# Gen. Boykin Is Nuts.  Really.  Nuts.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gen-boykin-is-nuts-really-nuts/210549>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 31, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gen-boykin-is-nuts-really-nuts/210549 "2003-10-31T00:09:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gen-boykin-is-nuts-really-nuts/210549/61 "2003-11-01T12:42:51Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Diogenes the Cynic \*  
> \*\*How does one distinguish “true” God given authority from illegitimate authority? I could just as easily say that GWB has power but no right to use it. \*\*

\*“We put the king to death when he is too old to rule.”

“How do you know when he’s too old to rule?”

“When he can’t stop us from putting him to death.”\*  
I believe it works on the same principle.

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**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gen-boykin-is-nuts-really-nuts/210549/62 "2003-11-01T16:43:20Z")

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> \*Originally posted by elucidator \*  
> \*\*but his belief that he has a _photograph_ of a diabolical entity.
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> We medicate and closely supervise people who hear demons. A guys who sees them and takes pictures of them is appointed to a highly sensitive position, where decisions have grave consequence.
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> Who’s crazy? \*\*

I dunno, we seem to have a plethora of folks in sensative positions who see things in photos that aren’t really there.

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**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gen-boykin-is-nuts-really-nuts/210549/63 "2003-11-01T17:21:23Z")

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Indeed, which begs the question.

(which is, wake up at the back, just because Gen. Fukin-Mad raises his head above the parapet, doesn’t mean there’s not a whole lot more with their heads down, some loonier, some not)

and btw, I don’t understand why a military man deigns it appropriate to share his religious views with the public. I’m as interested in that as I am in a Boy Band telling me what they think of Darwin. And he’s not paid for it.

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