Silent Majority

(In Development)

      Following his father’s death 34-year-old LUKE WORTHINGTON makes a drastic career change and lands the job of his dreams reporting at the New York Times.  So he thinks.  The first few years are spent copy writing for a bunch of cynical old reporters that have long since lost the dream that lured them into journalism in the first place.  It wasn’t until the spring of his third year, after the historic 2008 Presidential election, that LUKE’s big break came.  His own assignment, and this was no ordinary assignment, this was a feature. 

      Luke was hand picked by the RON HARKIN the Editor in Chief and a select group of Times supporters and Board Members including Billionaire and left wing radical HENRY JAMESON, ACLU Director GARY PLAST and Democratic Party heavy hitter STEVE CHANT.  It didn’t even occur to LUKE to ask why some of these gentlemen were in the room; he was drunk with excitement and ready to hit the ground running.  

      HARKIN paired LUKE with MIKE JOHNSON a seasoned investigative journalist and sent them to cover the new administrations support of the controversial “Card Check” bill that would eliminate secret ballots for the formation of Unions. Over the next several months MIKE and LUKE criss-crossed the nation covering everything from the protests outside of AIG and the homes of its top, the firing of ACORN whistle blower Marcel Reid, the turning over of Chrysler and eventually the Auto industry to the UAW, the removal of defense funding and border security measures from the federal budget, to the 9th District Court of Appeals controversial decision overturning a lower Courts ruling on the release of Top Secret “rendition” documents.  The paper had an agenda and it was using Luke to implement that plan.  His assignment was to paint these stories in the best light possible for the new Administration.  Luke knew that President Obama was trying to move the country in a new direction and he felt that he was doing his part to “Soften” the blow to the American people who didn’t always understand the bigger picture, as the Progressive movement did.  

      LUKE didn’t seem to mind his new role as “Change” cheerleader.  He was living the high life.  He was playing with the Big Dogs.  His weekly articles were gaining him a celebrity status among the left wing fringe groups and media elite.  Everyone loved what LUKE was writing, everyone except the one person, the one person that mattered the most TIFFANY his young wife and mother of their two children.  TIFFANY was a devout Christian and a Patriot.  TIFFANY believed that our great nation was founded on Judeo/Christian principals and that those principals are alive and well in our Constitution and its people.  TIFFANY believes that what the ACLU and other radical groups like Moveon.org and ACORN are doing will damage the Country for generations to come, and she has let LUKE know how she feels.    

      It wasn’t until LUKE’s follow-up story on AIG and the link between the protestors and ACORN got completely re-written that he began to realize there was a bigger story.  LUKE went back and started looking at all his stories.  He went over all of the interviews and research.  He noticed that MIKE had provided a lot of the research he used.  MIKE had set up most of the interviews and seemed to know all of the players before they ever hit town.  LUKE decided to start at the beginning, Card Check.  He never understood why this seemingly small piece of legislation garnered so much attention.  The more he dug the more he discovered and the more he realized that if he goes down this path there is no coming back.  LUKE spent most of his life doing what other people wanted him to do.  First it was his father and now its RON HARKIN.  LUKE decided to live his own life.  He was a news reporter it was time he started living up to that great legacy. 

      While going back over his research on Card Check he started looking into the relationship between the Administration and the unions.  The SEIU (Service Employee International Union) popped up a lot.  And interestingly enough included in SEIU financial records, that he found online, was ACORN.  Millions of dollars moved back and forth between the SEIU and ACORN.  The only thing LUKE knew about ACORN was that they were under investigation for voter registration fraud.  A charge that LUKE was led to believe was nothing more than political pay back.  LUKE had that gut feeling.  That feeling that Bob Woodward must have gotten just before meeting with deepthroat.  There was something to all of these connections.   

      LUKE needed to keep up appearances so he kept supplying his bosses with weekly fodder.  He used his job to start putting together a scenario where the newly elected government in careful coordination with the mainstream media, select unions and far left financiers have begun the “change” Obama promised.  

      LUKE doesn’t know where to turn.  Once he realizes that this conspiracy goes straight to the top he knows that they will do anything to keep the momentum going.  Their smear merchants have viciously attacked anyone that opposes the new agenda. President Obama and his chief of staff have cleverly and covertly implemented a plan of completely transforming the US into a European style, progressive “One World View” society where the US Constitution becomes secondary to International Law and the State owns or controls the banking, manufacturing and healthcare industries.   

      Silent Majority is an edge-of-your seat political thriller in the tradition of THE FIRM and THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR.  Nothing is, as it seems.  No one is who they are supposed to be.