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... random acts of violence
committed by people in a trance.
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They have lost the ability
to communicate and reason.
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The military has been mobilized,
but the violence is so widespread-
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- that it is impossible
for the rescue services to respond.
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People left to defend themselves...
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Citizens faced with
the collapse of local police -
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- have taken the law
into their own hands.
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Most communities are without telephones,
many without power, some without water.
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The scientific community is focusing on
the trancelike state of the assailants.
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Clearly a behavioural disorder, -
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- but what could have caused
such a widespread and dramatic disorder?
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We've heard everything from
the ozone layer and chemical weapons -
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- to... voodoo mysticism
and organisms from space.
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Biologists in California
have released reports stating -