China: Netizen Party announced · Global Voices
John Kennedy

From forcing the rescue of hundreds of brick kiln slave laborers last year and seeing it through long after local bodies gave up to being analytical piranhas when dealt obvious official lies, and numerous examples in between, it seems some netizens have realized their comparative advantage over local government authorities and this hubris now brings us the China Netizen Party. These are its founding bylaws:
中国网民党章程暨成立宣言
序言
一、中国网民党的性质和宗旨序言
二、中国网民党的四项基本原则
三、中国网民党的三大基本任务
四、中国网民党的党员登记、党部设立与党费党产
五、中国网民党党员的日常学习与工作
六、中国网民党党员的誓言
2007年是中国网民胜利的一年，“华南虎”、“欧阳坑”等欺骗中国人民和世界人民的事件都一一遭到中国网民的深刻揭批。这充分说明了在网络时代，愚民政策愚不了网民。中国网民从此站起来了！我们决意组建中国网民党，作为彻底抛弃盲信、盲从的象征，作为中国从此进入网络时代的标志，作为中国社会民意表达大变革的里程碑，我们站起来了。
一、中国网民党的性质和宗旨：
1、中国网民党似党而非党
2、中国网民党只有人性没有“党性”
3、中国网民党只有团结互爱没有阶级斗争
4、中国网民党只有合法经营没有巧取豪夺
5、中国网民党只有正义与良知没有暴力加欺骗
6、中国网民党誓与一切欺骗、伪造、撰改为敌
7、中国网民党誓与一切删贴、锁贴等冷热暴力为仇
8、中国网民党必须坚持人民的领导，坚持“只要人民怀疑，我们就去调查”的重要原则
二、中国网民党的四项基本原则：
1、公开 2、理性 3、非暴力 4、统一行动
三、中国网民党的三大基本任务：
1、揭露一切欺骗与虚伪行为，还世间以朗朗乾坤；
2、扫平一切冷热暴力，还天下以大同社会；
3、宣传“全民参与、齐说真话”的思想，最终促成还权于民。
四、中国网民党的党员登记、党部设立与党费党产：
1、凡认同中国网民党宗旨、基本原则与基本任务的全世界无论国籍、种族、性别、年龄的网民均可自行宣布为中国网民党成员，所有党员一律不予注册、登记
2、中国网民党各党部根据地域、爱好、行业、论坛等可自由组建，党部领袖内部民主选拔，所有党员均可自由同时加入多个党部
3、中国网民党无须交纳任何党费，亦无任何党产。
五、中国网民党党员的日常学习与工作：
1、学习、实践和宣传正义与良知是中国网民党最重要的工作
2、中国网民党所有党员都要深刻认识到惟有正义与良知才能拯救中国。而朗朗乾坤、大同社会的最终确立，取决于我们今日的努力
3、中国网民党的目的就是揭批谎言，以遍布中国的各种网络社区、论坛、网站为战斗阵地。网络是我们的武器，网民是我们的军队！
六、中国网民党党员的誓言
中国网民党的历史使命的实现取决于全体党员的共同奋斗！荣辱与共、同舟共济，让我们紧紧团结在广大人民的周围，为正义而战！为良知而战！正义万岁！良知万岁！！中国网民万万岁！！！
中国网民党中央委员会、
中国网民党代理主席 张不为
二00八年二月四日
中国网民党联系办法：
skype：zhangbuwei1989 gmail：zhangbuwei1989@gmail.com
The birth of the CNP was announced this month by Guo Quan, the former Nanjing University professor now preparing to sue both Yahoo! and Google after recently discovering he'd become victim of the online equivalent of being disappeared, with his name filtered out of search results on the two search engines’ Chinese sites. His chances of really being disappeared look higher now too after Guo wrote an open letter late last year calling for increased democracy and just last month started his own political party to that effect, the New People's Party, believed to be the reason he lost his teaching job.
Fittingly, one of the few places mention of the CNP can now be found within China is in the midst [zh] of discussions of the offline rescue missions organized spontaneously by netizens this past week for those trapped by the snow, where readers can be seen networking quickly, constantly updating and redirecting efforts accordingly, cooperating with police who alone weren't able to keep up.
