Act One is shhhh!

I AM DISPLEASED with everything….

and the dead are silent

Aaron Swartz, an online activist and co-founder of the popular social media site Reddit, committed suicide in his apartment in New York Friday, just weeks before going on trial on federal hacking charges… The grief is unfathomable.Swartz's friend Cory Doctorow, of Boing

We aren’t eulogizing Aaron Schwartz, we just think the resolution is death. It’s secrecy is death by bureaucracy – we rather have death in our own hands

Galison 04  “Removing Knowledge” published by Critical Inquiry, Vol. 31, No. 1, Autumn 2004 , Peter Galison is the Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and Physics at Harvard University. His main work explores the interaction among the principal subcultures of physics: How Experiments End (1987), Image and Logic (1997), and Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps (2003). Several projects explore crosscurrents between science and other fields, including his coedited volumes The Architecture of Science (1999), Picturing Science, Producing Art (1998), and Scientific Authorship (2003). In 1997, he was named a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow, and in 1999 he received the Max Planck Prize.

With such a vast reservoir of learning under wraps, the Department of Energy must have—if not explicitly then at least implicitly—some sense of what can and cannot be released. ….Antiepistemology asks how knowledge can be covered and obscured.

And, our secrets are death. They fortify the most violent forms of government surveillance and crack down. For instance, fear of contaminating American energy grids have bred programs designed to police people of color and end public deliberation

Galison ‘04  “Removing Knowledge” published by Critical Inquiry, Vol. 31, No. 1, Autumn 2004 , Peter Galison is the Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and Physics at Harvard University. His main work explores the interaction among the principal subcultures of physics: How Experiments End (1987), Image and Logic (1997), and Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps (2003). Several projects explore crosscurrents between science and other fields, including his coedited volumes The Architecture of Science (1999), Picturing Science, Producing Art (1998), and Scientific Authorship (2003). In 1997, he was named a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow, and in 1999 he received the Max Planck Prize.

When the Establishment of Secrecy tries to block the transmission of dangerous knowledge, it faces a fundamental dilemma. …. It is political at every scale, from attempts to excise a single critical idea to the vain efforts to remove whole domains of knowledge

This cessation of the public sphere results in covert accumulation of knowledge in order to fuel future massacres within and without.

Hoffmann 7 (Kasper, International Development Studies at Roskilde University, May, Militarised Bodies and Spirits of Resistance, http:~/~/diggy.ruc.dk:8080/handle/1800/2766url:http://diggy.ruc.dk:8080/handle/1800/2766||style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" target="_blank" //shree)

In modern forms of government, concepts of the norm and normal have played a kind mediating role in the formulation and execution of normative projects (Canguilhem 2005 1966; Ewald 1990). … By showing how racism possesses a polyvalent mobility, he shows that racism is not merely an ideological discourse of exceptionally cruel regimes, but a fundamental feature of modern processes of government.

Lastly, paranoia makes our destruction possible by sacrificing life in the name of protecting it

Bernauer 90 (James, Professor of Philosophy, Boston College, Michel Foucault’s Force of Flight, 1990, p. 141-142)

This capacity of power to conceal itself cannot cloak the tragedy of the implications contained in Foucault's examination of its functioning. ….The solace that might have been expected from being able to gaze at scaffolds empty of the victims of a tyrant's vengeance has been stolen from us by the noose that has tightened around each of our own necks.

Act Two is shit’s cray  

It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall – so mystifying at the time – was not just coordinated at the level of the FBIhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/fbi||style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" target="_blank" title="More from guardian.co.uk on FBI", the Department of Homeland Security, and local police. …. It was always about this moment, when vast crimes might be uncovered by citizens – it was always, that is to say, meant to be about you. 1

Normative affirmation is useless, the government’s got all the guns and all the research grants. Topical discussion is shrouded in secrecy making our data impossible to quantify. In fact, submission to government actors cedes interrogations of power to what is already been forced fed fueling systematic violence

Masco 2 (Joseph – Prof Anthropology @ U Chicago; “Lie Detectors: On Secrets and Hypersecurity in Los Alamos”; Public Culture 14.3 (2002) 441-467) BHB

The new polygraph program attempts, then, to structurally reintroduce weapons scientists to a particular calculus of threat. ….In the context of hypersecurity measures, the test for weapons scientists becomes how to perfectly control oneself, to measure precisely risk in everyday interactions as well as internally, to find, in other words, a perfect technological and institutional mechanism for controlling psychosocial anxiety.

