Tournament: CAL CHICO INVITATIONAL | Round: 1 | Opponent: California, Berkeley GW | Judge: Anderson, Jared
Targeted Killing is the most popular counter terrorist method used by the US
SHANE 13
(Scott Shane is a reporter in the Washington bureau of The New York Times, where he writes about national security and a range of other subjects. In this role, Mr. Shane has written about the nature of the terrorist threat, the reorganization of intelligence agencies, the government's secret effort to reclassify historical documents, the explosion in federal contracting and the Justice Department's secret legal opinions approving harsh interrogation techniques “Targeted Killing Comes to Define War on Terror”, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/world/targeted-killing-comes-to-define-war-on-terror.html?pagewanted=alland_r=0, SIN)

Mr. Abu Ghaith’s case
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where the strikes occur.

TK are racist and the WOT is never going to stop with the current state of necropolitics
Lawyer 13
(Rad-Femme Lawyer is a practicing litigator living in Chicago, and a contributor of legal information and opinions to #TWiBNation, Her professional concentrations are commercial and securities litigation, and she also does pro bono work in special education access and employment discrimination, “Drone Policy Is the Most Important Racism”, http://thisweekinblackness.com/2013/07/25/drone-policy-is-the-most-important-racism/) SIN

Salon’s arc of fail last week began with
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safeguarding American lives.

Drones distance operators, policymakers, and the public from the ethical consequences of murder – the kill chain produces an internal distance between the self and the consequences of individual decisions
Delmont 13
(Matt, published in American Quarterly by Johns Hopkins University, Vol. 65 No. 1, 193-202, “Drone Encounters: Noor Behram, Omer Fast, and Visual Critiques of Drone Warfare”, muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_quarterly/v065/65.1.delmont.pdf?) SIN

While aspects of the narrative
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undermine the visual superior- ity drones claim.

The US reaction towards the nuclear bomb causes this ethic of securitization- where politics are hallow and mindless with only one mission to securitize against the bomb
Glezos 11 (Simon Glezos, Lecturer of Political Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, “The ticking bomb: Speed, liberalism and ressentiment against the future”, Contemporary Political Theory 10.2 (May 2011): 147-165)IAA

It is called 'the Ticking Bomb Scenario'
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in the ticking bomb, but in ourselves.

The executive branch make Securitization a way of politics
Glezos 11 (Simon Glezos, Lecturer of Political Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, “The ticking bomb: Speed, liberalism and ressentiment against the future”, Contemporary Political Theory 10.2 (May 2011): 147-165)IAA

Therefore this returns us
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overreaction and unnecessary violence.

These weaponized drones create disposable populations that fall under the gaze of necropolitics
Allinson 12 (Jamie, University of Westminster, Millennium Conference 2012, “Necropolitics of the Cyborg Empire: Rethinking the Drone War”, Pg. 9-12)

The concept of ‘necropolitics’
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strikes as “militants,” absent exonerating evidence’.

The process of killing under necropolitics is the root of 3 main structures the sovereignty, the political, and the subject
Mbembe 03
(Achille Mbembe is a senior researcher at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of the Witwatersrand. Recent publications include On the Postcolony (2001) and “African Modes of Self-Writing,” Public Culture “Necropolitics”
http://racismandnationalconsciousnessresources.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/achille-mbembe-necropolitics.pdf SIN)

Significant for such a project
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politics is the difference put into play by the violation of a taboo.15

Necropolitics is the reason why corrupt sovereignty, racism, and colonialism exist
Botey 09
(Mariana Botey graduated in 2000 with an MFA from the University of California, Irvine Studio Art Department Program; and in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts from Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design in London, England. Her work has been shown in the Guggenheim Museum in New York and Bilbao, The Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, The San Diego Museum of Art, The Museo Carrillo Gil in Mexico City, Red Cat Theater at the Disney Hall in Los Angeles amongst many other museums, galleries and festivals. “Toward a critique of sacrificial reason: Necropolitics and radical aesthetics in Mexico” http://www.des-bordes.net/0.5/en/pdf/necropolitica_y_estetica_radical_en_mexicp.pdf) SIN

The critical task of upsetting,
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order of representation-domination). 