Guo, a historian known for his work on the Nanjing Massacre as well as a harsh anti-Japanese stance in general, while with those credentials alone is fit to represent a large portion of China's 200,000,000 netizen population, it was probably a smarter move to stick with his political party and name ‘Zhang Buwei’ as the China Netizen Party's acting chairman. Guo, it should be mentioned, has done scandal-busting work of his own. Zhang himself has not yet written publicly about the CNP, but was willing to answer a few text-based questions:
Q 网民党现在有网站，或者博客吗？
A 没有
Q 大概什么时候可以见一个？
A 暂时没这个计划  我们主要通过Email和skype联系 主要在国内论坛上活动
Q 微博客也没有？比如‘饭否’或Twitter. 去年网志年会微博客是一个关键话题
A 这个我不懂
Q 在中国立党不安全，你和郭泉和别的网民党党员将面对的危险多大？
A 我和郭随时可能被中共打压  我们都已经做好了坐牢的准备   网民党成员的压力要小些 因为网民党的章程没有把自己定义成真正的政党性质
Q 网民是怎么样可以说明自己的网民党成员或者党支持者的身份？比如在自己的博客上放广告，牌子等。现在在国内几乎找不到关于网民党的资料
A 刚才上面说了，我党并不属于真正意义上的政党，所以我党成员并不需要随时都公开自己的身边
此其一
其二
我党成员内部有一定的分工   ，大家接到相关工作安排后，便前往各个论坛开展工作，所以也不需要公开自己的身份
Q 你党会继续做像胡佳那种主动博客工作吗
另外，你对胡佳他这种事业有什么看法？
A 我所在的新民党的工作跟胡佳的工作性质是一样的
我对他和他的事业都充满崇敬之情
Q 我刚在博讯看了一位叫安均写了一篇因为网民党‘不要阶级斗争’而拒绝参与；你觉得胡佳这种所谓”一个人的人权组织“在中国有多大的发展空间？
A 空间非常大   因为维权有很多领域，比如：下岗职工、失地农民等等 同时维权还是全国性质的，有地域之分   所以说维权（包括其他民运）工作是绝对不存在参与的人或组织过多 这样的现象，恰恰相反，在如今的中共面前，这样的人或组织越多越好，我们也可以提倡人海战术，把中共淹没在我们的吐沫之下是完全可能的
Q 按我的理解，郭泉在学者的事业中是经常待着一个反日立场；你觉得这一点会影响国内城内的（即，大部分）网民决定参与还是不参与网民党吗
A 网民党的主要宗旨是在国内网络揭批虚假，跟是否反日无关，我们的党员在加入的时候也从来没有提出过这样的问题
Q 然后最后一个问题是，网民党对网络中立性运动和知识共享组织有什么立场？
A 网民党对网络中立性运动和知识共享组织是非常赞许和支持的，也是网民党宗旨和目标函盖内容之一
Q 现在没有博客或网站，以后有兴趣的人应该到哪里获得最近消息？
A 我党对外公告就会及时通报各个媒体
Released along with the party's bylaws is a letter from Guo:
郭泉：就中国网民党的成立谈中国网民的网络革命
今天（2008年2月4日），中国新民党长沙党部代理主席张不为先生接受中国新民党中央党部的指令，组建了中国网民党，并出任中网党代理主席，领衔负责中国新民党的网络革命指导工作。张先生31岁，学生时代即立志推进中国民主化进程，几年来热心民主事业，关注维权斗争，曾在去年一年里遭遇中共迫害致使损失财产五万之巨。
2007年一年，中国网民在找真相、说真话的行动中，表现突出，获得巨大成功，赢得了广大中国人民的尊敬和爱戴。现举三个杰出的战例：
第一例：2007年6月5日，无锡市市长书记在湖滨饭店开会研究蓝藻问题，表示“其实我们这几天在水厂里已经喝自来水烧的开水了，”并当着记者的面喝下 “自来水”。其间还专门让另一领导监督烧水，使用透明杯以示“真实”。事后网友查出该饭店使用德国SBOK(世保康)家庭厨房净水系统。原来领导喝的此 “自来水”非百姓喝的彼“自来水”。
Guo's letter goes on to list three examples, the first being when in June city leaders in Wuxi, Jiangsu, whose main water supply is algae-infested Tai Lake, held a press conference demonstrating the tap water to be drinkable, two claims that Guo says were put to rest by one netizen who did some simple fact-checking and discovered that the “real” water the city leaders were photographed drinking came out from the restaurant faucet filtered first by a German water purification system. The second example is Chang'e, who went up, disappeared, reappeared, and only sent back one photograph, which, as with Guo's third and most relevant example, the ‘South China Tiger’, netizens quickly proved had been manipulated, despite several very public official protestations to the contrary. In the Tiger case, in case you missed it, the lies went much further and dominated online discussion for months. The general conclusion it seemed was that all official public statements are now up for the most scientific of scrutiny and that no similar future lies will go unpunished, adding at the same time to an already-weakened sense of faith in the government.
