Your original comment was a top level comment on the article, and is verbatim:<p>&gt; If we want to have a reasonable discussion about this<p>The &quot;this&quot; 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 &quot;in general asset forfeiture&quot;.<p>So no....not a red herring.<p>If you wanted to be careful, your first statement should read: &quot;if we want to have a discussion about <i>asset forfeiture...</i>&quot;.