Tournament: Fullerton | Round: 1 | Opponent: Michigan AP | Judge: Allison Harper
The Aff’s use of the law is a violent tactic that creates legal legitimacy to propel more frequent, more deadly violent interventions that ensure infrastructural violence that maims civilians – they actively displace moral questions in favor of a pathologically detached question of legality
Smith 2 – prof of phil @ U of South Florida
(Thomas, International Studies Quarterly 46, The New Law of War: Legitimizing Hi-Tech and Infrastructural Violence)
The role of military lawyers in all this has, according to one study, “changed irrevocably” ................ hopes of rescuing law from politics will be dim indeed.

Reformation is not neutral- The coloniality linked with the idea of America creates a logical structure of colonial domination that wants to control and dominate the planet
Mignolo 05
Walter mignolo is an Professor of Romance Languages at Duke University. The Idea of Latin America, 2005.
How do these two entangled concepts......the same logic was maintained; only power changed hands.

And Modeling legitimizes global anti-blackness – it justifies drone technology which is deployed genocidally against black bodies, while producing a global legal order built on a violent notion of “the human”
Mattei 3
(Ugo, Hastings College of the Law; Univ. of Turin, Italy, “A Theory of Imperial Law: A Study on U.S.
Hegemony and the Latin Resistance”, Global Jurist Frontiers , Vol. 3 2003, Iss. 2, Art. 1)

Neo-colonial practices in the Third World are....the notion of counter-hegemony as used in this article.

The impact is extinction – American legal exceptionalism reduces the life chances of black bodies globally to comparatively produce a sense of immortality
Peterson ‘7
(Christopher, Lecturer @ University of Western Sidney, Kindred Specters: Death, Mourning, and American Affinity, pgs. 3-8)

While this study accords with the claim that American culture disavows mortality.....the norm among humans, durability may be attained only as an exception" (67, his emphasis).
in Darfur.

The alternative is: Alternative is to seek the death of the American man.

Epistemic and semiotic struggle key – must seek the Death of American Man to solve war culture and propel decoloniality
Maldonado-Torres 5
Nelson Maldonado-Torres is an associate professor of comparative literature at Rutgers “Decolonization and the New Identitarian Logics after September 11,” Radical Philosophy Review 8, n. 1 (2005): 35-67.
Inspired by these Fanonian insights l have articulated.....in this case, to see oneself as a nation-in-relation rather than as a continental being.71

Movements are coming now that transform how we understand the law, producing cultural alternatives to American imperial law – only the alternative can produce a just legal order outside of US cultural homogenization
Starr ‘5
(Amory, is an activist, sociologist, anddocumentary ?lm-maker, Global revolt: A guide to the movements against globalization, http://www.scribd.com/doc/61777797/Amory-Starr-Global-Revolt-a-Guide-to-the-Movements-Against-Globalization, pgs. 255-258)

Dispersed movements are progressively more.....heart now protect our light and in it they drink of the same ?re.’ And you?

NORMS ADV

U.S Cant control Norms- Non active hostility norms trigger drone prolif
*Kansas highlighting is pink
Roberts 13 (Kristen, news editor for the National Journal, master in security studies from Georgetown, “When the Whole World Has Drones”, 3/22/2013, http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/when-the-whole-world-has-drones-20130321) (mtc) 

The proliferation of drone technology has moved well beyond the control of the United States....manual for other nations but a legal and moral one as well.

China won’t escalate it—US military alliances check
Shuo 12
Wang, “Closer Look: Why War Is Not an Option” http://english.caixin.com/2012-09-12/100436770.html September 12 mtc
There won't be a war in East Asia.¶ The United States has.....possibility of a war in East Asia, not even remotely. 

Skirmishes will stay limited—experts agree your evidence is alarmism
Economic Times 12
“Japan,China military conflict seen unlikely despite islets row” http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-09-24/news/34062139_1_chinese-surveillance-ships-diaoyu-senkaku September 24 mtc
TOKYO: Hawkish Chinese commentators have urged.....the row before it becomes a full-blown military confrontation.

ACCOUNTABILITY 

The affirmative endorses a mode of politics that participates in the pathology of the credibility imperative
Fettweis 10
Christopher J. Fettweis, professor of Political Science at Tulane Univ  The Remnants of Honor: Pathology, Credibility and U.S. Foreign Policy http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1657460
Hyperbole
The credibility imperative often produces rather gaudy hyperbole.....skeptical public is not as important as the recognition of the hyperbole, understanding of the origins and minimization of its effects. 

Their use of credibility as a reason to do the plan embraces a strategic pathology that makes destructive wars inevitable
Fettweis 10
Christopher J. Fettweis, professor of Political Science at Tulane Univ Survival Volume 52, Issue 2, 2010 Taylor Francis
For individuals as well as states, pathologies – mistaken or incorrect beliefs that inspire irrational action – create their own reality and drive behaviour accordingly. In individuals, pathologies reside in the mind, while state-level pathologies exist as shared irrational beliefs among leaders and the public. Strategic pathologies, then....America's insecurity pathology is in need of diagnosis and cure, lest Iraq be not a singular debacle but a harbinger of other disasters to come.

Drone courts don’t establish legitimacy – critics won’t be satisfied and the courts lack necessary expertise
Groves 2013 – fellow at Heritage Foundation (April 10, Steven, “Drone Strikes: The Legality of U.S. Targeting Terrorists Abroad” http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/04/drone-strikes-the-legality-of-us-targeting-terrorists-abroad)

The proponents of a drone court apparently do not appreciate the potential unintended consequences....and additional transparency no matter what kind of forum is established to oversee targeting decisions.