Perspectives

I apologize for anything potentially frustrating. I'll clarify for you. Yes: the Obama government, I don't expect any direct interventions. In general, a liberal atmosphere, I hope will have more freedom of media. My mind correlates the republican party with book burning, basically. I'm pretty sure that's an exaggeration, but nonetheless, it's how I feel out the differences in parties.

I'm sorry you disagree with the implications, but it must be said. Yes, of course getting rid of stupid laws is not defending material, directly, but it is by extension. Defending something does not mean you like it. Basically, if you protest a law outlawing something, you are defending that something from that law, whether you like it or not.

For example: I don't like the KKK, but I would protest a law forbidding them to share their views. That would be defending them (though not specifically, you're by extension defending free speech in general). That would not be liking them.

A direct defense of the material is the image that comes across in popular perception though. People take a risk when they get involved in matters like this.

I agree with your views on logical causality. I don't agree with them, I'm just acknowledging the existance of this form of thinking. I did not chime in with agreement to your first quote mainly because I figured that my position on the issue was already a given (obviously it's stupid to outlaw drawings of fictional characters, no matter what they do).