Frank Rich on censorship, but more in my line, he invokes the west ,at least as portrayed in Deadwood on HBO, as the ur-text of cultural freedom:
The New York Times > Arts > Frank Rich: The Greatest Dirty Joke Ever Told: "'Deadwood' is the back story of a joke like 'The Aristocrats' and of everything else that is joyously vulgar in American culture and that our new Puritans want to stamp out. It's the ur-text of Vegas and hip-hop and pulp fiction. It captures with Boschian relish what freedom, by turns cruel and comic and exhilarating, looked and sounded like at full throttle in frontier America before anyone got around to building churches or a government."