Yes, not responding will cause their vitriol to cease due to lack of a target, but hey, what fun would that be?
You enjoy this as much as they do, or else you wouldn't keep a presence here.
Sure, you've lied but so have they, and unlike you they've spun some real whoppers.
You've lied for what you thought was a good reason: self-protection; the boobsie twins have lied for a bad reason: self-aggrandizement.