Mexico's "El Chapo" proves might makes right.

Mexico government forces skirmished today with fighters from the ranks of the "El Chapo" drug cartel, which is essentially a parallel government operating in Mexico.  You can read the details here but I want to focus on this as a proof point of my long standing assertion that the ability to defend oneself is 9/10th of the law.  In this particular case, government forces identified and arrested the son of jailed Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.  They thought they were pretty slick until forces working for El Chapo staged an armed response in which several men were left dead.

What did the government do?  In a word, it caved.  After seeing just how stupid it was of them to put that stick in the hornet's nest they actually released the son of El Chapo ("shorty"), unharmed.  And so there you have it.  Governments don't like to mess with those who can defend themselves.  They like to send 15 armed men in the dead of to capture or kill 1 or 2 sleeping targets.  You want to know why Jong Kim Un routinely gives US authorities the middle finger while laughing?  The reason is that they have the credible threat of self defense in two forms:

1) if US attacks N Korea under any guise, China will help defend it.  It N. Korea starts the conflict China says it will not be able to help (future thought: be on the look out for some kind of assault on the US ostensibly done by N Korea but actually paid for by US oligarchs... the US loves its false flag operations as prelude to war).
2) nuclear weapons and missile delivery systems.

So all you have to do is prove you are a bad enough threat and you can essentially declare yourself a sovereign nation.  And as long as you are not bluffing it will be true.  Since there is no way to match the machinery and manpower of a traditional sovereign, the next group to accomplish independence will have to approach the issue of freedom through force deterrence in a new and novel way.

With that said, be it known that technology is a force multiplier.  Guns are a technology which is why they are a force multiplier.  But other technologies can be even more effective at multiplying force.

The Bible tells us that the meek will inherit the Earth.

My observation is that the geeks will inherit the Earth.