Tournament: Swings - UTD | Round: 1 | Opponent: Houston JJ | Judge: Murray
The topic’s selection of War Powers was not neutral—as we speak, the National Security agenda is systematically brutalizing individuals and diverting our Gaze towards Guantanamo—the very mentioning of Indefinite Detention becomes a temporal signifier of the violence taking place on Cuban soil—Socially engineered identities are projected onto Guantanamo Detainees marking their bodies as terrorist and criminal—this actively contributes to the dehumanization of the Security Apperatus  and directly shapes public knowledge production
Van Veeren ‘11
(ELSPETH VAN VEEREN, PhD in Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Bristol, Banting Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for International and Security Studies at York University in Canada and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Conflict and Security  Research at the University of Sussex in the UK,  “Captured by the camera's eye: Guantánamo and the shifting frame of the Global War on Terror”, Review of International Studies, 37, pp 17211749 doi:10.1017/S0260210510001208, 2011)

While following the faces of detainees and ... US military power and its response to these threats.

We can’t understand the history of detainment by focusing on exceptional spaces of incarceration.  
Van Veeren ‘13
(ELSPETH VAN VEEREN, PhD in Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Bristol, Banting Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for International and Security Studies at York University in Canada and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Conflict and Security  Research at the University of Sussex in the UK, “Clean War, Invisible War, Liberal War: The Clean and Dirty Politics of Guantánamo” Chapter shortly to be published as part of Democracies at War edited by Hillary Fotitt and Andrew Knapp, 2013)
http://www.academia.edu/attachments/31046538/download_file

In that sense, Guantánamo, defined as exceptional, ... came to be a scene of so much (often invisible) violence. 37

It is here that we define our discussion of the topic—indefinite detention, counter terrorism—the Prison creates a window through which we are able to discuss the detention of other people of color. The Prison gains its legitimacy from our National Security measures to detain the social deviants. Indefinite Detention isn’t an exceptional event but the manifestation of the violent history of mass detainment of non-white bodies where the prisoners become the objects of racialized incarceration and surveillance
Walia ‘13
(Harsha Walia is a South Asian activist, writer, and popular educator trained in the law. She has been active in anti-racist, feminist, anti-war, and social justice issues for over a decade. Based in Vancouver Unceded Coast Salish Territories, she is a board member of the South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy and a co-founder of No One Is Illegal, Radical Desis, and the Northwest Anti-Authoritarian People of Colour Network. Her writings have appeared in over thirty magazines, journals, books, and newspapers, and she is the co-creator of a short film about race, class, and gender in Canada’s poorest neighbourhood, “Omar Khadr: Race, Empire, and Unexceptional Detention”, LAST MODIFIED 8/31/2013)

Guantanamo Bay exists within the tentacles ... visions of freedom, liberation, and self-determination.

The history of the Prison Industrial Complex begins with the 13th amendment and so-called “Emancipation” of slaves after the Civil War—under the US Convict Lease system, former-slaves were relocated from the plantation to the prison after being labeled trespassers in their space of forced labor
Hallett ‘6
(Dr. Michael Hallett is a Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of North Florida.  Dr. Hallett’s work has appeared in numerous books and journals including Punishment and Society, The Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, Contemporary Justice Review, Critical Criminology and others. Dr. Hallett was founding chairman of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at UNF, serving from 2004 - 2013. Dr. Hallett received the Outstanding Graduate Alumnus Award from his doctoral alma mater, Arizona State University, in 2007.  In 2006, he received the Gandhi, King Ikeda Award from Morehouse College for his book , “Private Prisons in America: A critical Race Perspective”, 2006) pg 1 - 3

It is perhaps astonishing to realize that ... convictions for nonviolent drug and property offenders. 

Prison became the new slavery of African Americans—mass incarceration shaped the social experience of Black people as criminals through this re-identification that was reproduced via the “War on Drugs”—the framing of War on Drugs and War on Terror wasn’t neutral, and created the standard for detainment after 9/11 and drug trade—African Americans became the every-day terrorists on the street
Hallett ‘6
(Dr. Michael Hallett is a Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of North Florida.  Dr. Hallett’s work has appeared in numerous books and journals including Punishment and Society, The Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, Contemporary Justice Review, Critical Criminology and others. Dr. Hallett was founding chairman of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at UNF, serving from 2004 - 2013. Dr. Hallett received the Outstanding Graduate Alumnus Award from his doctoral alma mater, Arizona State University, in 2007.  In 2006, he received the Gandhi, King Ikeda Award from Morehouse College for his book , “Private Prisons in America: A critical Race Perspective”, 2006) pg 4 - 6

As documented by Thorsten Sellin 11 976I, ... the prime of life. "Mass imprisonment" indeed.

