The List of Banned Books

I was talking to my sister for, what had to be, the ten thousandth time on the upcoming Harry Potter news. Whenever new information is released, we phone the other and race to see who heard what first.
During one of these excited calls over the release of Book sevens’ title, my sister called me with the news. With the title, she also told me that Rowling was officially added to the List Of Banned Books. In which Rowling states that "this in the company of Harper Lee, Mark Twain, J. D. Salinger, William Golding, John Steinbeck and other writers" (end quote http://www.jkrowling.com/ posted January 2007). Lee and Twain!? I had to see this list! I went online to Wikpedia.com and looked it up to also find James Joyce, The Koran, and "Catcher In The Rye" on this list! A cold metal ball sunk into my stomach as a fire exploded in my chest.
Also on the list was "Uncle Tom’s Cabin", "Madame Bovary", and "Lady Chatterley’s Lover". With every title I read, the fire became hotter until my head burned like a hot plate. I knew these names too well. I was raised by this list. Every book I had been kept from was right in front of me. I read the reasons for the ban. "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" was/ is banned in the South because it speaks AGAINST slavery (I live in New York). Joyce was announced "explicit and unreadable". Harry Potter was banned for the witchcraft and sorcery. We have the Leviticus to thank for that.
Mark Twain was banned for using the "N" word. What amazed me the most was that Playboy wasn’t on that list. Nor was the American Pie films or Jack A** the movie.
Someone, somewhere banned The Koran, but okayed "Eyes Wide Shut", Forty Year Old Virgin, and Austin Powers. Mark Twain is banned for use of the "N" word, but Blazin’ Saddles is OK!
Nobokov’s Lolita was banned, but, apparently,"Girls Gone Wild" is considered unoffensive enough to remain unbanned!
My favorite was that Farheneit 451 was banned. They gave no explanation for the ban, but did make note that "ironically the book is about banning books".
Am I missing something? Or is the general message here that if something is completely dead beat and un-educational it can be as vulgar, rancid, or as tasteless as you want. Make it educational or add a touch of lesson in the work and you will find it added to the List of Banned Books.
What good is the freedom of press if the books they press become banned? I’m not proposing we ban all vulgar and offensive material. I don’t believe in bans. Only in the power of boycott. Only in the power to exercise my right to have a choice to buy Uncle Tom’s Cabin even if I’m not going to read it. I really don’t take to the idea of being told what I can and can not buy, read, or write, for that matter. This is America, isn’t it? Land of the free? As long as you don’t want to read Harry Potter.