If we want to understand for which reasons the Jehovah's witnesses are apolitical we must give a look to the history of the first Christians. Were the first Christians apolitical ? Yes, definitely: we have two important sources about it and they are Tertullian and Origen that lived both around the 2nd century after Christ.
Tertullian, in the work entitled "On Idolatry" - chapter XVIII: "Dress as Connected with Idolatry", says: "all the powers and dignities of this world are not only alien to, but enemies of, God; that through them punishments have been determined against God's servants... for avoiding it, remedies cannot be lacking; since, even if they be lacking, there remains that one by which you will be made a happier magistrate, not in the earth, but in the heavens". Also, in the work entitled "De Corona" at the chapters XI-XII, Tertullian explains the reasons of the unlawfulness of the military service from a christian viewpoint.
Origen, in the work entitled "Contra Celsum" - book VIII, chapter LXXV,says: "Celsum also urges us to take office in the government of the country, if that is required for the maintenance of the laws and the support of religion. But we recognise in each state the existence of another national organization founded by the Word of God... it is not for the purpose of escaping public duties that Christians decline public offices, but that they may reserve themselves for a diviner and more necessary service in the Church of God for the salvation of men".
Was Jesus Christ apolitical too ? The answer is yes because in John 6:15 is written: "Jesus, knowing they were about to come and seize him to make him king, withdrew again into the mountain all alone." The reason for which he refused is told later by him to Pontius Pilate, in John 18:36 in fact he says: "my kingdom is not part of this world".
The principle expressed in John 17:21, where is written: "in order that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in union with me and i'm in union with you", helps us to understand the apoliticality of the first Christians. How could Christians fight against each other if they have to be as one as expressed before ? How could they belong to opposed political parties if they have to be united as one out of the world as expressed in John 17:16 where is written "they're no part of the world, just as i'm no part of the world" ?
At the same time we want to keep in mind that the Jehovah's witnesses, like the first Christians, obey to two rules expressed respectively in Mark 12:17:"pay to Caesar the things of Caesar but to God the things of God" and in Romans 13:1:"be in subjection to the superior authorities" that means paying the taxes and obeying the government's laws when they're not in conflict with God's law. In this way their behaviour can be rightly likened to the one of good foreigners in a country that isn't their own.
Jehovah's witnesses are well known for their neutrality and for their criticized apoliticality but the reasons for which they're misunderstood are the same for which the first Christians were persecuted...
Let's say that is not easy to meet other Jehovah's witnesses in the web and this article wants to provide some advices on how to search good sites for Jehovah's witnesses. The first difficulty that we meet in browsing the web is that we encounter many websites that seems meeting places for Jehovah's witnesses but that reveal themselves as places for discussions about Jehovah's witnesses, everyone is welcome and so many opposers and apostates are found there. This becomes quite clear when you put in a search engine the query "Jehovah's witnesses" and then in the results after the watchtower.org and the Wikipedia appears many apostate sites, this just because search engines are robots and so they rank sites that are relevant to our search but can't distinguish between good and bad.
You can get over it using directories because directories are lists of sites organized by humans and not by computers. The largest directory in internet is the DMOZ directory located at dmoz.org, if you search by "Jehovah's witnesses" you can find interesting websites that can be safe places to meet other brothers and sisters: there you can visit all groups of links except the opposing views to find interesting websites. Our problem anyway is not completely solved because the DMOZ doesn't list all the existing sites that can prove themselves as safe meeting places for Jehovah's witnesses and so you've to go back to search engines to find other nice sites. While putting in the search field "Jehovah's witnesses" provides you too many results that don't match your requirements you can put queries like "only active Jehovah's witnesses", "active Jehovah's witnesses", "true Jehovah's witnesses", "real Jehovah's witnesses", "meet Jehovah's witnesses" and "single Jehovah's witnesses" too and in this way you'll find some interesting sites. Don't forget to use MSN, Google and Yahoo because browsing different search engines will provide you a more complete view. In addiction to this there're groups maintained by Jehovah's witnesses and i'm referring to the MSN groups, Yahoo groups and others. Just go to MSN and put in the search field the word "group" and see the most important communities listed, then go to each community and search it for "Jehovah's witnesses" and nice sites will appear. Also you can find other Jehovah's witnesses using the search members feature provided by many instant messengers.
A problem that arise is on how can i be sure that who identifies him/herself as a Jehovah's witness really is ? Some sites have a feature that requires to put a song from the actual KM to subscribe but we know that at the same time members can be disfellowshipped or getting inactive then how can we get over the problem ? It's simple, since if the login is required by entering a song from the KM then access will be limited only to the members that own that information and we know that the KM is given to only active Jehovah's witnesses. Anyway neither the knowing a song from the KM tells you if who you meet is a good Jehovah's witness or not so you can also meet other Jehovah's witnesses and be sure of their spiritual health through brothers and sisters that you're already in contact with...