Tournament: CSUN | Round: 1 | Opponent: SacState GH | Judge: Brazelton, Victor
The fleets of Predators and Reapers are growing, as strikes continue to be authorized at an increasing rate
Allinson 12 (Jamie, University of Westminster, Millennium Conference 2012, “Necropolitics of the Cyborg Empire: Rethinking the Drone War”, Pg. 3-4) SIN

Since that point drone use has
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drones up to the year 2020.

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
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safeguarding American lives.

Status quo drone policy is a form of targeted killing that makes murder as commonplace as playing a flight simulator – this routinizes killing and depoliticizes bureaucratic murder
Asaro 13
(Peter M., School of Media Studies at The New School, NY, published in Social Semiotics 2013, Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, “The Labor of Surveillance and Bureaucratized Killing: New Subjectivities of Military Drone Operators” http://www.peterasaro.org/writing/Asaro,20Drone20Subjectivities.pdf,) SIN

There has been a massive
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subjectivities of drone operators.¶

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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visual superior- ity drones claim.

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, Vance)

The concept of ‘necropolitics’
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absent exonerating evidence’.

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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the order of representation-domination). 

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
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in the first place.

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
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means of war‘ collapses.

Necropolitics leads to cycles disposability and bare life
Garrison 13
(Laura Garrison, a graduate student of ethnology (cultural anthropology) at the University of New Mexico. “The Anthropology of Biopolitics” http://anthrobiopolitics.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/necropolitics/) SIN

According to Achille Mbembe,
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politics of “bare life”.

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

Quite the reverse.
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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
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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 symbolizes
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ideological tool of power. 

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
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society 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
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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
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 social order can be constructed. 

Only debate and your ballot provide a forum for ideas about social change that is free from the institutional interests of those holding disproportionate power. Only weighing our voices and our advocacy first can coopt the underlying forces of prejudice, inequality, and corporate hegemony that undermine the status quo media and communications.

Carroll 10 – *founding director of the Social Justice Studies Program at the University of Victoria (William, “Crisis, movements, counter-hegemony: in search of the new,” Interface 2:2, 168-198,)

Mediatization and
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and lean into one another.

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 1 | Opponent: Whitman DM | Judge: Chris Bato
Contention 1: Inherency
Executive has too much power over drone strikes
NYT 12 Editorial, “Too Much Power for a President” 5/30/12 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/opinion/too-much-power-for-a-president.html?_r=0 c.shack

It has been clear for years
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the targeted killing was based

Current U.S. drone precedent encourages targeted killing that causes international tension
Roberts 13 (Kristin, When the Whole World Has Drones, National Journal, 21 March 2013, http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/when-the-whole-world-has-drones-20130321, da 8-1-13) PC

That’s true, at least today. It’s
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lethal force outside of their borders.”

PLAN:
The United States federal government should ban the use of drones for the targeted killing war power authority of the President of the United States of America.

Contention 2: Credibility

Obama’s Drone policy hurts soft power interests and destroys credibility
Utne 2012 (For more than 20 years, Utne has functioned as a guide to the alternative and independent press.”Obama’s Soft, Soft Power” http://www.utne.com/Politics/Obamas-Failure-To-Implement-Soft-Diplomatic-Power.aspx#axzz2X4MCdkg2, KMH)

Electoral ramifications notwithstanding, what worries
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moral standing to project it.”

Reforming U.S. drone policies is the only way to spur international targeted killing regulations
Farley, assistant professor at the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky, 11 (Robert, Over the Horizon: U.S. Drone Use Sets Global Precedent, World Politics Review, 12 Oct 2011, http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/10311/over-the-horizon-u-s-drone-use-sets-global-precedent, da 7-31-13) PC

Improvements in technology do not
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to the precedent they're setting.

Alliances are key to hegemony
Joseph S. Nye 13 Jr. is a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, “American power in the 21st century will be defined by the ‘rise of the rest’” 6-28-13, http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-06-28/opinions/40255646_1_american-power-u-s-economy-united-states, DOA: 7-23-13, y2k

In the last century, the United
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outcomes it wants without the help of others.

