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May 20, 2025 9 mins

On May 17, 2025, a devastating car bomb exploded outside the American Reproductive Center, a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, killing one person and injuring four others. The FBI identified 25-year-old Guy Edward Bartkus from Twentynine Palms as the primary suspect, believed to have died in the blast. Authorities labeled the incident an "intentional act of terrorism" targeting the IVF clinic. But who was Guy Edward Bartkus, and what drove him to this extreme act?Bartkus, a self-proclaimed "pro-mortalist" and "anti-natalist," expressed radical views online, opposing the idea of bringing people into the world without their consent. According to law enforcement, he left behind a 30-minute audio recording and writings, including a manifesto, detailing his motivations. In these, he cited the death of a close friend, Sophie Tinney, who died by suicide in April 2025, as a catalyst for his actions. Bartkus wrote that they had agreed if one died, the other would follow, reflecting his nihilistic beliefs.Growing up in Yucca Valley, Bartkus attended Landers Elementary and Yucca Valley High School. His father, Richard Bartkus, described him as a kind-hearted person who worked with special-needs children and was a skilled computer enthusiast, building his own PCs at age nine. However, he also had a history of experimenting with explosives, once playing with matches as a child, which caused a fire at his family’s home.Investigators found Bartkus was skilled in constructing explosive devices, possibly using sulfuric and formic acid to create the bomb in his 2010 silver Ford Fusion. He reportedly attempted to livestream the attack, though the video failed to upload. The FBI noted no prior criminal record or agency awareness of Bartkus, suggesting he acted alone. The blast caused significant damage but spared the clinic’s stored embryos, thanks to swift action by Palm Springs firefighters.The incident has sparked discussions about the rise of fringe ideologies like anti-natalism and pro-mortalism, which Bartkus embraced. While these movements don’t typically advocate violence, his actions highlight the dangers of radicalized beliefs in isolated individuals. The FBI continues to investigate his online activity and movements, seeking public tips about his whereabouts before the explosion.What drove Bartkus to this tragic act? How do such ideologies gain traction? Share your thoughts below, and subscribe for more deep dives into real-world events!#GuyEdwardBartkus #PalmSpringsBombing #FertilityClinicAttack #AntiNatalism #ProMortalism #FBIInvestigation #CaliforniaNews #Terrorism2025 #TrueCrime #Nihilism

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(00:15):
I was a soldier, but on my hands.
Fought for their flags, their bullshit plans, government
snakes. They sold me to hell.
Left me to rot in this nightmareshell take Lisa night.
Can't tell what's real. Ghost in my head.
The screams I still feel, faces of brothers burns in my brain.

(00:39):
Betrayed by the suits now I'm insane.
They broke my soul. They shattered my mind, left me
a husk. No peace I can find.
PTSD. It's a noose on my neck, a
loaded gun, and I'm ready to wreck.
Nightmares of light. It's all the same, A broken man

(01:01):
with the trigger to flame. Rage in my face.
I'm losing control. Humanity's next.
I'll swallow it all. I'm a ticking bomb, A scream in
the dark, Betrayed by the world.I'll tear it apart.
Sweat soaked sheets. I wake with the roar.
Phantoms of war. They kicked down my door.

(01:23):
Reality's gone. It's a haze of red.
Am I alive or am I long dead? They promise me on Earth.
They fed me their lies. Now I see murder when I close my
eyes. All right, Hello, ladies and
gentlemen. My name is Brett Keene and you
are watching and listening to GOD TV Radio.

(01:45):
I hope you're all having a blessed day out there.
Today we're going to talk about yet another dangerous atheist
who decided to bomb a clinic, and we're going to read some of
his manifesto and an article puttogether by journalists to see
what his problem was. So here we go.

(02:07):
Let me go ahead and read it to you.
Guy Edwards Barkis, identified as a 25 year old pro mortalist
in connection with the Palm Springs fertility clinic
bombing, did not adhere to any traditional religion based on
available information. Instead, his beliefs aligned
with pro mortalism and ethylism,which are philosophical stances

(02:32):
rather than religious ones. Pro moralism views life is
inherently harmful and advocatesfor the voluntary sussitation of
life to prevent suffering, whileethylism extends us to the goal
of ending all sentient life to eliminate suffering entirely.
So basically he thinks in order to stop suffering in the world,

(02:54):
you have to kill everybody and everything.
That way it doesn't have to feelpain anymore.
Barcus explicitly rejected religion, describing it as
retarded and expressing atheistic views, even stating a
preference for Satan over a hypothetical God in response to
a message about hell. His manifesto and writings

