Falun Gong threatens a storeowner in Chinatown:
"Dare you distribute the Truth Magazine again, we'll call the police to arrest you!"

　　While being interviewed by a reporter of the Chinese Press on Tuesday, Madam Zhen, the storeowner of Jeanne's Fruits de Mer Secs et Nourriture en Vrac located at Unit M06 on the second floor of Place du Quartier shopping mall in Chinatown said: "My store is open everyday and selling newspapers is part of the business. But I have been harassed and threatened by a group of Falun Gong practitioners for 3 days since last Friday afternoon. Though I had repeatedly demanded them to leave, they refused and kept yelling at me. That was more than I could tolerate, so I warned them if they stayed in my store any longer, I would call 9-1-1!"
　

　　"To my surprise, they (2 men and 1 woman) threatened me in return: 'It should be us who call the police, not you.' And I said: 'What for?' they said: 'Because you are distributing this newspaper (i.e. the Truth Magazine) to help them attack and defame Falun Gong!' Madam Zhen said angrily.
　

　　According to the storeowner of Jeanne's, while the male practitioners threatened and harassed her, the female one was photographing her in close range. But she wasn't scared away and stood in front of the camera instead. "I'm well over sixty, still running a store and pay taxes. Should you call the police to arrest me, I will fight to the Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office!" Madam Zhen said, apparently referring to the practitioners' warning her not to distribute the Truth Magazine or they would take the photos and bring her to court!
　

　　She told the practitioners she wasn't afraid of them at all and "suit me as you wish, I'll keep on distributing this newspaper. You have interrupted my business for 3 days, see who will file the motion first! Don't you think you can domineer me because I'm alone in the store? I'm a decent taxpayer and I want you to get lost, right-now!"
　

　　But her warming fell on deaf ears. Because it happened to be the rush hours of the shopping mall, those practitioners not only prevented her from doing business but also blocked the passage to the Kam Fung restaurant next door and that angered many Chinese and non-Chinese Dim-Sum goers. After asking a Chinese bystander about the dispute, a white gentleman stood out to demand the practitioners to leave immediately and they obediently retreated!
Last Friday (August 18th) afternoon when the Truth Magazine was published, the practitioners started questioning and harassing Jeanne's. About 8:30am next morning, they showed up again and sat on a bench in front of the entrance of the store. Madam Zhen took the Truth Magazine out and went back in. Within 2 minutes, all the copies were gone. "I think they have hired someone to collect those copies." She told the reporter.
　

　　She said that she changed the strategy later by placing only a few copies each time and they were gone too! The practitioners kept waiting and watching the whole day until the store closed. "I wouldn't put out any on Sunday but be back on distributing on Monday and today (Tuesday). I still have a couple dozens of copies in my garage." She said, as if she were fighting a guerrilla war against the Falun Gong practitioners with her flexible defending techniques.
"I was not afraid of them and even questioned them why they had fabricated the story of human organ harvesting in China. Have you witnessed it? Is there any convincing proof? I myself don't believe it at all. Now that the Truth Magazine has revealed your falsification of facts behind the story and you got mad. You tried to interfere the circulation of this newspaper. Obviously, you were pretty much scared," she said.
　

　　Madam Zhen is from China. Immigrating to Canada a decade ago, she's been doing many different jobs. Being straight-forward and courageous, she dare to face any kind of unreasonable provocation and that nature is rarely seen in a senior of the same age.
　

　　Besides, other distribution places in Montreal were also harassed. An owner of a north-end grocery store complained: "They rushed into my store grabbing all the copies and warned that if I put out any they would come back later to pick them up."
　

　　In Chinatown, a long established bookstore didn't distribute the Truth Magazine separately but enclosed in the Chinese Press they sold. A woman stepped in speaking to the owner's wife in Mandarin: "Throw away all the Truth Magazine!" "Who are you?" asked the owner's wife. The woman didn't answer and walked away instead.
Until the deadline of this news report, the Chinese Press received a lot of storeowners' complaints about being harassed one way or another by the practitioners. Some of them already reported to the police. According to several storeowners, they changed the method of distribution such as keeping the Truth Magazine behind the counter and give them to the right customers.
　

　　In a supermarket, someone tried to withdraw the Truth Magazine from the Chinese Press and was caught on the spot. He put it back and left in shame. We should show our respect to these storeowners for their fearing not the harassing campaign of the Falun Gong practitioners and insisting on distributing the Truth Magazine.
Worry not for the vicious behavior of the Falun Gong from now on because the Truth Magazine can be found on the internet. Just visit our website www.chinesepress.com, you can read all the contents.