Hegemony prevents great power war and key to successful transition to multilateralism
Barnett 11 (Thomas, Former Senior Strategic Researcher and Professor in the Warfare Analysis and Research Department, worked as the Assistant for Strategic Futures in the Office of Force Transformation in the Department of Defense, “The New Rules: Leadership Fatigue Puts U.S., and Globalization, at Crossroads,” The World Politics Review, March 7, 2011, http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/8099/the-new-rules-leadership-fatigue-puts-u-s-and-globalization-at-crossroads)

Events in Libya are a further
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that should make you nervous

US hegemony prevents nuclear war and extinction
Kagan 2007 (Robert Kagan, Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, “End of Dreams, Return of History”, Real Clear Politics, July 19th 2007, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/07/end_of_dreams_return_of_histor.html)

Finally, there is the United States
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even as it also disrupts stability

Contention 3: Terrorism
Drone strikes fuel terrorism-~-- laundry list
Blum and Heyman 10, (Gabriella Blum, Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, and Philip Heymann, James Barr Ames Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Law and Policy of Targeted Killing, Harvard National Security Journal, Vol. 1, June 27, 2010, https://www.law.upenn.edu/institutes/cerl/conferences/targetedkilling/papers/BlumHeymannLawPolicy.pdf)

An immediate consequence of eliminating
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for fighting the terrorists. 

Relations with the target state are key to intelligence and the larger fight against terrorism.
Zenko 13, (Micah Zenko is the Douglas Dillon fellow in the Center for Preventive Action (CPA) at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Previously, he worked for five years at the Harvard Kennedy School and in Washington, DC, at the Brookings Institution, Congressional Research Service, and State Department’s Office of Policy Planning, Reforming U.S. Drone Strike Policies, Council on Foreign Relations Special Report No. 65, January 2013, http://i.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/Drones_CSR65.pdf)

Altogether, such advantages
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precise targeting information for drones.

The AQAP is threatening to poison the US food supply with an easily made toxin, ricin.
Kindbergh 2011(Kaitlin, Intelligence Analyst at MSA Security, “AQAP Seeking to Use Ricin in Attacks Against the United States”, August 15, 2011, http://www.msasecurity.net/security-and-counterterrorism-blog/bid/63853/AQAP-Seeking-to-Use-Ricin-in-Attacks-Against-the-United-States)

According to US counterterrorism officials
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for a mass casualty attack

Al Qaeda documents prove
Kindbergh 2011(Kaitlin, Intelligence Analyst at MSA Security, “AQAP Seeking to Use Ricin in Attacks Against the United States”, August 15, 2011, http://www.msasecurity.net/security-and-counterterrorism-blog/bid/63853/AQAP-Seeking-to-Use-Ricin-in-Attacks-Against-the-United-States)

Two al Qaeda manuals found after
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No specific time frame or target was mentioned. 

The agriculture industry is highly vulnerable and an attack would cause economic crises.
FBI, 12 (The Federal Bureau of Investigation, February 2012, U.S. Department of Justice, “Agroterrorism,” http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/law-enforcement-bulletin/february-2012/february-2012-leb, accessed 7-12-12, AS).

Terrorists consider America’s agriculture
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and loss of con?dence in government.

Economic collapse triggers nuclear great power wars
Burrows and Harris ‘09
(Mathew J. Burrows is a counselor in the National Intelligence Council (NIC), the principal drafter of Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World, Jennifer Harris is a member of the NIC’s Long Range Analysis Unit, “Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis”, The Washington Quarterly, April,http://www.ciaonet.org/journals/twq/v32i2/f_0016178_13952.pdf)

Increased Potential for Global Conflict Of course
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from a globalizing world turn negative.

Contention 4: Solvency
Reform for drones is at a critical point- International Consensus is growing
Butigan 13 (director of Pace e Bene, a nonprofit organization fostering nonviolent change through education, community and action. He also teaches peace studies at DePaul University and Loyola University in Chicago. A Roadmap to a World Without Drone Proliferation? It’s not too late to forge a drone-free future. International treaties have already helped ban landmines and nuclear weapons testing—and could mitigate drone warfare’s worst atrocities. May 30, 2013 by Ken Butigan http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/envisioning-an-international-treaty-banning-drones)

Two decades from now, social commentators
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together a global consensus for pursuing it.

Targeted killings detrimental to counter-terrorism efforts; must cease now
RAND Corporation July 2013 (Patrick B. Johnston and Anoop K. Sarbahi , Patrick Johnston is an associate political scientist at the RAND Corporation. He specializes in counterinsurgency and counterterrorism, Anoop K. Sarbahi works in UCLA Department of Political Science The Impact of U.S. Drone Strikes on Terrorism in Pakistan and Afghanistan, pg. 1-3, http://patrickjohnston.info/materials/drones.pdf, Titan IV)

Do drone strikes against terrorists
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alike to evaluate the tradeoffs associated with drone warfare.

Tournament: BOB MUKAI | Round: 2 | Opponent: Johnson County CC DD | Judge: Rodriguez, Jeanette
The roll of the ballot is who is the best micro-political resistance towards sovereign violence should win