Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism : The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege

A new wave of aspiring neo-Nazi terrorists has arisen—including the infamous Atomwaffen Division. And they have a bible: James Mason’s Siege, which praises terrorism, serial killers, and Charles Manson. Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism, based on years of archival work and interviews, documents for the first time the origins of Siege. First, it shows how Mason’s vision arose from debates by 1970s neo-Nazis who splintered off the American Nazi Party/National Socialist White People's Party and spun off a terrorist faction. Second, it unveils how four 1980s countercultural figures—musicians Boyd Rice and Michael Moynihan, Feral House publisher Adam Parfrey, and Satanist Nikolas Schreck—discovered, promoted, and published Mason. Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism explores a previously overlooked period and unearths the hidden connections between a countercultural clique and violent neo-Nazis—which together have set the template for today’s Neo-nazi terrorist underground. It is obligatory reading for those interested in contemporary terrorism, postwar countercultures, and the history of the U.S. Far Right and neo-Nazism. Cover Endorsement Page Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Thank you! Preface Guide to Organizations and People Organizational Acronyms Selected Individuals Citation and Archive Notes Introduction Part I: #ReadSiege Chapter 1: A Twenty-First Century Siege: How the Rediscovery of an Obscure Neo-Nazi Book Helped Inspire a New Generation of White Supremacist Terrorism Notes Part II: Life among the Sects (1959–1986) Chapter 2: The Party of Rockwell: The American Nazi Party and NSWPP Getting the Party Started “An Americanized Version of National Socialism” Mason Joins the Party The Swastika Splinters The NSWPP in Southern Ohio Trouble with Teenagers Notes Chapter 3: Joseph Tommasi’s NSLF NSWPP Days Clashes with Leftists CREEPy Deals Conflict with Koehl Enter the NSLF New Left Names Structure Ideology “Building the Revolutionary Party” Action Death and the Party Notes Chapter 4: A Tangled Web of Neo-Nazis: David Rust’s NSLF, the NSM, the White Confederacy, and the National Socialist Congress —1975— National Socialist Movement Influence of Tommasi and the NSLF Ideas and Actions Rust’s NSLF White Confederacy Louisville NSLF National Alliance —1976— NSM The Monkey’s Paw The Dietz Affair NSLF NSLF Gains a Mason and, Briefly, a Hand Prisoners White Confederacy and National Socialist Congress —1977— NSM “A Case of the Heebie Jeebies” NSLF: Rust and Duffy Rust Arrest Duffy and the “Shadow NSLF” White Confederacy and the National Socialist Congress —1978— The NSM, NSLF, and NSWWP It’s Not Your Party, So You Can’t Give it Away—Only Splinter and Merge After Mason Notes Chapter 5: Allen Vincent’s NSWWP and John Duffy’s Shadow NSLF ANP/NSWPP Days A Party to Call His Own Ed Reynolds “Free the Circle Plaza Two!” Vincent after Mason Notes Chapter 6: Karl Hand’s NSLF The NSLF, Reborn Handover to Hand Mason and SIEGE Leave over Charlie NSLF Units, Prisoners, and Ideology 1983 to 1986 The Neighbors End the NSLF Hand after the NSLF Reynolds after SIEGE Notes Part III: SIEGE the Newsletter (1980–1986) Chapter 7: The SIEGE Itself: Cult of the Extreme The Cult of the Extreme Re-Enter the NSLF Past Nazis Against the System Violence Is the Key Enter Charlie Violence—But with Style The Reds and the Blacks Total Attack or Total Drop Out! Philosophy and Christianity Tom Metzger Ending the SIEGE Notes Chapter 8: Charles Manson as