A Pack Not a Herd, Continued

According to an article in LA City Beat (seen via The Brothers Judd), a pro-Communist artist is outraged that he was under surveillance by The People as well as by The Establishment:

The surveillance didn't surprise him. He had been a war resister and an anti-nuclear protester, and he had walked picket lines during the 1940s Hollywood studio strikes. What came as a shock was that friends, former lovers, neighbors, and even the mailman had made the reports. A fellow artist had sent sketches of Mesches to the feds, and a student had taken pictures with a specially provided miniature camera hidden in a necktie.

If information wants to be free, doesn't that include information on what supporters of tyranny are up to?