Tournament: TExas Open | Round: 2 | Opponent: Houston JJ | Judge: Bill Shanahan
Mourn the lives of those who have passed
Under the Obama administration the continued and seemingly unending use of Drone warfare has increased dramatically, resulting in the deaths of at least 2,593
Holmqvist, 2013. (Caroline, Holmqvist. Centre for International Studies, London School of Economics, UK Swedish National Defense College, Sweden. “Undoing War: War Ontologies and the Materiality of Drone Warfare” May 1, 2013. http://mil.sagepub.com/content/early  /2013/04/30/0305829813483350. P. 5-6) 

The main focus
AND
 amongst whom wars are fought.
Targeted killings induces the murder of countless civilians. These violent deaths are deemed as accidents as a way to justify the wrongful and accidental death of those people. These “accidents” become so commonplace that the military and public forget to care. This ignorance has been produce by an epistemology that diminishes an entire population and sect of individuals as “in need of saving” whilst simultaneously diminishing individual value.
Wilcox, 09 (Laura Wilcox, PhD candidate in the Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Group at Columbia University, Political Theory Colloquium, “Body Counts: The Politics of Embodiment in Precision Warfare”, Pg. 17-20, http://www.google.com/url?sa=tandrct=jandq=andesrc=sandsource=webandcd=1andved=0CCwQFjAAandurl=http3A2F2Fwww.polisci.umn.edu2Fassets2Fpdf2FBody2520Counts2520Theory2520Colloquium.docandei=jSONUr6NEKKRiQL4i4CIDwandusg=AFQjCNHn4jQx80YsvcmZ3VnQ0xKUJmr-1gandsig2=JdizkMV0VKlw6n7mqq5Edw) EJW

While the ‘terrorists’
AND
in the first place
Until we confront this violence, it will continue to destroy everyone caught in its path. Instead of viewing warfare solely as enacted by congress, we must own up the violence we wage on behalf of the U.S. and grieve the deaths we have been complicit in. To deny this connection is uniquely depoliticizing.
Kappeler 95 (Susanne Kappeler, assosciate professor at Al-Akhawayn University, “The Will to Violence: The Politics of Personal Behaviour,” pg. 75-76)

War does not suddenly
AND
war and violence.

Our use of the eulogy recounting civilian deaths allows us to escape the framing that allows this violence to continue. We must mourn the lives that are seen on the other side of the drone monitor and connect with this vulnerability before this violence will end. This connection is a prerequisite to any other “solution” as those solutions will inevitably fall back to leaving civilians faceless and leads to more violence.
Butler, 09 (Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California Berkeley, “Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?”, 2009-, Pg. 10-11)

The frame that seeks
AND
inheres in¶ its doings.
All of society, including and especially these innocent individuals, are vulnerable and this is precisely why we mourn. But, while society oppresses and excludes the Other, this makes mourning a private occasion and equally artificially excluded from our everyday lives.
Stanescu ‘12 (James Stanescu, PhD student at Binghamton University's Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture program,  also the Director of Debate at Mercer University, and also serve as an adjunct professor there., Hypatia 27.3, 2012, p.)

Vulnerability and mourning
and
during our trip to the grocery store.
Thus the Role of the Ballot is to endorse the team that best performativity or methodologically affirms the precarious lives these innocent individuals.
Our act of mourning affirms the precarious nature of all life. Current tendencies to inoculate our vulnerability lead to paradoxical wars for peace. Instead, shared embodied vulnerability and finitude should become the basis for a new ethical politics
Stanescu ‘12 (James Stanescu, PhD student at Binghamton University's Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture program,  also the Director of Debate at Mercer University, and also serve as an adjunct professor there., “Hypatia”,  3-27,  2012, p.6) EJW

Butler develops vulnerability
AND
which lives get to count as life.

Mourning is inherently political – questions of ‘who gets to mourn’, ‘who is mournable’, and ‘where mourning is allowed’ determine who counts as alive in the first place
Stanescu ‘12 (James Stanescu, PhD student at Binghamton University's Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture program,  also the Director of Debate at Mercer University, and also serve as an adjunct professor there., “Hypatia”,  3-27,  2012, p.6) EJW

MOURNING AS A POLITICAL ACT
AND
we constitute the political.

We must break with pedagogical traditions in our politics of mourning – this opens up debate to revolutionary new inclusive and transformational pedagogies
Zembylas ‘9 (Michalinos Zembylas, Faculty of Education – Open University of Cyprus, “Making Sense of Traumatic Events: Toward a Politics of Aporetic Mourning in Educational Theory and Pedagogy”, Educational Theory, v.59, n.1, 2009, http://users.auth.gr/~marrep/THALIS/PUBS/ZEMPYLAS/zembylas_mourning20ET.pdf, p.86-88)

Despite their differences
AND
uncritically — with others. 13

Tournament: D1 Districts | Round: 3 | Opponent: Pepperdine HR | Judge: Ericka Thomas
Under the Obama administration the continued and seemingly unending use of Drone warfare has increased dramatically, resulting in the deaths of at least 2,593
Holmqvist, 2013. (Caroline, Holmqvist. Centre for International Studies, London School of Economics, UK Swedish National Defense College, Sweden. “Undoing War: War Ontologies and the Materiality of Drone Warfare” May 1, 2013. http://mil.sagepub.com/content/early  /2013/04/30/0305829813483350. P. 5-6) 