(03:17):
emphasize philosophies like negative utilitarianism,
antinatalism. Antinatalism is when you don't
want to bring children into the world because you believe you've
enslaved them and that they don't have the ability to
choose. And basically you're stating you

(03:38):
don't want kids to suffer so don't bring them into the world.
And an abolish an abolishness veganism or whatever.
All these fancy words. Sorry about that.
You can read it yourself. The posters are in in my
community section on my YouTube.Which he saw as grounded in

(03:59):
objective value, focused on reducing harm in contrast to
religious or nihilistic frameworks.
Oh dear. And of course I put several
names. I shared this and mentioned
people. This is our bomber, atheist
bomber. He was a tick tocker as well as
YouTube constantly going againstthe government, going against

(04:22):
humanity. He hated everything, including
obviously himself, and now he's going to be spending the rest of
his young life in prison where he belongs.
He's a he's an animal, obviously, by his own admittance
and confession. We've over on my channel as well

(04:42):
as on Spotify, I've recorded over 500 incidences where
atheists have raped and murderedand killed people.
The same atheists on their own Facebooks and their own YouTube
videos have claimed that they don't need the Bible for a moral
compass. They don't need to be God.
They don't need to believe in a God in order to be moral good

(05:03):
people. But I mean, you just have to
simply look at their actions instead of hearing the dribble
and gibberish that comes out of their mouth.
There's a lot of atheists and there's a lot of hypocritical
Christians out there that pretend to be one thing on video
and then in real life, they're horrible.

(05:24):
They're garbage. There was a a handful of
atheists that were just arrestedrecently for killing their own
parents, shooting up schools, orplanning or intending to do
this. A majority of school shootings
are usually done in public schools and they usually
typically by routine done by nonbelievers or atheist

(05:48):
transgenders. Every one of these transgender
shootings have been godless atheist who can't figure out who
they are, whether they're male or female.
And this is a unfortunately, it's a pandemic.
It's something that's been goingon for years.
Yet a lot of atheists won't evenacknowledge the fact that

(06:11):
according to Pew Research and scientific stats, that atheists
have the highest suicide rate onthe planet.
They have the highest drug abusebecause they don't have any
moral system. They don't have any books or
holy text or anything to guide them on how to live their lives
or do anything. And this is how it comes down to

(06:33):
there's also a great deal of atheists who go to these
universities and these schools, and then they teach hatred
against Christianity, any form of religion.
And now it's gotten to the pointwhere they preach against the
government. They want socialism and
communism. And if we remember back in

(06:55):
history, every time atheists gottriggered and began spreading
their intentions on agenda, eventually the civilization
ended up getting wiped out. And the more they accepted this
type of behavior and this type of nonsense, atheists throughout
history have learned to get around the laws and pay people

(07:19):
extraordinary amounts of money in order to be able to get them
off whenever they commit crimes and all that.
They say that most politicians are sociopaths, and we see that
a lot of godless people have gotten themselves into the
government and have really been making things miserable for
everybody. This is what happens if you

(07:40):
don't have someone who believes in God and who actually wants to
do good and believes that's a part of being a Christian up
there and they're all for themselves.
You're going to end up with a really bad society.
So it is what it is. And it's really hard nowadays to
be able to choose a leader because a lot of people, they

(08:04):
will lie, they will pretend to be one thing, and then they'll
be something else completely with a completely different
agenda than what they originallypreached.
So there you go. An atheist bomber will be doing
some more articles that as usual, if you'd like to read
about some of the other ones, you can.
A lot of atheists have gotten introuble due to NAMBLA.

(08:27):
I don't know if many of you knewthat, but atheists actually
founded NAMBLA which is a child molesting organization.
They have gotten in way more trouble than the Catholic Church
could ever dream of. And what's sad is Catholics are
taught not to molest children aswhere the atheist NAMBLA
actually encourages you to molest children.

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And of course they don't have a God to tell them differently.
So there you go. The next time you're watching an
atheist video and they're pretending as though they're
good people and they're kind, remember the moment they turn
their power off, they could be going in the backroom and
kicking the shit out of their kids or causing harm in society.

(09:12):
Don't believe everything you hear or see in video.
I would recommend research. Always question the people
you're listening to. God bless.

(09:36):
I was a soldier, blood on my hands.
Fuck for their flags, their bullshit plans, government
snakes they sold.
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