We Don't Want No Stinkin' Liberty!

So, in these early years of the 21st century, a significant minority of U.S. citizens think this principle "goes too far":

Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.... (First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution)

Just to be clear about this: they think that the freedom to voice one's opinions should be restricted.

So, given that, I'm afraid to know what they would say about these passages (emphases added):

U.S. Declaration of Independence:

...whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government.... But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government....

Virginia Declaration of Rights (largely written by George Mason, signatory to the Declaration of Independence, and from which the Bill of Rights were largely extracted):

Article 7. That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority without consent of the representatives of the people is injurious to their rights and ought not to be exercised.

Article 8. That in all capital or criminal prosecutions a man hath a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusation to be confronted with the accusers and witnesses, to call for evidence in his favor, and to a speedy trial by an impartial jury ... that no man be deprived of his liberty except by the law of the land or the judgement of his peers.

Article 12. That the freedom of the press is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

Article 13. ...that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty....

Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial....

I really would like to know if Mr. Justice Scalia thinks our Founding Fathers would approve of the principles of the America that is fighting the War On Terror™.

And to our President, who thought the threat of an imaginary A-bomb to be more important than our national principles, remember these words of Mr. Patrick Henry:

Give me liberty, or give me death.

To the true American patriot, liberty is more precious than life. And I don't mean servicemen and -women killed while being used to pound the daylights out of nations that look at us hatefully, in order that we may be free of being looked at hatefully. I mean that, in subordinating our liberties to the endless pursuit of an unreachable ideal of national security, we have lost them no less surely than if we had been killed by terrorists. Our enemies haven't destroyed our liberties: they've prodded us into surrendering them (in the name of defending them. If we no longer have them, though, then what, precisely, are we defending?). But success, as They say, is the best revenge. Do they hate our liberty? Then we shall revel in it, with

Scorn and defiance, slight regard, contempt and any thing that may not misbecome the mighty sender. (Wm. Shakespeare, Henry V, II.iv)

And, doing so,

We shall never surrender ... even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this [country] or a large part of it were subjugated and starving.... (Winston Churchill)

Know this: if you would deprive any of your countrymen of liberties that you do not value simply in hopes that you would thereby be a little safer, you are no better than those you fear. You, in fact, are no less a threat to our nation and its liberties as they. Richard Milhous Nixon said almost as much (and he would know):

Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

If you are such a one, you should be ashamed of yourself.