You assert the government has no case, but is this accurate? Governments are my enemy, but the enemy of my enemy is not my friend by default. Governments do sometimes enact something resembling justice by necessity to maintain the illusion of legitimacy, after all, and there are bad people who do bad things and then get punished by government enforcers. Is it really justice? No. But does that mean they are innocent? That does not follow.

When Obama cracked jokes about drone-bombing people, the problem wasn't that he was joking, the problem was that he was actually drone-bombing people already. The problem with the Tates joking about imprisoning women isn't that they were joking, the problem is they are allegedly trafficking women.

If I joke about cannibals not eating clowns because "they taste funny," that's one thing. If Jeffrey Dahmer jokes about not eating clowns because "they taste funny," it's suddenly very, very creepy.

Does any of that make sense to you? If not, why not?