On June 24, 2023 a group of roughly 15 neo-nazis, consisting of a members of the Sacramento Proud Boys, Patriot Front, White Lives Matter CA, and NorCal Active Club, harassed a children’s pride event at the Sacramento Children’s Museum. Present with the group was recently exposed Modesto neo-nazi Harley Ray Petero Jr., neo-nazi Proud Boy Jeffrey Erik Perrine, and Bay Area Patriot Front member Ryan Sundberg. Also in attendance was Martin Jens Wenzel of Morgan Hill, a member of White Lives Matter CA and NorCal Active Club, who we’ll be getting to know a little better in this article.
For more background on White Lives Matter CA in Northern California please refer first to our previous article on Harley Ray Petero Jr., as well as Borwin10’s recent work detailing both Jeffrey Erik Perrine and neo-nazi bomb maker Joshua Isgrigg. For background on the Active Club movement in general please refer to Stumptown Research Collective’s excellent work outlining Evergreen Active Club in Washington State.
Martin J. Wenzel: White Lives Matter CA’s “Cali Kaiser”
Martin J. Wenzel first appeared on antifascists’ radar following WLM’s October 2022 “Day of Action,” where, in protest of Meta’s decision to ban the hate group’s Instagram account, about seven members did a banner drop on a nearby overpass and then posed in front of the 1 Hacker Way sign. Wenzel stuck out, wearing a Rhodesian Brushstroke camouflage gator mask, which he would again wear at the January 22nd 2023 Walk for Life in San Francisco, where WLM CA were confronted by pro-choice counter-protestors.
Rhodesian Brushstroke is the camouflage pattern of the former Rhodesian Security Forces, an explicitly white-supremacist colonial military that once occupied present-day Zimbabwe. Today’s white nationalists look to Rhodesia as an example of realized white nationalism, and idealize the Rhodesian Security Forces for their bush fighting tactics, gunsmithing abilities, and their symbolism as anti-communist lost-cause fighters. Recent pro-Rhodesia sentiment is most infamously associated with white nationalist mass shooter Dylann Roof, who went by “The Last Rhodesian” on his website and similarly titled his manifesto, before murdering nine members of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in hopes to start a race war. Recently on August 26 of this year, Jacksonville gunman Ryan Palmeter left behind white supremacist messages and murdered three Black people at a nearby Dollar General, wearing a Rhodesian army patch on his tactical vest. Wenzel himself appears to have traveled to South Africa while studying at Mt. Madonna High School, making his affinity for a symbol of militarized white nationalism, apartheid, and white-minority rule all the more damning.
Meet the Wenzels: Morgan Hill’s German-American White Nationalist Family
In other white supremacist chats on telegram, Wenzel has consistently stated that his family is supportive of his neo-nazi beliefs, commenting “Going back to visit Germany every couple years, the demographic changes are so striking. In my fam we pretty much all agree these migrants have to go. Just nobody wants to talk openly about how that’s gonna happen. Quite the pickle”. Martin’s brother Nicholas Wenzel also appears to be influenced by his brothers politics and social media account history shows him liking and interacting with Neo-traditionalist and other far-right content. Both Nicholas and Martin recently purchased a house in Boise, Idaho a territory white nationalists see as the American Redoubt or as part of the Northwest Territorial Imperative. The Wenzel brother’s home was previously owned by Sam Wenzel of Boise Rental Properties LLC, a family member who also appears to have also worked for Martin’s employer PrimePay and SyncHR by Primepay a “Human Capital Management” company.
PLUR Means Raver Nazis Not Welcome
“PLUR” is a set of principles associated with rave subculture. An ideology to some, a form of community agreements to others, PLUR originated out of the 1990s nightlife and rave scene and stands for:
P. – Peace
L. – Love
U. – Unity
R. – Respect
Essentially, the agreement can be summed up as: don’t bring conflict and negativity into rave spaces, engage in goodwill with others, welcome others into the environment and shared space regardless of personal differences, and show sensitivity and tolerance towards others. As a member of multiple white nationalist hate groups, Wenzel’s behavior flies directly in the face of this principle he supports in name, and claims he “redpills when (he) can”, nudging members of his social group in the direction of neo-nazi ideas. Wenzel is also involved in mycology and a weed growing subculture, as well as backpacking, surfing, and trail running. He is likely armed.
As a member of the white supremacist groups WLM CA and NorCal Active Club, Martin J. Wenzel’s identity as “Cali Kaiser” is of public interest. Due to his enthusiastic identification with Rhodesia’s militarized white nationalism and explicit nazism as a German-American, and his direct connection via WLM to members of Patriot Front and Golden State Skinheads, residents of Morgan Hill and Santa Clara County as well as Boise, ID should made aware of his regional organizing and activity. An employee at PrimePay, a company specializing in payroll, benefits, and HR solutions, it is not difficult to see how Wenzel’s embrace of explicitly Nazism could lead to workplace discrimination.
Martin Jens Wenzel
DOB: 04/22/96
Address: 16814 Hill Top Ct. Morgan Hill, CA, 7747 W Middle Fork St Boise, Id 83709
Twitter: @cali_kaiser
Instagram: @wenzel_pretzel
Occupation: Emerging Market HCM Consultant at PrimePay
Please send any further tips about Martin Jens Wenzel, WLM CA, NorCal Active Club, or the Wenzel family to bay161(at)riseup(dot)net
