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I've seen footage of one of them rushing the police and being shot. The other guy apparently tried to shoot the rusty gun they had and it exploded in his hand. Both incompetent idiots.
'Terrorism' as a term is devalued when applied to incidents like this. Shocking though it was, the more appropriate description here is 'nutter-ism'. Describing every incident or near-miss as terrorism is a convenient excuse to allow governments to further erode our rights. This has been abundantly confirmed in the past weeks with the revelations about PRISM, TEMPORA, etc.
And it's not just the US - the Snowden revelations show wide-scale collusion between countries in sharing of this collected 'intelligence' data. This allows Obama to conveniently claim that th NSA does not spy on American citizens. Technically correct, however the British, Swedes and Germans DO pass scooped-up American internet traffic to their US colleagues. So, Americans are being spied-on by proxy. This is not targeted - it is wholesale and indiscriminate. We are all being profiled by algorithm.
This is not government by consent. Obama, Clapper et al are wiping their arses with the US constitution and the Universal declaration of Human rights. All in the name of ....