And then, for the next two hours until an ambulance arrived, Mr. de Bernon stood over the unconscious young man, face to face with the crowd and a dozen passive police officers and the group of giggling monks, who had not taken part in the attack but found Mr. de Bernon's behavior so unusual as to be amusing.
Indeed, he taught his own children to be passive around police to stay alive; to keep their hands at "ten o'clock and two o'clock on the steering wheel, look forward, don't make any sudden moves".
The review comes as British and American regulators face mounting scrutiny for their passive approach in policing benchmark rates, including the London interbank offered rate, or Libor.
This year was also the first time in the festival's history that patrons were subject to a Police Passive Alert Detection dog operation at the gates.
Racism can give black Americans the impression that in the past we were only slaves who did not rebel; that in the present, we are a passive people beaten by police who cannot fight back; and that in the future, we simply do not exist.
A succession of corrupt local governments, exacerbated by a passive rich elite and a police force that resorted to vigilante-style law enforcement has fueled the growth of sprawling shanties where drug gangs rule.
But the police have been passive in the face of verbal assaults.
Mr. Rugova led a movement of passive resistance against the Serbian police rule of Mr. Milosevic and has for the last 10 years been seen by most Kosovo Albanians as their leader.
Speaking in New York a week ago, Sergio Vieira de Mello, the United Nations administrator for East Timor, noted that there had yet to be arrests in the Sept. 6 killings although a large crowd -- including passive members of the Indonesian police and military -- had witnessed them.
All building to the fear that, coming soon, police would turn passive protesters into corpses.
