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[[Image:WASPO-WCOA.jpgpng|150px|right|The WASPO logo]][[WASPO]] (an [[Wikipedia:acronym |acronym]] for "'''We Are Seriously Pissed Off'''") is an anti-illegal immigration group founded in [[2006]] by conservative [[WCOA]] talk show host [[Luke McCoy]]. According to McCoy, the group arose from frustrations over the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States who "seem to be destroying what I have always known as America."<ref>[http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060602/NEWS01/606020327/1036 'WASPO' is buzzword for local opponents of illegal immigration] - [[Pensacola News Journal]], June 4, 2006</ref> The group has been widely derided as  [[Image:McCoyWASPOshirt.jpg|thumb|right|160px|McCoy at a WASPO "swarm" with a shirt that reads "SPEAK ENGLISH DAMMIT!"]]McCoy intends for WASPO to grow nationwide and invites members of other communities to form their own chapter, called a hate "nest." Similarly, the group, 's meetings are called "swarms." The number of nests and other membership information is unknown. The similarity of the nameorganization's similarity name to the acronym "WASP " ([[Wikipedia:White Anglo-Saxon Protestant|White Anglo-Saxon Protestant]]) has drawn accusations of a thinly-veiled white supremacist agendaand attracted the attention of various watchdog groups. The group originally had a website, <ref>[http://www.waspobuildingdemocracy.org/Anti-immigrant_groups/Anti-immigrant_groups/WASPO_%28We_Are_So_Pissed_Off%29_20060911881/ BuildingDemocracy.com]</ref>.us  ==External links==*[http://www.waspo.us/ Official site], but [[as of March 2007]], the site is defunct. From its inception, McCoy intended the organization to expand nationwide, with individual chapters called "nests,"<ref>*[http://www.cafepress.com/waspo CafePress.com merchandise page]</ref> but the current membership is unknown.
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