Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Gonzaga FS | Judge: Jason Russell
The drone performs the millatirstic targeting logic par excellance- it renders the globe as a neat grid of targets to be understood in a view from nowhere-
Shaw, Graaham, and Majed ’12. Shaw, Ian Graham, and Akhter, Majed. "The Unbearable Humanness of Drone Warfare in FATA, Pakistan." Antipode 44.4 (September 2012).

Representation, a social...of a crosshair.

In particular, executive concentration of drone strikes is problematic for its anti democratic character and secrecy. This “joystick” violence normalizes the most brutal acts rendering violence “invisible”
Kristin Dorage School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Master’s degree, focus area of research is structural violence and developing praxis for conflict resolution ¶ “Understanding the Pro-Drone Discourse” ¶ April 13, 2013¶ http://www.unrestmag.com/understanding-the-pro-drone-discourse/

What is particularly...to mere objects

The drone logic is the ultimate destruction of our ontology- it’s reduction of life into mapped pieces of data intrinsically eradicates difference and forsaking the human context of life

Tyler Wall, torin  Monohan 2011 , phd justice studies eastern Kentucky university, phd communications studies chapel hill, Surveillance and violence from afar: The politics of drones and liminal security-scapes

Drone systems necessarily...technologically advanced countries.

Contention two is techno-imperialism
There is a shift in U.S. military strategy that attempts to map out and destroy enemy combatants in the increasingly urbanizing global south as a tool to make the u.s empire omniscient. The supposed objectivity of drone technology is bound up in a western technofantasy that is inherently racialized and violent

Graham, Stephen 2007  Ph.D. (Science and Technology Policy)
 ROBO-WARTM DREAMS: GLOBAL SOUTH URBANISATION AND THE US MILITARY'S 'REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS crisis states working paper

“The ultimate expression...to computer code

U.S. empire is unsustainable in the status quo because of the taxing nature of foreign intervention- this new methodology of drones makes empire acceptable
Barry 2012; Kathleen Barry; May 14, 2012; “DRONES OR BOYS AND THEIR TOYS: THE USA’S LATEST STRATEGY FOR UNENDING WAR,” http://www.kathleenbarry.net/blog/; Kathleen Barry holds two doctorates – in sociology and in education - from the University of California, Berkeley. Having taught at major universities for over twenty years, she is now a university Professor Emerita.

The work of...open air places

The mystifying process of drone fetishization hides fundamental colonial power imbalances under the guise of objectivity  

Shaw, Graaham, and Majed ’12. Shaw, Ian Graham, and Akhter, Majed. "The Unbearable Humanness of Drone Warfare in FATA, Pakistan." Antipode 44.4 (September 2012).

In terms of...its unbearable humanness

Targeted killing is an ultimate manifestation of sovereign manipulation- it crafts a racist relation to life that cedes complete power to the State to let live or make die. It instills a systemic state of fear of ethnic populations
Irving Goh Fellow @ Harvard University where he worked on a research project on Balibar's philosophy of citizenship. He has also been Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore. His research emphasis is in continental philosophy and its intersections with other disciplines like politics, literature, and architecture “Disagreeing Preemptive/ Prophylaxis: From Philip K. Dick to Jacques Rancière” Fast Capitalism, 2.1 2006, http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/2_1/goh.html

At present, the...intention of killing"

Targeted killing uses a dangerous logic of speed and omnipotent violence that normalizes instant killing as the main method for warfare. This causes nuclear escalation and ultra violent responses to the United States

Goh ’06 Irving, Fellow @ Harvard University, Fast Capitalism, 2.1 2006, http://fastcapitalism.com/
The articulation of...all its forms

The colonial nature of  targeting logic turns other nations into disposable appendages of U.S. empire  

Chow, 2006 (Rey, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Modern Culture and Media Studies, Comparative Literature, and English, The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work, Duke University Press, pg. 40-41)
Often under the...the vanishing object."

Plan: The United States federal government should shift authority for drone use from Title 50 to Title 10 of the War Powers Resolution.

Solvency
Title 10 eliminates the president’s ability to deploy drones secretly through agencies such as the CIA and opens up their usage for Congressional debate and decisionmaking
Wall 11 (Andru E., former senior legal advisor for U.S. Special Operations Command Central, “Demystifying the Title 10-Title 50 Debate: Distinguishing Military Operations, Intelligence Activities and Covert Action”, http://harvardnsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Vol.-3_Wall1.pdf, Aly M)

The Title 10...most high ground.

Our advocacy is critical- Academic and political activism against drone usage and discourse shapes the future of drone technology. Political action against drones must start with the framing around the technology.
Kristin Dorage School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Master’s degree, focus area of research is structural violence and developing praxis for conflict resolution ¶ “Understanding the Pro-Drone Discourse” ¶ April 13, 2013¶ http://www.unrestmag.com/understanding-the-pro-drone-discourse/

 “Foucault argues that...in the future.

Challenging the epistemological legitimacy of the imperial project is essential-Empire is maintained by a seemingly “neutral” political science that shores up liberal assumptions and controls what is or isn’t a legitimate political thought
Wedeen in 2k7 (Lisa, Professor of Political Science Lisa Wedeen specializes in comparative politics, the Middle East, political theory, feminist theory, and qualitative methods, Scientific Knowledge, Liberalism and Empire: American Political Science in the Modern Middle East Social Science Research Council, June 14-15, 2007, http://www.ssrc.org/workspace/images/crm/new_publication_3/7B8a197abf-ed60-de11-bd80-001cc477ec707D.pdf)
The late Edward...on the other. 

Every attempt to create a predictive model of international relations has failed. An inherently dynamic international sphere is impossible to causally define into the future. There is so much conflicting data it is impossible to distinguish between link and link turn without creating a tapestry of lies.
Steven Bernstein et al., Richard Ned Lebow, Janice Gross Stein and Steven Weber, University of Toronto, The Ohio State University, University of Toronto and University of California at Berkeley. European Journal of International Relations 2000; 6; 43.
A deep irony...or future time.5