Historical details reemerge: U.S. Government supplied 10 Million rounds of ammo, 10,000 Enfield Rifles, military planes & tanks to Slaughter tens of thousands of Catholic Freedom Fighters By Martin Hill LibertyFight.com October 17, 2013
This is part 2 of our essay on the 'Cristero War', which began in Mexico in the 1920s. LibertyFight.com has further documented many original sources which confirm for the record that the U.S. Government supplied directly from United States arsenals ten million rounds of ammunition, ten thousand Enfield rifles, machine guns, & military aircraft including 'twelve new OU-2M Corsair with the 400 hp Wasp engine, nine Douglas O-2M, four Stearman C3B and six Waco 10.'An outstanding audio sermon at AudioSancto.org (which incidentally is my favorite website) on the Cristero War includes many refences and is in large part the inspiration for part two of this installment. [See The Cristeros: Will We See Another Catholic Persecution? for the free 34 minute MP3 download.]
We found Testimony taken at the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Foreign Relations heard in 1920 and the original New York Times newspaper articles reporting the military supplies ordered by president Herbert Hoover. This issue and history is relevant today because as our government's so-called 'Department of Homeland Security' and other nefarious federal agencies currently stockpile billions of rounds of ammunition for untold reasons, we know from history the precise and undisputed reasons intended for this ammo: to slaughter innocent freedom-fighters who oppose tyranny. U.S. ambassador to Mexico Dwight W. Morrow, in an official State Department Memo in May, 1929, wrote "unless the Mexican government is able to exterminate the marauding bands of 'Cristeros' which infest the surrounding country, the possibility of a return to normal conditions is very remote." [Article continues here.]