The Thought Police Are Here

WARNING! Certain forms of "free" expression are now defined as criminal behavior. A teacher in Illinois asked her students to "(w)rite whatever comes to your mind. Do not judge or censor what you are writing." She found the work of one student to be disturbing and reported him to the police. They arrested the young writer as he walked to school, searched his home, and confiscated his computer.

If what you write disturbs someone the state can punish you.

For creating a disturbance.

I like what Joyce Carol Oats once said about art:

My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish.

It seems that the authorities do not agree.