The Chicaneries have seemed rather cranky lately, a surprise to those of us who see them running WELS and grabbing the funds for themselves.
They used to control the periodical, the quarterly, higher education, and the grapevine. Now they face a triple threat.
Their leading lights are elderly, either retired or several months short of Social Security.
They cannot suppress the truth about their dogma, plans, and activities, since they left their lupine footprints all over the Internet.
The information comes from all over WELS, prompting leaders and laity to read it for various reasons. So many people provide details that it does no good to cut someone off the secret Chicanery channels. The information providers know that the Chicanery will stomp them for telling the truth, so Ichabod is a safe way to publish rather than perish. Besides, the readership is so extensive now that a good post is going to be read right away, all over the world. "No one reads Ichabod." They wish.
