolved reptilian life form is interacting with human beings. Their presence has been witnessed in
every corner of the Earth by people from all walks of life. Now that we have established the fact that they are here, the next question to address is: Where are they
coming from?
Theories as to the origin of reptilian "alien" life forms range appear to be threefold. From the accumulative evidence provided to thus far, it has been determined
that they are either:
a) Extra-Terrestrial beings from another planet or star system
b) Inner Terrestrial beings that are naturally evolved terrestrial Earth life forms that reside in inner earth Caverns, sub-cities, and underwater bases
c) Inner-Dimensional - other alien entities existing in vibrational levels - time/space travelers
Although a large amount of data supporting each theory exists, this report will only address the basic facts regarding each. It is important to realize that, even
though each theorized origin appears to be distinct in it's own right, all three theories could be, and are probably, correct.

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UN troops are under the control of reptilians

TRUNKERTON 04
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/nazis_and_the_grays.htm

Now in recent years 'Patriot' organizations have been warning of a possible "RED DAWN" takeover of the U.S. by Socialist
UNITED NATIONS troops who NOW HAVE AN INCREASING ARMY OF U.N. TROOPS "IN TRAINING" within the borders of the
United States. (If such a take-over attempt were to occur, we would suggest that the UNITED NATIONS complex in New York City
increase it's security by at least a thousand fold to defend itself from the retaliation that would follow. Let's just say that there is an
entire 'Army' of grassroots Patriots waiting-in-the-wings to defend America from such a threat if or when such an invasion is
attempted). The Bavarian "National" Socialists who ultimately control the U.N., such as the Trilaterals, are reportedly
tied-in with the reptilian gray empire, so it is doubtful that any resistance to the invaders will come through the
Trojanhorse United Nazis (er, excuse us... United Nations!). Such a 'war' may be the grand finale of a series of outward
Machiavellian 'conflicts' which the Bavarian Empire has allegedly 'arranged' between nations over the centuries for the
purpose of simply keeping the human race in the state of disorder, chaos, confusion and fear which is so necessary to
ensure the final goal -- an absolute electronic dictatorship in which every human being will be 'tagged' and branded
like cattle with an electronic chip implant which will make them the absolute spiritual, mental and physical slaves of
the 'New World Order'.

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THIS EVIDENCE DOESNT EXIST.

THEIR METHOD OF CULTURE JAMMING DOESNT SOLVE. JUST MESSING AROUND WITH SIGNS AND
SYMBOLS ACTUALLY UPHOLDS AND SUBMITS TO THEIR POWER OVER US. THE WGLF IS JUST LIKE
A BUNCH OF SINGING RAISINS DRINKING SPRITE WHILE TRYING TO BE ALL HIP AND SUBVERSIVE.
THEY DONT ACCOMPLISH SHIT.

MOORE 05 [http://www.towhomitmayconcern.org/dictionary.htm ANNE]

So the reason such things as the swoosh, the golden arches, flavor crystals, singing raisins, Have it Your
Way, Millertime, Youve Come a Long Way, Baby, Be Like Mike, Taste the Rainbow, Melts in Your Mouth, Not
in Your Hands, Its Like This, Obey Your Thirst, Just Do It and the ever-present, green and black, coffee siren
it just keeps going, and going, and going, and going . . .hold sway over us is that were accidentally
agreeing to them as powerful, corporate symbols that someone else defined.
This is the reason that such programs as Adbusters-brand culture jamming dont work: because mocking
powerful corporate symbols as such only reinforces their power. Making fun of symbols does not, in any
way, debunk, undermine or question the corporations right to define them. By continuing to ignore the
question of whether or not we agree to their power, we agree to it. Worse, we support their right to it. The
challenge to activists is to stop mucking about and thinking of funny plays on the phrase Just Do It.
Instilling in themselves and others the understanding that the definitions of such symbols are agreed to,
and therefore can be rejected or changed, is one way for activists to begin the process of uprooting
corporate power.

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THIS EVIDENCE DOESNT EXIST.

ADBUSTERS-STYLE PARODY ONLY REINFORCES WHAT YOURE TRYING TO FIGHT BETTER TO JUST STOP
MESSING AROUND AND DO REGULAR COMMUNICATION.

BEATO 99 - http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/1999/05/beato.html

To Lasn, the networks' refusal broadcasts their fear of his message. He believes that if Adbusters and other advocacy
advertisers had the same access to the airwaves as General Motors and Calvin Klein, product marketers would end up
substantially reducing their own TV advertising. To validate his vision, Lasn refers to the showdown that occurred
between antismoking ads and cigarette commercials in the late '60s after the FCC ordered broadcasters who aired
cigarette commercials to run opposing viewpoints for free. "Those antismoking ads were so potent that, ultimately, the
industry couldn't compete," recounts Lasn. "Every time you were watching one of those pro-smoking ads, you just started
snickering because they just didn't make sense anymore."
Actually, it was an act of Congress, rather than the antismoking ads, that forced cigarette commercials off
television. And ultimately, that move did little to hinder the tobacco industry's advertising efforts; it just spent more on
other media. Ironically, cigarette sales increased dramatically in 1971, the first year of the cigarette-ad ban, probably
because antismoking commercials, which had indeed caused a decline in cigarette consumption, could no longer be aired
for free.
Still, if we are to learn anything from the cigarette-ad battle, it's that the most likely industry response to
uncommercials would be to simply air more commercials -- in the realm of political advertising, has one attack ad
ever failed to spawn a rebuttal? To be sure, escalation is a poor excuse for censorship; Lasn has as much a right to the
airwaves as do his counterparts at Honda and GM. But how excited are we supposed to get about the notion that
anticonsumerist arguments can be trivialized with the same smug, soundbitten language that graces Bud Light and Camel
ads?
Lasn's paradigmatic cigarette ads are again a case in point. Taking for granted that kids start smoking because
tobacco companies have convinced them that smoking is "cool," modern antismoking ads simply promote not
smoking as being even cooler. What gets lost in the exchange is that being "cool" is a pretty flimsy reason to do
anything.
In short, advertising may indeed be the operative language of the modern world, but it's a fairly limited idiom,
designed to make you feel rather than think. For those whose message is simple -- Buy me! -- the language of advertising
works beautifully. For those trying to express a more complicated idea, it's less effective.
Of course, parodies and publicity stunts (such as the soundbite-ready flacktivism of Buy Nothing Day) are effective as
bait-and-switch tactics: You hook them with punch lines and eye candy, then educate them after you have their attention.
But are the Absolut vodka ad collectors who call up Adbusters in search of its parodies of the well-known ad campaign
sticking around for such schooling? And wouldn't it be just as effective if the funky-fresh brandinistas of the world
simply applied black electrical tape to their eyes instead of their logos? In the end, is virtuous mindlessness
better than materialistic mindlessness?

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