Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 4 | Opponent: Lakeland College Larson-Long | Judge: Cooper
We’re using the following quotes:  
We begin with an ancient story about a wolf…. (Agamben, Homo Sacer, Stanford University Press p.104)
“I am over-determined from without. I am a slave not of the “idea” that others have of me but of my own appearance. I move slowly in the world, accustomed now to seek no longer for upheaval. I progress by crawling. An already I am being dissected under white eyes, the only real eyes. I am fixed.” (Fanon Black Skin, White Mask p.6) 

Thus my partner and I affirm that:

el Gobierno Federal de los Estados debe aumentar sustancialmente las restricciones legales y / o judiciales en la guerra poderes autoridad del Presidente de los Estados Unidos en una o más de las siguientes áreas: asesinatos selectivos, detenciones indefinidas, las operaciones cibernéticas ofensivas, o introduciendo Armadas de Estados Unidos Fuerzas en las hostilidades
“Borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe, to distinguish us from them. A border is a dividing line, a narrow strip along a steep edge. A borderland is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary. It is in a constant state of transition. The prohibited and forbidden are its inhabitants. Los atravesados live here: the squint-eyed, the perverse, the queer, the troublesome, the mongrel, the mulato, the half-breed, the half dead; in short, those who ,cross over, pass over, or go through the confines of the "normal”. (Gloria Anzaldúa La Frontera 3)
“The outside is produced through the exclusion of an inside and the inhuman produced by animalizing the human, here the inside is obtained through the inclusion of an outside, and the non-man is produced by the humanization of an animal: the man-ape, the enfant sauvage or Homo ferus, but also and above all the slave… as figures of an animal in human form.” (Agamben, The Open, Stanfron University Press p.37)
“What distinguishes man from animal is language, but this is not a natural given already inherent in the psychophysical structure of man; it is, rather, a historical production which, as such, can be properly assigned neither to man nor to animal. …
Insofar as the production of man through the opposition man/animal, human/inhuman, is at stake here, the machine necessarily functions by means of an exclusion (which is also always already a capturing) and an inclusion (which is also always already an exclusion)” (Agamben, The Open, Stanford University Press p.36)
 “every attempt to rethink the political space of the West must begin with the clear awareness that we no longer know anything of the classical distinction between zoe and bios, between private life and political existence, between man as a simple living being at home in the house and man's political existence in the city. … There is no return from the camps to classical politics.” (Agamben, Homo Sacer, Stanford University Press p.104) 

“inclusion can be a social vehicle for exclusion and that inclusive exclusions can have constitutive power. This understanding allows us to conceive of blackness it—self as a form of bare life. Simply put, the notion is this: blackness has often been included in the juridical order solely in the form of its exclusion. … This inclusive exclusion historically has positioned black people both inside and outside America’s national imagination—as a matter of law, politics, and social life.”(Devon Carbado “Racial Naturalization”, American Quarterly, Volume 57, Number 3, September 2005, pp. 633-658, Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press)
“First, however, it will be necessary to examine how it was possible for something like a bare life to be conceived within these disciplines, and how the historical development of these very disciplines has brought them to a limit beyond which they cannot venture without risking an unprecedented biopolitical catastrophe.” (Agamben, Homo Sacer, Stanford University Press p.188)
“it is not so much a matter of asking which of the two machines (or of the two variants of the same machine) is better or more effective—or, rather, less lethal and bloody—as it is of understanding how they work so that we might, eventually, be able to stop them. (Agamben, The Open, 36-28)