Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Okohoma MM | Judge: Garcia
The drone performs the militaristic targeting logic par excellance- it renders the globe as a neat grid of targets to be understood and destroyed 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… certainty of a crosshair.

The executive holds sole control of the power over drones – this shrouds the process in anti-democratic norms and secrecy. The “joystick” violence of targeted killings normalizes 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.

Power over war has been ceded to the executive, overtaking all other concerns of US policy. The process of war over all and foreign projects to achieve Western justice has created an expanding US empire.
Jodi Dean 2005 Professor of Political Science at Smith Colleges, Zizek against Democracy; http://jdeanicite.typepad.com/i_cite/2005/02/excerpt_from_zi.html; “I teach political theory. My research and writing focus on the contemporary space and possibility of politics. Books include: Solidarity of Strangers (1996), Aliens in America (1998), Publicity's Secret (2002), Zizek's Politics (2006), Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies (2009), Blog Theory: Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive (2010).”
I conclude with…. of universal Truth.

The drone logic is the ultimate destruction of our ontology – the reduction of life into mapped pieces of data intrinsically eradicates difference and obliterates the essence of existence
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

This systematic killing from the view from nowhere has divorced ethics from policymaking in the context of war – this magnifies militaristic technicism on the global scale and makes extinction desirable.
Fasching 1993(Darrell J., Professor of Religious Studies at University of South Florida, The Ethical Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima, Pp. 232-233) Bankey
These technological barbarians… must be subordinated.

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 the…. open air places.’

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" (Dick 1997:329).
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… in all its forms.

Advocacy statement

Nick and I oppose the war powers authority of the president in the use of military drone strikes.

Our advocacy is critical- individual 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 since….. increasingly insecure in the future.

We must stand for the victims who do not get a voice in the states’ decision to destroy them we are a counter hegemonic project that goes against the seemingly inevitable logic of pre-emption. Our academic dissensus is the only effective methodology for tearing down the broader notions of race and biopolitics that dominate the squo
Goh ’06 Irving, Fellow @ Harvard University, Fast Capitalism, 2.1 2006, http://fastcapitalism.com/
The fact remains that… none other than but now.  

Micropolitics is material politics- Questions of discourse and knowledge production come first- US neo-imperialism sustains itself by controlling the boundaries of knowledge.  Only exposing the epistemic violence of imperialism can offer ways of knowing that counteract the violence and elitism of US Empire.
McLaren and Kincheloe 5 (Peter Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies @ UCLA and Joe, professor and Canada Research Chair at the Faculty of Education, McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research, Third Edition, Eds Norman Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln)
In this context, it….