Go buy a USB Wi-Fi adapter, pay cash, don't use a credit card. You may even want to wear a disguise and park your car around the corner out of sight of any video surveillance of the store. This way, your access device will have a MAC address that cannot be traced to you.
Download and burn a "live-CD" image of any one of the dozen or so Linux distributions. Either burn it on CD or into a thumb drive (try unetbootin for this).
Use only the "live-CD" CD or thumb drive to boot your laptop, with it's internal Wi-Fi turned off and only access through the USB/Wi-Fi adapter.
Only connect to the internet via public, open Wi-Fi access points.
Move around, don't go to the same one all the time, randomize your pattern of use. Be aware of any video surveillance of these sites and avoid it.
Since the live-CDs don't store anything on your hard drive there's no record of anywhere you've been that can be back-traced and associated with you.
No, I don't go to these lengths - yet. If hussein wins/steals a second term I guarantee you we all will be taking steps like these if we want to keep posting the truth on sites like FR. (I expect FR would be forcibly shut-down within months of a coup by hussein) Yes, I have thought seriously about the need for that kind of privacy from the government.
Touché !
After all I’ve read today about Barracus Husseinus Obamacuss, I think I will just go puke and try to dream of better days.
And don’t forget, never log into an identifiable account (email or other) in the same session as your questionable political activities. I know someone who was busted for a “prank” because he bracketed it with email sessions which enabled IT to figure out who was seated at the public access computer.
I wonder about freeping on a cell phone, personally. The nature of the internet is such that your computer must be identifiable in order to work.
Prepaid wireless cards (e.g. cricket), which get a new ip adress every time can help, no need to hunt for public, insecure, WiFi. Also, I noticed that it never returned an IP local to where it was used - so those annoying location based ads were way off. Speed can be slower, but you aren’t talking about gaming or downloading, anyhow.
If you are surrounded by like minded neighbors, perhaps consider a neighborhood network using local WiFi, even if the net were shut off, you could have local secure (reasonably) communication.