We can’t be sure but we need to begin questioning what we don’t know about the resolution – we can’t test the truth claims of something grounded in crack down. Here are some more secrets:

1) The resolution demands we use conflict metals in our energy sources wrest from bank controlled agencies in the Congo where children are used as labor  

 Cook 12 (Nicolas Cook ,Specialist in African Affairs ,“Conflict Minerals in Central Africa: U.S. and International Responses” July 20, 2012 CRS Report for Congress)

The main conflict minerals at issue are the 3TGs and their derivatives, which Section 1502 explicitly and formally defines as “conflict minerals.” …The DRC is a marginal source of wolframite, supplying between .5% and nearly 1% of world supplies between 2006 and 2010. .

2) The people who put together our conflict metals are often times prison laborers who make 23 cents an hour – specifically the green-energy agenda has become a modern day form of slavery.

Koenig 12 Brian Koenig “Obama Admin. Uses Prison Labor to Advance “Green” Agenda” Thursday, 21 June 2012http:~/~/www.thenewamerican.com/tech/energy/item/11805-obama-admin-uses-prison-labor-to-advance-%E2%80%9Cgreen%E2%80%9D-com/tech/energy/item/11805-obama-admin-uses-prison-labor-to-advance-%E2%80%9Cgreen%E2%80%9D-agenda||style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" target="_blank"

The Obama administration is utilizing the U.S. prison system to help bolster its green-energy agenda, while boosting foreign companies and funneling cash into the hands of Obama’s largest campaign donors, according to a startling new com/green-energy-gulag/||style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" target="_blank" by the Washington Free Beacon….And let’s be honest, let’s pull the pin on the hand grenade. If this was Chinese prison labor, we’d be rejecting every single one of these imports. 

3) The reference point for testing the effects of dumping and nuclear waste is a 20-30 year old white male because women and people of color are not within the cost-benefit analysis of the government

Makhijani 9 Arjun, electrical and nuclear engineer who is President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research “The Use of Reference Man in Radiation Protection Standards and Guidance with Recommendations or Change”, Revision 1 April,  http:~/~/ieer.org/resource/reports/reference-man-radiation-protection2/http://ieer.org/resource/reports/reference-man-radiation-protection2/||style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" target="_blank"http:~/~/ieer.org/resource/reports/reference-man-radiation-protection2/http://ieer.org/resource/reports/reference-man-radiation-protection2/||style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" target="_blank"

This report provides a partial list of examples where “Reference Man” – a young, “Caucasian” male – is currently used in U.S. radiation protection standards or official guidance documents for radiation protection, such as Federal Guidance Reports 11 and 12 of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as well as radiation-related regulations and compliance guidelines, such as those promulgated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Department of Energy. ….This especially applies to women (including pregnant women) and children. This report also discusses some of the implications of the findings of the report prepared by a 2006 National Academies’ panel on the risks of low-level radiation, commonly called the BEIR VII report.

4) Because non-normative bodies are marginalized they are grouped in with trash and residue from our energy expenditure for example 40% of all our commercial hazardous waste landfill capacity are in THREE black communities. This is modern day lynching affirmation upholds

Cone 2k (James H, Briggs Distinguished Professor at Union Theological Seminary….  The largest landfill in the nation is found in Sumter County, Alabama, where nearly 70 percent of its seventeen thousand residents are black and 96 percent are poor.

Act three is the theater of the oppressed

And the world does not spare me… … I struck, the blood spurted it is the only baptism that today I remember. 2

Debate is a theatre for us to perform against oppression. Viewing the debate as a form of theater allows for a new form of scholarship. It taps into aesthetics nature of things giving us a new insight into world politics.

Ingber 2010 ( Monica, international relations editor for In-Spire is an electronic journal based at Keele University's Research Institute for Law, Politics and Justice, Aesthetics and World PoliticsRoland Bleiker; Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies; United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan; 2009; 271 pp.; £ 57.50; ISBN 978-1-4039-9575-9 11/14/12)

 What does aesthetic insight provide to the study and understanding of global politics? In his work, Aesthetics and World Politics, Roland Bleiker makes the case that aesthetics – be they literary, poetic, musical, or visual – can help provide certain insights into world politics that conventional social scientific modes of inquiry are unable to account for. …. By recognizing the space of politics, aesthetic insight enables us to consider other aspects of politics that are otherwise relegated to the periphery or which remain hidden from sight.

We identify that the political is a performance and the performance is political therefore it is imperative that we focus more on the everyday structural violence instead of the flash points of militaristic violence.

Boal 74 ( Augusto, Theater of the Oppressed, pg 1 1974)

This book attempts to show that all theater is necessarily political, because all the activities of man are political and theater is one of them. ….Then came the aristocracy and established divisions: some persons will go to the stage and only they will be able to act; the rest will remain seated, receptive, passive- these will be the spec