更多的例子我也不多举了，我相信2008年将是中国网民党创造辉煌战绩的一年。中国根本没有真正的新闻，只有宣传；中国的“新闻”里根本没有真相，只有谎言。这正是中国网民党大展鸿图的时刻。
我想2008年，除了揭批谎言外，中国网民党还可以做的事情很多。
中国网民党可以积极调查中共不愿意公布的事件真相，例如湖南湘西自治州凤凰县凤大公路堤溪段的凤凰大桥坍塌，所有新闻里根本没有最基本的伤亡人数、没有事件的基本资料、没有设计单位的名称、没有施工单位的名称，读者最迫切想知道的新闻要件全不出现。
I think that in 2008, aside from exposing and denouncing lies, there are many other things the China Netizen Party could also do.
The China Netizen Party could actively investigate the truth behind incidents the CCP wishes not to disclose, the collapsed bridge in Fenghuang, Hunan, for example, where not only were there no basic body counts in the news, but also no basic information about the incident; from the architect's name to the construction company's name, the essential news readers wanted most urgently to know did not appear.
[…]
类似这样的事情，中国网民党应该做的事情是，积极地有组织地调查死难者的人数、姓名、年龄、性别，发布事件真相，让中国人民看到在中共新闻里看不到的事实真相。
2008年新年伊始，一场大雪让中国南方陷入皑皑冰雪中，到底冻死多少人、到底饿死多少人，他们死在哪里？他们叫什么？他们是男是女？他们曾经以何为生？最近又传出广州火车站有滞留旅客被践踏而死，那么他叫什么，他家在哪里？中国网民党应该紧密团结起来，分工合作，发挥人民战争的优势，还历史一个真相，让每个最平凡的人在这个国度都能留下自己的姓名和事迹。
让善良不被埋没，让邪恶无处遁形。
让每个正直的中国人的呐喊都能传遍全世界，让一切希望中国民主强大的人们都能感受到中国人民对民主的渴望追求和浴血奋战。
已经开始的2008年，是网络战争的一年。
这一年里，网络是我们的武器，网民是我们的军队！
最后，我衷心祝愿我们伟大的国家早日实现民主，人民安居乐业，国家民主强大！
As the new year of 2008 began, the south of China was buried under heavy ice and snow, but how many people froze to death? How many starved to death? Where did they die? What were their names? Where they men or women? What did they once do for a living? Recently there's been news from Guangzhou that one of the stranded travelers was trampled to death. Well, what was his name? The China Netizen Party ought to stay closely united, so labor can be divided, to unleash the advantage of a people's battle, to restore truth to history, and allow for every common person in this nation to at least leave behind their own names and deeds.
Let not goodness be buried over, and leave evil with nowhere left to hide.
Let every upright Chinese person shout out across the world, and let all those who hope for a strong, democratic China see the bloody battle the Chinese people are fighting in their desire for and pursuit of democracy.
2008, which has already begun, will be a year of internet warfare.
This year, the internet will be our weapon, and the the netizens our troops!
Finally, it is my heartfelt wish that our great nation will see democracy realized soon, allowing our people to live happily and our democratic country to grow strong!
With the CNP communicating over private networks and routine net censorship presumably taking care of the rest, there's been almost no discussion online on mainland websites of this new party; overseas anti-CCP website Boxun featured one short piece from writer An Jun:
安均/写给草民的网民党:
1/你们写道不要阶级斗争.很好!建议取消阶级斗争!
2/你们写道只有人性没有党性,很好!建议反对党性与反对兽性并举!
3/你们没有写:是否要建工青妇?请不要搞一党独抓,把自己搞成独裁党!
4/你们没有写:是否要把国家的新闻媒体变成你们的喉舌/缸门?建议废除”国家媒体党私有化”!彻底取消党的缸门!
5/按理说,你们没有阶级斗争,就不会视天下人.视与自己观点不同的人群为敌对势力!与人类为敌吧?
以上,只是觉得你们写的怪好玩的,而给你们多写一/二句.千万别以为我是你们的同伙!
What I've written here is just a few words because I think you've written is weird and silly. Don't ever think that I'm on your side!
Fragments of related commentary could be found on the snow disaster thread on Tianya where the bylaws were first posted:
作者：红手心　回复日期：2008-2-5　8:50:07
大陆网民站起来 决意组建中国网民党
作者：NEAborigines　回复日期：2008-2-5　8:55:26
民间活动政治化的结果就是夭折
我的话很难听啊
呵呵
作者：磨刀inger　回复日期：2008-2-5　10:02:03
虽然不好听,但实在~~
作者：akismylife　回复日期：2008-2-5　15:07:22
网络上有中国的良心和希望