Imagine not knowing that your own government encoded such a crime into law, that with the waging of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s blasphemous pen, entire families were disappeared, sent to a mass grave, surveilled, killed for affinities to gardens, targeted for being too good at agriculture and aggravating jealous white farmers (who, as Shimoda explains, prompted many to support the mass incarceration of Japanese citizens). Japanese Americans who weren’t interned were encouraged to evacuate the US voluntarily under the threat of their live burial, warned they might be next. Could American xenophobia and psychopathy induce the terraformation of an environment wherein the inventedother dissolved into mineral—stones on the landscape merging into unholy mountains, hidden places, secret rest stops on the path to acceptable modes of Americanism. Kill him before he learns how defiant it is to love beauty under fascism. {read}