ABSTRACT
James Mason was living in a small town in Colorado when Siege came out in 1993, but he had largely withdrawn from political work. He soon got into a relationship with a 15-year-old girl, Eva. Mason was arrested after taking nude photos of a young teenage friend of hers. By the time he was released, Eva had found a new boyfriend and Mason was arrested again for threatening them. For this, he spent 1995 to 1999 in prison. During this time, he embraced an idiosyncratic form of racist and antisemitic Christianity that was mixed in with UFO beliefs. He wrote for Tom Metzger’s WAR newspaper, and supporters ran a website that published his prison writings. Mason also wrote several books that he would later self-publish.
In 2003, publisher Ryan Schuster released a second edition of Siege. Originally working with Greg Johnson, later famous for his website Counter-Currents, Schuster published the book on his Black Sun Publications. It contained a new biographical essay and other content. Just like the first edition, it sold out. Mason then spent the next years keeping a low profile. He self-published some short books and made documentaries at a community access TV station before being rediscovered in 2015 by young neo-Nazi militants who embraced terrorism.