The main focus
AND
 amongst whom wars are fought.
Targeted killings induces the murder of countless civilians. These violent deaths are deemed as accidents as a way to justify the wrongful and accidental death of those people. These “accidents” become so commonplace that the military and public forget to care. This ignorance has been produce by an epistemology that diminishes an entire population and sect of individuals as “in need of saving” whilst simultaneously diminishing individual value.
Wilcox, 09 (Laura Wilcox, PhD candidate in the Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Group at Columbia University, Political Theory Colloquium, “Body Counts: The Politics of Embodiment in Precision Warfare”, Pg. 17-20, http://www.google.com/url?sa=tandrct=jandq=andesrc=sandsource=webandcd=1andved=0CCwQFjAAandurl=http3A2F2Fwww.polisci.umn.edu2Fassets2Fpdf2FBody2520Counts2520Theory2520Colloquium.docandei=jSONUr6NEKKRiQL4i4CIDwandusg=AFQjCNHn4jQx80YsvcmZ3VnQ0xKUJmr-1gandsig2=JdizkMV0VKlw6n7mqq5Edw) EJW

While the ‘terrorists’
AND
in the first place
Until we confront this violence, it will continue to destroy everyone caught in its path. Instead of viewing warfare solely as enacted by congress, we must own up the violence we wage on behalf of the U.S. and grieve the deaths we have been complicit in. To deny this connection is uniquely depoliticizing.
Kappeler 95 (Susanne Kappeler, assosciate professor at Al-Akhawayn University, “The Will to Violence: The Politics of Personal Behaviour,” pg. 75-76)

War does not suddenly
AND
war and violence.

Our use of the eulogy recounting civilian deaths allows us to escape the framing that allows this violence to continue. We must mourn the lives that are seen on the other side of the drone monitor and connect with this vulnerability before this violence will end. This connection is a prerequisite to any other “solution” as those solutions will inevitably fall back to leaving civilians faceless and leads to more violence.
Butler, 09 (Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California Berkeley, “Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?”, 2009-, Pg. 10-11)

The frame that seeks
AND
inheres in¶ its doings.
All of society, including and especially these innocent individuals, are vulnerable and this is precisely why we mourn. But, while society oppresses and excludes the Other, this makes mourning a private occasion and equally artificially excluded from our everyday lives.
Stanescu ‘12 (James Stanescu, PhD student at Binghamton University's Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture program,  also the Director of Debate at Mercer University, and also serve as an adjunct professor there., Hypatia 27.3, 2012, p.)

Vulnerability and mourning
and
during our trip to the grocery store.
Thus the Role of the Ballot is to endorse the team that best performativity or methodologically affirms the precarious lives these innocent individuals.
Our act of mourning affirms the precarious nature of all life. Current tendencies to inoculate our vulnerability lead to paradoxical wars for peace. Instead, shared embodied vulnerability and finitude should become the basis for a new ethical politics
Stanescu ‘12 (James Stanescu, PhD student at Binghamton University's Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture program,  also the Director of Debate at Mercer University, and also serve as an adjunct professor there., “Hypatia”,  3-27,  2012, p.6) EJW

Butler develops vulnerability
AND
which lives get to count as life.

Mourning is inherently political – questions of ‘who gets to mourn’, ‘who is mournable’, and ‘where mourning is allowed’ determine who counts as alive in the first place
Stanescu ‘12 (James Stanescu, PhD student at Binghamton University's Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture program,  also the Director of Debate at Mercer University, and also serve as an adjunct professor there., “Hypatia”,  3-27,  2012, p.6) EJW

MOURNING AS A POLITICAL ACT
AND
we constitute the political.

Our mourning is a prerequisite to policy alternatives. The idea that politics needs to be fixed quickly denies our vulnerability to suffering and death.
Butler 04 (Judith Butler, American philosopher and gender theorist, “Violence, Mourning, Politics.”  Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence. London: Verso, 2004, published 2004, pg.28-31) EJW

Mourning, fear, anxiety, rage.
AND
our lives at the other. 

Disembodied reasoning renders the experiences of subjugated groups immaterial. Tying reasoning to fleshy experience is vital to ending oppression.
Adams ‘11 (Carol J. Adams, BA from University of Rochester and MDiv from Yale Divinity School, “After MacKinnon: Sexual Inequality in the Animal Movement”, chapter in Critical Theory and Animal Liberation, ed. John Sanbonmatsu, 2011, p. 261-262)

Second, the fetish of a
AND
from the eating of a carrot.
We access the root cause most violent atrocities relies on disavowing our shared vulnerability of the Other
Johnson ‘11 (Victoria Johnson, associate professor of sociology at the University of Missouri at Columbia with a specialization in the empirical analysis of power relations, politics, culture, and social movements, “Everyday Rituals of the Master Race: Fascism, Stratification, and the Fluidity of ‘Animal’ Domination”, chapter in Critical Theory and Animal Liberation, ed. John Sanbonmatsu, 2011, p.203-204)

History is littered with
AND
the rest of creation.”11

We must break with pedagogical traditions in our politics of mourning – this opens up debate to revolutionary new inclusive and transformational pedagogies
Zembylas ‘9 (Michalinos Zembylas, Faculty of Education – Open University of Cyprus, “Making Sense of Traumatic Events: Toward a Politics of Aporetic Mourning in Educational Theory and Pedagogy”, Educational Theory, v.59, n.1, 2009, http://users.auth.gr/~marrep/THALIS/PUBS/ZEMPYLAS/zembylas_mourning20ET.pdf, p.86-88)

Despite their differences
AND
uncritically — with others. 13