The so-called War on Drugs has not reduced drug trade or use, but dont be nave it is

going exactly as intended. Its true goal is to legitimate invisible violence and arm oil-rich
regimes against indigenous socialist rebellions, creating poverty and solidifying control
over resources via endless racist warfare.
JP Miller 2/12/14
(Disabled veteran, journalist, and writer; Drugs and Guns: US Foreign Policy for the
Caribbean Rim and Latin America, http://www.cjournal.info/2014/02/12/drugs-and-guns-
us-foreign-policy-for-the-caribbean-rim-and-latin-america/)
Before I wade into this argument, let me explain that when I speak of the territories
while rooting out what they perceive as threats to US hemispheric policy. Damn, they are
good.
There is certainly a war on, but it is not against inanimate objects called drugs. The
racist war being systematically waged on black and brown communities is rhetorically
justified by drug laws that construct difference as the enemy in the form of militarized
policing, mass incarceration, poverty, and demonization.
Kenneth B. Nunn Fall 2
(University of Florida Levin College of Law; Race, Crime and the Pool of Surplus
Criminality: or Why the 'War on Drugs' Was a 'War on
Blacks', http://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1178&context=facultypu
b)
The War on Drugs that has been a centerpiece of American foreign and
use drugs than whites are, for all major drugs of abuse except heroin.'
Recent brutal killings are not isolated incidents of racist violence, but an inevitable result
of the neoliberal system criminality like drug prohibition is used as a tool of social
death to render disposability acceptable
Henry Giroux 8/18/14
(McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and
Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson
University; Henry A. Giroux: The Militarization of Racism and Neoliberal
Violence, http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/25660-the-militarization-of-racism-and-
neoliberal-violence)
The recent killing of an unarmed 18-year-old African-American, Michael Brown
and makes violence the organizing principle of governance. (5)
The affirmative asks you to envision another world without the War on Drugs.
Envisioning another world situates the 1AC advocacy within the context of a multiplicity
of movements aimed at achieving an end to corporate control of politics and the life-
world this should be the central task that your ballot is oriented towards
Giroux 5
(Henry, McMaster University Communications, The Terror of Neoliberalism: Rethinking
the Significance of Cultural Politics College Literature 32.1, 1-19)
Central to the critique of neoliberalism is the belief
power and the unleashing of unimaginable human suffering.
The affirmative is a new politics of radical witnessing, a willingness to be most politically
engaged when it seems least likely to have an effect it is easy to individualize our
struggles, but much harder to create a willingness to come together in the service of a
larger goal
Henry Giroux 8/18/14
(McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and
Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson
University; Henry A. Giroux: The Militarization of Racism and Neoliberal
Violence, http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/25660-the-militarization-of-racism-and-
neoliberal-violence)
The worldwide response to what is happening in Ferguson
immigrants and others have to die before the struggle deepens?
Our militant hope articulates a different world that is possible, an escape from the
cynicism of politics under the thumb of the military-industrial-academic-complex. The
1AC acknowledges its own short-term futility; but this is why we struggle. We must be
critical, but also abandon cynicism and imagine institutional change that process begins
with our pedagogy here in this debate.
Henry Giroux 13
(McMaster University Cultural Studies; Hope in the time of permanent war, http://truth-
out.org/opinion/item/18578-hope-in-a-time-of-permanent-war)
The war drums are beating loudly, and America is once more mobilizing its global war
machine.
a sense that the struggle is not over and demands a broad based social movement in
which the struggle for a new democratic global social order can be constructed.