Dated 17th February 2007.

CLOCKS, Clockfriends, Honorary Clockfriends, Supporters,
TO WHOM ALL THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETINGS!

This Charter provides the structure for a responsible, tolerant, unified and progressive community, now and in the future, that will maintain and enhance the quality of life of the members and others, encourage the growth and progress of the Clock Crew Community, and continue to be responsive to the needs and concerns of the Clocks.

Article I

Liberties

TO ALL FREE MEN OF OUR SOCIETY we have granted, for us and our heirs for ever, all the liberties written out below, to have and to keep for them and their heirs, of us and our heirs:

1. Community Members may choose or change their Clock identity at any stage of their membership, provided that the identity is not already in use and has not been used prior.
2. Community Members may express their opinions and beliefs freely, without unjust persecution. That is, should disagreements occur, they must be resolved through intelligent and civilised discourse.
3. Registered Community Members have the right not to be arbitrarily banished or shunned from the community.
4. Clockfans have the right to be granted Clock or Clockfriend status after six months of activity in the community.
5. Clocks and Clockfriends may renounce their community status at any time — but with the understanding that, in order to regain Clock or Clockfriend status in the future, they must register anew and undergo the full grace period, as a new member.
6. Community Members have the right to communicate in their Mother Tongue with other speakers of their native language in the community.

Article II

Etiquette

WHEREAS The Clock Crew Community is founded upon the principles of brotherhood and progress. A simple change of name does not a Clock make — all Clocks and members of the Clock Crew Community should respect and uphold the following ideals:

1. A true Clock is of open mind and is thus willing to understand and accept the folkways of others.
2. Clocks strive to help others — firstly, their fellow Clocks, and secondly all others — not only in their time of need, but actively, as a civil duty, and for the ultimate ideal of peace and progress.
3. A noble Clock’s first line of defense in case of conflict is to counter the antagonist’s animosity with love and/or intellect.

Article III

Purposes and Principles

KNOW YE That the Clock Crew strives for the ultimate goal of enlightenment and free thought, through the artistic and philosophical education of the everyman. Clock artwork — whether it be animated material, video, literature, still image, or other — is most truly an expression of the Clock Crew’s intent and purpose when it:

1. Seeks to engage with the viewer on a level usually left dormant by society.
2. Derives humour from the disappointment, or the exceeding, of the expectations of the viewer.
3. Achieves the state of originality necessary to inspire a new train of thought in the viewer — to allow the viewer to see the desired topic of discussion on the same wavelength as the artist — through the imagining and conveyance of concepts and imagery hitherto unknown or unexplored.
4. Invites the viewer to explore and understand the mores and traditions of the Clock Crew.

Amended 27th November 2007.