Mason's writings are considered influential among radical right-wing and neo-Nazi movements. In 1980, Mason revived
Siege, the newsletter of the NSLF. He continued publishing until 1986. In the newsletter, Mason paid tribute to
Adolf Hitler,
Joseph Tommasi,
Charles Manson, and
Savitri Devi. It was later edited into a book. In 1980, he declared his support for neo-Nazi serial killer
Joseph Paul Franklin, a former member of the NSWPP, who he claimed to have known personally. In the early 1980s, Mason began corresponding with
Sandra Good and
Lynette Fromme, two followers of
Charles Manson. In 1982, along with Manson, Mason founded Universal Order, an organization that encouraged terror with notoriety, similar to that achieved by the
Manson Family. Mason's turn to Charles Manson worship resulted in criticism from many other neo-Nazis. Even the other neo-Nazis who kept in contact with Mason, like Pierce and
Tom Metzger, were put off by it. When
Siege ended, Metzger was distressed, and suggested that Mason began writing for Metzger's paper,
WAR, the outlet of his White Aryan Resistance organization. Mason did so; he published a few articles a year in the paper, and was one of its editorial staff. However, the Manson worship also led to new attention in the late 1980s, but now outside of the neo-Nazi subculture. In February 1987, he was interviewed by Brian King and Ken Swezey, which was later excerpted in the documentary
Charles Manson Superstar. Mason's posters were included in
Adam Parfrey and
George Petros's
Exit magazine, and he contributed to its sixth issue; he was thanked in Parfrey's 1988 book
Apocalypse Culture. That same year, Mason's work got its first reprinting in the book
The Manson File, which had a section on Mason. In 1991, Mason appeared with
Michael J. Moynihan and
Boyd Rice on the Christian radio show
Talk-Back. He was affiliated with the
Abraxas Foundation for several years. With the ending of the
Siege newsletter, Moynihan encouraged Mason to create an anthology of sorts that included his earlier works. After years of struggling to find someone who would publish the book, Moynihan formed the Storm Books imprint (created solely to publish Siege), and published it in 1992, entitled
Siege: The Collected Writings of James Mason.
Siege explicitly advocated
lone wolf terrorism, as opposed to group terrorism, and adheres to what it describes as terroristic
National Socialism; Mason describes Hitler as "the greatest personality in all of history" and "the LAST CHANCE for the revival of Western Civilization".
1990s imprisonment In 1988 and 1991 his home was raided, and he was arrested for "illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material", for which he was sentenced to a $500 fine and a suspended sentence. In May 1994, Mason was arrested and charged with two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. His relationship with the 15-year-old girl began after his book release in 1993. He was connected to this girl in December of 1993, having met her father through his neo-Nazi affiliations in 1977. He chronicled the dispute with the girl in neo-Nazi periodicals that he wrote for. This and his devotion to Charles Manson did not help Mason's reputation with other contemporary neo-Nazis, who thought him immoral. The relationship ended with Mason's arrest in March of 1994. He then threatened his ex-girlfriend, who was then 16 years old, and a Latino man whom she had been dating, with a firearm. His two chapters were on the NSLF, and one on the Universal Order. His chapters were some of a few entries written by far-righters, with most written by Kaplan; Kaplan approached contributors with the requirement that the authors do so in an unbiased manner. In a review of that book, scholar
Kathleen M. Blee said while some of the far-righters' contributions were informative, Mason's were "self-aggrandizing". The book contains an entry on Mason himself, written by Kaplan. Mason published the second volume of his Robert Burns collection in 2002, and an anthology of his articles for
WAR in 2003, and
Articles and Interviews, an assortment of articles and interviews involving or about him. A second edition of
Siege was released in 2003 by Ryan Schuster's Black Sun Publications. He also finished a manuscript on his time in prison, entitled
Out of the Dust, though this was not published for over a decade. He continued to put out new books and new editions of his old books until about 2010. He also made several CDs of old American Nazi Party material. == Rediscovery ==