Tournament: CEDA | Round: 1 | Opponent: UMKC AF | Judge: James Taylor
The celebration of targeted killings represents a return to the logics of mob violence and lynchings of black Americans.  Much like the klu klux klan, the American Empire legitimizes its actions through the intimidation of the other and by establishing a false ideal of safe and pure democracy.
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 Dallas Darling World News.com Correspondent http://article.wn.com/view/2011/05/13/Was_Celebrating_bin_Ladens_Death_like_the_Klan_Celebrating_a/#/fullarticle Dallas Darling.
 Hidden in attics and cellars throughout the South and stored in forgotten boxes in
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know that an inescapable and endless "reign of terror" has arrived.

In order to understand our current condition it is important to offer a historical exegesis of America’s history with lynching.  The spectacle of lynching was used in America as a form of race, class, and gender control legitimated as a response to perceived threats
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David Garland, Professor, School of Law, New York University
Law and Society Review, Volume 39, Number 4 (2005) Jstor
 I argue that public torture lynchings were a mode of racial repression-and
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threatened the balance of power between racial and economic groups in the South.

Treating lynching as a historical anomaly disconnected from present policies and experiences ignores the historical continuities in our approaches to criminal punishment
Garland 05
David Garland, Professor, School of Law, New York University
Law and Society Review, Volume 39, Number 4 (2005) Jstor
Rethinking the Sociology of Punishment Recovering the history of lynchings-as-punishments should
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may easily dissolve. Picture postcards of lynchings are evidence enough of that.

The treatment of the present-absent specter of the lynched body is a necessary consideration for this investigation. We must interrogate the role of the passive public fascinated by, but unwilling to challenge lynching.
Apel 6
Dora Apet is the W. Hawkins Ferry Chair in Twentieth Century Art in the Department of Art and Art History at Wayne State University in Detroit, Lynching, Visucility, and Empire, http://nka.dukejournals.org.www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/content/2006/20/44
 Today when we look at lynching photographs, we try not to see them
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responsibility of historical witnessing. The photographer now renders a service to history.

Silence in the face of lynching was a form of complicity
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Dora Apet is the W. Hawkins Ferry Chair in Twentieth Century Art in the Department of Art and Art History at Wayne State University in Detroit, Lynching, Visucility, and Empire, http://nka.dukejournals.org.www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/content/2006/20/44
 The Atlanta exhibition curator Joseph Jordan also responded to doubters: "If we
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counter the communal pride of the white mob "looking back at us."

Targeted killings participate in a similar logic of racial violence
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John Hamilton is an activist and member of The Upstate NY Coalition to
Ground the Drones
Targeted Assassination is Lynching
http://upstatedroneaction.org/wordpress/2012/11/11/targeted-assassination-is-lynching/   For many of us today, it is hard to imagine how our ancestors stood
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while burned bodies dangle in the trees, is nodding in recognition. 

In response to lynching, the acceptance of the claims that lynching was necessary for our security fueled a banal acceptance of evil
Garland 05
David Garland, Professor, School of Law, New York University
Law and Society Review, Volume 39, Number 4 (2005) Jstor
 In the early 1890s-nearly 30 years after Emancipation, 20 years after
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meanings and to identify the sensibilities and social relations that made them possible.

The acceptance of extra-judicial killing manifests itself in ongoing every day systemic violence
Leonard 12
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-david-j-leonard/lynching-happens-every-40-hours_b_1679948.html A Lynching Happens Every 40 Hours  Posted: 07/18/2012 , http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-david-j-leonard/lynching-happens-every-40-hours_b_1679948.html
 Throughout the early part of the twentieth century, African-American activists fought
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way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them."   

Exceptionalism is rooted in denial of death- that causes extinction because it demands casualties in order to create perceptions of American immortality. Our rejection of lynching is one that mourns those sacrificed for white necrophilia.
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(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, 1 do
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may be attained only as an exception" (67, his emphasis).

It is because of this historical exegesis that we rise in opposition to extra-judicial killing.  Mason and I endorse judicial restrictions on the authority of the executive to lynch. 

The historic lessons of those who opposed lynching provide direction to opposing extra judicial killing today
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Angela Sims is Assistant Professor of Ethics and Black Church Studies at Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Missouri, Ethical Complications of Lynching: Ida B. Wells’s Interrogation of American Terror p. 95-6
The antidote that Wells articulated in Southern Horrors, her first publication on lynching,
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present another explanation of justice-motivated actions in an increasingly globalized society.

We do individually have our hands on the levers of power—it is our individual response that defines our ethics
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Angela Sims is Assistant Professor of Ethics and Black Church Studies at Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Missouri, Ethical Complications of Lynching: Ida B. Wells’s Interrogation of American Terror p. 106
From Wells's perspective, oppressed members should not only expect, they should demand that
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to ocean, a way will be found to make it so.23   

In response to lynching white women in the south contributed to stopping lynching by declaring their opposition to lynching being done in their name
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Minnie Bruce Pratt is Professor of Writing and Women’s Studies at Syracuse University
Feminist Theory Reader, Third Edition
 edited by Carole Mccann, Seung-kyung Kim p. 290
In my looking I also discovered a tradition of white Christian-raised women in
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world, we need to be saying: Not in my name. ...

We ask the judge in this debate to restrict the authority of the president to engage in lynching in your name.  Your act of opposition is a restriction on authority
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John Williams is Professor of International Relations Durham University in Just War: authority, tradition and practice. Lang, Anthony F., O'Driscoll, Cian and Williams, John C. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press. 63-80
As with any such mass demonstration, there was doubtless a great mixture of reasons
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political significance of challenging a standard idea of legitimate authority as sovereign authority.