“That’s our Syrian refugee problem”.
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On his Flickr account, Mr Kittos wrote: “Please do not use my images for any goal, commercial or otherwise (this includes linking from your blog or website), unless you have my written permission”. “I would never approve the use of this image against refugees”.
David Kittos, 48, from Guildford, England, uploaded the photograph to Flickr back in 2010 and woke up to find it had been used in the inflammatory tweet.
As he is not on Twitter, he was not aware that it had been used for political purposes until his friends told him.
On CNN Tuesday night, Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway provided a little more information. In a new twist, the BBC has revealed that the Trump campaign has stolen the image from the Flickr page of photographer David Kittos, a United Kingdom citizen and former refugee. “I was six years old”.
Now a British citizen, he said: “We lived in the area of Cyprus that is now under Turkish military control”.
Kittos recalled his family having to leave everything behind as a refugee, their property and possessions.
‘I would like the Trump campaign to delete the image, but they are probably not interested in what I have to say, ‘ he added. “Let’s end the politically correct agenda that doesn’t put America first”. “They should not be stealing an image full stop”, he said. The words declared: “If I had a bowl of Skittles and I told you just three would kill you”.
That’s because the odds of getting killed by a refugee terrorist in the United States is 1 in 3.64 billion each year, according to Cato Institute data.
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Thus, Philip Bump of the Washington Post calculates, to contain three killer Skittles, the bowl in Trump Jr’s tweet ought to be filled with around 10.93 billion candies in total. My parents were Skittles. Instead, we can just sit back and think about the number of meetings and conversations that must have happened before Mars Inc., makers of Skittles, made a decision to put out this statement: Skittles are candy; refugees are people.
