man i fucking love this one
If you believe that the hatchet was good - try this one:-
"Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and
not the prime minister...She would not dare, right? Because my
posture, my response has been such that nobody doubts that if you
take me on, I will put on knuckle-dusters and catch you in
a cul de sac...
Anybody who decides to take me on needs
to put on knuckle dusters.
If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt
you, try. There is no other way you can govern a Chinese
society."
- SM Lee Kuan Yew, The Man and His Ideas,
1997
Does the God Father need to do it himself, leaving his mark on
the knuckle dusters, or can he not simply give the kiss of death
?
Such is the bravado talk of an imitative John Wayne, swaggering
in to show how tough he is, but will at the end leave it to his
side-kicks to make sure that the dust do not even touch him.
His knuckle duster and hatchet are merely
spoken figuratively - as they refers to his Senior
Counsel and his Judges.
