Individuals who randomly target unidentified civilians in the middle of a city like Boston do not deserve to be identified themselves as or associated with groups or causes they may claim to have.
Their causes, whatever they are, are illegitimate because they target random crowds potentially including persons who might be sympathetic to similar causes.
Their politics, whatever it is, are illegitimate because they target random crowds potentially including persons who might be affiliated with their own political convictions (right, left, conservative, liberal, etc.)
Calling them "terrorists," gives them legitimacy, in a twisted fashion, which they don't deserve.
They don't deserve identity, recognition, description or definition of any kind because they don't choose their targets based on identity, description or definition of any kind.
People they murder in the most heinous manner (defenseless state) could include any and all races, ethnicities, religious convictions, political associations, nationalities, genders, sexual orientations, ideologies, ages, classes, ad infinitum.
In other words, unidentifiable.
Therefore, they too must be stripped off of all identities and causes they may claim to have.
They have none.
They are COWARDS
Not "terrorists."
The president of the United States was correct in denying unknown persons legitimacy of identity.
We will find them and they shall know justice
as who they really are:
COWARDS.