Tournament: NE Regional Opener | Round: Finals | Opponent: Cornell KR | Judge: Patrice
We begin with the story of the Wolf by Giorgio Agamben
"The entire character of homo sacer shows that it was … of the sovereign, the werewolf, the wolf-man of man, dwells permanently in the city.
The Authorization of Military Force Against the “enemy” signed into law on September 14th 2001 granted the President of the United States war powers to target and kill anyone they deem a terrorist.  The law “designated terrorists … because of their status as enemy belligerents. That status is determined solely by the President, making it … wholly permissible to inflict "death on enemy personnel irrespective of the actual risk they present” (Maxwell 12).  Like the wolf, these enemies fall under the mercy of the panoptic eye of the sovereign that has become increasingly all-knowing through its use of drone strikes.  Once rendered wolf “the enemy is declared hostile … and is now targetable” (Maxwell 12).  These drone strikes are held is a space that is both public and classified in order to conceal the violence it takes to uphold sovereignty.

Drones represent the new political technology that the biopolitical order is able to utilize to administer and optimize the life, This closes a circle by not only targeting those that are a threat to the state, but surveilling citizens of the state
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 … stolen from us by the noose that has tightened around each of our own necks.

And this process is not new but rather Drones symbolize the next step in imperial functioning, repeating an obsession with air control that grew out of colonialist nostalgia and amnesia of American imperial violence, an attempt to cement control on increasingly complex and explosive political situations
Gregory 13
Derek Gregory Ph.D. (Cantab) FBA, FRSC (March 1,1951) is a British academic and geographer who is currently Peter Wall Distinguished Professor and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He formerly held positions at the University of Cambridge, “Theory of the drone 7: Historical precedent and postcolonial amnesia”, http://geographicalimaginations.com/2013/08/08/theory-of-the-drone-7-historical-precedent-and-postcolonial-amnesia/
Second, whatever the origins of those ‘ideas about war’ – and they … swagger and seemingly effortless domination that they imposed.

Advocacy
Skylar and I affirm the topical targeted, “Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase 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 refuse the global exceptionalst American paradigm.  

Drone Culture
Endless war is waged from a chair and a screen, playing out games of life and death thousands of miles away. The technology of Targeted Killings reflect the technocratic imperial mindset that flattens the world into a plane policed by the always watching panoptic eye, which cements the divide between the mythical us and the enemy destined for destruction.
Asaro 13
Peter M. Asaro, School of Media Studies at The New School, (2013): “The labor of surveillance and bureaucratized killing: new subjectivities of military drone operators”, Social Semiotics, DOI:10.1080/10350330.2013.777591)TR
The mythologies surrounding the use of lethal drones … friends, enemies, and potential enemies, as no other categories can be meaningfully acted upon.
The epistemology of visual and spatial narratives maintains the hegemony of the colonial position.  It creates a disciplinary society, where by being watched or being made “visible” brings the subject into the view of the sovereign.  This form of thinking makes all “visible” subjects calculable and colonized.
Spanos 8
William V., works @BU and you know who he is, “American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization—The specter of Vietnam”, pg 42-44The Guy Risko
“Science, Althusser says, “can only pose problems … sightings are essentially characterized by oversight.
Attempts to explore the  frontier to global levels to fulfill Exceptionalist drive which leads to bare life and the camps. The wolf is an example of this- it is divided between the forest and the city. It becomes the bandit that lives with no relation to the law thus dwelling paradoxically within the city and in nature while belonging to neither. Spanos states that it is this paradigm that leads to Westward expansion and the disposability of life.
Spanos 11  s(William, Distinguished Professor of Literature/Baller, The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception, p. 149-50 TR)
As Moby-Dick, Pierre, Israel Potter, and The Confidence-Man … paradigm of the political space of modernity’’ becomes a black ‘‘visionary’’ possibility.

Rethinking politics must first begin with the indistinction between biological and political life in law, science, politics, and philosophy or risk unprecedented biological catastrophe.
Agamben’98 (Homo Sacer 186-188)
The choice of this brief series of "lives" may seem extreme … whose very politics is at issue in their natural body.

Tournament: Clarion | Round: 1 | Opponent: New Diniz-Trevett | Judge: Turnage
Agamben 04 (Giorgio, Italian Continental Philosopher and current Professor at Accademia di Archiettura Mendrisio, “The open: Man and animal,” Stanford University Press, pg. 104-105
"The entire character of homo sacer shows that it was not  born ...the werewolf, the wolf-man of man, dwells permanently  in the city.
Excerpt from Preisdent Barack Obamas Speech on Syria given on 9/11/2013 http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/10/remarks-president-address-nation-syria (retrieved 9/11/13)
My fellow Americans, for nearly seven decades the United States...¶ Thank you. God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.
Advocacy- a body we affirm - we also affirm the biopolitical bodies in the topic, that is, we affirm the targeted killed, the indefinitely detained, the offensive techs, the armed forces introduced into hostilities as such, Jesse and i affirm "Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase 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,"
Spanos 2011 (William, Professor of English at Binghamton University, “The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception Herman Melville Billy Budd Sailor”, The John Hopkins University Press, pg  159-160)
To underscore the deadly dehumanizing effect on the lives of the preterite  ‘‘populace’’ of the elect’s ...precisely  the cataclysmic end Melville anticipates in Billy Budd.
Spanos 2011 (William, Professor of English at Binghamton University, “The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception Herman Melville Billy Budd Sailor”, The John Hopkins University Press, pg  158-159)
Reconstellated into the context of the discourse..becomes, in  Agamben’s chilling phrase, bare life:
Agamben 1998( Giorgio, Italian Continental Philosopher and current Professor at Accademia di Archiettura Mendrisio, “Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life(,” Stanford University Press, pg. 187-188)
Ir is on the basis of these uncertain and nameless terrains, these  difficult zones...beyond which they cannot venture without  risking an unprecedented biopolirical catastrophe.
Spanos 2011 (William, Professor of English at Binghamton University, “The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception Herman Melville Billy Budd Sailor”, The John Hopkins University Press, pg  160-163)
In Billy Budd, Melville discloses the shadow that haunts the benign messianic light of American exceptionalism.. meditation on the itinerary of the benign logic of exceptionalism, the itinerary that ends in the violence of the state of exception: