James Mason is a passionate National Socialist who has achieved notoriety in the underground. Mason's revolutionary rhetoric is considered so subversive and violent that it even alienated other Nazis. SIEGE shares this unusual similarity with Celine's Les Beaux Draps (A Fine Mess), which was banned from publication by the Third Reich for being too hateful. This status of notoriety prompted SIEGE to make a new, large-scale, rather bold public statement in favor of defending political terror. Indeed, Mason views the establishment with the prevailing status quo as enemy number one and seeks to promote its decapitation by any means available.