Neo-Nazi “Holy Man” Charlie’s Appeal Swastikas, Right and Left Racism, Antisemitism, Manson The Family and the Brotherhood The Moon and the Sun Manson in SIEGE Initial Manson Worship Reception Environmentalism Red Letters, Blue Letters The Pop Cult of Manson Notes Chapter 9: Universal Order as Idea and Organization Universal Order as Idea Universal Order as Organization Other Post-SIEGE Uses Notes Chapter 10: Life after SIEGE Pictures of Girls Colorado, Ho! Notes Part IV: Countercultural Fascism (1986–1995) Chapter 11: The Abraxas Clique and Countercultural Fascism The Underground Culture of the 1980s Social Darwinism Abraxas Foundation “Young, creative geniuses” The Making of a Countercultural Fascist Lineage Deny Everything Notes Chapter 12: Boyd Rice: Neo-Nazi Collaborator Early Industry Genesis of Hitler–Manson Interest Boyd in the Bay Making Contact with Mason Visiting Charlie...Briefly Tom Metzger TV Blood & Flame Might is Right Anton LaVey 8/8/88 Bob Heick and the American Front Sassy Rice Völkisch Folk in Japan Bay Area Left to Denver Right Music, Martinis, and Misogyny The President and the Preacher A Wake for Abraxas The Continuing Appeal of Savitri Devi Brown Rice: 1993 and After Rice Replies and Denies Projection Social Darwinism and Fascism Are Not National Socialism Riced Jews Not a Political Fascist The Fifteen-Minute Friend NO Nazis Born without Feelings Notes Chapter 13: Adam Parfrey: A Neo-Nazi’s Best Friend Living in the'80s Life with the Holocaust Deniers 1987 The Rockwell Book that Wasn’t A Big Fish in a Small Pond Doesn’t Completely Forget Old Friends Post-1995 Parfrey Is Always Innocent Notes Chapter 14: Michael Moynihan: From Mason-Manson-National Socialism to Decentralized Ethno-separatism Teenage Noise (1984–1988) Blood Rice (1988–1989) Mason, Siege, Swastikas (1989) Starting Siege Go West, Young Fascist (1990) The Church and the State (1991) Secret Service Siege Introduction “Manson Maniacs” Writing Racist Rock (1992) The Next Holocaust (1993–1994) Lenient Entrance Requirements Holocaust Deniers Heathenism COCA Cult Culture Satan’s Priest (1994) Puddletown (1995–1997) Lords of Chaos (1998) Afterlord Evasive Measures Backing Away Hitting the Bull’s-eye Fall 1999 Eye Denies Interference on the Flipside White Lies Dundas Diversion Enabling Writers Prendergast Nelson Dundas Gardell Notes Chapter 15: Nazi-Satanism: Nikolas Schreck and the Church of Satan The Church of Satan Satanic Policy on National Socialism Michael Aquino The Debate Goes On “Zionist Odinist Bolshevik Nazi Imperialist Socialist Fascism” Mason and LaVey Nikolas Schreck The Manson File The Abraxas Clique and the Church of Satan More Satanic Fascism Order of Nine Angles Notes Part V: Siege the Book (1989–1995) Chapter 16: The Book and the Reception The Book The Reception Marketing Plans Reactions and Reviews Neo-Nazi Reactions Christian Talk Alternative Weekly Superstuds Post-1995 Notes Part VI: Coda (1995–2017) Chapter 17: From Prison to Revival Teenage Trouble Prison Second Edition Siege The Quiet In-Between Notes Chapter 18: The Lessons of Siege Politics Culture Part VII: Appendices Appendix 1: The NSM after Mason: Brannen, Herrington, Schoep, and Beyond Misinformation About the NSM’s Founding Brannen after Mason (1978–1983) Detroit Nazi City Bill Russell’s Detroit NSM SS Action Group The 64,000 Vote Nazi: Gerald Carlson Herrington: Local Group Rockwell and Second NSM Chairman (1983–1994) Oklahoma City Nazis Trouble in Bethlehem Schoep Takes the Helm (1994–2019) Notes Appendix 2: The Original NSLF and David Duke: Big Nazi on Campus NSLF, Beta Version David Duke Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Notes