Earlier this year, Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre received a disturbing email just as it was about to host a performance by a New York-based company on a global tour. “We have prepared Molotov cocktails and guns,” claimed the sender, whose name was in Chinese characters.
The sender of the March 30 email went on to say that “we will enter as spectators on Shen Yun’s performance day,” referring to Shen Yun Performing Arts, adding that if the performance went ahead, “we will suddenly pull out our guns and shoot at the actors and throw Molotov cocktails towards the stage,” targeting anyone who tries to interfere….