In a state of necropolitics War, poverty, marginality, social violence, racism, political repression, and disposable populations are inevitable
Botey 09
(Mariana Botey graduated in 2000 with an MFA from the University of California, Irvine Studio Art Department Program; and in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts from Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design in London, England. Her work has been shown in the Guggenheim Museum in New York and Bilbao, The Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, The San Diego Museum of Art, The Museo Carrillo Gil in Mexico City, Red Cat Theater at the Disney Hall in Los Angeles amongst many other museums, galleries and festivals. “Toward a critique of sacrificial reason: Necropolitics and radical aesthetics in Mexico” http://www.des-bordes.net/0.5/en/pdf/necropolitica_y_estetica_radical_en_mexicp.pdf) SIN

The cyclical mass destruction of humans is an experience that marks the pulsations of
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ends of war‘ and ?the means of war‘ collapses.

Those subject to drone strikes are homo sacer—irrelevant in life and death, deemed disposable for a calculated greater good
Wilcox 9
(Lauren, PhD candidate in the Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Group at Columbia University, Political Theory Colloquium, “Body Counts: The Politics of Embodiment in Precision Warfare”, Pg. 17-20) SIN

While the ‘terrorists’ are targeted
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civilians are made killable in the first place.

Calculation renders life meaningless
Dillon ‘99
Political Theory, Another Justice – April 164-165

Quite the reverse. The subject was never a firm foundation for justice, much less a hospitable vehicle for the reception of the call
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capable of bringing an end to the requirement for decision.

Plan Text: Jason and I affirm the end of targeted killing
Our local resistance bridges the gap between bottom-up activism and broader, global change—the ballot functions as an affirmation of our local resistance to institutions of the status quo and this ideological promotion spills over. 

Dickens and Ormrod 7 - *Visiting Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex AND Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Brighton (Peter and James, Cosmic Society: Towards a Sociology of the Universe pg 183-184,)

Perhaps surprisingly for such a universal
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the subject of further research.

When the State can kill anyone suspected of being an immanent security threat there can be no politics – targeted killing is the exercise of sovereign power that makes murder the currency of social life
Reddy 3
(Rupa, researcher at the Centre for Capital Punishment Studies, based at the School of Law in the University of Westminster, has multiple degrees in law, “The Changing Face of the Killing State”, http://www.westminster.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0014/43403/Occasional_2.pdf, PG 27,) SIN

State killing symbolises “the vindication
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 ideological tool of power. 

The roll of the ballot is who is the best micro-political resistance towards sovereign violence should win

The 1AC’s decision against murder re-politicizes the individual in relation to power and political violence – only this act of living in the truth produces praxis
Otruba 12
(Alexander P., Visiting Scholar and Lecturer in Political Theory at San Francisco State University. “A Case for Applied Political Theory: Popescu’s Political Action in Vaclav Havel’s Thought”, muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/v016/16.1.otruba.htmlmuse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/v016/16.1.otruba.html,) SIN

Delia Popescu’s sets the tone
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but also of Western democracy” (55).

This round serves as a starting point in order to overcome the necropolitics ideology which the US has bestowed amongst people prawn to drone strikes
Reddy 3
(Rupa, researcher at the Centre for Capital Punishment Studies, based at the School of Law in the University of Westminster, has multiple degrees in law, “The Changing Face of the Killing State”, 2003, http://www.westminster.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0014/43403/Occasional_2.pdf, PG 28) SIN

In this discussion I have attempted
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as the currency of social life.”207

Our language of criticism is a radical reclamation of democratic hope as a language of criticism and agency that overtakes the currents of cynicism and violence in American political culture. Their ideology quashes a culture of questioning
Giroux 13
(Henry A Giroux is an American cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory. “Henry A. Giroux: Hope in a Time of Permanent War”, http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18578-hope-in-a-time-of-permanent-war, SIN)

The current limits of the utopian
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new democratic global social order can be constructed