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I Got Married Last Week
Townhall.com ^ | July 16, 2008 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 07/26/2018 10:31:23 AM PDT by Kaslin

I got married last week. Hence my absence from this space for the first time in seven years. It was a beautiful wedding in Acre, Israel, overlooking the ocean at sunset. My father wrote the music for the processional, which brought everyone to tears. My bride looked stunning, of course. We broke the glass, we danced, we ate and we celebrated until deep into the night.

Outside the wedding hall stood a guard. Every wedding in Israel requires an armed guard to prevent terrorist attacks. Only the armed guards prevent the infliction of mass casualties at joyous events; only the armed guards protect the ceremonies that act as the foundation stones to civilization.

In the general war against Islamofascism, civilization requires three elements. First, civilization requires building blocks -- families dedicated to teaching traditional values, freedom and liberty to future generations. Second, civilization requires the armed guard -- the men and women willing to put themselves on the line to protect those building blocks. Third, civilization requires leaders.

Those leaders must recognize the value of the foundational blocks -- they must understand the value of family. They must see that families represent a bulwark of independence against the overbearing state, and are small spheres of private initiative and activity.

Just as importantly, those leaders must recognize the value of the armed guard. The leaders must understand that there are those who seek to destroy the freedom-loving family in favor of Islamic tyranny. Our leaders must see that our enemies are those who seek to create a world where fear of the theistic state trumps love of family. And most of all, our leaders must appreciate that the armed guard must fight the enemy with every weapon in civilizations arsenal.

Any aspiring leader who shirks from nurturing, cherishing and, when necessary, deploying the armed guard in defense of freedom is unqualified to lead. Such leaders are pretenders. They may speak prettily and murmur soothing noises, but when the time comes to place the armed guard at the door, they balk. "Is the armed guard necessary?" they protest. "After all, he may provoke our enemy rather than defeating him. Would it not be better to leave the wedding unprotected and rely on the mercy of our nemeses?"

The do-nothing leaders -- men like Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama -- destroy families. They leave families open to attack by trusting the untrustworthy. They watch idly while families are torn asunder, then disarm the armed guard in the fleeting hope that further appeasement will do the trick.

This is worse than foolishness -- it is unmitigated surrender. No country needs a leader who enters office waving a white flag.

am 24 years old. My wife is 20. Together we plan, with the help of God, on having healthy, happy, freedom-loving children who will grow up with the security provided by the armed guard. The question of who will lead America is no longer a political question to me -- it is a personal question. Who will protect my family? Who will protect the future of my children?

As the waves beat on the shore in Acre, the rabbi intoned the words of the sheva berachot -- the blessings recited at the Jewish wedding ceremony. "Blessed are You, God, King of the Universe," sang the rabbi, "Who created joy and gladness, groom and bride, mirth, glad song, pleasure, delight, love, brotherhood, peace and companionship." Without the armed guard -- and the leader who empowers the armed guard -- the joy of liberty, the power of love, and the future of our children are murdered before they begin.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: benshapiro; nationalsecurity; weddingbells
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To: cuban leaf
>>>I thought Ben got married a while ago. Is this an old article?<<<

Shapiro's a Polygamist? (#;^)

21 posted on 07/26/2018 10:58:03 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Kaslin

>>>The question of who will lead America is no longer a political question to me — it is a personal question. Who will protect my family? Who will protect the future of my children?<<<

The answer (although he never would have imagined it back in 2008): DONALD J. TRUMP

I can’t believe this guy is a Never Trumper after ten years, eight with Obama as POTUS.


22 posted on 07/26/2018 11:01:42 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Kaslin

Captain of Louisa: By the authority vested in me by Kaiser William the Second I pronounce you man and wife - proceed with the execution.


23 posted on 07/26/2018 11:03:39 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Okeydoker; Kaslin

Kaslin is no moron, Noob!

If you don’t like what is posted just move on to something else.


24 posted on 07/26/2018 11:05:29 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Liberals can kiss my bitter clingers!)
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To: Kaslin

Congratulations Ben! Mazel Tov!


25 posted on 07/26/2018 11:05:35 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: cuban leaf

2008....


26 posted on 07/26/2018 11:06:17 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: ConjunctionJunction
Shouldn’t the date on this article be 2008?

It is...in fact, July 16, 2008 to be exact

27 posted on 07/26/2018 11:13:25 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I once found a needle in a haystack but it wasn't the one I was looking for...)
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To: Beagle8U

Ok, why dont you tell us then why someone would post this since you are the arbiter of who is and who isnt brain dead? If the reason dor posting this nonsense is so obvious why dont you tell us rubes what exactly the purpose and import is.


28 posted on 07/26/2018 11:18:21 AM PDT by Okeydoker
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To: Kickass Conservative

Captain of Louisa: Because Ben married yet another women
says: “I think I shall have to hang you twice”


29 posted on 07/26/2018 11:24:28 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Beagle8U

“Kaslin is no moron, Noob!”


When is someone no lingered considered a Noob?

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30 posted on 07/26/2018 11:30:00 AM PDT by Mears
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To: Mears

When their start date is older than yours, noob. /s


31 posted on 07/26/2018 11:31:33 AM PDT by proust ("The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.")
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To: proust
I will never vote for Donald Trump because I stand with certain principles.

I will always vote for Donald Trump because we seem to exist in alternate universes.

Depends on what your different opinion of what "principles" is...

Aren't choices wonderful?

32 posted on 07/26/2018 11:38:36 AM PDT by publius911 (Rule by Fiat-Obama's a Phone and a Pen)
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To: publius911

33 posted on 07/26/2018 11:42:33 AM PDT by proust ("The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.")
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To: cuban leaf
I thought Ben got married a while ago. Is this an old article?

Mazel Tov and Shalom to Ben and his bride, regardless of when they tied the knot!

34 posted on 07/26/2018 11:47:29 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Kaslin

To a woman?


35 posted on 07/26/2018 12:02:40 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Kaslin
Better late than never. Congratulations. Hope both bride and groom have (or are having) a happy marriage.
36 posted on 07/26/2018 12:28:18 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney
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To: Mears

Noob is the expression the intellectually deficient use for trying to win an argument by claiming that the “noob” poster has only been on the site for a short period of time comapred to the name caller. Apparently the senior poster believes his seniority adds to his argument, when in fact anyone with a brain knows that seniority plays no role whatsoever in the legitimacy of an argument. All it does is expose the name caller as someone too deficient to effectively argue a point thus requiring name calling as a substitute for brains.

I am amused being called noob even though I have been a FR follower much longer than most on the board. They seem to think that a current screen name relates to longevity.


37 posted on 07/26/2018 12:29:32 PM PDT by Okeydoker
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To: proust; All

Oops I just realized the article is from 2008. My apology.


38 posted on 07/26/2018 12:32:43 PM PDT by Kaslin (Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero))
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To: Okeydoker; Kaslin; Beagle8U

I am not going to call you a noob, but that was a uncivil way to address a fellow Freeper.

No call for it. She made a mistake. We all do.

What is wrong with simply saying “Do you know you posted an article that is several years old?” No need for calling someone a moron for a mistake like that.


39 posted on 07/26/2018 12:55:51 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: Beagle8U

Thanks I appreciate it.


40 posted on 07/26/2018 1:04:47 PM PDT by Kaslin (Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero))
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