Reply #69: Some interesting letters in answer to a question [View All]

[Joe Chi Minh]

in the Daily Mail today: "What is the origin of the name Potter's Field, where homeless people are buried?".

Most of us probably remember the reference to the Potter's field in the account of Christ's passion. The gist of the two replies published is as follows:

(Matthew 27:3-8)
"Then Judas, which had betrayed Him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the 30 pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
Saying I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us?
And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed, and went and hanged himself.
And the chief priests took the silver peices and said, "It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field to bury strangers in.
Wherefore that field was called, The Field of Blood, unto this day".

Apparently, any area used as a public burial place for poor and unknown people became known as a "Potter's Field".

What happened to the New orleans' people's corpses collected during the week, when reporting on it was prohibited by official order. Where is the Potter's field? Do the neocons rise to the level of the chief priests and elders of the temple in Jerusalem? Or is the final disposal of the bodies of their poor victims to be carried out/has it been carried out, on the basis of a profane and strictly functional expedience; without benefit of clergy. On health grounds, perhaps?

Were they committed to a mass grave or "disappeared" to a secret location far away and/or cremated? Will DNA testing be carried out on any of them for the benefit of relatives? Would not a state funeral and a day of national mourning be appropriate?