Hang Up Your Boots: Aging Bonehead Jonathan Scott Court Attempting To Use NorCal Active Club, WLM CA as Golden State Skinheads Feeder Groups.

This is our third article covering NorCal Active Club, a self-styled Neo-Nazi fight club attempting to gain a foothold in the region. In our first article we outlined some of the group’s connections to the Goyim Defense League, White Lives Matter, and Patriot Front as well as the organizing work of Harley Ray Petero Jr. of Modesto, CA and his wife Haley Phillips-Petero. In our second article we covered NorCal Active Club member and “raver nazi” currently employed at a human resources/payroll firm, Martin J. Wenzel. In this article we will bring new information to light concerning Jonathan Scott Court, a longtime member of Golden State Skinheads – a group of boneheads (nazi skinheads) responsible for the 2016 stabbing of seven anti-racist protestors at the counter protest to a Traditionalist Workers Party rally in Sacramento.

Who is Jonathan Court, and who are the Golden State Skinheads (GSS)?

Court was a relatively early member of WLM CA, joining around February 2022. Coinciding with GSS President Michael Allen Sessumes moving back to California, there seems to be an uptick in GSS activity statewide. Golden State Skinheads, occasionally referred to as Golden State Solidarity, is a white supremacist group of openly neo-nazi boneheads who have historically recruited through California prison yards, Stormfront (a web forum for dedicated white nationalist bigots), and through RAC (Rock Against Communism) shows, as well as more dressed-up suit and tie Nazi events like American Freedom Party’s conferences.

Court, Sessumes, and Nathan Lowry were all reported as being connected to the Church of Aryanity and the newer bonehead crew it produced as its “Southwest Commandry” Crew 562, now know as Clockwork Crew. Clockwork Crew, at least for a time, had adherents to The Church of Aryanity – an esoteric Klan-style fusion of Christian Identity with Odinist paganism. Founded by a former Traditionalist Workers Party member, Aaron Chapman of Tennessee (also a member of the Kentucky Thoroughbreds Active Club), California Clockwork Crew initially networked with WLM CA SoCal and SoCal Active Club, and was formed by active duty lance corporal Mohammed Wadaa and Nathan Daniel Large of Walnut Creek. Golden State Skinheads additionally have ties to the West Coast Firm Hammerskins, and their feeder group Crew 38, with both Evergreen Active Club and SoCal Active Club openly repping connections to the bonehead gang.

Court has admitted in Clockwork Crew chats that he only saw WLM CA and NorCal Active Club as a potential GSS and Clockwork Crew feeder group. With connections to regional Hammerskins and a long history of dumbass bonehead stunts (see above pic), it makes sense that Court would buck up against WLM leadership and try to recruit for his crew of white pride-addled spousal abusers. This mirrors advances made by William Scott Planner (also of GSS) to recruit and build out of Patriot Front in Colorado, and the gradual movement of networked boneheads into the whites-only Asatru Folk Assembly. Asatru seems to have it out for Court and Sessumes after Sessumes helped form the Raven Folk United Kindred in response to the Asatru Folk Assembly seemingly harboring a known sex offender, as well as an incident at Odinshof (the group’s “temple” in Brownsville, CA), in which bonehead members of the church couldn’t hold their liquor and went a little more mask off neo-nazi than the church likes to pretend to be.

Local and Regional Activity

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Court has been seen at NorCal Active Club’s surveillance attempt of the Trans Day of Rage counter-protest to “De-transition Awareness Day” at the Sacramento Capitol. Court has also been identified as admin of a now-private Golden State Skinheads Telegram channel, and regularly attends NorCal Active Club meets, pushing for the GSS flag to be held alongside the NCAC flag. Interestingly enough, on one recent meet, in which regional Patriot Front members met with NorCal Active Club and WLM, Patriot Front deemed the GSS banner to be “bad optics” and left it out of their published propaganda for the day. This escalation toward the inclusion of Nazi sonnenrads or “black suns” and skullmask aesthetics seems to go against the early WLM handbook strategy Court and his WLM CA peers adopted and tried to stick with for some time. Outside of WLM and NorCal Active Club organizing, Court has also recently participated in at least two banner drops in the Castro Valley area, one espousing antisemitic conspiracy theories and another coordinated with Golden State Skinheads, whose name was featured on the banner. With a membership of much younger men, some in their mid-twenties, Court has attempted to act as an unlikely authority figure within the group. While he consistently projects about LGBTQ “grooming”, he seems to enjoy spending a considerable amount of time with very young men, far away from and seemingly neglecting (literally torching) the home he shares with his newly betrothed wife and kids. So much for the fourteen words, eh?

