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Part Three: The Apostle of Fascism

Behind the Bastards

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What if James Mason Had Shot Up His School?

James Mason would go on to write a book titled Siege, which would provide the nuts and bolts inspiration for the terrorist group Adam Waffen. As the 1960s wound to a close, William Pierce started to get frustrated with the NSWPP because it was just too darn Nazi-ish. He quit the party in July of 1970, and published a paper titled Prospectus for a National Front that he circulated around neo-Nazi circles. Here's how it opened: "Today, all that we have ever been ... is threatened with extinction"

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