Tournament: ADA Nationals | Round: 2 | Opponent: GMU KL | Judge: Matt Struth
Both discourses focus on constructing the psyche of detainees and detract from questioning how indefinite detention was made possible by coercive measures of sovereign control.
Howell 07
(Alison, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, Newark, York University, PhD where she is also an affiliate member of the Department of Women's and Gender Studies.  She recently held a Fulbright Chair at Brown University and SUNY, and is an editorial board member of the journal Critical Studies on Security, International Political Sociology (2007) 1, 29–47, Victims or Madmen? The Diagnostic Competition over ‘‘Terrorist’’ Detainees at Guantanamo Bay, York University)ERM
For the past several years, … detention becomes possible.
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The US positions itself as savior of detainees through mental institutions which replicates a larger approach to international relations that pathologizes entire populations as irrational and “unstable” and deserving of intervention
Howell 07
(Alison, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, Newark, York University, PhD where she is also an affiliate member of the Department of Women's and Gender Studies.  She recently held a Fulbright Chair at Brown University and SUNY, and is an editorial board member of the journal Critical Studies on Security, International Political Sociology (2007) 1, 29–47, Victims or Madmen? The Diagnostic Competition over ‘‘Terrorist’’ Detainees at Guantanamo Bay, York University)ERM
Yet, work on …. political consequences therein (see Corker and Shakespeare 2002; Tremain 2005).

Disability is not an identity but rather a condition in which current liberal governance is structured. The lack of disability studies in politics and debate has forced debaters to become complacent in the genocide of those deemed outside of the norm.
Truchan-Tataryn 7
(Maria, PhD in English at University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, (In)visible Images:  Seeing Disability in Canadian Literature, 1823-1974; December, P 23-38shree)
The final category, …  fiction of sameness. 

The United States Congress should substantially increase statutory restrictions on the war powers authority of the President of the United States by requiring that persons detained indefinitely receive either civilian trials or be released. 

Discussing the ways the state has pathologized detainees functions as a counter-narrative that deconstructives the dominant narratives of the state that seek to erase difference. Totalizing politics reifies exclusion.
Truchan-Tataryn 7
(Maria, PhD in English at University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, (In)visible Images:  Seeing Disability in Canadian Literature, 1823-1974; December, P 11-17shree)
Despite Davis’s critique … understanding of difference (Why 14).
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The 1AC is an affirmation that the current politics of disability and the law are deconstructable because they are socially constructed. While no single action will end all oppression we must make demands that orient the force of law towards the impossibility of justice.
Caputo 07
(John D., PhD Bryn Mawr College, Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Humanities and professor of philosophy at Syracuse University. He is the Author of numerous books, including The weakness of God (winner of the 2007 AAR award for Excellence in Constructive-Reflective Study of Religion), On Religion, The praters and Tears of Jacques Derrida, and Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A conversation with Jacques Derrida, What Would Jesus Deconstruct: The Good News Of Post-Modernism for the Church, pg 63)ERM
I am identifying … may be different. 2.
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Vote aff to take a leap of faith through the undecidability of the response to indefinite detention
Caputo 07
(John D., PhD Bryn Mawr College, Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Humanities and professor of philosophy at Syracuse University. He is the Author of numerous books, including The weakness of God (winner of the 2007 AAR award for Excellence in Constructive-Reflective Study of Religion), On Religion, The praters and Tears of Jacques Derrida, and Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A conversation with Jacques Derrida, What Would Jesus Deconstruct: The Good News Of Post-Modernism for the Church, pg 63)ERM
The ghost of … for an event.

Tracing the pathologization of detainees exposes the paradox of securitized violence that allows authoritarian practices of indefinite detention, racialized management, and torture of the “mentally unstable” to exist
Howell 07
(Alison, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, Newark, York University, PhD where she is also an affiliate member of the Department of Women's and Gender Studies.  She recently held a Fulbright Chair at Brown University and SUNY, and is an editorial board member of the journal Critical Studies on Security, International Political Sociology (2007) 1, 29–47, Victims or Madmen? The Diagnostic Competition over ‘‘Terrorist’’ Detainees at Guantanamo Bay, York University)ERM
The detainees are …  medicalized and pathologized.