【新唐人2014年01月04日讯】中国著名法学家范忠信在新年第一天，罚自己在西湖边爬行一公里。范忠信说，这么做是为了履行一年前跟朋友打赌立下的诺言。他的赌局是，2013年里，除了民族区域自治的地方外，其他所有省市会实现县乡级公务员财产公示。但是他输了。范忠信告诉本台记者，自己对局势判断错误，甘愿惩罚自己。
范忠信是浙江“杭州师范大学”教授，也是“中国法律史学会”执行会长。去年(2013年)1月1号，范忠信在微博上设下赌局说，“我坚信，2013年里，除了民族区域自治的地方外，其他所有省市会实现县乡级公务员财产公示。要不信，咱们打一个赌。如果我输了，说明我的智商不如猪，罚自己爬行一公里。”
1月3号，范忠信告诉《新唐人》，2013年初的时候，中共新领导班子刚上台，各方面的发展势头都很好。所以大家当时还充满希望。
杭州师范大学教授范忠信：“因为充满希望，所以就做了这样一个预想，这样一个假设。结果可能我们想的太天真了吧。应该说，那种对新人新政的过高期望，应该受到这样一种制裁吧。”
范忠信说，当时只是打赌基层公务员实现财产公示，因为觉得把握大。但是中国的现实再一次无情的打碎人们的希望。
范忠信：“应该说在公务员财产公示这个问题上，现在应该说更多的是失望。因为我觉得这个事情没有想像的那么难。因为现在全世界，所有自称是民主和法治的国家，可以说基本上都到了公布中央公务员的财产，也就是全国的公务员财产都公布。比如说很多国家里面，总统啊，部长啊，议员啊，都公布了。”
但是在中国，连基层官员财产申报都做不到。
范忠信：“那么这么多年以后，你总不能说，我们把基层公务员财产申报和公布，还认为是不符合中国国情，还认为在中国不可能，还说要等到多少年以后才能推行，这个从逻辑上讲，或者从中国的现实的反腐败的需要来讲都说不过去的。”
范忠信惩罚自己，实践承诺。他在微博中自述，在妻子和爱犬的陪伴下，“在西湖边爬行近两小时，分七段，或百米或两百，中有停息，掌膝渗血完成。”有路人问他这是什么健身法？他幽默回答“公民脊椎保健法”。
范忠信表示，他没有赌气，没有恶搞，没有行为艺术，只表示自罚，只表示悲哀、凄凉！
范忠信：“自己在爬的时候，当时也想著作为国家的主人，作为国家的公民，最后只能用这种方式表达一种建议，表达一种谏言，那还是很悲哀的，因为你用其他的任何方式说，没有机会，没人理睬。”
有朋友批评他，不该以这种自我侮辱的方式作践自己。范忠信不无悲愤的在微博写道，“其实，这年头，谁不贱？决定你生死的公职，进退与你的意见无关；掌公权者财富增加多少，你无权知道；你要求官员公布财产，就是寻衅滋事；官方一切决定，你只能歌颂不能批评；你自己权益受损上访，动辄被关黑屋子。如此待遇，比猪好吗？”
范忠信：“如果说连全世界公认的这么一个最基本的廉政措施，在我们这个国家都不能实现的话，那我们这些所谓的公民，所谓的国家主人，你不想作践自己，不也是天天作贱自己吗？”
去年以来，中国有多名活动人士因为要求官员财产公示被抓，包括“公盟”组织负责人许志永，律师丁家喜和“北京十君子”。
海南省“海口经济学院”院长刘耘在微博上表示，当官员财产公开已经成为世界文明国家普遍共识和实践，当共产党因不能公开官员财产丧失道德制高点，当人们因为公开要求官员财产公开而被“寻衅滋事”时，范老师以他看似另类的做法在争取国家的文明进步，是真正值得尊敬的人！
采访编辑/秦雪 后制/李智远
Brave Jurist Punishes Himself for Misjudging the Regime
Jurist Fan Zhongxin crawled one kilometer in the West Lake on
New Year’s Day.
Fan Zhongxin says it was his punishment for losing a bet.
He had bet that in 2013, the Property Declaration would become
effective nationally, in autonomous regions and all provinces
and cities.
However, he lost. Fan Zhongxin told NTD that he was
willing to fulfill his promise as he had misjudged the regime.
Reporter:
Fan Zhongxin is a professor of Hangzhou Normal University,
and also Executive President of China Legal History Association.
On January 1 2013, Fan Zhongxin bet on the microblog:
“I firmly believe that in 2013, the Property Declaration will
be implemented in autonomous regions and all provinces
and cities.
Let’s bet. If I lose, it means my IQ is lower than a pig, and I will
crawl for one kilometer."
Fan Zhongxin told NTD that in early 2013 with the new
leadership, the momentum was very good and everyone felt
there was hope.
Fan Zhongxin, Hangzhou Normal University Professor:
“That hope brought me anticipation. We were too naïve.
I should say, our unrealistic expectation of the new leadership
deserves to be punished."
Fan Zhongxin says that he had felt confident about the policy
for the grass-roots officials.
However, the reality in China has once again shattered the hope.
Fan Zhongxin: “I should say it’s a disappointment.
I did not think it would be too hard to publicize official’s assets.
All democratic countries have managed to realize the same policy;
they declare even the very top official’s properties, as well as the
presidents, the ministers, the parliamentarians, and so forth."
But in China, even the grass-roots official’s property is kept
top secret.
Fan Zhongxin: “After all these years, logically, there is simply
no justification to claim that the Property Declaration of the
grass-roots officials is un-Chinese, is impossible, and will take time.
It does not make sense considering the anti-corruption campaign
in China."
Fan Zhongxin punished himself by fulfilling his promise.
He stated in the microblog that, accompanied by his wife and
dog, he “crawls along the lake for two hours in seven sessions.
Every 100 or 200 meters with some rest, I finished the task
with bleeding palms and knees.”
People asked him what type of exercise he is conducting.
He answered, “The citizen spine exercise.”
Fan Zhongxin indicates that it is not about pique, spoof, or
performance art, but a self-punishment with sadness.
Fan Zhongxin: “While I was crawling, I was thinking the
sadness of being a citizen in China and this is the way to
express my opinion and admonition.
Otherwise, there is no other way and no one would care."
His behavior was criticized as a humiliation by self-insulting.
Fan Zhongxin responded in his microblog,
“In fact, we have all been humiliated. Government decides
our life and death, our opinions are of no value to them;
we have no right to know how much profit officials have
made;
we become the trouble makers for demanding the Property
Declaration of the officials;
the authorities determine everything, we are only allowed to
praise, not criticize;
we are forbidden to address our grievances and get threatened
with jail.
Are we better off than a pig?"
Fan Zhongxin: “If a fundamental measure for a clean and
honest government can not be implemented in our country; as
citizens, how can we not feel humiliated or insulted everyday?"
Last year, Beijing arrested Chinese citizens for demanding the
Property Declaration, such as Open Constitution Initiative
organizer Xu Zhiyong, attorney Ding Jiaxi, and 10 citizens
in the Capital.
Haikou College of Economics Dean Liu Yun stated in the
microblog that when the Property Declaration has become a
norm around the world,
when the Chinese Communist Party has lost its moral ground
and refuses to open officials’ records,
and when people become the trouble makers for demanding the
Property Declaration, Mr. Fan’s approach to seek progress for the
country has proved he is a person of true and high self-respect!
