Tournament: Urbradsmith | Round: 2 | Opponent: CUNY Ayaz-Lee | Judge: Baker
I AM NOT AN ELEPHANT!
I AM NOT AN ANIMAL!!  I AM A HUMAN BEING!  
I... AM... A MAN!  I AM A MAN!!
Rossini contextualizes in 2006.
 (Manuela: Postdoctoral Fellow in the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, MAs in English and Critical and Cultural Theory, Ph.D. in English, Post-Doctoral Work in Gender Studies, “To the Dogs: Companion Speciesism and the New Feminist Materialism,” Kritikos, Vol 3. September 2006, ISSN: 1552-5112, d/l: http://intertheory.org/rossini) be
The desperate cry of the historical… disproportionate effects on animals.26
The assumptions that go into making this year’s resolution attempt to deny the possibility to discuss how domestic prisons are interlinked with international detention centers, delineating the rights prescribed to each.
Amnesty International May 13 2005 (“Guantánamo and beyond: The continuing pursuit of unchecked executive power - Executive Summary” http://www.amnesty.org/es/library/asset/AMR51/083/2005/es/dbae5ede-d4e5-11dd-8a23-d58a49c0d652/amr510832005en.html )mc
The US Constitution’s Fifth Amendment… such military judgments at the core of the war-making powers."
The absolutist separation between domestic and international prisons obscures how oppression operates. Rather, these institutions of power are fundamentally connected.
Chew 2005 (Huibin amee graduate from Harvard University, formerly a member of the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice (HIPJ) and Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) “Occupation Is Not (Women's) Liberation Part II,” d/l: http://www.zcommunications.org/occupation-is-not-womens-liberation-part-ii-by-huibin-amee-chew , la 8/17/13) jl
As hinted above, one direction… traced through U.S. society further.
The refusal to explore the intersections of meaning enables legal definitions over what constitutes war and humanity, preventing a larger discussion over the power structures that sanctions war and violence in the first place.
Kochi 9 (Tarik;  Law, Culture, and the Humanities, “Species War: Law, Violence, and Animals”, 353-359)
In everyday speech, in the words… modern juridical ordering of war.
This ongoing silence is not a neutral act, but rather actively participates in modes of oppression that serve as a prerequisite to mass extermination. This denies us the opportunity to gain the needed knowledge and skills necessary to challenge hegemonic institutions of power.
Spiegel 1996 (Marjorie founder for the Institute for the Development of Earth Awareness The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery, New York, Mirror Books) p.69-77 jl
What is at work here… will explore why they have come to commit their violence and crave control over others.
These demarcations of value over who is granted personhood can be traced back historically through countless intersecting modes of oppression.
Best '07 (Steven: Associate Professor, Departments of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso, Journal for critical Animal Studies, Volume V, Issue 2, "The Eternal Treblinka...Reviewed by Dr. Steven Best," Pages 2-5, d/l: http://www.drstevebest.org/EternalTriblenka.pdf) be
It is little understood that the first… transport and slaughter animals.
This continual subordination of those rendered criminal, foreign, or non/human, creates a state of perpetual servitude and living death policed by an unjust prison system that has grown out of the legacy of slavery within the United States.
Dayan 01 Joan, The recipient of Danforth, NEH and Guggenheim fellowships, Professor, Department of English and Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities; Vanderbilt University, 2004, Legal Slaves and Civil Bodies (Nepantla: Views from South, Volume 2, Issue 1, 2001, pp. 3-39)PjMuse 15-16, JRC
Confinement of prisoners in the United States… confinement are manipulated in order to confirm¶ depravity.
Therefore we affirm
Resolved: United States Federal Government should substantially increase its statutory and / or judicial restrictions on the war powers authority of the President of the United States in one or more of the following areas: targeted killing, indefinite detention, offensive cyber operations, or introducing United States Armed Forces into hostilities.
We conclude by contextualizing our advocacy by exposing the assumptions we bring to the table and affirm this year’s resolution as an ethio-political mode of engagement that is a means without ends and queers the hegemonic understanding over the Self and the non/human.
O’Rourke 2008 (Michael, “Series Editor’s Preface: The Open by Michael O’Rourke,” QUEERING THE NON/HUMAN, p. xviii-xxii) jl
This notion of allness is one… Queering the Non/Human, a new sense of being-in-the-world, of beings-in-the-world, is born.
Like the legal separations between domestic and international, human and animal, our engagement in this space is not neutral, but rather is an active mode of consumption that informs how to participate in political structures and modes of being.
hooks d/l 7/72013 (bell, “Eating the Other,” d/l: http://www.scribd.com/doc/118302450/Eating-the-Other-bell-Hooks) p. 376-378 jl
Resurgence of black nationalism… eating the Other (in this case, death) that one asserts power and privilege.