Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 1 | Opponent: Wayne State JS | Judge: Gordon
We begin with the topical detainee in Abu Ghraib:

Rossini  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 person Joseph Carey Merrick (in the movie The
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means limited to its overwhelmingly direct and disproportionate effects on animals.~26~

This year’s resolution focuses on the mechanisms of targeted killing without recognizing the form of the implicit target. It focuses on indefinite detention without the indefinitely detained. The enemy in the friend-enemy dichotomy is the foreign, the parasite, *the animal*. In this globalized world, the borders that divide the homeland from the foreign become nonsensical. Only the abstract concept of the animal, that which lacks humanity and thus has no access to society, can cope with diasporic bodies. The goal of war is to identify and eliminate the animal that leeches off of the lawful citizens of civilization.

Iveson 10/05/2013 (~Richard: PhD from the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London; research interests include critical animal studies and animal liberation; continental philosophy (with focus on Nietzsche, Heidegger and Derrida); posthumanism amongst others.~, "Zoogenesis: Thinking Encounter with Animals," pgs. 193-196, pdf) be

Such problematising of the friend-enemy dichotomy thus inevitably returns us to the place
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, we find yet another question of the nonplace of¶ the Origin.

The concept of the law was created to uphold the human as something worth protecting by whatever means necessary. Like the instability of humanity, the definition of war is constantly in flux, and is defined in ways that exclude certain conflicts from being discussed on this topic. This relegates the unintelligible species war and genocide that continues to this day to the periphery.

Kochi 9 (Tarik;  Law, Culture, and the Humanities, "Species War: Law, Violence, and Animals", 353-359)

In everyday speech, in the words of the media, politicians, protestors,
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suggestion that at the foundation of the Law of war resides species war.

~Continues~

Grotius and Hobbes are sometimes described as setting out a prudential approach,28 or
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of life preferred for preservation within the early modern juridical ordering of war.

Silence on these events is not a neutral act, but actively condones mass extermination. We need to bring these issues to light to promote the knowledge and skills necessary to challenge 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 in both these instances, is an attempt by society
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why they have come to commit their violence and crave control over others.

The creation of purely animal characteristics allows comparisons that racialize the animal. This scientific racism puts marginalized groups into the zone of indistinction.

Fielder September 2013 (~Brigitte Nicole: PhD, English Language and Literature, Cornell University~, American Quarterly, "Animal Humanism: Race, Species, and Affective Kinship in Nineteenth-Century Abolitionism," Volume 65, Number 3, pgs. 490-492, pdf) be

Theories of scientific racism provide one prominent racialized use of animals,¶ embedded in derogatory
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arguments about race and emphasizing the categorical difference¶ between slaves and animals.

Our project excavates a history of oppression grounded in hierarchies. The logic of specieism is intertwined with other discriminatory divisions created by race, capitalism, and patriarchy. We do not make root cause claims, but argue that we must focus on both the international institutions and personal actions that power this logic.

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, 13-15, d/l: http://www.drstevebest.org/EternalTriblenka.pdf) be

It is little understood that the first form of oppression, domination, and hierarchy
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through the same rail lines paths used to¶ transport and slaughter animals.

~Continues~

The profound value of Patterson’s book is to raise the animal standpoint –¶ analytically and
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speciesism in favor of a truly nonviolent, egalitarian, and inclusive community.

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.

The Role of the Judge is to use your ballot as a mechanism of jamming the anthropological machine that creates a fundamental caesurae between the human and animal. Our advocacy recognizes both the importance of showing the emptiness of the categorizations that divide human and non-human, as well as removing the political power behind these divisions.

Stanescu 6/16/2008 (~James K.: Critical animal theorist, focused on poststructuralist and decolonial philosophy, as well as veganism / vegetarianism~, Critical Animal, "On Agamben’s The Open and biopolitics," d/l: http://criticalanimal.blogspot.com/2008/06/this-wasnt-formal-essay-but-some-notes.html) be

Agamben introduces in the middle of The Open a concept of the anthropological machine.
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(though the word is strangely misspelled in both the English and Italian).

Reorienting our politics to include the foreign concepts fundamentally reorients the system.

Shomura 10
Chad, PhD Candidate/Dean’s Teaching Fellowship at Johns Hopkins Political Science, "These Are Bad People" -Enemy Combatants and the Homopolitics of the "War on Terror", http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/v013/13.1.shomura.html~~23back)//TR

The "’war’ on terror" and its institution of states of exception rely upon
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,xci and that spaces of moral exclusion become ones of ethical encounter.

No policy can solve the bigger picture. Specifically for non-human animals, policies would nothing and push the larger problem underground. Our education is a prerequisite to effective initiatives.

BVA Accessed 05/11/2013 (~Boston Vegan Association~, "Welcome to the BVA’s vegan start page," d/l: http://bostonvegan.org/start) be

Like humans, nonhuman animals have interests. They are sentient beings whose lives can
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words and actions, meaningful legal change for animals may finally be possible.