The Ten Commandments - or- A Letter To the Camera Police

#1 We are the Clay Nation. Clay Aiken is ours. Thou shalt not mess with him. Nor with us.

#2 We shall maketh as many images as we please. This is Law in our Nation.

#3 In the Nation of Clay, there is but one Law. “ Thou shalt deal in clack, only in clack and in nothing but clack”.

#4 The Nation keepeth holy the seventh day, and every other day Clay may be in concert. To mess with this shall surely provoke thunder and lightning upon thy head.

#5 Honor those who provide the clack.

# 6 Members of the Nation of Clay are meek and mild mannered and given to loving their fellow man. Unless thou attempteth to take away their clack. Get my point?

#7 Do not assume thou mayst tell the Clay Nation what to do. They march to their own drummer ( whomever Clay has hired this year ) and are faithful to their own Law. ( referst, thou, to commandment # 2) Who art thou that thou shouldst tamper with this? After all, we’re right and thou art - well, wrong.

# 8 The Claymates are not given to that heinous crime that be known as theft . They takest only what is rightfully theirs, after having battled mightily for years, and finally won. Theirs are the spoils of war. This is surely as it should be.

#9 Thou mayst be assured that no Claymate would ever lie. Unless the truth interferes with their gathering of clack.

#10 Claymates covet one thing only. The clack, without which they cannot exist. Give it to them and thou shalt be lauded in the Nation of Clay. Else, thou must, in turn, prepareth thyself for battle.