The US carceral system is built on violence towards economically exploitable black individuals—it routinizes imprisonment and violent rape-experiences into the every-day life of American culture
Gopnik ‘12
(Adam, writer for the New Yorker since 1986, “The Caging of America”, January 30th, 2012)
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/01/30/120130crat_atlarge_gopnik?currentPage=all

For most privileged, professional people, ... that acts as a hidden foundation for the country.

Women of color are disproportionately subjected to every-day rape experiences in the Prison Industrial Complex
Shaylor ‘98
(Cassandra, “It’s like living in a black hole: Women of Color and Solitary Confinement in the Prison Industrial Complex”, Summer 1998)

Prisoners and advocates for prisoners ... They are just tryin’ to break us down. n37

Racialized imprisonment of Black people is a product of colonialism—the so-called “emancipation” merely reinscribed the same racist exploitation of former slaves
Hallett ‘6
(Dr. Michael Hallett is a Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of North Florida.  Dr. Hallett’s work has appeared in numerous books and journals including Punishment and Society, The Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, Contemporary Justice Review, Critical Criminology and others. Dr. Hallett was founding chairman of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at UNF, serving from 2004 - 2013. Dr. Hallett received the Outstanding Graduate Alumnus Award from his doctoral alma mater, Arizona State University, in 2007.  In 2006, he received the Gandhi, King Ikeda Award from Morehouse College for his book , “Private Prisons in America: A critical Race Perspective”, 2006) pg 143 - 145

Without question, then, one of the ... a continuation of the ideology of white supremacy.

Coloniality generates a permanent state of exception that is the root cause of the death ethics of war and underwrites a hellish existence where death, murder, war, rape, and racism are ordinary
Maldonado-Toress 08
Nelson Maldonado-Torres is an associate professor of comparative literature at Rutgers. Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity, p. 217-21. 2008.

Dussel, Quijano, and Wynter lead us to the ... ontology collapses into a Manicheanism, as Fanon suggested." 

The American public wouldn't care about this form of detainment but tying detainment practices to how everyone can be subject to indef detention based on threats to national security makes it more real to them.

Thus Mason and I advocate the deconstruction of Indefinite Detainment
The ballot should go to whichever team creates the best epistemological and historical space for discussing the Executive’s War powers over detainment 

And, Our Criticism recognizes the violence of Indefinite Detainment not as a new phenomenon, but a re-organization of similar historical power-structures as part of the Prison Industrial Complex—only by breaking down the notion of temporal ruptures and investigating new continuities between the past and present can we formulate successful resistance to contemporary violence
Chapell ’6
(Ben, anthropologist and assistant professor of sociology/cultural studies at Bridgewater College, Virginia and honorary member of the Knights of Pleasure car club, Austin, Texas, “Rehearsals of The Sovereign: States of Exception and Threat Governmentality”, Cultural Dynamics 2006 18: 313)
http://cdy.sagepub.com/content/18/3/313

Yet we continue to pose questions as ... the present historical situation cannot effectively be resisted.

And Temporality as the best strategy for black women to fight violent imprisonment -recognizing the continuities of slavery and carceral confinement is important for fighting the psychological violence of slavery
Dillon 12
Stephen Dillon is a Critical Social Inquiry professor at Hampshire College. His research areas include fugitive life, race and neoliberalism. “Possessed by Death: the neoliberal-carceral state, Black feminism, and the afterlife of slavery”, Radical History Review. Issue 112. (Winter 2012). 

Because slavery returns to possess the present, ... you must first know that you are possessed.

Tournament: Swings - UNT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Houston LR | Judge: Blake
Our interrogation of institutional racism manifests itself in our research—recognition of unearned privilege informs our justification for the 1AC—Racism can’t be destroyed in one instance like a debate round—our method creates fissures that are key to break down the inevitability of monolithic White Supremacy
Yancy ‘8
(George, PhD and Professor of Philosophy, works primarily in the areas of critical philosophy of race, critical whiteness studies, and philosophy of the Black experience, “Black Bodies, White Gazes: the continuing significance of race” 2008, pg 237-238)

To be white in America and to be an ally must ... and understandings that have lost their effectiveness."