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“South Bay Asatru” and Move to Raven Folk United Kindred

Before he joined WLM and later NorCal Active Club, Jon Court’s spiritual and political home outside of the Golden State Skinheads was the Asatru Folk Assembly – the SPLC-designated “Neo-Volkisch” hate group and “whites only” pagan church operating out of Brownsville, CA. Acting as a retirement home for washed up boneheads in the NorCal region, the Asatru Folk Assembly operates based on an ahistorical and largely inaccurate mishmash of widely disparate Northern European spiritual traditions and a tight-knit “back to the land” traditionalist pagan community where white supremacists can live and pray in harmony with thinly veiled new age bigots. However, by 2023 Court had migrated away from Asatru to Raven Folk United following a scandal in which Asatru leader Matthew Flavel was called out by his detractors for blatantly harboring a known sex offender within the ranks of the church. In an attempt to break away from the bad optics of the Asatru Folk Assembly, Raven Folk United defines itself as an even dorkier racist pagan organization organized around Michael Sessumes and his former allies within the church, and now boasts Blood Tribe founder Christopher Pohlhaus within its ranks.

Area Nazi Burns Own House Down, Tries to Get White Supremacist Plumbing Business to Take Off

Interestingly, Court maintains and frequents two residences in both Castro Valley and Livermore, one of which he appears to have burnt down. Court owns and operates Vinland Plumbing out of Livermore and also appears to be employed with Harry Clark Plumbing of Oakland. Court also has a badly aging plumbing business advertisement visible on his truck, going by ‘Jonny Scooter” with the logo of a white supremacist Celtic cross.

Golden State Boneheads in East Castro Valley

It is of additional note that Court’s Castro Valley place is only about a half mile away from fellow Golden State Skinheads member James McFly, a regional bonehead who is in the decal business and who was outed as having ties to consistently bonehead-adjacent MAGA “activist” Lindsay Grathwohl. Fly’s residence has also hosted Sean Michael Wurzburg, a former Hayward GSS bonehead who was partially responsible for the 2016 stabbings in Sacramento. Parents of children who attend the nearby Marshall Elementary School, Castro Valley High School and nearby residents should be alerted to Golden State Skinhead activity in East Castro Valley and Livermore.

Jonathan Scott Court (DOB: 2/15/1985)

Spouse: Lauren Hanson

Aliases: Jon Blood, Johnny McBlood, Jonny Scooter, Darth Hater, Andy Zemite

Addresses: 3819 East Ave Apt #30, Livermore, CA 94550, 19559 Center St, Castro Valley, CA 94546

Occupation: Vinland Plumbing Livermore, CA Lic.#1100939. Harry Clarke Plumbing & Sewer 3026 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94611

Vehicles: Blue Dodge Dakota Sport Pickup 7B58992
White Chevrolet Harry Clark Work Van 05566H2
White Hyundai Accent Sedan 8MAV072

James Fly

Address: 5034 Rahlves Dr Castro Valley, CA 94546

Vehicles: Navy Ram 1500 Pickup 6B14533 (Decal “FLY” on front window, brass knuckles on side)
Blue-Grey Ram Dakota Pickup 8D59290 (Fly Decal on back w/ Phone #, “Rebel” on front window, “DOEZ” on back, Disability Tags R240418)

Occupation: Owner @ Fly Decal

Connor Patrick Norris

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Address: 1478 Mount Diablo Ave, Milpitas, CA 95035

Vehicle: Red Chevrolet Avalanche 97828E3 (Metal Gear Solid “Foxhound” decal on back)

Occupation: Employee at Trader Joe’s Milpitas

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Previously listed as an Apprentice Folkbuilder for the Asatru Folk Assembly and later oathed in by Steven McNallen as a Folkbuilder, Norris moved from Vancouver, WA to Milpitas, CA and quickly got involved in running “South Bay Asatru” a meet up group that went for several meets around St. James Park, San Jose in 2022. Previous to his move down from the PNW, Norris was a member of the Acsafolc Kindred of the PNW Wolfpack (a neo-volkisch group with serious overlap with the Washington-based Hakenkreuz Skinheads) and later the Nordevestri Kindred of the Asatru Folk Assembly, a regional affiliate of the PNW Wolfpack. Social media account history shows Norris as both a 4chan /k/ (weapons) board user, and an adherent of the proto-nazi Wandervogel concept of a Mannerbund (“alliance of men”), regularly meeting with a “men’s group” of right wing cosplayers in the PNW. Norris is heavily involved in the cosplay scene, and is a regular at the Sacramento Anime Convention, Anaheim Comic Con, and was previously a host of the MarvelTalkCast podcast. While navigating culturally liberal spaces like his workplace Trader Joe’s it is apparent that he is actively disingenuous to coworkers and peers about his position within the white nationalist movement and his white separatist religious views.

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Please send any and all tips regarding Jonathan Scott Court or the Golden State Skinheads, the Asatru Folk Assembly, Raven Folk United, NorCal Active Club, and White Lives Matter CA to bay161 [@] riseup [dot] net.

For more information on Jonathan Court and James Fly please refer to Northern California Anti-Racist Action’s previous reporting on Golden State Skinheads.