Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Wake DL | Judge: Mike Weitz
The topic’s selection of War Powers to restrict was not neutral—as we speak, the National Security agenda is systematically brutalizing individuals and diverting our Gaze towards Guantanamo—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 guards is important.....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.......for how Guantánamo came to be a scene of so much (often invisible) violence. 

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 of the expanding .....based on the shared 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 the Thirteenth Amendment to ......eight times that of white males and is largely a result of convictions for nonviolent drug and property offenders. 

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, the experience of confinement is a mere brush....unconsciously, the reality of incarceration that acts as a hidden foundation for the country.

Women of color are disproportionatly 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 see the increasing use....They’re with us, watching us, the whole time. 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 key forces driving.....shortage and facilitated 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 understanding that .... through the idea of race. In such a world, ontology collapses into a Manicheanism, as Fanon suggested." 

Advocacy: Thus Mason and I advocate the deconstruction of Indefinite 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 if we assume that there can be some sense made of the destructive events we witness....without seeking an expanded view of the ‘here and now’, the present historical situation cannot effectively be resisted.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 4 | Opponent: Baylor SM | Judge: Justin Green
The topic’s selection of War Powers to restrict was not neutral—as we speak, the National Security agenda is systematically brutalizing individuals and diverting our Gaze towards Guantanamo—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 guards is important.....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.......for how Guantánamo came to be a scene of so much (often invisible) violence. 

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 of the expanding .....based on the shared 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 the Thirteenth Amendment to ......eight times that of white males and is largely a result of convictions for nonviolent drug and property offenders. 

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, the experience of confinement is a mere brush....unconsciously, the reality of incarceration that acts as a hidden foundation for the country.

Women of color are disproportionatly 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 see the increasing use....They’re with us, watching us, the whole time. 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 key forces driving.....shortage and facilitated 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 understanding that .... through the idea of race. In such a world, ontology collapses into a Manicheanism, as Fanon suggested." 

Advocacy: Thus Mason and I advocate the deconstruction of Indefinite 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 if we assume that there can be some sense made of the destructive events we witness....without seeking an expanded view of the ‘here and now’, the present historical situation cannot effectively be resisted.