If you organize for defense, you don't have rights that other people don't have.
If you don't have rights that other people don't have, is that the same as saying you DO you have rights that other people DO have?
If you believe that individuals and or families should not be coerced (for-the-greater-good), what mechanism do you believe should protect individuals and or families from "mafia protection agencies"?
It seems that some referee or ombudsman is required, otherwise, any group of individuals and or families can quite easily overpower any non-affiliated individual and or family with impunity.