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Regarding the original post...
You have purchased a Kindle and only then discovered that you needed to have 1-click turned on at Amazon, which requires having an Amazon account and a credit card. What are your options at this point?
Well, you could, if it is economically feasible, get a credit card. I started out twenty years ago with a secured credit card (I put some of my savings in a separate account--the amount in that account was the limit on my card, and the credit card company was secure in the knowledge that I could pay off my card while they were taking a chance on me as someone with literally no credit history to date.) If you decide to go this route, I would recommend paying it off every month in full.
If you don't have enough savings to consider tying up a chunk of them in this way, I think you can still use the Kindle. I think the Whispernet won't actually connect to the web if the Kindle isn't registered so you might as well leave it turned off, but Mobileread, Manybooks and Project Gutenberg all have the very same public domain books that are being offered for free at Amazon. Baen Free Library has actual recent release e-books that they are offering to drum up sales. Tor.com has short stories that you can download. In all cases you want the Mobipocket formats (or they may say they have Kindle format; that works too.) Download them to your computer, then load them into the Documents folder of your Kindle using the USB cord for it.
If this doesn't satisfy you, I guess you'll have to return the Kindle. Amazon has a thirty day return policy when they will take it back for any reason, or none. If you got it from somewhere else, you may not be able to return it, but you may be able to resell it.
I'm sorry but I don't think you'll have much luck trying to force Amazon to change its policies for you. My experiences with Amazon have mostly been happy; their customer service has been perfectly willing to work hard with me to get my Kindle working smoothly, for example. But I've never known them to change a policy for a single person.
I'm afraid I have no suggestions for you on how to get the government to force Amazon to take payment other than credit cards. I guess the FTC seems as good as anything else; perhaps you can find them by Googling?
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