Appendix 3: Gary/John Jewell and Perry “Red” Warthan: From Anarchism to National Socialism John/Gary Jewell Perry “Red” Warthan Post-1995 Notes Appendix 4: In Praise of Murder Men: Serial Killers, Mass Murderers, and Lone Wolves Lone Wolves and Leaderless Resistance Neal Bradley Long (1972–1975) Michael Pearch (1975) Frederick Cowan (1977) Joseph Paul Franklin (1977–1980) Raymond Schultz (1977) Kenneth Wilson (1977) Dan White (1978) Atlanta Child Murders (1979–1981) Greensboro Massacre (1979) Bombings and Riots (1980) Joseph Christopher, the .22 Caliber Killer (1980) John Hinckley, Jr. (1981) Frank Spisak, Jr. (1982) Tylenol Poisonings (1982) Gordon Kahl (1983) Bernard Goetz (1984) James Huberty (1984) The Order (1985) Waco, the World Trade Center Bombing, Abortion Doctor David Gunn’s Assassination, and the Long Island Railroad Shootings (1993) Oklahoma City Bombing (1995) Charles “Chuck” Lawrence (1971) Post-1995 Notes Appendix 5: Christianity: Jesus, Hitler, Rockwell, Manson, and UFOs Rockwell and Koehl on Jesus and Hitler Christianity and Christian Identity And Manson Makes Three Post-1995 Notes Appendix 6: Women, Gay Men, and Extreme Pornography Scarce Women “Women should be trained like dogs” Women as the Vanguard “The problem in every case lies with the man” Women Questions, Family Answers Nazis and Gays, Gay Nazis Extreme Pornography Notes Appendix 7: Against Capitalism and the Liberal State: The Left, Third Positionism, Islamists, and Racial Separatism Hippies and Communists Brinks Third Position Fascism Arab Radicals and Islamists White Separatism Notes Appendix 8: Robert N. Taylor and Thomas Thorn Robert N. Taylor and Changes Thomas Thorn and the Electric Hellfire Club Notes Appendix 9: Michael Merritt and Keith Stimely Michael Merritt Keith Stimely Notes Appendix 10: Varg Vikernes and the Heathen Front Familiar Thoughts Heathen Front Notes Appendix 11: The Satanic Temple: The Lasting Influence of the Abraxas Circle A New Kind of Satanism TST and the Far Right Is Might Right? Antisemitism on the Air 2011 Emails and Salem Art Show Anti-Antifa, But Free Speech for Fascists Apologies Notes Part VIII: End Matter Periodical List James Mason’s Books Periodicals Edited by Mason, plus Selected Others Local Activity Report, Cincinnati NSWPP (Love, editor) Southern Ohio Activity Report, Cincinnati NSWPP (Love, editor) Ohio National Socialist, NSM (Mason, editor) National Socialist, NSM and NSLF (Mason, editor) NSM only National Socialist Bulletin, NSM (Mason, editor) Stormer, NSWWP (Mason, editorial staff; editor-in-chief starting with 1[4]) White Worker’s Bulletin, NSWWP (Mason, editor) SIEGE, NSLF under Duffy (Mason, editor) NSLF under Hand SIEGE, Universal Order (Mason, editor) Related NSLF and NSM Publications Liberator, original NSLF as NSWPP student group The Racialist, White Student Alliance Siege, NSLF under Tommasi National Socialist Review, NSLF under Tommasi NSLF under Rust NSLF under Duffy White Liberator, Louisville NSLF under Chaney NSLF Enforcement Bulletin, Louisville NSLF under Chaney The Eagle News, UWPP/White Confederacy Eastern Front, Wilmington, Delaware NSLF under Duffy Jailbreak, Wilmington, Delaware NSLF under Duffy National Headquarters Bulletin, Wilmington, Delaware NSLF under Duffy The Storm, Local Group Rockwell, NSM affiliate National Socialist Bulletin, NSM (Brannen, editor) Defiance, National Guard Party (Hand, editor) Defiance (Hand, editor), NSPA NSLF National Socialist Observer, NSLF under Hand Combat Report, Waverly, New York NSLF National Socialist Report, [Corning, New York NSLF?] Interviews Selected Secondary Bibliography Index