> Germany and other places had very weak free speech laws and was taken over repeatedly. I'm counting 1 takeover, in 1933. The 1871 Reich was before the revolu

> Germany and other places had very weak free speech laws and was taken over repeatedly. I'm counting 1 takeover, in 1933. The 1871 Reich was before the revolution, the GDR was due to the Soviet occupation. The Parliamentary Council, who wrote the West German constitution, clearly did not think the Weimar Republic failed because of too much free speech. They made our free speech "very weak" because a democracy should not help its enemies destroy it. Which is what the Weimar Republic did.