Your original comment was a top level comment on the article, and is verbatim: > If we want to have a reasonable discussion about this The "this" in that sent

Your original comment was a top level comment on the article, and is verbatim: > If we want to have a reasonable discussion about this The "this" in that sentence (to any reasonable human) would mean that you were talking about the subject of the article, the people that got their money seized, not "in general asset forfeiture". So no....not a red herring. If you wanted to be careful, your first statement should read: "if we want to have a discussion about asset forfeiture...".