What is a "Haymarket Prism"?

I have been asked this question several times, so I decided to make this post to explain. If you have read my Looking Thru History posts, particularly Part 2 - The Haymarket Riot, then you know the history of the Haymarket reference. (If not, now might be a good time to click the link and read it.) The lessons I cite in that post are: 1. The Government can easily eliminate people they do not like. The convictions of the 8 Anarchists in Chicago was bogus, as shown in Altgeld's pardon. This however, did not prevent 4 of them from being hanged and 3 of them from spending long prison sentences. We have free speech, provided it is not dangerous to those in power. When it becomes dangerous, (1,200 striking factories do not make powerful industrialists very happy) the dangerous people are quickly quelled. 2. The Supreme Court will allow this governmental elimination in all but the most heinous cases. Studying the cases on Constitutional Law, (Indian Law as an example) it is amazing how often the Supreme Court will allow the Government Constitutional authority to commit despicable acts. They are appointed by the executive branch, and stay suprisingly loyal to the power structure and to industry. Legal protection from this group does not resemble the "Blind Lady of Justice" nearly as much as one would hope. 3. The media supports the opinions of the powerful. From this 1 incident, the notion of a "bomb-throwing Anarchist" has grown to permeate the general perception of Anarchy. The word can scarcely be mentioned without conjuring up these images. A great read involving media support for the power structure is Chomsky's book Manufacturing Consent. It delves deeply into this difficult topic. 4. Some politicians will protest injustice, but rarely for altruistic reasons. The Illinois governor, even though he resisted the Presidents use of force and pardoned the Haymarket leaders (after 4 were dead, however), did this more out of a show of state power against the Federal government than of any concern for the people involved. Beware of governmental magnanimity, it is seldom genuine. If one views world events with this understanding as a backdrop, then they see the world as refracted through a "Haymarket Prism". Hence, the name.