Cope: Blind loyalty dangerous
2008-12-03 18:01
Johannesburg - The Congress of the People (Cope) was formed in the hope of trying to avoid a culture of blind loyalty, party member Smuts Ngonyama said on Wednesday.
"Blind loyalty is very, very dangerous," he told a debate on protecting the Constitution held in Johannesburg.
"Germany's Nazism, and the Holocaust was because of blind loyalty. The situation in Rwanda was because of blind loyalty."
Ngonyama said it was precisely because of blind loyalty that Cope formed to fight against "loyalty which does not have a conscience, loyalty which does not listen.
"Absolute power can corrupt absolutely," he said.
- SAPA