"Every time Beijing tries to use legal instruments to stop Hong Kong people seeking democracy, the opposite will happen.
Has she not learnt that any attempt to use parliamentary instruments to stop people having sex has mildly less chance of success than a law against rain?
I read an interview with Tom Waits, around the time of his album "Rain Dogs," in which he talked about how you come to a point on an instrument where you have to stop playing it and find another instrument that you don't know what you're doing with.
One owner said he was driving and saw "smoke coming from underneath the instrument panel," which prompted him to stop on the side of the road.
Previously to change the sound of an instrument, or to jump from one sound to another, recordings used to stop playing the instrument and the drums at that point.
The risk, he said, was that they would take the hostages to a remote part of the desert and then negotiate for ransoms or prisoner exchanges, "and they used the bluntest of instruments, which was air power, to stop those cars".
One would have forced banks to stop trading financial instruments with their own capital and give up their stakes in hedge funds and private equity funds, named after its original proponent, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker.
Once you opt for repression as an instrument of politics, you don't tend to stop.
So they've got two demands from the government, which is to get more capital and to stop using the primary instrument for getting capital, the result of which is they're going to go out of business.
