That's when a regime collapses. Zizek tells the story of the refusal of the
> Shah's cops to fire on demonstrators as marking the end of his reign.
By every account I've seen, it was the army, which is a rather different matter. Do you have a citation for Žižek's version? I'd be interested in seeing exactly what he means.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."