WHEN THE LAW IS A LOON

Albany County District Attorney David Soares ventured north to Canada
last week to deliver a blistering attack on U.S. drug laws - saying
they exist only because they provide cops and prosecutors with "a
wonderful living."

He has since recanted - sort of.

Soares won his job in the 2004 primary, upsetting incumbent DA Paul
Clyne with the backing of the far-left Working Families Party - which
was itself bankrolled by the even-farther-left hedge-fund
gazillionaire George Soros and his Drug Policy Alliance Network.

Soros - Big Daddy Anti-Warbucks for groups like MoveOn.org - targeted
Clyne because the former DA strongly backed the Rockefeller-era drug
laws. Soros, to put it mildly, doesn't.

As for Soares, he told the International Conference on the Reduction
of Drug-Related Harm that the war on drugs is perpetuated by a desire
to hire more cops, prosecutors and judges - to "give people a
wonderful living."

In the same vein, he added that building more prisons is an accepted
"economic-development strategy" - apparently unwilling to accept that
one reason crime is at historically low levels is that so many
criminals are now behind bars.

Why any district attorney would choose to unleash a barrage against
U.S. law-enforcement officials - and in a foreign country - is beyond us.

And never mind that, once back home, he issued a weasel-worded
apology: "If I have offended [cops] . . . from the bottom of my heart
I apologize."

For Soares remains the poster boy for George Soros' worldview, which
he intends to impose on America, using his vast fortune to do so. In
Albany, he essentially rigged the system, elevating a little-known
ideologue to this critical post in order to unseat a tough-minded DA
who refused to toe his line.

What's even sadder is that a majority of voters in that election
bought into Soros' game. Now they're paying the price.

What's next on his agenda? Will he try to oust the prosecutors who
won a conviction against radical lawyer Lynne Stewart for being an
accessory to terrorism? Soros - who has charged that "the War on
Terror turned us from victims into perpetrators" - gave $20,000 to
the terrorist mouthpiece's defense fund.

Soares, in a word, is frightening.

Soros is terrifying.