I think that title sounds pretty decent. We need something like that. In most areas of the country, if you need police, fire, or medical help in an emergency, you call 911 and someone shows up. How long it takes them to get there varies a great deal, depending on the type of emergency, your location, the number of first responders working that shift in your area, and the other calls that are coming in at that same time. I think, overall, we as a nation do relatively decent with our emergency responses. There are areas that are horrible, but not nearly as many as you would be lead to believe, although there is plenty of room for improvement in most areas.
What if you need protection against the police? What if the state is busily violating your rights, and you need help to fight back? No, I’m not talking about a physical altercation with law enforcement, or terrorist acts. I’m talking about legal, moral, ethical, and financial assistance against they tyranny of the government when it’s your turn to be squished under the thumb, and your time will come. Who do you call? Who can come and help you? Who can help get the word out about your plight?
That’s what such a network could do. Basically an emergency alert network, monitored by volunteers who can sign up to receive alerts for things happening in their general area, or from across the nation if they desire. People who are willing to help spread the word about what’s being done to you. People who are willing to come to the jail and bring you a little money for phone calls, or maybe even lawyers who are willing to help with your case. Perhaps even people willing to respond to the scene and make a video or audio recording of the proceedings in order to help ensure you have evidence at your trial, assuming that there are any volunteers close enough to do so when you first send the alert.
We could go so far as to have mobile apps. Click the icon, and it automatically sends an emergency alert to the website with your longitude and latitude, and your phone number. You can have your information pre-registered so people receiving the initial alert will have your name and call-back information, and the long/lat can be cross referenced on Google Maps to provide an approximate location and driving directions. Once the alert has been sent, the first person to click on it can open it for editing where they can mark it as a false alert or verified emergency. They verify it by calling the number and (hopefully) speaking to you (or maybe even the arresting officer). If they are unable to verify it, we can mark it as unverified – unable to contact, and still dispatch as much volunteer assistance as we have in the area.
It would take several months to years to build up a sufficient force of volunteers to adequately cover even a small portion of this nation, focusing of course on larger metropolitan areas where it’s both much more likely you’ll have run ins with the government, and also much more likely there will be volunteers nearby who can help you when you need it. This would be something most certainly best left to a non-government entity, as it’s specifically designed to be used to protect you from the government.
I think this may be a very worthy idea to pursue. I also think there are some similar ideas out there that could be leveraged to help grow this. I know I ran across at least one in the past, which was basically being run as an email distribution list. We could take this idea to the next level. What should we call it? Citizens Coalition Against Government Abuse? Citizens Against Tyranny (we could all be CATs– 
I believe over the next several weeks, I’m going to try to explore some ideas in this direction and start designing a small scale website that could handle the processes described. Who knows, maybe I’ll get lucky and be able to grow this into a true weapon to defend us against our government. God knows we need all the help we can get!
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