"Sovereignty": is that a RW code word ?

Please forgive me for these questions, but I'm trying to decode RW-speak. What does "sovereignty" mean when Boortz, Hannity et al use it ? Boortz seems to almost foam at the mouth when he uses it. Thank you in advance.

of course.

(mostly from Brock's The Republican Noise Machine), I have some ideas, but context would be helpful.

Whatever it is, it can't be good for anyone but the power elite Neos.

usually the word is used in reference to immigration and John Edwards, if my memory serves me correctly. The World Court has been denounced as undermining our "sovereignty". I'm sorry, my memory is a bit hazy about the exact contexts.

Everyone has to follow our rules - except us.

but this is critical for empire building

knowhatimean?

Where in a monarchy, sovereignty means the king, in the U.S., it means the people.

Or used to.

All too often, now, the right wing is making reference to Iraq's "sovereignty" - meaning their entitlement to guide their own affairs and govern themselves without outside interference. It's a convenient use of blinders, ignoring the two decades of "outside interference" from the U.S.

The right wing is working at shifting the blame for the catastrophe we've visited upon them - a little like the mugger telling a mugging victim to stop whining.

Like many references to valid legal concepts and principles, the right wing loves to dip into that bag of ill-understood concepts and employ the terms when it's a convenient rationalization for pursuit of their self-centered goals. The list is almost endless ... ranging from "entitlements" to "rule of law" to "democracy."

...I usually hear it in the context of hating the United Nations or any treaty involving international cooperation. They just want to wield a big dick stick and have the rest of the world bow down.

Essentially: "Nobody has authority over us but us." A sovereign nation is a nation that exists of it's own right, and is not ruled by another.

Right wingers like to use it to bolster their claim that international law doesn't apply to the U.S. The concept of a sovereign nation means, by it's very name, that it recognizes no law higher than it's own.

I find that discussions regarding choice/abortion benefit from using that term to convey the idea that no other person has the moral right to impose it's laws on a person's body. It establishes a paradigm that has many parallels, including colonization, diplomacy, emigration, etc.

Others have identified some of the uses of this code but one has been overlooked. It is often used by nutter RWers to imply a UN-led, Jewish conspiracy assembling a one-world government. Of course, discussion of the conspiracy in public is bad form, so they emphasize sovereignty instead.

and UN guidelines.

It could conveniently be applied regarding torture, immigration, treatment of citizens.

You are wise to question it. If more than one RW hack says the same word or phrase within 24 hours, we're being had.

"Tribal sovereignty means just that; it's sovereign. You're a -- you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity."

http://youtube.com/watch?v=B5xVRXLgLxw