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Siege : The Collected Writings of James Mason

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Siege was a newsletter/zine published during the 1980's by National Socialist James Mason. The book is more or less a 460 page compilation of those writings in a beautifully put together hardback book, or at least the Black Sun published version that I have is.

This book contains truly revolutionary writings, not the typical anal retentive stuck in a time warp right wing racist b.s. Mason completely rejects the old racist right wing and instead embraces no longer living figures from the so called "movement" such as George Lincoln Rockwell and Joseph Tomassi and hails people like Joseph Paul Franklin and Charles Manson as white nationalist revolutionaries. He even founded something called The Universal Order (long since defunct) which claimed Charles Manson as the most important figure in the white nationalist movement and received a full endorsement and input from Manson himself for U.O. This did not exactly endear Mason to the David Dukes of the world to say the least. Ideologicly this book is great mainly because it completely rejects the right wing. He more or less advocates the idea of completely dropping out of the system and being out of the flow of mainstream society as much as possible or becoming a full blown underground revolutionary and doing whatever that may entail.

Besides that this book is full of Masons reflections on his time in the "movement", dealing with being monitored by law enforcement, news clips, operating as a "lone wolf", profiles of various notorious "lone wolves", much about Charles Manson and even a reprint of Rockwells "Fable of the Ducks and Hens", among other things.

From what I have been told Mason has since done time for having sex with underage girls and become a Jesus freak so he isn't exactly the most stable or virtuous person but that doesn't change the fact that Siege is a great book. I think even if you disagreed with everything Mason says from his viewpoints on race to his political tactics you would probably find Siege to be an engrossing read even if its just for the level of extremism that Mason expressed in his work, plus he is just a good writer.