You'll laugh at the idea. Please feel free. Everybody else has - family and friends to whom I've put it. But it's an idea I've had for many years - certainly from way back before 9/11 - and I feel I should go public with it finally, with the restrictions announced today on hand luggage for those travelling by air. Here is the proposal: airline passengers to travel lightly clad and without any luggage at all, other than essential documents, medicines etc.
It would be very inconvenient, of course. You'd have either to buy what you needed at your destination, or mail it ahead of time, or borrow from friends if you have them there. A new line of business might emerge hiring out stuff to visitors from other countries. I haven't done a full cost-benefit analysis of the proposal. But you'll have grasped its core rationale by now. It would make terrorist assaults on passenger planes much more difficult. You read it first on normblog.
You didn't?!