Tournament: Gsu | Round: 2 | Opponent: Florida Daskalakis-Cartagena | Judge: Martinez
Katie reads a personal testimony 

The United states has abandoned rational thought and empirical thinking to construct realities in the historical world BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD to justify its own existence and perpetuate IMPERIALISM, forcing words and ideologies INTO the american people, to justify spilling oceans of blood to achieve its necrotic ends and has become the totalitarian state it purports to despise.
sPANOS EXPLAINS

2008 William V, “Global American: The Devastation of Language Under the Dictatorship of the Public Realm,” symploke Vol. 16 Nos 1-2, 2008 pp. 171-214

If we are attuned to...used as arguments they are.

The oppressive imperialist structures wage a war on the disadvantaged that Mumia Abu Jamal describes as worse than the most severe nuclear war or genocide.   
 (1998 “A Quiet and Deadly Violence”,  9/19/98, httpwww.mumia.nl/TCCDMAJ/quietdv.htm)

It has often been observed...every decade, throughout the world.

As debaters speaking towards presidential war powers, we must first investigate the ways in which the institution deciding those powers is founded and surrounded by oppression, and investigate the oppression it creates on the other side of the world. However, this oppression cannot be explained by politicians or by military reports; Henze explains that we must heed the perspective of the oppressed as to gain the best and closest understanding of the oppression we may only witness secondhand.

Brent R. Henze, 2000“Who Says Who Says?: The Epistemological Grounds for Agency in Liberatory Political Projects.” Found in Reclaiming Identity: Realist theory and the predicament of postmodernism. Edited by Paula Moya and Michael Hames-Garcia

CONCLUSION: WHAT ROLE CAN OTHERS...yet particular effect of power.

Most debaters will speak towards the way in which presidential war powers are excersized without even considering the oppressed, and many debaters will speak about their oppression abstractly, or advance debate practices that only disarm the just causes of the oppressed. Currently debaters are assumed to take on the role of a neutral subject where issues of life and death do not matter, and the words we speak and the ideas we advance don't matter so long as “they make an argument” or “are competitive” or “are strategic.” This discourages participation in this activity and renders all ethical considerations void and allows for disinterested debate that either replicates flawed policy-making or allows us to condone violent rhetoric and conversations.

Spanos explains (2004. William V., available online cross-x.com url: http://www.cross-x.com/vb/showthread.php?t=945110andhighlight=Spanos+Email Nov. 18)

Dear Joe Miller, Yes...policy makers is leading.