I can't actually think of a better example of why we have the First and Fourth Amendments in the U.S. Maybe if the Bush Administration assigned officers to follow around Democrats and slap them whenever they said something critical of the government? Would THAT be worse than confiscating a politically satirical game?

Kauffman's claim is a riff on the view of the Stoics (circa 300 BCE), mixed in with a little Bertrand Russell. From the Stanford Dictionary of Philosophy: "the Stoic God is immanent throughout the whole of creation and directs its development down to the smallest detail."